Tuesday
Sep042012

FSA writes to firms regarding IT Risk Management in the wake of recent failures

Today the FT is reporting that the FSA has written to the Chairman of the UK’s nine largest banks and building societies regarding the robustness of their IT Infrastructure and demanding the names of the individuals who will be held accountable for any IT failures.

The FSA’s actions are not surprising given the recent IT failures seen at RBS however it does raise yet another challenge for firms as they review their approach to IT Risk Management and seek the ways and means to incorporate ‘IT Risk Management’ into their wider Risk Management agenda.

In this blog post we set out how how the Stratex solution can assist firms to meet the challenge of driving forward their IT Risk Management framework, and importantly how this can be done as part of wider Enterprise Risk Management framework.

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Tuesday
Sep042012

FT's Lex on RBS IT Failures

Monday
Aug202012

A key role of a board is…

“A key role of a board is to set the basic goals for a firm’s strategy and to ensure that they are within the agreed risk appetite. This requires that a board assure itself that a detailed consideration of risks is part of the process of considering future strategy” - The failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Financial Services Authority Board Report, December 2011

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