It wasn’t too long ago that women couldn’t breast feed infants in the workplace and now we have lactation rooms; they are a good way to help mothers transition back to work and continue breastfeeding their child. (That said we may call them “quiet rooms” because naming a room after mammary secretions is still sort of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘SEC’
The risk of watching porn and masturbating at work
Posted in Humour, My Opinions, Office and culture, tagged Brazil, business ethics, Californication, Charlie Runkle, masturbate, porn, pron, SEC on June 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Is SEC spelled that way but pronounced like s-e-x
Posted in Humour, My Opinions, Risk management, tagged CDO, porn, pron, reputation risk, S&P, SEC on April 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I wonder if the good folks at the ratings agencies were up to the same sort of shenanigans as the SEC when then were busy providing AAA ratings to CDO and other toxic debt. Read this: Senior SEC staffers caught surfing porn during crisis
Leech shares his thoughts on the Board oversight of risk
Posted in Frameworks, Thought Leadership, tagged audit, COSO ERM, disclosure, Norman Marks, regulatory risk, SEC, Tim Leech on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Please have a read at what Tim Leech has to say about the SEC’s new enhanced proxy disclosure requirements and new rules around the Board oversight of risk, in his IIA blog found here: http://www.theiia.org/blogs/leech/index.cfm/post/New%20U.S.%20Disclosures%20-%20Board%20Oversight%20of%20Risk He notes that while you will benefit by reading this document, it is not recommend for fireplace reading during the [...]
RiskCenter: Operational Risk – SEC Approves Enhanced Disclosure about Risk, Compensation and Corporate Governance
Posted in Risk management, Thought Leadership, tagged board, disclosure, ERM, operational risk, risk management, RiskCenter, SEC on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
December 17: Operational Risk – SEC Approves Enhanced Disclosure about Risk, Compensation and Corporate Governance Courtesy of RiskCenter.com http://www.riskcenter.com/story.php?id=19377 Location: Washington, DC Author: RiskCenter Staff Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009 The Securities and Exchange Commission today approved rules to enhance the information provided to shareholders so they are better able to evaluate the leadership of [...]
SEC passes very important rules about board’s role in the oversight of risk
Posted in Risk management, Thought Leadership, tagged ERM, oversight, risk management, SEC on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These paragraphs below, published by the Securities and Exchange Commission and effective February 28, 2010, may be the teeth risk management practitioners have been waiting for. Does it stand to reason that if Boards are required to provide disclosure about their risk management oversight process, they must have a risk management oversight process? It reads [...]
