Identifying and assessing operational risk lets you make changes in your company to secure operations and reduce risk of business failure. Operational risk is the total of risks you run when operating ...

Recent periods of financial stress and the proliferation of risks across the financial system are fueling the development of ...

Operating leverage is the fraction of a company's costs that are fixed. Firms with a lower fraction of variable costs and a higher fraction of fixed costs have a higher operating leverage, which means ...

Operational risk is often described as the “silent disruptor” of the financial world. Unlike credit risk or market risk, which are measurable and frequently modeled with precision, operational risk is ...

The last decade has seen an explosion in technologies with tremendous potential impact on a business. From internet-connected devices to the algorithms that can make sense of the mountains of data ...

In a previous post, we suggested that to grow financially sustainable enterprises (social or otherwise) it’s important to build off of the demand for “choice”—not just the “needs”—of an underserved ...

For years, financial institutions, payment providers and treasury platforms have treated foreign exchange risk management and operational functions as independent domains. Businesses process payments ...

J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. Andy Smith is ...

The Investment Risk Index (IRI) is the underwriting tool published within the Mining Journal Intelligence World Risk Report 2020 (feat.Minehutte ratings) and provides jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction ...

Financial institutions are in the business of risk management and reallocation, and they have developed sophisticated risk management systems to carry out these tasks. The basic components of a risk ...

In this FinextraTV Predict 2026 interview, Dazzle Bhujwala, Senior Director, Sustainable Investing, Ceres and Peter Cashion, Managing Investment Director, Sustainable Investments, CalPERS explore how ...