Risk Management

Risk Management
Oracle Launches New Cybersecurity Apps To Help Small Banks
October 28, 2020

Enterprise IT solutions platform Oracle is introducing new cloud services to provide smaller banks with the ammunition to fight large-scale money laundering schemes, Oracle said in a statement on Wednesday (Oct. 28). The Oracle Financial Crime and Compliance Management Cloud Service delivers extensive cybersecurity capabilities...

Risk Management
Report Warns Of Aviation Cybersecurity Risks
October 09, 2020

A government report found that airplanes have a number of digital technologies that might become susceptible to hackers and says American regulators have not put sufficient methods in place to contend with the risk, Bloomberg reported. Entertainment systems, wireless networks, technologies that send information back...

Risk Management
CoverWallet Unveils Digital Insurance Offering For Startups Backed By VCs
August 03, 2020

Digital insurance platform CoverWallet, an Aon company, has unveiled a new offering for growth companies that have received venture capital (VC) investments, according to a Monday (Aug. 3) announcement. VC-backed firms can purchase and handle Employment Practices liability, Directors & Officers insurance (D&O) and Fiduciary...

Risk Management
How Merchants Navigate Payments Integration Risk
January 30, 2020

When it comes to payments in commerce, what — and who — you don’t know can hurt you. Underpinning that is the fact that the movement of money itself is all about knowing who you’re moving the money for. For software companies and platforms that...

Risk Management
Study: GPS Fail Would Cost Economy $1B A Day
June 16, 2019

In a study of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, researchers found that loss of the service would have an impact of $1 billion per day per an approximate estimate. The National Institutes of Standards and Technology sponsored the study, which was performed by RTI International...

Risk Management
All The World’s A Stage For (Prudent) FX Risk Management
February 28, 2019

Risk has rewards in all parts of life, but especially in business, where shrewd risk-taking and planning accrues to the bottom line. In an interview with Karl Schamotta, chief market strategist of Cambridge Global Payments, the executive weighed in on the risks and rewards of...

Risk Management
Chinese Finance Head: FinTech Boom ‘A Very Big Risk’
November 30, 2018

President of Chinese financial investment platform Phoenix Finance believes the nation’s FinTech companies pose “a very big risk.” Vince Zhang spoke at CNBC‘s East Tech West conference in China, saying that many of the country’s tens of thousands of FinTech firms don’t have the controls...

Risk Management
WePay On The Art Of Payments Risk Management
November 30, 2018

Understanding risk, particularly its sources and how to most effectively manage it, is one of the most fundamentally important topics in payments for those who provide services and those who use them. It is also, according to WePay Co-Founder Rich Aberman and WePay VP of...

Risk Management
Why Farmers Now Care About Hedging Currency Risk
September 13, 2018

Farming has always been about risk. Bad weather, infestation, speculation: Such factors can not only mean survival or failure for farmers, but impact food prices and the larger global economy without any effort at hedging or risk management. That’s to say nothing of the risk...