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The End of Periodic Assurance: Why Continuous Controls Monitoring Is Reshaping Enterprise Risk

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For decades, organisations approached controls and compliance through periodic cycles. Quarterly reviews, annual audits and scheduled testing exercises formed the backbone of assurance frameworks across industries. Risks were assessed retrospectively, evidence was gathered manually and control gaps were often identified weeks, sometimes months after operational failures had already emerged. In slower-moving business environments, that model…

The New Geography of Risk: Why Businesses Need a Real-Time Country Risk Dashboard

admin3 days ago09 mins

For decades, geopolitical risk occupied the periphery of corporate strategy. It was discussed occasionally in relation to oil prices, elections or major conflicts, but rarely treated as a core operating variable for day-to-day business decisions. Most companies assumed that globalisation would continue deepening, supply chains would remain broadly stable and trade integration would steadily outweigh…

The Speed of Money: What the Global Banking Stress Cycle Revealed About Modern Liquidity Risk

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For years after the global financial crisis, liquidity regulation became one of the defining pillars of banking resilience. Regulatory reforms strengthened capital buffers, introduced liquidity coverage ratios and pushed banks globally towards more conservative funding structures. Many institutions entered the post-pandemic period believing that liquidity frameworks were materially stronger than they had been a decade…

The Resilience Mandate: Ratan Jyoti on Cyber Risk, AI Threats and the Future of Banking Security

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As India’s banking ecosystem accelerates towards a deeply digital future, cybersecurity is rapidly evolving from a technology function into a boardroom-level resilience imperative. In the first part of this exclusive CXO Dialogue interview with Risk Awareness, Ratan Jyoti, Chief Information Security Officer, Head of Technology Risk Management, and Data Protection of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank…

The CRO Beyond Compliance: Why Risk Literacy Is Becoming Corporate Survival Infrastructure

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For years, the role of the Chief Risk Officer was largely associated with financial stability, regulatory oversight and governance discipline. In banks, insurers and financial institutions, the CRO was often viewed as the executive responsible for credit exposure, capital adequacy, market volatility and compliance frameworks. Even outside financial services, risk leadership frequently revolved around audit…

Beyond Crisis Management: Why Scenario Planning Must Become a Regular Operating Discipline

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The End of Predictability For decades, many companies treated uncertainty as an occasional disruption rather than a permanent business condition. Scenario planning therefore became an annual offsite exercise, a workshop dominated by PowerPoint presentations, hypothetical discussions and broad macroeconomic assumptions that rarely influenced day-to-day execution. In stable economic cycles, that approach appeared sufficient. In today’s…

India’s Outbound Investment Surge Comes Under RBI Lens as Rupee Pressures Intensify

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India’s overseas investment ambitions are increasingly colliding with a far more immediate macroeconomic concern: protecting the country’s external financial stability amid rising global uncertainty. The Reserve Bank of India’s foreign exchange department has reportedly begun intensifying scrutiny of overseas direct investments (ODI) by Indian corporates after outward investment outflows surged sharply to nearly $27 billion…