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CIO risk-taking 101: Playing it safe isn’t safe

CIO Business Intelligence

When it comes to structural risks you can ignore them as well, but you can’t make them go away by doing so and will be blamed if they’re “realized” (the risk-management term for “becoming real”). Rationalizing the applications portfolio reduces the odds of these risks being realized. IT Leadership, Risk Management

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Using Technology to Better Manage Risk in Insurance

Decision Management Solutions

In February, we published a blog post on “Using Technology to Add Value in Insurance”. In that post, I referenced Matt Josefowticz’s article – Technology May be the Answer for Insurers, but What Was the Question? , Insurers can also manage risk more effectively through continuous improvement.

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What the Digital Operational Resilience Act means for you

CIO Business Intelligence

The regulation requires EU financial entities and their critical ICT providers to adopt comprehensive information and communications technology (ICT) risk management capabilities into their security processes. While it’s an EU policy with ramifications for EU businesses, the impact will undoubtedly affect businesses worldwide.

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Combine transactional, streaming, and third-party data on Amazon Redshift for financial services

AWS Big Data

Regulators have placed an increased focus to both protect the consumer through transaction reporting (typically T+1, meaning 1 business day after the trade date) and increase transparency into markets via near-real-time trade reporting requirements. The query to generate this chart has similar performance metrics as the preceding chart.

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CIOs in financial services embrace gen AI — but with caution

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI is starting off a new age of exploration in IT,” says Frank Schmidt, CTO at insurance firm Gen Re. Cugini at KeyBank agrees, and adds that the exploration has to include a cross-functional team from all areas of the business, not just IT. “We

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

When this happens, corporate risk is heightened as preemptive projects get delayed — sometimes for indefinite periods of time. CIOs can change this thinking by incorporating preemptive projects like disaster recovery into their corporate risk management strategies. The average cost of a data breach is $4.64

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The Countdown to DORA

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s designed to strengthen the security of EU financial firms, such as banks, insurance companies, investment firms and more, by imposing resilience requirements and regulating the supply chain. DORA requires EU financial institutions to assess their own cybersecurity and risk management maturity. Meeting the Challenges.