With the consequences of the current financial crisis spreading to the real economy, lawmakers are exploring new regulations to govern the financial markets. The concern among market participants is that policy-makers do not fully understand how risk management does and should work, and how derivatives can be beneficial.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) introduced several new services to help mid-sized businesses better manage risk and improve the security of their IT systems. IBM developed these services in response to recent IBM X-Force(R) research that showed an alarming rise in organized crime attacks on smaller organizations.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the findings of a major new study of over 1,200 Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and senior finance executives from 79 countries worldwide, which concludes that a surprising number of enterprises are not well prepared to handle the impact of a major risk event to their organization.

HP today announced that Rabobank, a full-range financial services provider, has selected a business intelligence solution from HP in a deal valued at $4.3 million.

1) What are the best methods to auto-track evolving money laundering methods adopted by criminals, across the world?

2) How does a financial institution ensure that none of their existing and new customers have links with terrorist outfits, drug and arms dealers, appearing across hundreds of local and global watch-lists?

DBS Bank's Indian operations has recently completed Bank’s KYC implementation & enhancement journey from the manual systems to automated one. DBS is the largest bank in Singapore and the fifth largest in Hong Kong.

“There is no doubt that nanotechnology has the potential to make the world a better place,” said Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies Chief Scientist Andrew Maynard. “But if consumers and other stakeholders are not convinced that the benefits outweigh the risks, many applications will not see the light of day. Likewise, if the benefits are unclear and the risks uncertain, the products of nanotechnology will be a hard sell.”

Prodiance Spreadsheet Risk Management & Compliance Solution Selected for Best Overall Capability and Best Control

Katherine Young of the Resourcex Investor spoke to Stephen Bailey, Senior Vice President of Frontier Strategy Group - a global research and advisory firm that specializes in analyzing above-ground risks in natural resources industries - about what juniors can do to reduce political risk to their projects.

The political or "above-ground" risks that concerned multinational corporations in the past usually involved expropriation and nationalization, currency inconvertibility and war or civil unrest. While it is true that these risks still necessitate concern, relative to other types of above-ground risk they are occurring less frequently.

The larger - and busier - an NHS hospital is, the higher the MRSA infection rate, research from the Nottingham University Business School has revealed. The impact of risk management standards on the frequency of MRSA infections in NHS hospitals study looked at how demanding risk management standards imposed by hospital insurers - and the premium discounts offered if these rigorous standards are met - could reduce MRSA infection rates.