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Risk Benchmarking: More than half report rising supervisory contact, despite unchanging requirements for an ERM function
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Supervisors have stepped up their engagement with banks’ enterprise risk management teams even as formal regulatory requirements for maintaining an enterprise risk management (ERM) function have changed little, new research shows.
Fifty-seven percent of banks say the
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