8 January 2015

JANUARY 8, 2015   GRI proudly sponsors Enterprise Risk Management 2015: Driving Performance with Risk Management Culture, hosted by the Conference Board of Canada. The conference takes place from Tuesday February 24 to Wednesday February 25 2015 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel. As an exclusive benefit, GRI members are offered a special rate, saving $460 off registration. The conference will be… View Article

29 December 2014

DECEMBER 29, 2014 GRI’s new e-learning program, available from late February 2015, will allow our members to access risk knowledge from desktop computers and mobile devices, enhancing understanding of financial risk management across their organizations. The first course to launch will look at model risk, and will offer three short (20 minute) animated modules on… View Article

19 December 2014

DECEMBER 19, 2014 Increased demand to attend GRI workshops in recent months has led us to revise the registration process to ensure fair access to our workshops for all our members. We now ask those interested in attending our workshops that you reply to the invitation email to express your interest in attending. All individuals… View Article

17 December 2014

DECEMBER 17, 2014 The Global Risk Institute in Financial Services (GRI) has signed an agreement with the Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO), a research network based in Quebec, relating to a new research stream on behavioural finance. The first research track in GRI’s seventh stream will be entitled, “A Laboratory Study… View Article

26 November 2014

NOVEMBER 26, 2014 While regulators have required that financial institutions assess model risk, there is no accepted approach for computing such risks. In this presentation, Professor Bertrand Maillet proposes a remedy for this lacuna via a general measure for estimating model risk which involves adjusting imperfect risk forecasts by outcomes from back-testing results. Professor Maillet’s… View Article

12 November 2014

NOVEMBER 12, 2014 GRI’s President and CEO, Dr. Michel Maila, was quoted by Bloomberg News in their recent review of the role of hedge funds in the bond market. To read the article in full, please click on this link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-10/hedge-funds-morph-to-bond-dealers-in-post-crisis-world.html