Sophisticated risk modeling put banks ahead of the class in risk management until their practices sparked the financial crisis. Will their problems damage risk management's credibility or help companies learn how to implement it more wisely?

Sometimes vanilla products are too constraining, But creating more flexible products that qualify for hedge accounting can be challenging.

As growing populations and ravenous markets consume more water, food, trees, metals and minerals, companies find reducing their footprints can lead to discovering new market opportunities in sustainability.

With consumers now cutting back on purchases, causing pain throughout the economy, corporate bankruptcies are on the rise. Companies need to use hedging tools now more than ever.

China's regulators like to play it safe when it comes protecting the renminbi--often at the expense of the dollar

Hostile takeovers haven't gone away just because credit is tighter and markets are down. Companies need to use this lull to consider strategies to protect them and shareholders against bad deals

With the subprime market in disarray, fears mount over a possible investor stampede in the corporate loan market

Environmentalists may once have struggled to be heard, but now companies are agreeing to climate change proposals without a fight