Governance/Regulation & Compliance

Market consolidation from Dubai to Denmark may mean more liquidity and less volatility

As if things weren't already tough enough for hedge funds and private equity firms, what with liquidity drying up faster than you can say Death Valley in the face of the subprime meltdown, yet another congressman is proposing yet another commission to study the impact of these funds on the...

The clamor may be dying down following the latest Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) guidance, but debate over what many see as excessively complex and costly U.S. financial reporting procedures persists in less boisterous tones.

FiREapps is slated to release a new version of its foreign exchange management tool in September that addresses a treasurer's need to forecast FX exposures months, and even years, out

Staying on the right side of a contract is a central governance issue for finance and legal at major corporations. Open Text now offers a tool that creates a contract and then helps you live up to it

Finance executives are starting to choose a new staffing model to plug the holes in their department's skill set: bringing highly skilled outsiders into the organization to work alongside their core staff on a project basis. The result? Better control

New FASB rules on fair value accounting are expected to lead to volatility and restatements in the area of derivatives

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