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Jared Wade

There are no shortage of Wall Street firms that want to strip some teeth from the Dodd-Frank financial reform act. But energy companies also have some incentive to parse out at least one key provision. The item at issue, Section 1504 of Dodd-Frank, centers on transparency. Specifically it would, according to Bloomberg Businessweek, use SEC rules [...]

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In response to the results gathered in its 2012 Strategic Security Survey, InformationWeek has some simple advice that can apply as much to your marriage or workplace debates as it can IT risk management: pick your battles. When it comes to security and risk management, don’t try to address every possible threat. Instead, pick your [...]

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We have covered the BP oil spill extensively over the past two years. For companies it was one of the most dramatic lessons in the dangers of excessive risk taking and showed just how much damage can be done — to a reputation, the environment and the families of those who died in the explosion [...]

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From Sully Sullenberger emergency landings to air traffic controllers falling asleep on the job, the U.S. aviation has been no stranger to scary risks over the past few years. But check out these perilous plane landings from last week at an airport in Spain. According to the U.K.’s Telegraph, crosswinds were a steady 40 mph [...]

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