covid-19 as driver of digital optimisation and grc maximization
Emmanuel Moore ABOLO
April 27, 2020
Covid-19 has brought the world to its knees crushing businesses and economies globally. This is a tragedy of truly larger-than-life proportions which has brought the dependency on our mobile devices for all types of services: grocery shopping, medical services, entertainment services and basic human interactions- into very shrill focus and hysteria. The luckless ‘new’ reality […]
covid-19 and corporate survival: Managing risk under conditions of uncertainty
Emmanuel Moore ABOLOApril 20, 2020
According to Richard L Tso- Senior Marketing Manager for Microsoft-, “the future is discovered in the unexpected. It’s found where no one has thought to look. And where no one, yet, has had the courage to go”. Uncertainty, according to Wikipedia, refers to epistemic situations involving imperfect or unknown information. It applies to predictions of […]
Nigerian Information Technology Development Agency(NITDA), Data and information during COVID-19 pandemic
Michael Irene, PhDApril 20, 2020
As the world grapples with the unprecedented spread of coronavirus, the role of data gathering becomes prominent. Oliver Morgan, the Director of the Health Emergency Information and Risk Assessment Development at the World Health Organization (WHO) says “It is critically important that all countries are able to report their COVID-19 situation.” What WHO’s Morgan proposes […]
A bumpy road ahead
Hussein SayedApril 13, 2020
By Hussein Sayed Chief Market Strategist at FXTM The world has finally seen a glimpse of light at the end of this dark tunnel. The coronavirus outbreak is starting to level off across many countries and cities. Looking at the new daily infected cases and death toll from Spain, Italy, Germany and France, all […]
Adopting ISO 9001 standard guidelines to build quality information management systems (2)
Chris IkosaApril 13, 2020
In my last article, I discussed ISO 9001 standard guidelines and how its principles can be translated into quality information management systems. Because of space constraints, however, I was unable to cover the seven principles. In this week’s article, I will touch on the last three principles companies can use to build quality information management […]
Oil left joyless on Good Friday as Mexico waves off OPEC+ deal
Han TanApril 13, 2020
By Han Tan Market Analyst at FXTM At the time of writing this note on Friday Brent had fallen by 4.1 percent and was struggling to keep its head above the psychological $30 level, while WTI edged closer to the $20 line plunging 9.3 per cent, as markets expressed their misgivings over the tentative OPEC+ […]
Will your company’s compliance programe withstand the nCOVID-19 tsunami?
Emmanuel Moore ABOLOApril 13, 2020
The coronavirus (nCOVID-19) outbreak is causing widespread concern and economic privation for the government, consumers, businesses and communities across the globe. The situation is changing nippily with widespread effects. At this point in time, the nCOVID-19 has infected 1,605,790 individuals globally, and killed 95,766 with 357,003 recoveries since being identified in China at the end […]
Due Diligence when investing in a microfinance bank
Adolphus AletorApril 13, 2020
Due Diligence is a form of investigation or review that you need to perform to confirm the authenticity of the records and information that have been provided by the microfinance bank to support their prospectus or their call for you to acquire interest in the bank. It is imperative that you examine all the financial […]
GRC, cybersecurity intersection for curbing cybercrimes menace (2)
Emmanuel Moore ABOLOApril 6, 2020
Identification theft, fraudulent online transfers, payment-card frauds, network assaults, denial-of-service attacks by malicious networks of computers (botnets), ransomware, cyberbullying, trolling and online child pornography are all common forms of Cybercrimes.. They show that nothing is safe on the internet – apart from criminals, it seems. It is incredibly difficult to protect computers, networks and the […]
Adopting iso 9001 standard guidelines to build quality information management systems (1)
Michael IreneApril 6, 2020
The concept of building quality information management systems is a key component in building longlasting businesses. However, information management systems have been fraught with corporate bureaucracies, misunderstanding of the company’s goals and uncooperative stakeholders. In this article, I will show how companies use the International Standard Organisation’s guidelines as a guide for building quality information […]