This paper explores the development of enterprise risk management as a function of the development of risk-based capital across the world over the last two decades. The paper identifies a clear correspondence between the emergence of RBC and ERM. The development of RBC worldwide was triggered by...

Risk culture is essential for the success of enterprise risk management (ERM). Enterprise riskmanagement is different from silo risk management where risks were mainly managed by onedepartment. Enterprise risk management means that the risk management is integrated fromBoard to the last employee...

Businesses are the main drivers of any economy and impact all the economic actors explicitly or implicitly. According to Gupta (2010) accountability, transparency, fairness, and responsibility of firms on legal social, and economic grounds are crucial for the wellbeing of every entity of a...

A business value is created by identifying the risks in the business and developing a risk mitigation plan. The only identification of risks is of little use unless an effective advance plan is developed and implemented to reduce either the likelihood or impact or both of the events. In this...

This article discusses some of the challenges present in embedding Enterprise Risk Management issues like corporate governance, independence of CRO, challenges in implementing three lines of defense model, lack of risk knowledge in the first line of defense, lack of risk qualification in the...

This paper examines the effects of macroeconomic policy and regulatory environment on mobile money usage. Specifically, we develop an autoregressive distributed lag model to investigate the effect of key macroeconomic variables and mobile money tax on mobile money usage in Uganda. Using monthly...

The authors analyze changes resulting from impacts of the globalization process and the crisis on the financial markets, particularly on the conservative insurance sector, which is forced to accelerate the dynamics of structural changes. The adequacy of the current regulatory measures for the...

Who was listening before the Financial Crisis of 2008 to Arrow’s warnings and the teachings of Coase? Due to transaction costs, incomplete foresight and bounded rationality not all risks that would be desirable to shift can be shifted through the market. Financial firms and other institutions...

We examine the interaction between the legal protection of investors, corporate governance within firms, institutional development between countries, and investable premia in emerging markets. In a multi country setting and using a novel dataset we find that better-governed firms experience...

This article critically analyses the development of health insurance in India where on the one hand, 61% of India's population is covered by government health insurance schemes; however, in the premium term, their contribution is only 11%. Further, public sector general insurance companies are...