Risk Management: Page 3


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    Trump tags steel, aluminum imports with 25% tariffs

    The new duties build on actions from the president's first term while axing exemptions and product exclusions.

    By Philip Neuffer • Updated Feb. 11, 2025
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    Trump tariffs to stoke inflation in 2025: corporate economists

    The gain in the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure will probably average nearly 2.7% during the four quarters starting in April, according to economists surveyed by Wolters Kluwer.

    By Updated Feb. 11, 2025
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    Global tax deal awaits US ask, KPMG exec says

    KPMG’s global tax leader Grant Wardell-Johnson views President Trump’s decision to exit the global tax deal as a broad opening salvo that could lead to negotiations.

    By Feb. 10, 2025
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    CFPB’s future hangs in the balance after a wild weekend

    Headquarters-based staff will work remotely this week after a new acting chief halted agency supervision and enforcement and told the Fed he wouldn't take any unappropriated funding next quarter.

    By Dan Ennis • Feb. 10, 2025
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    Jobless rate falls, bolstering bets Fed will next cut main rate in June

    Employment gains for November and December were revised up in total by 100,000, the Labor Department said.

    By Feb. 7, 2025
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    PCAOB warns auditors of risks from lax oversight of specialists

    Specialists who use artificial intelligence pose a growing challenge to auditors and, in turn, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

    By Feb. 6, 2025
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    Service sector expands in the face of trade war risk: ISM

    Service sector executives voiced concern that tariffs will push up prices and cause shortages of goods, ISM said.

    By Feb. 5, 2025
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    Ransomware payments fell 35% in 2024

    Cyberattacks using ransomware spiked in the second half of the year, but fewer victims paid up.

    By Rob Wright • Feb. 5, 2025
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    ADM to slash up to 700 roles as work to fix reporting problems continues

    The agricultural company’s CFO Monish Patolawala said the company is making progress on its effort to “lift” the material weakness related to its financial reporting. 

    By Feb. 4, 2025
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    Companies reduce philanthropy aimed at boosting racial, gender equality

    Change in “corporate citizenship” initiatives coincide with a federal backlash against efforts to promote sustainability in the private and public sectors.

    By Feb. 4, 2025
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    With AI, CFOs must balance cost, value: Genpact

    CFOs need to play a familiar risk versus rewards game to meet the AI deployment mandate being asked of many of them, Genpact’s Vivek Saxena said.  

    By Feb. 4, 2025
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    China responds to Trump with added tariffs on certain products

    The new duties are set to take effect Feb. 10 and cover some car, equipment and energy imports.

    By Max Garland • Feb. 4, 2025
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    AI agents may cause some finance jobs to ‘disappear’: Microsoft exec

    Microsoft’s Georg Glantschnig said the software giant envisions every business process being impacted by the emerging technology.

    By Feb. 4, 2025
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    DeepSeek surge hits companies, posing security risks

    The Trump administration is scrutinizing the AI app, Italy and Taiwan have banned it, and companies have blocked it.

    By Feb. 4, 2025
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    US manufacturing grows despite risk of tariff-triggered trade war

    Confidence among manufacturers last month rose to the highest level in nearly three years.

    By Feb. 3, 2025
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    Flutterwave CFO keeps eye on ‘sustainable’ profitability

    It’s important to prioritize enabling stable revenue and solid profitability given the macroeconomic volatility in the African markets where Flutterwave operates, CFO Mitesh Popat said.

    By Feb. 3, 2025
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    Inflation meets Fed expectations, affirming hold on main interest rate

    “I would like to see progress in lowering inflation resume before we make further adjustments” to the main interest rate, Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said.

    By Jan. 31, 2025
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    Orbia’s CFO on tracking tariff news ‘minute by minute’

    The multinational industrial products has strategized for months in anticipation of U.S. tariffs against Mexico that are now poised to go into effect Saturday.

    By Jan. 31, 2025
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    Security tool consolidation boosts efficiency, threat mitigation

    A study from IBM shows the controversial shift to platformization can pay off for enterprises. 

    By David Jones • Jan. 31, 2025
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    CFO Dive’s 2025 outlook roundup: Trends to watch

    In the new year, financial executives must prepare for significant federal policy shifts as well as for the next chapter in the still-unfolding story of generative AI.

    By CFO Dive Staff • Jan. 31, 2025
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    Tesla CFO flags risk posed by Trump tariffs

    The electric vehicle executive is the latest finance chief of a major U.S. company to sound the alarm over the president’s tariff plans.

    By Jan. 30, 2025
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    Trump’s softer-touch SEC may ease CFO regulatory burden

    By slimming the SEC’s budget, headcount and regulatory scope, a new agency chief would fall in step with Trump’s cost-cutting and efficiency campaign.

    By Jan. 30, 2025
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    Fed holds main rate steady as Trump tariff threat poses inflation risk

    Central bank policymakers, in a unanimous decision, paused monetary easing while noting that inflation remains above their 2% target.

    By Updated Jan. 29, 2025
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    State AGs threaten financial institutions over ESG, DEI policies

    Bank of America, BlackRock, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley were all asked about their plans for implementing hiring or supplier diversity goals.

    By Lamar Johnson • Jan. 28, 2025
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    Trump order shifts AI policy away from Biden-era risk focus

    The order calls for federal agencies to nix Biden policies that are deemed a threat to AI innovation.

    By Jan. 28, 2025