Hands-on Assessment

November 18, 2013 | News, On-site Assessment

In my previous blog, The SIG – The Swiss Army Knife of Risk Assessment, I commented on the versatility of the SIG, the Shared Assessments Program’s Standardized Information Gathering questionnaire. This month I want to discuss its complementary, on-site assessment tool: the Agreed Upon Procedure ....

The SIG – The Swiss Army Knife of Risk Assessment

September 3, 2013 | On-site Assessment, Outsourcing, Vendor Assessment

In 2005, the Shared Assessments program was born to serve the financial services industry and its major service providers. The intent was to achieve economies of scale by sharing the expense and time in conducting on-site assessments.  A group representing six major banks and the Big Four accountin ....