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A Risk-Based Approach to SoD

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A Risk-Based Approach to SoD

A Risk-Based Approach to Segregation of Duties

Segregation of duties (SoD) is a hot topic of conversation among a range of professionals, from compliance managers to executive officers. The outpouring of interest in SoD is due, in part, to the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act in the US and other similar control-driven regulations worldwide. However, there is another factor at work: the principle that no individual should have excessive system access that enables him/her to execute conflicting end-to-end transactions. If this ...

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Barings Bank Segregation of Duties

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Barings Bank Segregation of Duties

Background

Barings Bank was founded by Francis Baring in 1762. The bank originally started off trading wool and eventually branched off in to providing financial services to help facilitate international trade. In 1802 Barings Bank helped the US and France facilitate the Louisiana Purchase, which accounts for the biggest ever land purchase in history. They helped facilitate the transfer of $3M in gold from the US to France as well as acted as a purchaser (at a discount) of the US ...

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UBS Rogue Trader

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UBS Rogue Trader

Current Situation

On Wednesday, September 14th 2011, Oswald Gurbel, Chief Executive Office of UBS AG, sat in his office drinking his morning coffee. He was pondering the upcoming layoffs facing UBS: 3,500 employees for a savings of $2 billion. Grubel had instituted this measure to bring fiscal strength back to the UBS brand. Grubel was brought in as CEO in 2009 to repair the damage sustained by UBS during the financial crisis. During 2007-2008, UBS was forced to write off $37 ...

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