Blog & Resources
Rochdale Paragon Team is Expanding!
Rochdale Paragon is excited to announce that we are growing our team! As the world of vendor risk becomes more important, we are expanding our team of vendor risk professionals to better serve our clients. We are...
Start Preparing for Your Credit Union’s Transition Away from Libor
The London Inter-bank Offered Rate (Libor) has been an important rate index used by the financial services industry in setting loan, investment, derivative, and other rates since the 1970s. Beginning in 2008, various...
Approaching Remote Worker Information Security From a Business Risk Perspective
Organizations of all types, including credit unions, are leveraging remote work environments more than ever. The brick and mortar workplace, as many of us have known, may never be the same. Some large corporations have...
Approaching the When and How of Going Back to the Office from a Business Risk Perspective
Like most, if not all, of the financial institutions Rochdale Paragon partners with, we have been monitoring conditions, listening to evolving official guidance and having frequent discussions about what business looks like...
Addressing Risk Jointly – Integration of Risk and Audit
ERM and internal audit teams should work together and complement each other. How integrated are these functions in your organization? Read more
The Art and Science of Risk-Taking
Have you ever been on the verge of doing something big and then found yourself unable to move forward because of the fear of possible negative consequences? If so, you’re not alone. Most people are wired to avoid fearful...
How To Build a Robust Vendor Risk Management (VM) Process
In an age of ever-increasing demands by customers for more of everything - more products, more services, more convenience - businesses often find themselves struggling to keep up with demand. Credit unions are no exception....
Understanding Your Relationship to Risk
Would You Bet Your Life On it? The award-winning biographical film, Free Solo, released in September 2018, documents one man’s attempt to climb El Capitan. Alex Honnold, an elite climber from Sacramento, CA, had a lifelong...
‘Twas the Night Before New Year’s
‘Twas the night before New Year’s, two thousand nineteen, And my, what a wild ride the past year had been! The markets, they soared; the markets, they tumbled, Investors, they cheered, and then later, they grumbled. Inside...