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While the bailout of the financial services industry by Congress isn't likely to generate a flood of new D&O claims, provisions within the law may generate more shareholder lawsuits.

K.C. Kidder

A listing of some of the nation's top publicly traded banking companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

Risk is the currency of insurance companies, with peril on one side of the coin and profit on the other. You'd think insurance companies would be experts at it. But ratings agencies are having to push insurers into applying enterprise risk management techniques to their entire portfolio, an education they seem to be in serious need of.

A listing of some of the nation's top publicly traded aerospace/aviation companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

How mortgage lenders masked their subprime exposure risks from investors through securitization and looser standards.

A listing of some of the nation's top publicly traded financial services companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

The court has made it easier for small companies to challenge financial services industry Goliaths in the protection of intellectual property. The industry's behemoths however, seeking to defend their interests, have taken pre-emptive action by filing patents of their own.

A listing of some of the nation's top publicly traded diversified financial companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

The best commercial brokers in the business know their customers sometimes better than customers know themselves. So, just who belongs to this vaunted group of middlemen and women for financial institutions? Find out the 2011 Power Broker® results.

Even financial services companies seek services sometimes--from risk management consultants. In their case, it's many times for assistance in the complex arts of enterprise risk management or operational risk management.

The Risk Management Association breaks down its members' interests in three rough categories--credit risk, operational risk and market risk. Yet the RMA's focus on all three demonstrates its overall dedication to enterprise risk management in the financial services sector.

The property/casualty industry might not need its shades in 2008. The outlook for the P/C sector does not look bright, despite recent successes in underwriting and earnings.