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The Impact on Risk and Rankings From S&P's Enterprise Risk Management Assessment
Enterprise Risk Management to be featured in S&P company ratings

Standard and Poor's (S&P) announcement that it will now include an assessment of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) practices in its rating process demonstrates the increasing importance of ERM as a core aspect of corporate governance. One asked S&P's Steven Dreyer why the company is making the change—and what it will mean for businesses in future.

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