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Financial Risk Group is pleased to announce and welcome its new class of New Employee Excellence Training (NEET) consulting trainees. Juan Venegas, Andrew Moser and Raleigh Armstrong will study under the mentorship and supervision of experienced FRG consultants to...

A series of blog posts centered on Data as a Service solutions, written by FRG Principal Dessa Glasser, has concluded with the publication of a final post, which outlines six top considerations in creating a corporate data strategy. Glasser published the first of the...

When it comes to CECL regulations, analytics and data governance will have the biggest institution-wide impact. How can you leverage your investments to get the biggest bang for your buck? FRG Principal Jimmie Lenz explains in a new post on the FRG blog. Click this...

A white paper by Dr. Jimmie Lenz and Dr. Sanjiv Salwar, FRG principals, explains how institutions can meet the FASB goal of "reasonable and supportable" expected credit loss forecasts. Download "CECL Scenarios: Considerations, Development, and Opportunities" by...

The demand of private capital investing has investors clamoring for more information about prospective cash flows. Historically, that data has been hard to estimate. Because the investments aren’t traded on a public venue, there are few figures generated beyond the...

Dessa Glasser, FRG Principal, will moderate a panel session at the Data Management Summit in New York City on September 20, 2018. Glasser will lead a group of industry experts in their discussion of “Reviewing the Regulatory Landscape: The data management response for...

Dr. Jimmie Lenz, Principal with the Financial Risk Group, will participate in a panel discussion on Enterprise Applications of Blockchain in New York City on July 18, 2018. The event is hosted by BCG Digital Ventures. Lenz is an experienced executive, lecturer, and...

FRG Principal Dr. Jimmie Lenz will teach a class on Financial Innovation this Fall as an Adjunct Professor in the Finance Department at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Lenz will leverage his more than 25 years of industry and...

FRG Principal Dessa Glasser is one of the featured educators participating in the "Data Governance: Latest Developments and Best Practice" training course June 20-21 in New York. The event is hosted by Waters Technology. Dessa will lead the "Implementing a Data...

Dessa Glasser, Principal with The Financial Risk Group, Inc., has been appointed as an Independent Member of the Board of Directors of Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. (OPY on the New York Stock Exchange), and its affiliates provide a full range of...