Even then, professional, regulatory and internal quality and risk management policies generally require second partner reviews and other supervision of even the work of partner level licensed professionals.

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This is a form of heightened scrutiny, though informal and less severe than some other options, and looks at a bank's capital and risk management, loan quality and liquidity.

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Quality of corporate governance including risk committee and audit committee effectiveness and quality of disclosures by management to those board committees.

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They want the software to sell improved data quality, faster book closings, better regulatory compliance and risk management.

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Rather than undertaking a major push, firms seem content to re-use previous technology investments while trying to improve the timeliness and quality of the data and improving the integration with other risk management tools.

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The Care Quality Commission expressed concerns about nutrition standards and management of patient risk in November last year after an inspection.

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No children were deemed at "immediate risk" but the report said failings in case recording, quality of practice and management oversight led to "some children being inadequately protected".

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Secondly there is the credit risk issue attached to the mushrooming of wealth-management products, an asset class of uncertain size and quality which banks created in order to attract deposits with higher rates of return.

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The Toyota and Boeing stories underscore starkly contrasted approaches to outsourcing, supply chain management, and the quality management needed in a marketplace where public fears fester each time a serious product risk is traced to a foreign source.

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