the risk management blog

byJon Groussman | May 21, 2020

Even before COVID-19 created the social and economic challenges we are currently working through, brick and mortar business owners large and small understood a basic concept that most of the world wasn’t thinking much about: whenever people gather in…

byBrad Moody | May 14, 2020

It’s hard to imagine that, on any given day, over $3 trillion dollars moves via electronic transfer.  Financial institutions make these B2B transactions happen seamlessly on a global scale, and we often take for granted the very simple instructions…

byMark Lowers | May 01, 2020

In 1947, my Grandma Maggie was involved in a terrible car accident. While a passenger in an automobile heading to visit family, the car ran off a mountainside road near her childhood home in West Virginia. The car tumbled…

byLowers & Associates | April 30, 2020

In our work in high risk industries, we routinely uncover fraud and asset misappropriations. While it may seem counterintuitive, with the US and global economy currently at a standstill due to COVID-19 shelter at home directives, organizations should be…

byLowers & Associates | March 24, 2020

Emerging markets tend to fall into that riskiest of strategic planning quadrants: Unknown-Unknown territory. They bring with them both tremendous opportunity and enormous risk. The cannabis industry is one such market. While medicinal marijuana has been legal in Canada…