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OTC Conseil Americas
Newsletter #1 - April 2009

Editorial

OTC Conseil is built up of expertise.
We thrive on talking about and working on risky and innovative topics. Every month I will send you updates about our current thoughts, just to give you our perspective, or to motivate you to come in for an in-depth meeting with us about these topics.
You will also find on our website comprehensive working papers written to help you to make sense of the financial world during this painful crisis.

This month: Carbon finance, to believe in the future; and Internal control, to survive until the future arrives!

Fayna LIONET
OTC Conseil Americas

Carbon finance


While climate change has been grabbing headlines for years, efforts to combat it have increasingly focused on the regulation and reduction of carbon emissions.

Internal control: towards governance and risk control


Internal control has traditionally been seen as a curb to business development. With the 2007 release of the guidelines to the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), and COSO 2 in 2008, internal control came into play in a big way: yes, you have to identify, to assess, to control, to insure/transfer/reinsure!