In a move to provide businesses worldwide with consistent tools for measuring aggregate risk in the financial world and provide a real-time view of market exposure, the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Data Governance Council is seeking input from banks and financial institutions, corporations, vendors and regulators to create a standards-based approach to risk reporting.

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