Media, Press & Videos

EuSpRIG Press & Website

EuSpRIG and the Annual Conference is regularly covered in the international press, on web sites, discussion groups and blogs:

• Daily Telegraph – Only a matter of time before the spreadsheets hit the fan
• CFO.com 2007 – Conference
• CFO.com 2008 – Conference
• CIO.com – Eight of the Worst Spreadsheet Blunders
• Auditnet – Global Resources for Auditors
• Wilmott – Spreadsheet Errors
• The Mathematical Association of America – The Risky Business of Spreadsheet Errors
• The Institute of Internal Auditors – Improving Spreadsheet Audits in Six Steps
• The Register – How to Lose $7.2bn with just a few Basic Skills
• The Register – Excel snafu costs firm $24m

There are many links worldwide to the EuSpRIG website [see a 2010 report for more details]

EuSpRIG Presentations

EuSpRIG has been, and continues to be, invited to give talks & presentations internationally on spreadsheet risks and related tools and techniques:

• Bank of England, May 2000, London, England
• BCS-IRMA, February 2002, London, England
• IFIP, November 2002, Bonn, Germany
• EURO/INFORMS, July 2003, Istanbul, Turkey
• Foundations of Spreadsheets, September 2004, Rome, Italy
• INFORMS, November 2005, San Francisco, USA
• ISACA Central England, May 2006, Birmingham, England
• ACCA London, March 2006, London, England
• BCS-IRMA, September 2006, London, England
• BCS Dorset Branch, November 2006, Bournemouth, England
• ISACA-LONDON, June 2007, London, England
• Eurofinance, March 2008, Antwerp, Belgium
• Eurofinance, September 2008, Stockholm, Sweden
• ISACA North, October 2008, Leeds, England
• IACON Europe, 2009, Paris
• IACON , 2010, London

EuSpRIG FSA Presentations

EuSpRIG has benefited from substantive and authoritative input from a senior member of the Financial Services Authority in previous years. In 2009 a keynote presentation was given by Deniz Sumengen of the Financial Reporting Council. We reproduce here the presentations given. We seek further active involvement from regulatory authorities and central banks.

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• FSA – 2011 – Living with Spreadsheets
• FRC – 2009 – Technical Standards for Modelling
• FSA – 2007 – Regulatory Update
• FSA – 2005 – Regulatory Update
• FSA – 2004 – Why Banks use Spreadsheets
• FSA – 2003 – User Computing in Financial Regulation