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What's the Purpose of Third-Party Risk Management? A Practitioner's Answer
38 minutes Posted Jul 7, 2026 at 12:43 pm.
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Most vendor management programs at financial institutions are built to satisfy an examiner. Michael Carpenter, VP of Risk Management at Ncontracts and author of The Upside of Third-Party Risk Management, spent 30 years building third-party risk management programs at community banks, credit unions, and large financial institutions — and in this episode of Ncast, he explains what that experience revealed about why so many TPRM programs fail to deliver real business value.