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The TPRM Book Practitioners Have Been Waiting For

The best book on third-party risk management — practical, strategic, and built for financial services.

Most TPRM books teach you how to run a program. This one teaches you how to run it well — and what to do with it once you do.

Written by Michael Carpenter — a veteran practitioner with three decades of experience at community banks, credit unions, and major financial institutions — and Ncontracts Founder and CEO Michael Berman, The Upside of Third-Party Risk Management delivers two things in one: a complete practitioner's guide to the vendor management lifecycle and a strategic playbook for turning that work into measurable organizational value.

The fundamentals, done right

Every stage of the vendor lifecycle — with the depth it deserves

Each chapter walks you through how the component works, why it matters, and how to apply it in the financial services environments where vendor failures have real consequences and oversight must hold up under examiner scrutiny.

Each chapter builds on the last. By the time you reach the end, you have a complete picture of how the pieces fit together — and a clear sense of where to focus first.

  • Strategy and risk appetite
  • Tiering
  • Due diligence
  • Contracts
  • Metrics
  • Performance reviews
  • Incident management
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The strategic perspective that changes the function

Is your program doing everything it could be doing?

Vendors don't just support your strategy. They execute it. Your digital channels, lending platforms, payment processing, fraud monitoring — these capabilities live outside your four walls in a vendor ecosystem your organization depends on to compete and serve its customers.

Managing that ecosystem with strategic intent isn't just good risk management. It's how the function earns a seat at the table.

Quantify what vendor failures cost in dollars and strategic timelines
Quantify what vendor failures cost in dollars and strategic timelines
Connect oversight to the outcomes leadership tracks
Connect oversight to the outcomes leadership tracks
Make vendor risk visible, quantifiable, and defensible at the board level
Make vendor risk visible, quantifiable, and defensible at the board level
Build a program that generates real value — not just documentation
Build a program that generates real value — not just documentation
For practitioners at every stage

Wherever you're starting from

About the authors
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Michael Carpenter
VP of Risk Management, Ncontracts
 
Michael Carpenter has spent more than three decades working in environments where risk has real consequences — beginning with military risk assessments, continuing through AML/CFT work at JPMorgan Chase, and later building vendor management, information security, business continuity, and compliance programs at community banks and credit unions.
Michael Berman, founder and CEO of Ncontracts, author of The Upside of Third-Party Risk Management, a practical guide for TPRM practitioners
Michael Berman
Founder & CEO, Ncontracts
 
 With decades of legal and regulatory experience, Michael Berman brings a rare combination of business strategy and compliance expertise to everything he does. He is a frequent speaker, regular contributor to industry publications, and a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Tennessee College of Law. 
The guide and the playbook — in one place.