Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Insights paper October 8, 2024 Best Practices for Building a Sustainable PCI DSS Compliance Programme Creating and maintaining a sustainable PCI DSS compliance programme is a crucial and complex task for organisations to protect payment card transactions and uphold consumer trust. However, despite the PCI DSS standard being around for almost 20 years, many organisations still struggle to achieve and validate compliance with it.In April 2016, the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) introduced the… Whitepaper March 28, 2022 Risky Business: The Sanctions Challenges of Trade Finance As governments across the globe, including the EU, US, Canada, UK, Japan, Singapore and more, have imposed sanctions on Russia, with promises of additional action if Russia persists with its war on Ukraine, financial institutions and their customers are forced to review their trade and commodities transactions involving Russia to assess their legal and reputation risk. These reviews are… Flash Report November 15, 2022 Biden Doubles Down at COP27 Last Friday at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (more commonly referred to as COP27), in Egypt, United States President Joe Biden asserted that global warming posed an existential threat to the planet and promised his country would meet its targets for fighting it. In his speech, he said, “The climate… Flash Report March 9, 2023 New White House Cybersecurity Strategy Creates Additional Concerns for Businesses The White House recently released a comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy that is sure to have a major impact on government agencies as well as private businesses. The Biden-Harris Administration has been percolating a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy for some time and in early March released the aptly named “National Cybersecurity Strategy.” The 35-page document was created to help… Blogs September 27, 2023 Accelerating digital banking transformation with cloud technology By 2025, core banking workload deployment on cloud is expected to be 14% of total IT spend.Banks are grappling with outdated applications; data is siloed and trapped within legacy systems and not accessible for customer insights and tailored experiences and services.Regulatory changes in Australia, the UK and U.S., in GDPR and APRA standards for data privacy and operational resiliency, are also… Blogs May 19, 2023 ChatGPT disruption: AI’s evolving vision renews need for trusted, governed data Access to artificial intelligence (AI) and the drive for adoption by organisations is more prevalent now than it’s ever been, yet many companies are struggling with how to manage data and the overall process. As companies open this “pandora’s box” of new capabilities, they must be prepared to manage data inputs and outputs in secure ways or risk allowing their private data to be consumed in… Blogs October 20, 2023 Conducting workforce reductions with compassion Dramatic reductions in force are happening across industries as economic uncertainty leads companies to reevaluate labor expenditures.Why it matters: RIFs are costly to carry out and they damage morale. Handling RIFs with compassion is the right thing to do.RIF alternatives – furloughs, job sharing and compensation changes – can save money, enable swifter recoveries and reduce hits to morale.… Newsletter July 10, 2024 Maximising CX: The Game You Must Win How a business engages its customers at every point of their buying journey is critical to connecting the organisation’s brand promise to, and delivering on, an exceptional customer experience. Does the board understand what the organisation does to differentiate itself with its customers? If not, it should.Performance management is on the radar of every board. Customer satisfaction and loyalty… Flash Report July 31, 2023 SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Enhancements: Efforts to Boost Investor Confidence On 26 July 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments1 to its rules on cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and incident reporting by public companies subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The SEC’s view is that cybersecurity threats and incidents pose an ongoing risk to public companies, investors and market… Whitepaper April 17, 2024 Internal Audit’s Role in Supporting Sustainability Reporting Environmental, social and governance (ESG) guidance, stakeholder demands and regulatory mandates are evolving and becoming more specific, and the time of taking a “soft approach” to sustainability reporting has passed. As the need to provide, or prepare to provide, limited and/or reasonable assurance in sustainability reporting grows, internal audit’s role in the reporting process becomes obvious… Load More
