Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Podcast March 23, 2022 Podcast | Quantum Machine Learning Using PennyLane with Xanadu Quantum machine learning, or QML, is one of the three major application categories for quantum computing, along with optimisation and simulation. As we’re working with customers at Protiviti to find advantageous use cases in QML, we rely daily on a tool called PennyLane from Xanadu. Join host Konstantinos Karagiannis, and special cohost Emily Stamm, for a chat with Nathan Killoran from Xanadu to… Whitepaper May 1, 2022 The Russian sanctions: A catalyst for ESG? “To put it bluntly, will companies enact courageous ESG policies only when it does not hurt?…This is a moment of truth. Stakeholders have been increasingly mobilised to question the premises of companies’ professed ESG activities. All too frequently, corporations and their executives engage in marketing or obfuscation of what they’re actually doing — what could more accurately be called ‘ESG-… Whitepaper April 29, 2022 Credit Pulse Spring 2022 Geopolitical Instability Moves the Goalposts AgainIn this issue of the Credit Pulse, we look at credit risk considering the macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainties that continue to shape the financial services industry in the opening months of 2022. We assess lessons learned during the pandemic and how they’re driving lenders to recalibrate operations to enable greater resiliency in the face… Podcast December 13, 2021 Podcast | Risk Transformation: Carol Beaumier This episode brings the 2021 season of Risky Women Radio to an end. We are excited to continue our transformation journey through 2022! Lucy Pearman talks with Carol Beaumier who oversees Protiviti’s Asia-Pac Financial Services Practice about cyber and ESG risks, talent retention and the consequences of not transforming. Carol Beaumier is a Senior Managing Director in Protiviti’s Risk and… Blogs March 25, 2021 The Complexities of Rapidly Evolving Wage Law: Act Now to Mitigate Your Risk Is Your Organisation Underpaying or Overpaying its Employees? No organisation wants to be headline news for underpaying its employees. However, many businesses are being publicly ostracised for violating enterprise agreements (EAs) in Australia. Not only are EAs incredibly complicated, wage law is also evolving rapidly, with Victoria and Queensland passing legislation in 2020. Unfortunately,… Survey January 7, 2022 Three Conversation Starters That Advance CISO/CFO Collaboration The quality and, in some cases, the existence of the CISO/CFO relationship varies by company. In organisations where the CISO role is positioned and promoted as a source of value, CISOs and CFOs tend to collaborate more often and more meaningfully than in companies that treat information security as a cost center (and typically struggle with cybersecurity as a result). Protiviti’s 2021… Whitepaper January 28, 2022 Compliance Priorities for 2022 in the Financial Services Industry As we consider the compliance challenges that will be top of mind for financial institution compliance officers in 2022, one thing is very clear: More and more often, they are being expected to play a significant role in managing risks that extend beyond what we have traditionally considered the purview of compliance. Coupling this reality with ongoing innovation, both in the industry and in… Whitepaper April 25, 2022 Human v. machine: Tackling artificial intelligence risks in financial institutions In the novel Tell the Machine Goodnight, Katie Williams tells the story of Pearl, a technician for Apricity Corporation, which has developed a machine that “uses a sophisticated metric, taking into account factors of which we are not consciously aware,” and with 99.7% accuracy, offers recommendations for what will make people happy. Does this narrative provide a glimpse into our future? Will… Podcast August 30, 2021 Podcast - Future of Transaction Monitoring: Chasing The Holy Grail The current and future state of suspicious activity monitoring and reporting is being transformed by technology and the use of data, analytics and robotics. In this episode, Mark Highton – Managing Director leading Protiviti’s Financial Crimes Consulting practice, interviews Vishal Ranjane - Head of Global AML Strategies, Solutions and Transformation at TD Bank, and Seth Twery - VP of Client… Survey February 14, 2023 Top Risks Webinar Question Guide Responses to Selected Questions Received During Webinar – January 11, 2023 We received numerous questions during our January webinar on Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2023 & 2032. While we responded to some during the webinar, we were unable to cover all of them. We have selected a number of the unanswered questions that we believe to be of general interest and have included… Load More