Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Whitepaper April 24, 2024 Sanctions Risk Assessment: A Key Risk Management Tool Faced with the growing complexity of the geopolitical landscape, governments have been using financial sanctions increasingly as foreign policy tools to respond to developments as wide ranging as regional conflicts and wars, terrorism, and human slavery. In today’s highly charged geopolitical environment, sanctions compliance is a focus not only for financial institutions and regulatory… Podcast March 6, 2024 Podcast | Logical Qubits Arrive - with QuEra Quantum computing needs error-corrected, logical qubits to exit the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era and bring real advantage to practical business and other use cases. A recent experiment at Harvard succeeded at creating 48 logical qubits on a neutral atom platform, and the techniques will be implemented in production systems in the future. We may have 100 logical qubits by 2026! Join… Whitepaper June 24, 2022 PCI Security Standards Council Publishes New Versions of Self-Assessment Questionnaires On April 29, 2022, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) released new versions of the PCI DSS Self-Assessment Questionnaires (SAQs) ahead of the anticipated June 2022 release timeline. After the release of the new version of PCI DSS 4.0 a month prior, the new versions of the SAQs have been updated to reflect changes in the standard, as well as to adjust requirements applicable for… Podcast Transcript September 28, 2022 Transcript | Sustainable Finance With the dominance of ESG as a key agenda item in the boardroom and C-suite, it’s no surprise that one especially noteworthy topic is sustainable finance – ensuring that investments in products and services are aligned with ESG and sustainability standards. This certainly is a key area of focus in financial services. In this podcast, Protiviti’s Paul Middleton interviews Ana Carolina Oliveira,… Podcast September 28, 2022 Podcast | Sustainable Finance With the dominance of ESG as a key agenda item in the boardroom and C-suite, it’s no surprise that one especially noteworthy topic is sustainable finance – ensuring that investments in products and services are aligned with ESG and sustainability standards. This certainly is a key area of focus in financial services.In this podcast, Protiviti’s Paul Middleton interviews Ana Carolina Oliveira,… Flash Report March 29, 2023 COSO Issues Supplemental Guidance on Internal Control Over Sustainability Reporting The Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has released supplemental guidance on how to effectively apply the 2013 Internal Control — Integrated Framework (ICIF) — which is currently applied to financial reporting — to sustainability reporting. The guidance results from a project approved by the COSO board a year ago with the objective of helping organisations “… Survey December 8, 2022 Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2023 and 2032 The level of uncertainty in today’s global marketplace and the velocity of change continue to produce a multitude of potential risks that can disrupt an organisation’s business model and strategy on very short notice. Whitepaper October 22, 2021 Amid Expanding Definitions and Growing Attention from Regulators, How to Make Conduct Risk Strategy Work There was a time when financial misconduct meant a rogue trader racking up losses on a stock market bet he wasn’t authorised to make or a Ponzi scheme where crooked asset managers spent investors’ money on a posh lifestyle. But the definition of misconduct by financial actors has changed, and greatly expanded, in the past decade-and-a-half due to big scandals, even bigger financial catastrophes,… Whitepaper October 5, 2020 Private Equity and Cybersecurity – Gaining a Holistic View An emerging trend among private equity firms is their growing attention to the remediation, monitoring and reporting of cybersecurity capabilities of the companies in their portfolios. Historically, they have not fully appreciated the varying degrees of cybersecurity risk relative to a company’s specific industry. And understandably, the emphasis on investing in promising businesses and improving… Flash Report August 2, 2021 Are Bad Actors Looking to Cause Corporate Havoc with Disinformation? Bogus Whistleblower Complaints Are Making the Rounds “Misinformation” and “disinformation” have long been mainstays in the political arena, the climate change debate and even in the public discourse over COVID-19 vaccines. Misinformation represents information that is wrong, a challenge every business must deal with from time to time, whether in the press, analyst communications, social media, discussions at government levels, or other venues.… Load More
