Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog January 10, 2019 Getting Operational Resilience Right – Six Key Action Points The operating environment for financial firms has changed significantly in recent years. IT outages and cyber attacks – some of which have been very high profile – as well as increasing reliance on third parties through outsourcing and offshoring arrangements are transforming the risk environment and presenting significant risks of harm to customers and the stability of markets. As a result,… Blog January 14, 2019 Financial Services Regulators Focusing on Cyber Resilience Cyber resilience has become the latest concern for regulators around the world, as massively disruptive attacks such as NotPetya and WannaCry brought into the forefront the vulnerability of interconnected systems. Cyber resilience was also a key theme of the Financial Services Information-Sharing and Analysis Center Fall Summit in Chicago last November. In addition, regulators have released… Blog January 16, 2019 Finance Transformation: Change Management and Overcoming Resistance As more companies tackle transformation, finance organizations, as scorekeepers, need to make sure they stay ahead of the change curve. The use of data and technology is often the first way finance looks to add strategic value to the company, but the key to success may actually lie in how effective finance leaders are at selling the change to the people doing that work. To be clear, we’re not… Blog January 22, 2019 Top Risks 2019: CFOs Focus on People and Technology Chief financial officers (CFOs), by virtue of their role as strategic and financial managers and scorekeepers, are in a unique position to view corporate risks across the enterprise. It is therefore useful to understand the concerns behind CFOs’ responses to the latest Top Risk Survey from the N.C. State University Enterprise Risk Management Initiative and Protiviti. Most CFOs tend to be… Blog January 23, 2019 Podcast: The Responsible Technology Firm of the Future Technology firms are having an unprecedented influence over our lives and their reach has extended across the globe like never before. As a result, the level of regulatory scrutiny of these tech giants has increased dramatically as well. In the podcast below, Protiviti leaders discuss the changing regulatory landscape technology firms are facing today and the need to balance regulatory concerns,… Blog January 24, 2019 Setting the 2019 Audit Committee Agenda Boards today – especially audit committees – are expected to develop and maintain a thorough understanding of business risks and ask the tough questions to ensure that critical risks are being addressed and that the company is delivering on its regulatory and fiduciary reporting responsibilities. With so much to consider, it can be difficult to know where to start. To that end, Protiviti… Blog January 25, 2019 From Spreadsheet-Driven Madness to Reporting That Excels Perhaps it’s the exceptional usefulness of spreadsheets that makes problems with them inevitable. Many organizations we know have experienced being handcuffed to spreadsheets, for one or more of the following reasons: They lack a good reporting system.Their reporting systems are available to some but not all of their locations or departments.They need reports that draw data from several… Blog January 29, 2019 On Leaders’ Minds for 2019: Digital Challenges, Regulatory Scrutiny, and Competition for Talent All enterprises are subject to risks that have the potential to disrupt business models and damage reputations overnight. Senior leaders - across industries and geographies - indicate they anticipate increasing risk in 2019. This is only one finding from the Executive Perspectives on Top Risks 2019 report Protiviti and NC State University’s ERM Initiative. This survey asks business leaders to… Blog February 4, 2019 Planning to Go Public in 2019? How to Get and Stay IPO-Ready Through the Government Shutdowns and Other Market Conditions 2018 was a strong year for initial public offerings (IPOs), and investors have been looking forward to some high-profile initial public offerings in 2019. Companies are counting on the capital raised from those offerings to achieve critical business objectives, such as expansion — through either internal growth initiatives or acquisitions — or paying down debt incurred in pre-IPO growth… Blog February 6, 2019 Chief Risk Officers on the 2019 Risk Landscape: Keep Calm, Carry On We’ve all heard the cautionary tales: Blockbuster, Kodak, Borders – the market leaders that couldn’t keep pace with disruptive innovation and so became history. The risk of falling behind – in technology, talent or innovation – is the waking nightmare of corporate boards of directors and executives across the C-suite. It is the full-time job of chief risk officers (CROs) to make sure that… Load More