Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog January 30, 2018 What Are Your AML Priorities in 2018? FinCEN’s Customer Due Diligence Rule. Sanctions Compliance. NYDFS’s Part 504. RegTech. Which of these issues is at the top of your institution’s AML compliance agenda for 2018? Thanks to everyone who attended Protiviti’s webinar, 2018: The Year Ahead in AML Compliance earlier this month. For anyone who may have missed the live webinar, you can listen to the replay by clicking on the link above… Blog January 30, 2018 Meaningful Cybersecurity Reporting: Measurement That Matters As cybersecurity concerns grow, leadership is searching for the metrics and insights that matter. At the end of last year, Protiviti sponsored a Cyber Summit in Chicago with speakers from Northwestern Mutual, First Midwest Bank, Zebra Technologies, and ParkerGale Companies. We were also joined by Doug Hubbard, author of How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk. The talks centered on how… Blog January 31, 2018 From Tried and True to Something New – the Energy and Utilities Industry Wrestles With Disruptive Innovation “Disruption” and “utility” are two words that were never meant to go together. The always-on, 24/7/365 nature of water and power is the industry’s defining characteristic. It’s not surprising then that executives and board members in the energy and utilities industry group would find disruptive innovation, and its related effects on people, processes and culture, to be a “significant impact” risk… Blog January 31, 2018 CDD Deadline Approaching: Listen to Our Monthly Podcast for an In-Depth Discussion of the Rule and More In this month's Compliance Insights podcast, Risk and Compliance experts Christine Bucy and Steven Stachowicz discuss the challenges around the customer due diligence (CDD) rule in force this May, and the dynamic developments related to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. More compliance news can be found in the January issue of Compliance Insights, available here. [audio mp3="http://blog.… Blog February 1, 2018 Business World Complexity Requires Sophisticated Enterprise Risk Management: So How Do You Get There? In my previous post, I discussed how companies can leverage enterprise risk management (ERM) for strategic planning and risk-informed decision making. I want to continue this discussion here with focus on the ERM journey and its various stages of maturity. ERM as a journey Though the metaphor is a bit worn, I will nevertheless apply it here. Based on our experience, we know that ERM… Blog March 13, 2018 Disruptive Innovation Front and Center for Manufacturers and Distributors in 2018, According to Survey Digitalization has been called the fourth industrial revolution. New business models are emerging to keep up with the rapid pace of change, and not surprisingly, they are being met with some predictable internal resistance and cultural challenges. As these more agile and automated models rely to an ever-greater extent on technology and third-party suppliers, supply chain risk is an increasing… Blog March 14, 2018 Market Volatility: Is Your IPO Ready to Go? January 2018 set a record for initial public offerings (IPOs), with 17 companies raising almost $8 billion, surpassing the record of January 2014, when 12 IPOs raised $5.3 billion. That pace slowed considerably in February, however, amid substantial market volatility. It is easy to understand why companies – or their underwriters – grew shy of IPOs amidst the market swings. IPO activity… Blog March 15, 2018 SEC on Cyber Risk Assessments: Show Us the Cost of Your Loss Last week, an important Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Interpretive Guidance, which we analyzed in a Protiviti Flash Report, set the bar for corporate cybersecurity risk assessments. One particular aspect of the new guidance relating to how companies conduct risk assessments and report on cybersecurity risks is the need to understand “the range and magnitude of the financial impacts” of… Blog March 16, 2018 It Is Time to Bring Order to the M&D Lease Universe Public company accounting departments closing the books on 2017 may find it difficult to take a breath. Fresh from filing their 10-K and finalizing their preparation for the FASB’s new revenue recognition standard (ASC 606) effective in 2018, it is time to prepare for a new lease accounting standard (ASC 842). The new standard goes into effect for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018… Blog March 21, 2018 2018 Audit Committee Agenda Continued: Corporate Culture Internal auditors often talk about the “tone at the top” — the idea that corporate culture begins with the example set by senior management. But while conduct at the top is where it all starts, it does not end there. An increasing number of companies are beginning to realize that if the tone in the middle is not aligned with the tone at the top, there could be serious risks lurking within the… Load More
