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    Ready to Strike a Deal? Five Best Practices to Ensure Repeatable Success in M&A Transactions
    According to a recent survey of executives, over 70% of companies plan on being involved in a merger or acquisition (M&A) in 2021. This is a welcome change from 2020, when deal value globally dropped 5% from last year, to $3.6 trillion – the lowest since 2017. As activity begins to quicken, organizations should view a potential M&A not as a long shot but as a likely path toward growth,…
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    Guidelines for Serving Limited English Proficiency Consumers Emphasize Expectations and Risks for Financial Institutions
    On January 13, 2021, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a Statement Regarding the Provision of Financial Products and Services to Consumers with Limited English Proficiency (LEP). The statement is intended to provide principled guidelines to assist financial institutions when offering or expanding products and services to LEP consumers. The statement expands on observations…
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    Returning to the Office with an Adaptable, High-Performance Team
    The response to the pandemic from organizations can be classified into multiple phases. In the first phase, business leaders scrambled to equip teams for remote work. Later, ad hoc groups sprang up to devise return-to-office (RTO) plans. Soon after, many recognized they’d have to optimize tools and processes for remote collaboration that would last months longer than they had anticipated. And now…
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    Setting the 2021 Audit Committee Agenda: Your Questions Answered
    Following a year of unprecedented challenge and upheaval, the 2021 audit committee agenda has a different look than in years past. Issues such as the uncertain economic outlook, geopolitical tensions, a remote and distributed workforce, cybersecurity threats and changing customer demands will continue to disrupt business as usual and demand that business leaders remain alert and ready to pivot.…
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    Human Capital Reporting Is a New SEC Requirement – 8 Steps to Take Now
    Today’s economy is driven by talent, knowledge and innovation, precisely the factors created by human, rather than solely physical, capital. As a basis for making investment decisions, stakeholders have wanted more visibility into how organizations derive value from their workforce. How companies acquire and retain people – and how they deploy human capital to create value – speaks volumes about…
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    Virginia Becomes the Second State to Enact Consumer Privacy Law
    The Commonwealth of Virginia passed the Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) into law on March 2, 2021, following overwhelming bipartisan support for a state consumer privacy law. Virginia becomes the second U.S. state behind California to institutionalize a comprehensive consumer privacy law for businesses to govern, control and lawfully process personal information of Virginia’s residents. The…
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    Flash Report: President Biden Executive Order to Strengthen U.S. Cybersecurity Will Impact Federal Agencies and Public and Private Organizations
    On May 12, President Joe Biden issued the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. This executive order (EO) is the most recent action by the administration to strengthen U.S. national cyber defenses and address cybersecurity threats and attacks that continue to grow in magnitude, impact and frequency. It is intended to protect networks in the federal, public and private…
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    There’s a Culture Shift Happening in Medical Device Manufacturing. Are CISOs Ready?
    There’s a fundamental sea change happening in the medical device security world. Driven by the increasing threats of cyberattacks, corporate competition, and the ever-growing need to protect the massive volumes of valuable patient data, chief information security officers (CISOs) are rethinking how they defend against these evolving challenges.…
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    Human Capital Reporting in a Changing World
    The COVID-19 pandemic. A new administration in the U.S. with, so far, a markedly different tone than the previous one. The MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting. It would be easy to attribute the emergence of human capital reporting requirement by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to a wave of accountability demands in a world rife…
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    Industry Focus: Solving Information Security Challenges in Consumer Products and Retail
    This blog is part of Protiviti’s CISO Next Initiative. To learn more, visit us. Emerging from an unprecedented year that presented arduous hurdles to overcome, consumer products and retail companies confront a formidable cluster of unique information security challenges. Overcoming these obstacles requires chief information security officers (CISOs) to do more than ply their…
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