Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Leadership John McDermott John McDermott is responsible for enhancing and expanding Protiviti’s global risk, compliance, governance, and audit practices within the financial services industry. He provides subject matter expertise from years of personal experience as a Chief Risk Officer, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and Chief Audit Executive, at 3 large global financial services firms. His experience… Landing Page Terms of Use Landing Page Contact us Landing Page Accolades Whitepaper The Changing Regulatory Posture Covid-19, the economy, racial equity and climate. These are what the Biden-Harris transition team initially identified as the priorities of its administration. Since President Biden took office, other pressing issues such as immigration, cyber defense, and the U.S.’s exit from Afghanistan have been added to the list. The financial services industry wasn’t expected to, and does not, make the… Whitepaper Buy Now, Pay Later...and Gear Up for More Regulation First there were layaways. Conjured during the Great Depression when people were struggling to make ends meet, layaways allowed people to buy big-ticket items and pay in installments before walking away with their product. Layaways were especially popular around the holidays when many people reserved all their gifts in advance and started saving for them through a layaway programme. Then came the… Whitepaper Risky Business: The Sanctions Challenges of Trade Finance As governments across the globe, including the EU, US, Canada, UK, Japan, Singapore and more, have imposed sanctions on Russia, with promises of additional action if Russia persists with its war on Ukraine, financial institutions and their customers are forced to review their trade and commodities transactions involving Russia to assess their legal and reputation risk. These reviews are… Blog The Three Pillars of Trustworthy AI — and Why Most Organizations Aren’t Ready AI is no longer a future consideration. It is already embedded across operations, from customer interaction and compliance monitoring to software development and decision support. Yet as adoption accelerates, organizations face a more fundamental challenge: how to deploy AI safely, at scale, and have confidence in the results. Many organizations are adopting AI faster than their governance, data… Blog Scaling an Agentic Enterprise Agentic AI is reshaping how work gets done. Successful adoption doesn’t start with the technology; rather, it begins with clarity on the outcomes that matter most. Organizations leading in this space define specific business problems to solve, then build the data foundation required to support those goals. From there, they scale deliberately, connecting systems, reducing complexity and enabling… Blog From AI Ambition to Measurable Impact: Why a Bottoms-Up Approach Is Reshaping Enterprise Value The conversation around artificial intelligence has evolved quickly. What began as a race to “do AI” has given way to a more practical realization: Experimentation alone is not enough – you need a strategy. Organizations moved fast to deploy tools and launch pilots, often measuring success by activity. Over time, executives started asking better questions: What are we getting in return? Where can… Load More