Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog RPA in Finance: Benefits, Challenges, Opportunities. Listen to the podcast. Following a period of intense process optimization, stabilization and standardization, many organizations are now turning to robotic process automation as a natural next step to achieve efficiency and cost savings. RPA solutions lend themselves to a multitude of finance processes, from the procure-to-pay and order-to-cash cycles, to supplier onboarding, to reporting. Listen to Protiviti experts… Blog GDPR: Here’s What’s Happened So Far After four years of preparations and numerous revisions, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the most-lobbied piece of legislation in the history of the European Union, was finally approved by the EU Parliament in April 2016. Following a two-year transitional period, the GDPR became enforceable on May 25, 2018. Within hours of the regulation taking affect, popular U.S. news sites were… Blog GDPR and How It Affects Third-Party/Vendor Handling of Personal and Employee Data Protiviti has issued a series of podcasts on various specific aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the comprehensive EU data privacy law that became effective May 25, 2018. Below, we offer a transcript of the conversation with Jeff Sanchez, Managing Director with Protiviti's Security and Privacy practice, discussing the changes data controllers and processors will need to… Blog Applying RegTech to KYC Activities, Including Periodic Reviews: A Brief Overview of Possibilities The burden of regulatory compliance for financial institutions continues to be onerous despite recent actions by the government to lighten the load. Notwithstanding the complexity of many regulatory requirements, stakeholders are increasingly demanding more from their compliance departments while also raising expectations for efficiency and cost-cutting. The processes around anti-money… Blog How Is GDPR Enforced? Who Resolves Disputes? This Detailed Podcast Offers Answers. Protiviti has issued a series of podcasts on various specific aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the comprehensive EU data privacy law that became effective May 25, 2018. Below, we offer a transcript of our conversation with Cal Slemp, a Managing Director with Protiviti's Security and Privacy practice. Cal gives an informative and fascinating overview of the… Blog Tech Firms Helped Shape the New Labor Model — But They Need to Keep Evolving Themselves Technology companies know all about the need to stay nimble and scale fast to respond to change. They also know well the persistent challenge of trying to assemble enough skilled and diverse talent to help them fuel innovation and growth. To achieve both objectives, many tech firms were among the first to embrace the concept of the “shamrock organization” — a decision made by both necessity and… Blog Can Machine Learning Improve Consumer Lending? We Think So. The ready availability of large volumes of internal, external and social media data, along with advances in analytics and the advent of machine learning (ML), appear to have created the perfect opportunity for improving consumer lending decisions. But how big of a role will – or should – machine learning play in lending decisions? Can it make the processes that financial institutions use to… Blog Knowledge Is Power: What Higher Education Institutions Must Know About GDPR Compliance Risk In the coming months, as U.S. colleges and universities prepare to welcome students to a new academic year, a priority topping their to-do lists should be identifying and understanding their risk exposure to the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). They also should be making appropriate changes to meet the technological, administrative and legal requirements of this… Blog So You Want to Use RPA in Audit — Here’s How You Start Robotic process automation (RPA) has been gaining traction as an efficient way to automate labor-intensive and repetitive tasks across a variety of business functions, including finance, accounting, technology, legal, HR, and, increasingly, audit and compliance. As the popularity of this relatively simple and affordable technology increases, internal audit departments are starting to realize… Blog Data Tops Priorities in New Finance Survey by Protiviti A new Finance Trends survey by Protiviti, released yesterday, confirms what many CFOs already know — that data means everything in finance. The specific data priorities this year, however, are revealing — the security and privacy of financial data has climbed to priority number one, a concern no doubt driven by increased use of finance cloud applications. It is followed in importance by financial… Load More
