Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blog July 2, 2020 Effective Third-Party Risk Management During COVID-19 and Beyond Organizations that rely on third parties to perform key services or deliver critical goods have had those relationships tested in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic caused critical vendors to become temporarily unavailable, change how they provide services, or forced them to go out of business altogether. Exports from China and other countries have been heavily impacted as factories were taken… Blog July 6, 2020 COVID-19 Impacts on Accounting, Reporting and Internal Controls Recent guidance from the Division of Corporate Finance at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), issued on June 23, 2020, reminds listed companies about their disclosure obligations in light of changes and challenges brought by COVID-19. This latest guidance builds on an earlier advisory, issued March 25, and provides the Commission’s additional views regarding operations, liquidity and… Blog July 7, 2020 Automating Revenue — Healthcare Revenue Cycle Quick Wins Amid COVID-19 If you were to walk into the administrative office of a typical healthcare provider’s revenue cycle department and observe core functions, chances are you would observe similarities between 2020 and 2005: a system inundated with static processes that rely heavily on manual intervention. Processes such as financial clearance, claim status checks, denial resolution and late charge entry all look… Blog July 13, 2020 Fintechs and Regulatory Compliance — A Happily Ever After? Ask typical fintech employees what they find energizing in their field of work, and don’t be surprised by the answers: developing cool stuff, working on the go-live, or growing the business by identifying the ideal partners in the market. Ask the same fintech employee whether their heart beats faster when working on regulatory compliance-related projects, and you can expect a less enthusiastic… Blog July 13, 2020 Healthcare Internal Audit During a Pandemic — Going From React to Rethink The past 20 years have presented three distinct crises that have had profound worldwide implications: the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the financial crisis of 2008, and now the global pandemic that is COVID-19. Each of these crises was considered unprecedented and presented real risks to our world, society and the economy. The benefit of living through unprecedented events is that the experience… Blog July 16, 2020 Furlough Planning: An Art and a Science Supported by Technology and Sound Change Management As many companies fight for survival in the current business environment, project teams may find themselves revising schedules to accommodate furloughs and abbreviated timelines. While this sounds like, and often is, a chaotic situation forced by an extraordinary event, business intelligence tools can bring rhyme and reason to the chaos, and alleviate much of the anxiety experienced both by those… Blog July 17, 2020 Flash Report: European Court of Justice Invalidates the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework In a landmark ruling with sweeping implications for global companies, on Thursday, July 16 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled, in essence, that the personal data of EU citizens must be provided the same protections granted by GDPR, the European data privacy law, regardless of what jurisdiction the data is moved to or processed in – and that the Privacy Shield framework in… Blog July 24, 2020 Digesting SWIFT’s 2020 Customer Security Programme (CSP) and COVID Guidance – and What the Changes Mean to Your Organization In response to the current business climate produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) recently issued guidance to ease the strain on customers as they work to implement its updated Customer Security Programme (CSP) and Customer Security Controls Framework (CSCF). With a network that links more than 11,000 financial institutions in… Blog July 27, 2020 Suspicious Activity Reporting: Government Aid Programs in the Spotlight Amid growing media coverage of fraud related to government loan programs and unemployment insurance claims, the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued an Information Notice (IN) on July 22 dealing specifically with the identification and reporting of suspicious activity related to the Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) Program. The IN is aimed at alerting depository institutions to the… Blog April 20, 2020 FEMA Funding $$$$ Beginning With the End in Mind: COVID-19 Efforts Located within the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is responsible for coordinating the federal government’s response to natural and manmade disasters. FEMA is charged with providing both immediate and long-term assistance to local and state governments as well as individuals. FEMA funds are traditionally a large source of federal government… Load More