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    As Manufacturing Is Transforming, Data Privacy Is a Key Risk – And One to Be Addressed Sooner Rather Than Later
    Leaders of manufacturing and distribution (M&D) companies don’t rank data privacy among their list of top concerns for their organization this year — or even for the next decade. That’s one of the most striking takeaways from this industry group, based on a new top-risks survey conducted by Protiviti and NC State University Poole College of Management’s Enterprise Risk Management Initiative.…
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    Future of Compliance: Embracing Change, Technology and Innovation. Listen to the Podcast.
    As costs for risk functions continue to increase, it is crucial to both reduce manual tasks and innovate processes through technological tools and an expanded skill set. In a recent episode of Protiviti’s Powerful Insights’ “Future of Risk and Compliance” podcast series, Protiviti Risk and Compliance Managing Director Vicki Alexander speaks with Nishant Desai, Chief Compliance Officer of TIAA…
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    The Post-Quantum World: A New Protiviti Podcast Series Explores the Exciting New World of Quantum Computing
    Quantum computing capabilities are exploding, causing disruption and opportunities, but many technology and business leaders don’t understand the impact this technology will have on their business. Protiviti has launched a bi-weekly podcast, The Post-Quantum World, as we discuss hot topics and the business impacts, benefits and threats of this exciting new capability. In each episode, hosted…
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    Slow Adoption of Next-Gen Internal Audit Technologies and Skills Poses Risk to Companies, New Protiviti Survey Finds
    According to Protiviti’s 2021 Next-Generation Internal Audit Survey, most of the chief audit executives (CAEs) and senior internal audit leaders surveyed reported that their teams are still in the early stages of, or have yet to embark on, their next-gen internal audit journeys. However, amidst the digital acceleration perpetuated by the COVID-19 pandemic and as internal audit teams face a more…
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    Don’t Bore the Board: 5 CISO Hacks for Highly Effective Presentations
    Several years ago, we invited board members to speak candidly about presentations from company executives. Those free-flowing conversation more than lived up to what was billed as a “Don’t Bore the Board” panel discussion. The panel members’ engaging insights remain instructive to chief information security officers (CISOs) today as security leaders strive to hone their increasingly…
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    SEC Guidance on SPAC Warrants: More Than a Financial Statement Consideration
    On April 12, 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a staff statement regarding the financial reporting considerations for warrants issued by special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). This new guidance advises that warrants that lack an embedded feature (specifically, those that are options to purchase shares at a predetermined price within a defined time period)…
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    Provider Relief Fund — Post-Payment Reporting Requirements
    On September 19, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a notice related to post-payment reporting requirements for Provider Relief Fund (PRF) recipients who received payments of $10,000 or more in the aggregate. This notice is in support of the July 20, 2020, Post-Payment Notice of Reporting Requirements and provides the data elements that are…
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    The FinCEN Files: Where Is the News?
    There has been widespread media coverage of the release by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) of the so-called FinCEN Files earlier this month. In the world of anti-money laundering (AML), the ICIJ also made news in 2016 with the release of the Panama Papers and the Bahamas Leaks, both which exposed the dark side of offshore banking, a theme also addressed in the…
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    The FinCEN Files: What Can We Learn?
    “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” This quote by Winston Churchill has been used often as we all have struggled to deal with the effects of COVID-19. While the leak of the FinCEN Files pales in significance to COVID-19, it has proven to be a public relations crisis – unfairly in our view, as we said in our initial blog on this topic – for the banking industry. But, we may as well learn all we…
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    Excellence Starts at Home: Why CEOs Should Hold Functional Leaders Accountable for Serving Their Internal Customers
    Imagine a scenario where a company decides that it needs a proprietary app to better engage with customers. It hires an outside developer to create the app but the developer fails to deliver on time or as specified. The company isn’t able to drive the adoption of the app as planned, and in turn its projected growth and customer retention suffer. There is a strong dissatisfaction with the…
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