Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog Market Volatility: Is Your IPO Ready to Go? January 2018 set a record for initial public offerings (IPOs), with 17 companies raising almost $8 billion, surpassing the record of January 2014, when 12 IPOs raised $5.3 billion. That pace slowed considerably in February, however, amid substantial market volatility. It is easy to understand why companies – or their underwriters – grew shy of IPOs amidst the market swings. IPO activity… Blog GDPR and EU AML Directives – A Regulatory Tug-of-War? The impact of the General Data Protection Regulation, effective 25 May 2018, will be felt for some time to come. One area where GDPR will present a significant ongoing challenge for the financial services industry relates to the personal data collection and processing obligations created under anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. The tension between the AML and privacy requirements is not new… Blog Maintaining Staffing Equilibrium With a Flexible Workforce Veterans of finance and accounting recognize that as the business world moves forward, an accelerating rate of change calls for similar speed, flexibility and innovation in the finance department. Along with this imperative, the demand for a dynamic and competent workforce continues and, in many cases, becomes even more critical. Historically, accounting has been a straightforward function. Even… Blog Hong Kong Issues Its First Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment Report On April 30, 2018, the Hong Kong government published its first Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (ML/TF) Risk Assessment Report. The publication of the risk assessment precedes an expected Financial Action Task Force (FATF) mutual evaluation review of Hong Kong later this year. The assessment report concludes that Hong Kong is subject to a medium-high level of money laundering risk… Blog On the Road to Digital Transformation, One Map Does Not Fit All It seems that everywhere one looks today, another organization is going through a digital transformation. And that is, in fact, true. According to a recent global Gartner survey of over 3,000 chief information officers (CIOs), 95 percent of respondents can feel the effects of digitalization and expect their job to change because of it. The underpinning factors of digitalization (technical agility… Blog A Lease Accounting Technology Solution Requires Some Homework: Five Steps to Get Started Now The 2018 GRC and Financials SAPinsider conferences took place earlier this year in Las Vegas. Protiviti SAP teams presented at several conference sessions, and their observations on what’s trending across the industry are compiled in a five-part series on the Protiviti Technology blog. Here, I’d like to specifically address the new lease accounting standard, one of the key topics at the… Blog Listen: Protiviti’s Global Head of Innovation Discusses the Future of Banking Which one is the next financial product to be disrupted? Can artificial intelligence enhance the customer experience? How is the tension between fast-paced fintech innovation and the need for regulation going to be resolved? What does cybersecurity look like in a decentralized banking environment? These questions and more are discussed in a recent comprehensive interview with Tyrone Canaday, a… Blog How to Prepare for the New EU AML Directive (5AMLD) On May 14, the European Parliament and Council formally adopted the fifth and latest update to the European Union’s Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD). Member states will have up to 18 months to transpose the new requirements into national law, beginning 20 days after the publication of the final text in the Official Journal of the European Union. The new legislation builds on existing laws… Blog Why Internal Auditors Must Care About Blockchain Blockchain, the distributed-ledger technology created for cryptocurrency, has already established a foothold as a next-gen settlement/payments technology and is being considered for a wide range of applications, from supply chains to the Internet of Things (IoT). Protiviti has spent a considerable amount of time examining this disruptive technology from several angles. Of particular concern to… Blog Navigating Third-Party Approaches to Meet Finance Team Needs Compliance deadlines, system upgrades and implementations, spikes in workload. Rapid growth, mergers and acquisitions, shifting business models, industry disruption. And on top of all of those business changes, many finance leaders are running lean organizations, as well. In a dynamic business environment, the leader of any business function will recognize that it’s difficult – if not impossible… Load More
