Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog Proving Procurement’s Value to Stakeholders: Show Them the Money There is no doubt that procurement organizations deliver value, through strategic sourcing, category management and other means. What distinguishes procurement organizations perceived as top performers from the rest is how well they quantify the value they deliver to the company. Recently, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion about the challenges of demonstrating procurement’s… Blog What's the Latest on Fintech Charters and What About That Russian Laundry? In the April edition of Compliance Insights, we discuss the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's draft supplement, released in March, which further outlines the application guidelines for fintech bank charters (covered previously in our January issue). We also lay out previously unknown details of the "Russian Laundromat" money laundering scheme, as reported by the… Blog The First 100 Days of the Trump Administration – What Actually Happened and What Does It Mean to Business? On Saturday, we marked the 100th day of Trump’s presidency. While this artificial benchmark is often made out to be more important than it really is, Protiviti takes a look at the major business-related developments under the new administration in a hot-off the-press Flash Report. In our report, we examine what’s happened along a wide variety of fronts, including healthcare and tax reform, trade… Blog When Bad Things Happen to Good Companies — the Case For Culture Assurance May is Internal Audit Awareness month. Over the course of the month, we will be taking a closer look at the internal audit profession from various perspectives, including industry, technology, and the “future auditor”— an embodiment of those skills and capabilities most valuable to the future of the internal audit function. Subscribe to our blog to follow the discussion. … Blog New Security Threat Report by Protiviti Draws on Nine Years of Data, Offers a Road Map for Better Security Cybersecurity breaches of magnitude and consequences that used to be unthinkable a decade ago are happening with alarming regularity today. But while breaches have exploded in scope, the basic weaknesses that allow them to happen remain much the same and can be summed up in five categories — weak user provisioning, lack of employee awareness, a lag in patch management, ineffective system… Blog Making Fintech Fit — Banks Weigh Risks, Rewards of Fintech Forward-thinking banks are acquiring and partnering with fintech firms to survive and thrive in an increasingly tech-enabled marketplace. By adopting emerging technologies and enabling open APIs (application programming interfaces) to allow third parties to build applications and services around them — a concept known as open banking — banks are hoping to offer richer and more personalized… Blog Agile Risk Assessment: Reinventing RCSAs [caption id="attachment_5774" align="alignright" width="347"]Protiviti's Agile Risk Management Philosophy[/caption] Timely and accurate risk identification and assessment are critical to strategic decision-making. A risk and control self-assessment (RCSA) can be a practical tool for providing that information. Many organizations struggle, however, with the level of organizational resources… Blog Should All Energy Companies Be Planning for Blockchain? A quick Google search of “blockchain” and “oil and gas” predictably yields hundreds of thousands of results. Open some of these results and you will frequently see “Big Oil” and “BP” and “Shell.” As Big Oil represents only six of the thousands of energy companies, what does blockchain mean for everyone else? A dizzying number of new technology solutions are keeping companies across all… Blog Managing the New Currency: Developing a High-Performing Data Management Organization These days, the hot analogy in the analytics industry is that “data is the new oil.” Like oil, data must be found, extracted, refined and distributed. More companies are investing heavily in cutting-edge technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data processing to help them harvest, groom and apply data to the correct use case for maximum value. So why, then, in the… Blog Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs: Great “Tech-spectations” With a growing number of companies investing in cloud adoption, digitalization and data-intensive projects, Protiviti’s 2018 Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey makes it clear that internal audit has arrived at a point where it needs to evolve its analytics and technological proficiency among all individuals within the function, as opposed to relying on a single technology “specialist… Load More
