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    October 8, 2024
    Creating and maintaining a sustainable PCI DSS compliance program is a crucial and complex task for organisations in Hong Kong to protect payment card transactions and uphold consumer trust. However, despite the PCI DSS standard being around for almost 20 years, many organisations still struggle to achieve and validate compliance with it.In April 2016, the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC)…
  • Video

    December 22, 2025
    In the third episode of Protiviti’s Fintech Innovation Series, part of our Modern CIO Dilemma program, Melissa Desjardins, a director within Protiviti’s Technology Consulting solution, sits down with Stéphanie Joseph, cofounder and CEO of Kura, to explore how fintech innovation can unlock access to payments, commerce and economic participation in emerging and frontier markets.Drawing on her…
  • Podcast

    April 20, 2021
    Will continued quantum advancements threaten Bitcoin and other altcoin transactions? Listen as we discuss The Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) a cryptocurrency taking a post-quantum safe approach to blockchain. While BTC’s value may plummet at even the threat of quantum tampering, QRLs should remain immune. Can Bitcoin learn a thing or two and adapt? Will the value of QRL go up with the…
  • Whitepaper

    March 28, 2022
    As governments across the globe, including the EU, US, Canada, UK, Japan, Singapore and more, have imposed sanctions on Russia, with promises of additional action if Russia persists with its war on Ukraine, financial institutions and their customers are forced to review their trade and commodities transactions involving Russia to assess their legal and reputation risk. These reviews are…
  • Blogs

    July 30, 2019
    According to a press release by the Hong Kong government, Hong Kong is set to receive an overall rating of “Compliant” in what will be its Fourth Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Mutual Evaluation. The Mutual Evaluation Report (MER) is scheduled to be released in September 2019. The expected rating represents a significant improvement over the Partially Compliant rating assigned to…
  • Client Story

    June 25, 2019
    FASB’s new lease accounting guidance (ASC Topic 842), issued on February 25, 2016, requires organisations to recognise lease assets and liabilities on the balance sheet and disclose key information on lease transactions. For most companies with leased assets, the change significantly affects financial reporting. Companies must obtain key information through lease abstraction and populate a data…
  • Blogs

    September 27, 2023
    By 2025, core banking workload deployment on cloud is expected to be 14% of total IT spend.Banks are grappling with outdated applications; data is siloed and trapped within legacy systems and not accessible for customer insights and tailored experiences and services.Regulatory changes in Australia, the UK and U.S., in GDPR and APRA standards for data privacy and operational resiliency, are also…
  • Blogs

    October 20, 2023
    Dramatic reductions in force are happening across industries as economic uncertainty leads companies to reevaluate labor expenditures.Why it matters: RIFs are costly to carry out and they damage morale. Handling RIFs with compassion is the right thing to do.RIF alternatives – furloughs, job sharing and compensation changes – can save money, enable swifter recoveries and reduce hits to morale.…
  • Blogs

    April 6, 2026
    Many financial and non-financial organisations are only now beginning to assess the impact of the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering (AMLA). AMLA marks a fundamental shift from Europe’s previously fragmented supervisory landscape to a single EU level authority with direct and indirect powers. AMLA’s Single Rulebook will apply uniformly across all 27 member states from 10 July 2027, establishing…
  • Survey

    April 17, 2025
    As healthcare leaders assessed the challenges and risks facing their organisations in the short term, managing cyber threats, rising labour costs, and third-party risks were reported as their top concerns. Other issues that rank in the top ten include workforce challenges, such as talent and labour availability and the ability to attract and retain top talent, heightened regulatory change,…
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