Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Whitepaper April 24, 2024 Sanctions Risk Assessment: A Key Risk Management Tool Faced with the growing complexity of the geopolitical landscape, governments have been using financial sanctions increasingly as foreign policy tools to respond to developments as wide ranging as regional conflicts and wars, terrorism, and human slavery. In today’s highly charged geopolitical environment, sanctions compliance is a focus not only for financial institutions and regulatory… Blogs April 26, 2023 COSO issues supplemental guidance on internal control over sustainability reporting – With examples Last Thursday, the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) released interpretive guidance on how to effectively apply the 2013 Internal Control — Integrated Framework (ICIF) — which is currently applied to financial reporting — to sustainability reporting. The guidance results from a project approved by the COSO… Whitepaper February 18, 2021 Architecting Your Cloud Infrastructure for Failure (and Resilience) Companies aggressively moved to the public cloud in 2020, driven in part by the pandemic and the shift to a remote workforce. That pace is expected to accelerate in 2021, as more and more companies move applications and data to the cloud to achieve the benefits that have been touted for years, including cost savings, flexibility and on-demand scalability. It would be a challenge for an individual… Blogs July 14, 2023 A fresh take on cloud transformation Cloud transformation is a process of moving applications, data and infrastructure to the cloud. Such simple definitions lack any sense of the business drivers or anticipated benefits that transformation strategies ought to encompass. After undertaking a “transformation” according to these simpler definitions, businesses are left operating in the same old way, making use of the same… Video February 24, 2022 Video: The Money Laundering Risks of E-Commerce Alleged criminals have identified the potential for laundering funds through e-commerce. After all, why would a money launderer hassle with the physical transport of ill-gotten gains or risk dealing with financial institutions with savvy detection capabilities when laundering money can be done with a few clicks of a computer in an environment that may not always be vigilant in detecting fraud?… Insights paper October 6, 2023 Principles for Data Recovery From a Severe Cyber Scenario This paper is intended to prompt increased dialogue between financial institutions, trade associations and regulatory authorities on a rapidly evolving topic. It lays out a set of principles that could align regulators, the financial sector and all three lines of defense within an organisation to a cohesive view of resilience. A key objective of this paper is to highlight the challenges in… Insights paper March 21, 2025 ISO 20022 Compliance Countdown The new global messaging standard ISO 20022 provides a unified language for electronic data interchange between financial institutions. It is intended to result in increased transparency, speed and inoperability. It will also provide valuable enriched data to enhance financial crime compliance efforts. For those institutions yet to adopt the new standard, preparing for migration and dealing with… Blogs July 4, 2023 Top 10 reasons for technology modernisation Business and IT leaders can articulate business cases for modernisation efforts by linking them to key value drivers that modernisation efforts are known to deliver. The strongest business cases cite multiple benefits, and it isn’t unusual for application modernisation projects to add value in three or more related categories of benefit. The modernisation drivers listed below are synergistic: it… Newsletter October 22, 2024 Private Equity Insights Q3 2024 In this issue of Private Equity Insights, we discuss our latest Global Finance Trends Survey results. CFOs and finance leaders around the world rated their top finance priorities. Our intent is for PE firms to use this intelligence to design and deploy new practices, tools and innovative approaches in their own finance organisation. We next take a look at financial planning & analysis (FP… Whitepaper May 28, 2024 DORA Compliance: Untangling Key Hurdles to Implementation The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), or more formally known as Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, took effect on 16 January 2023, with final industry compliance required by 17 January 2025. The regulation underscores the importance of digital operational resilience in today’s increasingly interconnected and digitized landscape and seeks to expand the reach of European regulators incorporating… Load More
