Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by Relevance Date Order Asc Desc Newsletter April 17, 2020 COVID-19: Paradigm Shift in the Boardroom (An Expanded Discussion) The discussion below is a more complete coverage, including examples, of the topic addressed in Issue 127 of Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight and on NACD/BoardTalk.The global COVID-19 pandemic is a different experience from other catastrophic events like the September 11, 2001 attacks and the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. It is spawning new thinking in all quarters,… Whitepaper September 16, 2020 Strategies for Reducing Retail Shrink During Challenging Times Shrink has long represented a significant challenge for retailers. Unfortunately, during a time of tightening margins and declining sales, the issue shows no signs of withering away. According to the 2020 National Retail Security Survey of the National Retail Federation (NRF), shrink is at an all-time high. In 2019, it accounted for an average rate of 1.62% of inventory, calculated at retail,… Podcast November 16, 2021 Podcast | Future of ESG In this episode, Paul Middleton, Managing Director at Protiviti, interviews Leon Kamhi, the executive director and head of Responsibility at Federated Hermes. Paul and Leon consider the evolving ESG landscape and what the future of ESG looks like for businesses. Listen to this podcast to learn about the steps organisations must take to transform their ESG processes, the regulatory challenges… Whitepaper March 28, 2022 Risky Business: The Sanctions Challenges of Trade Finance 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… Whitepaper December 2, 2021 Buy Now, Pay Later...and Gear Up for More Regulation First there were layaways. Conjured during the Great Depression when people were struggling to make ends meet, layaways allowed people to buy big-ticket items and pay in installments before walking away with their product. Layaways were especially popular around the holidays when many people reserved all their gifts in advance and started saving for them through a layaway programme. Then came the… Podcast June 27, 2022 Podcast | Building Technology and Data Enabled Capabilities Innovation, transformation and the introduction of more advanced technologies are on the agendas of most groups in an organisation today. The same certainly holds true for internal audit functions – but perhaps not at the same levels of engagement as departments such as finance and IT. In fact, the results of the latest Next-Generation Internal Audit Survey from Protiviti show that overall… Podcast July 18, 2022 Podcast | Coding High-Performance, Post-Quantum Secure Blockchain Systems with Geometry Labs and The QRL In coding, libraries make developers’ lives easier, sparing them thousands of lines of code, while also increasing performance and security. And everyone’s concerned with security as fault-tolerant quantum computing approaches. Geometry Labs has released the “lattice-algebra” library to bring a high-performance cryptographic library to developers interested in using post-quantum cryptography in… Client Story July 22, 2021 Amidst COVID-19 challenges, global healthcare company tackles finance transformation to support business expansion Companies experiencing rapid growth frequently find it difficult to scale their operations at a pace that fully supports the expanding business. For one healthcare company in particular, that task became even more challenging last year when a global pandemic ushered in remote working and further separated intensely data-centric functions that happened to be siloed in the first place. Client Story June 1, 2021 Global manufacturer of technology products revamps SIOP and warehouse operations to sustain growth The best businesses not only build markets, they also continually improve their systems and processes to support that growth. That was the case recently when a major U.S.- based manufacturer of technology products realised its success was outpacing its capabilities in two key areas: sales, inventory and operations planning (SIOP) and warehouse management. Client Story June 11, 2021 A true fit: Fast growing, innovative technology company embraces next-gen internal audit with eye on the future Organisations striving for excellence are increasingly becoming interested in a new vision of what internal audit can be. They are recognising that the internal audit function could be much more than a corporate rule enforcer and could transform into a valuable risk adviser to the business instead. Load More