Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Flash Report March 26, 2020 CECL Deferred for Banks Due to the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic As public filers are preparing to file their first quarter financial statements for the period ending March 31, the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic and the related economic fallout have thrown mounting uncertainty as to what losses to report – and how to estimate them. Before the pandemic hit the market and caused stocks to lose 35% of their value, banks were well on their way preparing to estimate… Whitepaper October 5, 2020 Private Equity and Hedge Funds: Methods of Choice for Money Laundering Threat Actors Private investment funds under management have grown over the past 25 years into a several trillion-dollar industry in the United States. In a leaked Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) unclassified but sensitive bulletin, the FBI concludes, with high confidence,[1] that threat actors (both financially motivated criminals and foreign adversaries) are using the private placement of funds,… Whitepaper April 13, 2020 Managing Conduct Risk: How Aggregating and Assessing Data Can Drive Culture-Changing Decisions . . .Second in a Series on Risk Quantification Nearly every financial institution expresses a commitment to fair and transparent treatment of customers, investors and partners, but many still struggle to articulate and communicate to employees what they deem to be appropriate conduct. Often, employees are left to presume whether their actions align with their organisation’s culture. This chasm… Survey March 10, 2023 Talent, culture, cybersecurity and resiliency represent top risk issues for higher education institutions The level of uncertainty in today’s global marketplace and the velocity of change continue to produce a multitude of potential risks that can disrupt an organisation’s business model and strategy on very short notice. Unfolding events in Eastern Europe, changes in government leadership in several countries around the globe, escalating inflation, rising interest rates, ever-present cyber threats,… Flash Report April 26, 2024 FTC bans noncompete clauses and the legal battle begins. What does it mean? Earlier this week, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted to ban for-profit U.S. employers from including noncompete clauses in employment contracts, a move that could affect tens of millions of U.S. workers. The rule bans new noncompete clauses for all workers and makes existing noncompete agreements unenforceable except for those covering senior executives—those workers earning more than… Blogs March 26, 2024 Say ‘yes’ and the world is your oyster…in conversation with Marie Lodňanová For Marie Lodňanová, her fearlessness to step into the unknown and her openness to say ‘yes,’ rather than to look for an excuse to say ‘no,’ saw her travel from the Czech Republic, to Poland and Mexico – all in the name of work. Currently calling the UK home, Marie is Global Head of New Business Onboarding with Visa FinTech subsidiary, Currencycloud. She tells one of our senior consultants,… Video August 3, 2023 Video | Top Changes in the Marketplace: What Business and IT Leaders should consider Amanda Downs, Managing Director, explains that to drive better investments in technology, leaders should consider the benefits and risks. Business leaders want easy, intuitive and engaging applications, but are held back by technical debt. Discover how strategically investing in digitising applications and creating new applications can serve customers while transforming your organisation. Whitepaper October 6, 2023 ESG Data for Financial Services in an Operational Environment - AFME and Protiviti paper The report looks at the operational consequences from ESG regulatory reporting requirements. It sets out: how financial institutions should manage ESG data across the data lifecycle; the challenges operationally in satisfying the evolving nature of ESG regulations; and where there are opportunities for new technology to exist within this exchange despite the challenges.Click here to view the… Video November 1, 2023 Video | Financial Institution Optimises Customer Relationship Value through AI and Innovative Data Approach A financial institution needed to effectively assign its relationship managers to optimise service, balance resource workloads and maximise revenue. We helped them develop a graph data structure and algorithms in the Microsoft Azure environment to organise and analyse nested banking customer relationships.This reduced daily data processing time by nearly 96% and automated more than 90% of client… Whitepaper October 8, 2025 Crypto Compliance in Focus: Regulatory Views Across the US, UK, EU and APAC The bases for the appeal of crypto assets vary across interested parties: potential for high returns, diversification, user control, anonymity, customer demand, low-cost global payment capability, and the oft-expressed FOMO (fear of missing out), among them. With a market cap as of mid-September 2025 of $4.22 trillion, crypto assets have experienced explosive growth over the last five to 10 years… Load More
