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  • Blogs

    April 4, 2022
    No matter what they make or sell — computers, pet food, cosmetics, textiles — companies around the world are grappling with significant supply chain issues. It’s easy to blame the global health crisis for these problems, especially the labor, material and shipping container shortages. Certainly, the pandemic has played its part in exposing the global supply chain’s brittleness and exacerbating…
  • Survey

    April 1, 2021
    In the annual top risks survey conducted by Protiviti and NC State University’s ERM Initiative, technology, media and telecommunications executives ranked pandemic-related government policies, adoption of digital technologies, data privacy and information security, cyber threats, and diminished economic activity among their top risk issues for 2021 and beyond. The survey results reflect…
  • Whitepaper

    March 15, 2022
    An unprecedented wave of sanctions and export controls against Russia, and to a lesser extent Belarus, requires financial institutions from the West and other allied countries to take immediate steps to understand the impact of the complex requirements and ensure compliance.
  • Flash Report

    April 26, 2024
    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…
  • Survey

    March 10, 2023
    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,…
  • Blogs

    July 4, 2022
    Operational leaders of nearly every organisation, regardless of size, geography or industry, have seen a seismic shift in the unexpected changes to operational processes over the last few years. From supply chain and infrastructure disruptions, remote work and severe staff shortages to rapidly rising prices, each business has a striking story to tell of how it has been impacted. It’s also likely…
  • Video

    November 1, 2023
    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…
  • Flash Report

    March 26, 2020
    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

    April 13, 2020
    . . .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…
  • Whitepaper

    October 5, 2020
    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,…
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