Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blog August 30, 2018 In the Wake of the Regulatory Relief Act, Banks Hasten M&A Deals – Five Quick-Hit Considerations to Improve Your M&A Risk Posture The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA) was signed into law on May 24, 2018, removing compliance barriers for many banks in the $10 billion to $250 billion asset range. The law has been touted as a way to buoy capital for economic growth by providing regulatory relief to smaller and less complex banks that don’t meet the government’s definition of “too big to… Blog September 4, 2018 In SOX Compliance, Automation Is Key to Higher Value As executives and compliance leaders look for ways to reduce overall hours required for SOX compliance and glean strategic value from compliance activities, automating controls and testing and broader use of robotic process automation (RPA) show promise that should be evaluated. According to Protiviti’s 2018 SOX Benchmarking survey, nearly one in three organizations reported using technology… Blog September 7, 2018 GDPR: Immediate Steps, Cross-Border Transfers and More. Listen to the Podcast. In our continuing GDPR series, Tom Lemon, Managing Director with Protiviti's Technology Consulting group in the UK, addresses several important questions, including the first steps to establish a defensible position and some of the data cross-border transfer mechanisms available to companies outside of the European Union. Listen to the podcast at this link. A full transcript of the conversation… Blog September 10, 2018 Agile Risk Management: Financial Institutions Expand Business Control Functions to Navigate the Digital Future Business control functions — operational teams with a primary focus on risks, controls and compliance — are growing rapidly in the financial services industry, with the number of full-time-equivalent employees more than doubling at some large financial institutions every year since 2014. It’s part of a trend toward a flatter, more agile risk management philosophy. Applying the taxonomy of the… Blog September 14, 2018 Vendor Risk Management in Financial Services: A Closer Look Third-party risk has been on the forefront of the minds of risk officers, compliance officers, information security officers, heads of procurement, and even CFOs of banks and other financial institutions for well over a decade. In the extended podcast below, Chris Monk, a Managing Director with Protiviti's Business Performance Improvement group and a leader of our Third-Party Risk Management… Blog September 17, 2018 How Finance Should Tackle Post-Merger Integration: Plan for the Expected! Whether organizations involved in merger and acquisition (M&A) activities have been fortunate to be among the 20 percent whose deal objectives for synergies were successfully met, or among the 80 percent that failed in that regard, one fact rings true for the CFO and his or her team: “There will be significant post-merger clean-up work to get the books and records stabilized.” The level of… Blog September 19, 2018 So You Want to Use RPA in Audit — Here’s How You Start Robotic process automation (RPA) has been gaining traction as an efficient way to automate labor-intensive and repetitive tasks across a variety of business functions, including finance, accounting, technology, legal, HR, and, increasingly, audit and compliance. As the popularity of this relatively simple and affordable technology increases, internal audit departments are starting to realize… Blog September 21, 2018 Data Tops Priorities in New Finance Survey by Protiviti A new Finance Trends survey by Protiviti, released yesterday, confirms what many CFOs already know — that data means everything in finance. The specific data priorities this year, however, are revealing — the security and privacy of financial data has climbed to priority number one, a concern no doubt driven by increased use of finance cloud applications. It is followed in importance by financial… Blog September 25, 2018 GDPR: Dealing With the Mandatory 72-Hour Breach Notification Requirement Article 33 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires that, in the event of a personal data breach, the data controller – without undue delay and, where feasible, no later than 72 hours after becoming aware of it – notify the appropriate supervisory authority. Organizations appear to be taking this requirement to heart. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data… Blog September 26, 2018 Aggressive M&A in the Oil Patch — Avoid a Dry Hole With a Playbook With sub-$50-per-barrel risk largely subsided, optimism abounds in the oilfield. (See figure.) Recent billion-dollar deals like Concho Resources’ $9.5B acquisition of RSP Permian and Devon Energy’s $3.125B divestiture of its stake in EnLink Midstream may put pressure on others to make deals to stay competitive. While certain deals are relatively safe, such as land swaps in the Permian basin,… Load More