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    December 12, 2018
    Back Off, Inefficiencies: Conquering Chaos in the Back Office Is Closer Than You Think
    Whether through rapid growth, acquisition or some other business change, an organization’s back finance office operations can grow chaotic over time, and sometimes overnight. That chaos often culminates in emergencies, like a payments backlog, bad data or a process that no longer makes sense. Some of our most satisfying engagements with clients have started as emergencies that were resolved when…
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    December 13, 2018
    Credit Report Access Freezes, Advanced Pension Products - What Should Lenders Watch For? Listen to the Podcast
    In the podcast below, Steven Stachowicz and Kat Sanchez of our Risk and Compliance practice discuss some of the recent topics in Protiviti's Compliance Insights newsletter series. For access to our latest issue, visit www.protiviti.com/compliance-insights. [audio mp3="http://blog.protiviti.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/protiviti-podcast-12.10.18.mp3"][/audio] Compliance Insights In-Depth…
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    December 18, 2018
    Legacy Core Systems Outlook: Advancing Technologies Are Hastening the Necessity to Modernize   
    Three years ago, when Protiviti began detailing why financial institutions should modernize their core systems, technological advances changing the way customers interacted with their financial providers were just starting to emerge. Today, these technologies, such as cloud computing and application programming interfaces (APIs) - software intermediaries that allow applications to talk to one…
  • Blog
    December 19, 2018
    FS-ISAC’s Fall Summit Delivers Insights on Cyber Resilience, the Cloud and Other Hot Topics
    Last month, Protiviti was a sponsor of the Fall Summit of the Financial Services Information-Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) in Chicago. FS-ISAC is a global resource for the financial services industry, providing threat intelligence and analysis. FS-ISAC’s summit offered presentations, case studies and best practices by industry leaders, including actionable information for all attendees.…
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    January 2, 2019
    Emerging Technology Companies: Create Your Game Plan Now for Going Public
    Technology startups can get so wrapped up in developing their product or service and trying to recruit top talent that they neglect to invest in their future in other critical ways. Specifically, they overlook — or simply put off — building their financial reporting infrastructure, particularly their financial and system controls. And that could cost them big in the long run. For one, neglecting…
  • Blog
    January 8, 2019
    Leveraging Technology to Ensure Sustainability of Privacy
    In London last November, Protiviti sponsored and spoke at the Data Protection World Forum. What was clear from speaking to the many delegates at the event was that many are now pausing for reflection, often after significant effort and investment to get compliant with the GDPR. They are now considering how they can continue to drive further remediation activities but also, importantly, how they…
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    January 9, 2019
    What Will 2019 Bring in Cybersecurity? Focus on Processes, Communication and Compliance, CISOs Say
    The coming year in cybersecurity will be less about new cyber defense tools and more about education, compliance and process maturity. On December 14, 2018, I had the pleasure to moderate a chief information security officer (CISO) panel discussion at the winter meeting of the Delaware Valley chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA).  Four CISOs from leading…
  • Blog
    January 10, 2019
    Getting Operational Resilience Right – Six Key Action Points
    The operating environment for financial firms has changed significantly in recent years. IT outages and cyber attacks – some of which have been very high profile – as well as increasing reliance on third parties through outsourcing and offshoring arrangements are transforming the risk environment and presenting significant risks of harm to customers and the stability of markets. As a result,…
  • Blog
    January 14, 2019
    Financial Services Regulators Focusing on Cyber Resilience
    Cyber resilience has become the latest concern for regulators around the world, as massively disruptive attacks such as NotPetya and WannaCry brought into the forefront the vulnerability of interconnected systems. Cyber resilience was also a key theme of the Financial Services Information-Sharing and Analysis Center Fall Summit in Chicago last November. In addition, regulators have released…
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    January 16, 2019
    Finance Transformation: Change Management and Overcoming Resistance
    As more companies tackle transformation, finance organizations, as scorekeepers, need to make sure they stay ahead of the change curve. The use of data and technology is often the first way finance looks to add strategic value to the company, but the key to success may actually lie in how effective finance leaders are at selling the change to the people doing that work. To be clear, we’re not…
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