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    March 17, 2021
    GameStop Saga Exposes Trading Flaws, Reveals Huge Opportunity for a “Disruptor”
    The January 2021 trading frenzy surrounding GameStop and other meme stocks was driven by the collective mob mentality of people on a social media channel – not by Wall Street-aligned firms or a substantive news event. People with online monikers like “Roaring Kitty” and “BowlerGuy92” tried to take on Wall Street, and, in the end, showed the collective power that distributed investing can have on…
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    March 18, 2021
    Consumer Products and Services Executives Identify Pandemic Policies, Market Conditions and Talent Shortage Among Top Risk Issues for 2021 and Beyond
    The results of the 2021 Top Risks Survey from Protiviti and NC State University’s ERM Initiative reflect equally the unprecedented challenges and opportunities facing the consumer products and services (CP&S) industry as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, the results show many CP&S executives are worried about a mix of macroeconomic, strategic and operational risks impacting…
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    March 19, 2021
    Transition Service Agreements: Early Planning Avoids These 10 Common Pitfalls
    Divestitures and carve-outs are a big change for an organization and can bring a great amount of disruption to its operations. During this disruptive period, transition service agreements (TSAs) – temporary agreements to continue to provide services to the carved-out organization until it is up to speed on its own – typically serve as the focal point of divestiture planning, bringing both…
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    March 22, 2021
    TMT Executives Identify Pandemic Policies, Cyber Threats and Data Privacy Among Top Risk Issues for 2021 and Beyond
    Even with COVID-19 cases plummeting and vaccinations ramping up, many organizations worry about aggressive actions by the government to stem the virus and its new variants. Operational challenges posed by the lingering impacts of the pandemic remains a top concern identified by technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) industry group directors and executives in the ninth annual top risk…
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    March 25, 2021
    On Risky Women “Radio”: Robots, Resilience and Risk Management
    “Be bold, be confident and trust your gut. Embrace everything that comes your way with full gusto.” This is the advice that Lucy Pearman, Managing Director and Global Lead of Protiviti’s TRANSFORM Risk and Compliance practice, says she would give to her younger self if she could. In a conversation with Kimberley Cole, founder of Risky Women, a global network connecting, celebrating and…
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    March 25, 2021
    The Complexities of Rapidly Evolving Wage Law: Act Now to Mitigate Your Risk
    No organisation wants to be headline news for underpaying its employees. However, many businesses are being publicly ostracised for violating enterprise agreements (EAs) in Australia. Not only are EAs incredibly complicated, wage law is also evolving rapidly, with Victoria and Queensland passing legislation in 2020. Unfortunately, rapid changes and complex EAs coupled with a shortfall in fully…
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    March 26, 2021
    Trends in Credit Reserves Reflect Economic Optimism
    Many financial institutions reacted quickly in March 2020 to bolster credit loss reserves and incorporate anticipated near-term and longer-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on loss reserve estimates. This came on the heels of adopting one of the most significant accounting changes for financial institutions in decades, the Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) accounting standard. The CECL…
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    October 31, 2018
    Building Bot Boundaries: RPA Controls in SOX Systems
    There is often a tendency in RPA implementations to automate as much as possible, focusing more on the value the technology can deliver and less on what are the right things to automate or what risks may be introduced or increased in the process. This is the natural tension that exists between the pursuit of innovation and the need for controls.  As seasoned business leaders know, innovation…
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    November 1, 2018
    Trends in Tech: What Emerging Technology Firms Must Keep an Eye On
    What’s driving leaders of emerging technology companies and the venture capitalists (VCs) who back them? Here’s a look at three trends that were hot topics for discussion at the recent TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 conference: Trend #1: The shortage of skilled tech talent is prompting a search for new markets. Highly skilled technology talent is hard to find in today’s tight hiring environment —…
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    November 2, 2018
    Recognizing the People Element in Data Security Implementations
    Implementing information security technology and creating related policies is relatively easy. Getting the organization to better manage risks through the use of that technology and embrace those policies is quite a bit harder. In a recent survey by ESI ThoughtLab, co-sponsored by Protiviti, untrained staff was seen as the greatest cyber threat by businesses because it can provide a conduit for…
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