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  • Client Story

    June 25, 2019
    Leading HVAC manufacturer deploys artificial intelligence to meet new lease accounting rules
    FASB’s new lease accounting guidance (ASC Topic 842), issued on February 25, 2016, requires organisations to recognise lease assets and liabilities on the balance sheet and disclose key information on lease transactions. For most companies with leased assets, the change significantly affects financial reporting. Companies must obtain key information through lease abstraction and populate a data…

  • Flash Report

    November 5, 2020
    Regulatory Drumbeat on Operational Resilience Grows Louder with Fed Paper on ‘Sound Practices’
    U.S. federal bank regulatory agencies have issued a much-anticipated paper on operational resilience, adding their voices to the chorus of global watchdogs calling on firms to enhance their resilience capabilities to wide-scale disruptive events before they significantly affect consumers, other businesses and the economy. The Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the…

  • Whitepaper

    October 22, 2021
    Amid Expanding Definitions and Growing Attention from Regulators, How to Make Conduct Risk Strategy Work
    There was a time when financial misconduct meant a rogue trader racking up losses on a stock market bet he wasn’t authorised to make or a Ponzi scheme where crooked asset managers spent investors’ money on a posh lifestyle. But the definition of misconduct by financial actors has changed, and greatly expanded, in the past decade-and-a-half due to big scandals, even bigger financial catastrophes,…

  • Flash Report

    March 16, 2022
    The War in Ukraine Rages On: The Energy Fallout
    Last month, Protiviti issued two Flash Reports on the crisis in Ukraine. The first[1] addressed Vladimir Putin’s recognition of two Ukrainian regions as “independent people’s republics,” deployment of “peacekeeping forces,” and demands that Ukraine disarm and negotiate the sovereignty of the two separatist regions; the West’s initial wave of sanctions as a proportionate response to Putin’s…

  • Flash Report

    March 9, 2023
    New White House Cybersecurity Strategy Creates Additional Concerns for Businesses
    The White House recently released a comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy that is sure to have a major impact on government agencies as well as private businesses. The Biden-Harris Administration has been percolating a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy for some time and in early March released the aptly named “National Cybersecurity Strategy.” The 35-page document was created to help…

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2021
    Changes to Accounting Standards Offer Transformational Opportunities for Insurers, with Extended Time to Implement
    Big changes are coming to how the insurance industry recognises and reports out financial performance. But the effects won’t be felt just in the accounting department. IFRS 17, Insurance Contracts, and its U.S. companion, accounting standard ASU 2018-12, Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts, are intended to add clarity for investors in the wake of events and…

  • Podcast

    October 27, 2023
    Emerging tech and the future of payments with Swift’s Head of Oceania, Suresh Rajalingam
    In this VISION by Protiviti interview, Protiviti Director Ruby Chen and Protiviti Senior Director Rupesh Mahto sit down with Swift’s Suresh Rajalingam, who heads up the Oceania region and a team covering 20 countries across the region. Rajalingam is a seasoned senior payments professional with over 22 years of business development experience in both the domestic and cross-border payments space.…

  • Newsletter

    April 9, 2021
    Board Effectiveness: The Fed’s Guidance Speaks to Resiliency
    On February 26, 2021, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB) in the United States issued expectations for boards of large financial institutions as a standard for its regulators when they assess board effectiveness. The guidance applies to all domestic bank holding companies and savings and loan holding companies with total consolidated assets of $100 billion or more, with…

  • Whitepaper

    May 11, 2020
    Insurers Can Mitigate Operational Challenges, Losses as Pandemic Claims Mount
    Like all major employers, insurance companies are dealing with operational and workforce disruptions, as millions of their employees – adjusters, actuaries, underwriters, and risk and loss control managers, as well as analysts, as examples – adapt to a remote work environment. The industry’s policyholder surplus, invested funds set aside by insurers to pay claims, is under pressure as asset…

  • Flash Report

    April 28, 2022
    Moving Beyond the Heat Map: Making Better Decisions with Cyber Risk Quantification
    A major cybersecurity event can dissolve millions of dollars in assets and tarnish even the strongest company's reputation. As cybersecurity concerns grow and evolve, companies need to be prepared for the inevitable cyber attacks with strong defenses to identify breaches and minimise damage. But how does leadership know where to invest in cybersecurity? How much is at risk? What should be…
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