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 December 12, 2019 Operational Resilience Supervision Moves into High Gear with Latest Consultation Papers for UK Institutions As part of a series of coordinated consultation papers, UK supervisory authorities on December 5 proposed new rules and expectations aimed at strengthening the operational resilience of the financial services sector. The latest proposals represent the most significant effort to date by any financial regulator to create formal rules around the topic of operational resilience and bring the policy… Blog December 13, 2019 Regulatory Changes, Economic Uncertainty, Culture Among Top Risks for Organizations, According to New Survey Entering into a new decade, boards and C-suite leaders around the globe are concerned with the escalating competition for specialized talent, their organizations’ culture and the ability to advance their digital maturity and embrace the transformative opportunities of technology. Business leaders contend that, coupled with the ongoing economic uncertainty and unknown future regulatory changes,… Blog December 16, 2019 OCC Flags Warning Signs of Operational, Credit and Interest Rate Risks In its Fall 2019 Semiannual Risk Perspective, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) highlights operational, credit and interest rate risks among key risk themes posing threats to the financial institutions it regulates. The themes, addressed by the OCC in this report, cover current and emerging risks facing national banks and federal savings associations as of June 30, 2019. The… Blog December 18, 2019 Winning the Finance Talent War: Five Strategies Recruiting and retaining the right resources in the finance function has never been more critical due to accelerating adoption of new technologies and complying with a growing list of regulations. But a finance labor shortage often stands in the way of these imperatives, posing operational risks. Protiviti’s latest Executive Perspectives on Top Risks Survey, conducted annually by Protiviti… Blog December 20, 2019 CECL and the New AICPA Practice Aid: What Audit Committee Members Need to Know (Part 1) With the deadline around the corner for large companies to adopt the new accounting standards on current expected credit losses (CECL), the AICPA has published a Practice Aid to help management, internal auditors and audit committees prepare. The new CECL standard fundamentally changes the way financial services organizations calculate expected loan losses and raises the bar on financial… Blog January 2, 2020 Artificial Intelligence and Internal Audit: A Pragmatic Perspective Companies have high hopes for transformational technologies, especially those that leverage the vast amount of data being collected. Approaches using methods such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning are becoming increasingly accessible and gaining significant traction, as they allow for deep insights to be extracted from large and varied data sets. As noted in… Blog January 6, 2020 RPA Offers a Fast and Cost-Effective Way to Automate Account Reconciliations Seventy-three percent of chief financial officers are looking to new technologies as ways to streamline processes and add value to their organizations, according to Protiviti’s 2019 Finance Trends survey. There are many off-the-shelf solutions that promise to help them do that by automating everything from check processing to call centers. Another, sometimes overlooked solution is robotic process… Blog January 7, 2020 Getting Ready for the Threat of Cyber Warfare The following is excerpted from a Protiviti Flash Report issued on January 7, 2020. (link) On January 4, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) bulletin describing current developments and general trends regarding the terrorist threat posed by nation-state cyber warfare programs. According to the NTAS, the catalyst for the bulletin’s… Blog January 7, 2020 PCAOB Shares Audit Committee Insights Last month, in an effort to improve audit quality and provide transparency into the inspections process, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) released a report drawing on conversations with nearly 400 audit committee chairs. On Jan. 2, 2020, Protiviti published a Flash Report highlighting key points in the PCAOB’s report, along with commentary. Here are some top-level insights… Blog January 9, 2020 LIBOR Transition: Preventing History From Repeating Itself The London Interbank Offer Rate, or LIBOR, which according to the New York Times is the “one number that arguably matters more than any other” in the world of finance, will no longer be the primary benchmark rate used by the financial services industry as of year-end 2021. In the 35 years since the financial markets began using LIBOR, firms across the financial services industry, including… Load More
