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    July 5, 2016
    Global Instability, Cybersecurity on the Minds of Manufacturing and Distribution Industry Executives
    Protiviti and North Carolina State University’s ERM Initiative teamed at the end of last year to survey directors and executives across a wide spectrum of industries for our fourth annual Executive Perspectives on Top Risks report. We are drilling down, over a series of blog posts, to provide insight into these executive perspectives within key industries and how these risks may have evolved…
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    July 14, 2016
    Top Risks in Financial Services: Ever the Same, Always Changing
    Protiviti and North Carolina State University’s ERM Initiative teamed at the end of last year to survey directors and executives across a wide spectrum of industries for our fourth annual Executive Perspectives on Top Risks report. We are drilling down, over a series of blog posts, to provide insight into these executive perspectives within key industries and how these risks may have evolved…
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    July 19, 2016
    Compliance Issue Resolution: Responsible Business Conduct in Financial Services
    In April, I joined several of my Protiviti colleagues on a webinar hosted by The IIA’s Financial Services Audit Center. The two-hour session, titled Hot Topics in Compliance: Consumer Protection and Compliance Governance, focused on recent regulatory developments in consumer protection reforms related to the Dodd-Frank Act, including mortgage lending disclosures and debt collection practices. It…
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    July 22, 2016
    So You’ve Gone Public – What's Next?
    Once a company is public, the event is often celebrated and the organization emits a collective sigh of relief. But then the next daunting question looms: “What’s next?” Recently, I had the opportunity to discuss this very topic on a podcast with my colleague Andrea Spinelli, a director in our Business Performance Improvement practice. The key aspects of a post-IPO environment, which we discuss…
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    July 26, 2016
    Real-World Risk Rigors Require Effective Challenge
    Man plans, God laughs, according to the Yiddish proverb. Bank regulators, not so much – at least not when it comes to risk management, which continues to be an ever-moving target for financial institutions. Providing stakeholders with assurance that the risk control frameworks financial institutions have adopted will hold fast in an actual emergency is an ongoing challenge, and banks test their…
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    July 29, 2016
    From Pandemics to Drones to Planning for Resource Scarcity: Protiviti Scans the Emerging Risks Landscape in the Latest Edition of PreView
    As the world turns its eyes to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, athletes and visitors alike are being warned to take precautions against the Zika virus – a flu-like strain that comes with the added risk of crippling birth defects. The situation is so serious that health authorities are urging women in South America to avoid becoming pregnant for a year or more – a demographic anomaly with far-…
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    August 5, 2016
    Agile Risk Management: A New, More Confident Approach for Financial Services Firms
    In a fast-changing regulatory and business environment, agility is key. The ability to react quickly to new regulations, adapt old products or launch new ones in new markets, and enhance customer satisfaction with new technologies is essential for organizations to face the future with confidence. In the wake of the global financial crisis, financial services organizations invested heavily in…
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    August 8, 2016
    SOX Compliance – Unpacking the Results From Our Survey
    Organizations spent significantly more time and money on Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance in 2015 than in the previous year – costs hovered at just over $1 million on average. Good news is, the majority of respondents to Protiviti’s 2016 SOX Compliance Survey say they are leveraging these investments to improve internal control over financial reporting and drive continuous improvement of business…
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    August 10, 2016
    Internal Audit and the Internet of Things
    Depending on whom you ask, the business disruptor known as the Internet of Things (IoT) is either the launch pad for an indispensable digital future, or a Pandora’s box of unfathomable risks that have only begun to present themselves. Either way, that’s a lot to lay on a technology trend that only 13 percent of consumers had even heard of, as recently as 2014. As with most disruptive change that…
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    August 12, 2016
    From Factory Workhorse to Factotum, Robotic Automation Is Evolving to Serve the Head Office
    Introduced in the 1960s to perform simple manufacturing tasks, robotic automation has evolved into a jack-of-all-trades, moving into the head office to streamline and accelerate a variety of business processes as part of a global digital transformation. Robotic process automation (RPA) and robotic desktop automation (RDA) use software for tasks such as processing sales and financial transactions…
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