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    June 5, 2018
    A Lease Accounting Technology Solution Requires Some Homework: Five Steps to Get Started Now
    The 2018 GRC and Financials SAPinsider conferences took place earlier this year in Las Vegas. Protiviti SAP teams presented at several conference sessions, and their observations on what’s trending across the industry are compiled in a five-part series on the Protiviti Technology blog. Here, I’d like to specifically address the new lease accounting standard, one of the key topics at the…
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    June 7, 2018
    Listen: Protiviti’s Global Head of Innovation Discusses the Future of Banking
    Which one is the next financial product to be disrupted? Can artificial intelligence enhance the customer experience? How is the tension between fast-paced fintech innovation and the need for regulation going to be resolved? What does cybersecurity look like in a decentralized banking environment? These questions and more are discussed in a recent comprehensive interview with Tyrone Canaday, a…
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    June 8, 2018
    How to Prepare for the New EU AML Directive (5AMLD)
    On May 14, the European Parliament and Council formally adopted the fifth and latest update to the European Union’s Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD). Member states will have up to 18 months to transpose the new requirements into national law, beginning 20 days after the publication of the final text in the Official Journal of the European Union. The new legislation builds on existing laws…
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    June 12, 2018
    Why Internal Auditors Must Care About Blockchain
    Blockchain, the distributed-ledger technology created for cryptocurrency, has already established a foothold as a next-gen settlement/payments technology and is being considered for a wide range of applications, from supply chains to the Internet of Things (IoT). Protiviti has spent a considerable amount of time examining this disruptive technology from several angles. Of particular concern to…
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    June 13, 2018
    Navigating Third-Party Approaches to Meet Finance Team Needs
    Compliance deadlines, system upgrades and implementations, spikes in workload. Rapid growth, mergers and acquisitions, shifting business models, industry disruption. And on top of all of those business changes, many finance leaders are running lean organizations, as well. In a dynamic business environment, the leader of any business function will recognize that it’s difficult – if not impossible…
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    June 14, 2018
    Companies Must Commit to Mastering the Basics to Strengthen Their Cybersecurity Posture
    The cyber threat landscape is highly complex and always evolving, and cybercriminals are becoming only more creative and sophisticated with their tactics. As explained in our 2018 Security Threat Report, companies today face a monumental challenge in trying to keep pace with these dynamics, safeguard their critical systems and data, and protect their employees, customers and partners. Among the…
  • Blog
    June 15, 2018
    Robotic Process Automation in Oil and Gas: An Overlooked Opportunity That Can Boost Profits Today
    To survive and thrive in the years following the oil and gas price plummet of 2014, companies in the oil and gas industry excelled at finding ways to enhance efficiency, from slashing operational expenses to tightening procurement procedures and supply chain management. The emergence of big data and the Internet of Things as practical tools over the past few years also has given oil and gas…
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    June 18, 2018
    Top-Performing Environmental Health and Safety Programs Are an Integral Part of Improving Business Performance
    Environmental health and safety (EHS) requirements continually change but rarely decline in number. Regulatory bodies continually refine existing standards, publish new rules and shift the focus of their enforcement activities to enforce new rules. A quick glance at the total inspections conducted by the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) shows that unprogrammed inspections…
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    June 19, 2018
    Regulatory Relief Provides Flexibility, But Banks Should Consider Risk Management Effects
    With the relief offered by the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (the Act), signed by President Donald Trump on May 24, 2018, some small depository institutions and credit unions with consolidated total assets of less than $10 billion now have more flexibility to determine what is appropriate for their operations. At the same time, however, bank management should…
  • Blog
    June 20, 2018
    IT Governance in the Age of Digitalization
    Sustaining an effective business model in the face of digital disruption requires a strong foundation of IT governance able to scale and adapt to modern enterprise needs. These needs, though unique to each enterprise, are generally shaped for four key drivers — innovation, meeting customer expectations, data-based decision-making and improving business performance — and enabled by a convergence…
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