Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Flash Report April 10, 2020 COVID-19 Crisis Drives FASB to Propose Delays to Effective Dates of Revenue Recognition and Lease Accounting Standards for Certain Entities At its April 8 meeting, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) proposed delaying, for certain entities, the effective dates of its accounting standards for revenue recognition (Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)) and lease accounting (Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842)). The board… Newsletter August 26, 2020 Compliance Insights - August 2020 Your monthly compliance news roundup CFPB Issues Interim Final Rule to Amend Regulation X Offering Relief to Consumers In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued an interim rule permitting mortgage servicers to offer new loss mitigation options following the evaluation of an incomplete loss mitigation application. In… Flash Report June 8, 2023 U.S. Banking Regulators Finalise (Finally) Revised Third-Party Risk Management Guidance On Tuesday, June 6, 2023, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (collectively, the agencies) issued the “Interagency Guidance on Third-Party Relationships: Risk Management.”[1] This marks the long-awaited finalisation of the proposed guidance that was initially issued on July 19,… Whitepaper May 1, 2023 What Do the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank Failures Mean for Bank Supervision? On April 28, four reports were issued on the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. These reports signal the next stage of what is likely to be a lengthy examination of the issues surrounding these failures and the actions that should be taken to prevent such events in the future. 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… Newsletter March 26, 2020 Compliance Insights - March 2020 Protiviti is committed to remaining the source for insights on the latest news in compliance you’ve come to expect. While the articles in this issue were developed prior to the escalation of events regarding COVID-19, we know they may still be impacting your organisations amid the current circumstances. Whitepaper April 13, 2020 Cash Control during the Corona crisis Marcel de Jongh and Anneke Wieling, Protiviti restructuring specialists The corona virus is spreading quickly around the world. Your company’s first priority is the health and wellbeing of your employees and their families. Your second priority is to keep calm and to control your cash flows and cash position. Nobody can predict the future, but you can take measures to optimise your cash – and to… Whitepaper September 20, 2020 Early Signs of Regulatory Alignment on Operational Resilience Concepts, Themes In early August 2020, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) released a consultative document, titled “Principles for Operational Resilience,” that proposed a pragmatic yet flexible approach to operational resilience, one intended to be principles-based. Publication of the consultative document was expected and timely, coming amid a growing regulatory focus on operational risks and the… Blogs June 5, 2020 Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Bank Culture Reform On 19 December 2018, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) issued a circular titled “Supervision for Bank Culture” which provided further guidance to its original 2 March 2017 “Bank Culture Reform” guidance. The new guidance introduced supervisory measures to Authorized Institutions (AIs), including self-assessments and site visits. The HKMA commenced a self-assessment exercise under the new… Flash Report May 18, 2020 What the Interagency Guidance on Credit Risk Review Systems Means for Your Institution Introduction On May 8, 2020, the Agencies[1] released a final version of the Interagency Guidance on Credit Risk Review Systems. This final guidance applies to all institutions supervised by the Agencies and supersedes regulatory expectations for credit risk review systems documented in Attachment 1 - Loan Review Systems – of the 2006 Interagency Policy Statement on… Load More