Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blogs April 26, 2023 COSO issues supplemental guidance on internal control over sustainability reporting – With examples Last Thursday, the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) released interpretive guidance on how to effectively apply the 2013 Internal Control — Integrated Framework (ICIF) — which is currently applied to financial reporting — to sustainability reporting. The guidance results from a project approved by the COSO… Infographic May 8, 2023 Infographic | COSO ESG Guidance Webinar: Internal Control Over ESG Operations, Compliance & Reporting The Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) recently released interpretive guidance for organisations about designing, evaluating and achieving effective internal control over sustainability reporting (ICSR) using COSO’s globally recognised Internal Control — Integrated Framework (ICIF), developed in 2013. The intended outcome is to build trust and confidence in… Whitepaper August 26, 2020 China's Cybersecurity Law: Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) According to the Cybersecurity Law, CII is defined as any information infrastructure that can endanger national security, national strategy, and civil welfare in the event of a data breach, compromised network, or system malfunction. Insights paper October 6, 2023 Principles for Data Recovery From a Severe Cyber Scenario This paper is intended to prompt increased dialogue between financial institutions, trade associations and regulatory authorities on a rapidly evolving topic. It lays out a set of principles that could align regulators, the financial sector and all three lines of defense within an organisation to a cohesive view of resilience. A key objective of this paper is to highlight the challenges in… Insights paper March 21, 2025 ISO 20022 Compliance Countdown The new global messaging standard ISO 20022 provides a unified language for electronic data interchange between financial institutions. It is intended to result in increased transparency, speed and inoperability. It will also provide valuable enriched data to enhance financial crime compliance efforts. For those institutions yet to adopt the new standard, preparing for migration and dealing with… Whitepaper February 18, 2021 Architecting Your Cloud Infrastructure for Failure (and Resilience) Companies aggressively moved to the public cloud in 2020, driven in part by the pandemic and the shift to a remote workforce. That pace is expected to accelerate in 2021, as more and more companies move applications and data to the cloud to achieve the benefits that have been touted for years, including cost savings, flexibility and on-demand scalability. It would be a challenge for an individual… Blogs July 14, 2023 A fresh take on cloud transformation Cloud transformation is a process of moving applications, data and infrastructure to the cloud. Such simple definitions lack any sense of the business drivers or anticipated benefits that transformation strategies ought to encompass. After undertaking a “transformation” according to these simpler definitions, businesses are left operating in the same old way, making use of the same… Newsletter October 22, 2024 Private Equity Insights Q3 2024 In this issue of Private Equity Insights, we discuss our latest Global Finance Trends Survey results. CFOs and finance leaders around the world rated their top finance priorities. Our intent is for PE firms to use this intelligence to design and deploy new practices, tools and innovative approaches in their own finance organisation. We next take a look at financial planning & analysis (FP… Whitepaper May 28, 2024 DORA Compliance: Untangling Key Hurdles to Implementation The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), or more formally known as Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, took effect on 16 January 2023, with final industry compliance required by 17 January 2025. The regulation underscores the importance of digital operational resilience in today’s increasingly interconnected and digitized landscape and seeks to expand the reach of European regulators incorporating… Survey December 19, 2023 2023 Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail Finance Trends CPG and retail finance leaders cite ESG, inflation and data security as top prioritiesWhether it is dealing with inflation, supply-chain disruptions or workforce challenges, finance leaders in the retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries are leading their organisations’ efforts to navigate today’s uncertain market environment. Increasingly, companies are leaning on finance leaders to… Load More