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    May 28, 2020
    Compliance Insights - May 2020
    Your monthly compliance news roundup BSA/AML Examination Manual Updates from FFIEC On April 15, 2020, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) released updates to the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) examination manual. The manual is used to evaluate an institution’s compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering requirements. This is the…

  • Flash Report

    March 26, 2020
    CECL Deferred for Banks Due to the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
    As public filers are preparing to file their first quarter financial statements for the period ending March 31, the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic and the related economic fallout have thrown mounting uncertainty as to what losses to report – and how to estimate them. Before the pandemic hit the market and caused stocks to lose 35% of their value, banks were well on their way preparing to estimate…

  • 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 proposed these revised…

  • 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 March 2020,…

  • 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,…

  • Podcast

    December 7, 2021
    Podcast | Future of Cryptocurrency: ETFs and an Evolving Regulatory Regime
    In this episode, Jackie Sanz –Managing Director leading Protiviti’s Canadian Risk and Compliance solution., interviews Vlad Tasevski –Chief Operating Officer and Head of Product at Purpose Investments, and Elliot Johnson – Chief Investment Officer and Chief Operatating Officer at Evolve ETFs. Jackie, Vlad and Elliot discuss the current and future state of cryptocurrency.

  • Flash Report

    February 28, 2022
    Putin Pulls the Trigger and the West Responds Again: What Happens Now?
    On February 23, Protiviti issued a Flash Report on Vladimir Putin’s recognition of two Ukrainian regions as “independent people’s republics,” deployment of “peacekeeping forces,” and demands that Ukraine disarm and negotiate the sovereignty of the two separatist regions. The Flash Report also summarised the sanctions that had been imposed by the West in response to Putin’s aggression. Much has…

  • Newsletter

    February 12, 2021
    Implementing Operational Resilience Across the Organisation: An Essential Checklist
    Like any enterprisewide organisational change, implementing an operational resilience programme across an organisation requires a careful and collaborative effort to be successful. Whether implementation has been in the works for several years or is just beginning, turning the resilience programme from concept to reality is hard work. Except for the most dynamic and change-oriented organisations…

  • Whitepaper

    April 29, 2022
    A crisis upon a crisis: Human trafficking of Ukrainian refugees
    The Ukrainian refugee crisis More than 5 million refugees – greater than 10% of the country’s population – have fled from Ukraine in the two months since the Russian invasion, about 90% are women and children. The number of refugees already rank the Ukrainian refugee crisis among the top five refugee crises in recent times, and there is no indication that the migration is ending.   The refugees…

  • 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.
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