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    July 10, 2020
    Is Your Board Digitally Savvy?
    As global markets continue to address the COVID-19 pandemic, practical digital know-how is becoming more than a desirable attribute that directors aspire to embrace. A compelling study asserts that companies could be falling behind if they lack a digitally savvy board. Boards and business leaders are well aware of the digital revolution taking place across the globe and how digital leaders were…

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    December 19, 2022
    National Defense Agency makes quick return to remote work
    Governmental agencies can be seen as slow to adopt new processes, but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, this foreign defense agency needed to make a quick shift to remote working for both civilian and non-civilian employees while maintaining a high level of readiness. They urgently rolled out Microsoft 365 to enable remote work and communication for approximately 60,000 of their approximately 150,…

  • Whitepaper

    October 22, 2020
    How Firms Can Tackle Technology Risk Blind Spots to Build Resilience
    Contrary to popular belief, criminals — insiders or outsiders — are not the most common cause of major operational failures. Technology is the biggest culprit. The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, robotic process automation (RPA), cloud computing and other technologies continues to transform finance. It has created a mix of technological risks that frequently disrupt…

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    October 28, 2021
    Why your company needs to be ready for a new era in sustainability reporting
    As Europe is accelerating its efforts around the Green Deal, more companies will face new regulations, aimed at creating transparency about their environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacts. Are you ready to open up? The European Commission is aiming to replace the NFRD (Non-Financial Reporting Directive) with the CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive). The draft directive,…

  • Podcast

    December 4, 2023
    Podcast ǀ A Recipe for Excellence in the Business of Law
    “Technology will help us be better stewards of managing risk by leveraging data to tell a story… It allows businesses to see actual data and say, “Wow, if we partner with legal in a different proactive way, we can avoid some of these costs.” -Mark Smolik, General CounselMark Smolik, Chief Legal Officer for DHL Supply Chain in the Americas, is no stranger to the demands placed on today’s corporate…

  • Whitepaper

    November 21, 2022
    Preparing financial institutions for an unfamiliar economic downturn
    We are in unusual economic times. While making predictions may be a fool’s errand, the aggressive posturing among central banks to fight runaway inflation implies that we will soon be — if not already are — in the late stage of the economic cycle. However, considering the past several months of mixed economic data, the outcome of the downturn and the developments that drive it are likely to look…

  • Podcast

    June 12, 2024
    Podcast | The Quantum Many-Body Problem — with Benedikt Fauseweh of TU Dortmund University
    When Richard Feynman proposed the idea of a quantum simulator or computer in 1981, he was frustrated by the limitations of classical systems. He logically suggested that if we live in a quantum world, we need a quantum device to simulate all the interactions of particles that make up reality. An excellent example of such a transistor-choking calculation is the quantum many-body problem. Have…

  • Whitepaper

    November 6, 2020
    Starting a Journey Towards Aligned Risk Governance
    Introduction This may have happened to you before… You were asked a question by your Compliance officer which you took seriously, spent a lot of time digging into the facts and preparing a proper answer. A month later, a Risk Management colleague comes to you, asking the same questions due to a board inquiry, but from a slightly different angle — and requiring an answer in a different shape or…

  • Newsletter

    December 11, 2020
    Unleash Adhocracy to Face Emerging Risks
    Emerging risks are newly developing risks that cannot yet be fully assessed but could, in the future, affect the viability of an organisation’s strategy and business model. A risk-savvy culture sometimes needs an informal adhocracy to identify emerging risks in a timely manner. While every organisation has a risk assessment process, we often hear that the process as it exists now is too static…

  • Whitepaper

    April 25, 2022
    Human v. machine: Tackling artificial intelligence risks in financial institutions
    In the novel Tell the Machine Goodnight, Katie Williams tells the story of Pearl, a technician for Apricity Corporation, which has developed a machine that “uses a sophisticated metric, taking into account factors of which we are not consciously aware,” and with 99.7% accuracy, offers recommendations for what will make people happy. Does this narrative provide a glimpse into our future? Will…
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