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    April 17, 2020
    COVID-19: Paradigm Shift in the Boardroom
    The global COVID-19 pandemic is a different experience from other catastrophic events like the September 11, 2001 attacks and the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. It is spawning new thinking in all quarters, especially in boardrooms. It’s been several weeks since coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) truly captured everyone’s attention across the globe. But with new developments almost hourly,…

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    October 5, 2020
    Private Equity and Hedge Funds: Methods of Choice for Money Laundering Threat Actors
    Private investment funds under management have grown over the past 25 years into a several trillion-dollar industry in the United States. In a leaked Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) unclassified but sensitive bulletin, the FBI concludes, with high confidence,[1] that threat actors (both financially motivated criminals and foreign adversaries) are using the private placement of funds,…

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    September 8, 2021
    Ransomware: Preventing an Attack and Responding to and Recovering From an Attack
    Ransomware attacks have been around for many years. In the past, cyber-threat actors would penetrate a company’s computer and network systems and obtain data with the objective of returning it upon payment. The demanded payments were usually smaller than the ransoms requested in recent incidents. Most of these incidents weren’t financially material, nor were they reported publicly. By contrast,…

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2024
    Engaging Internal Audit Stakeholders to Build the Base for Adoption — Understanding the Global Internal Audit Standards (Part 1 of 3)
    The final updated Global Internal Audit Standards (“Standards”) issued by The Institute of Internal Auditors become effective January 9, 2025. In this blog series, we introduce the key Standards updates, explore the impacts of the updates on the internal audit (IA) function, provide practical guidance for adopting the changes required for compliance and consider the opportunities to move beyond…

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    January 4, 2018
    Frequently Asked Questions about Developing and Maintaining an Effective Internal Audit Function
    The internal audit (IA) profession has undergone remarkable growth since 2004, when we published the first edition of our Guide to Internal Audit. At that time, we determined guidance was needed to address a number of pivotal regulatory developments, most notably the revised listing requirements from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) that stated for the first time, “Every listed company must…

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    September 22, 2023
    Sustainability and Private Markets: A Structured Approach to Value Creation
    The ESG regulatory landscape is starting to form: In the public markets worldwide, companies are trying to determine how to respond to and incorporate stringent sustainability-related disclosure requirements from the EU. Meanwhile, the International Sustainability Standards Board has completed its work on a set of voluntary standards for public companies globally. In the U.S., the SEC is poised…

  • Flash Report

    August 7, 2020
    Lease Auditing: An Untapped ROI Opportunity
    Identifying and Recovering Excessive Billings From Landlords Issue Is your landlord complying with the financial aspects of your lease? Commercial leases are often structured to include ambiguous and complex cost terminology aligning with the landlord’s financial interest. On top of a base rent payment, these leases often include subsequent expenses that vary year to year, such as common area…

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    December 12, 2021
    Assessment Questions for Audit Committees to Consider
    (Offered in Conjunction With Protiviti’s The Bulletin, “Setting the 2022 Audit Committee Agenda”) As they self-assesses their performance periodically, audit committees may find useful the illustrative questions we have made available in our Assessment Questions for Audit Committees to Consider. Committee members should periodically assess the committee’s composition, charter and agenda focus in…

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2024
    From Conformance to Performance — Understanding the Global Internal Audit Standards (Part 3 of 3)
    The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) final updated Global Internal Audit Standards provide the opportunity for transformative change. The update requires the internal audit (IA) function to have a strategic plan aligned with the organisation’s strategy and defined performance objectives.

  • Whitepaper

    September 15, 2021
    Tuning Suspicious Transaction Monitoring Scenarios: Combining AML Expertise and Data Analytics
    Issue Suspicious transaction monitoring systems enable financial institutions to monitor their customers’ transaction behavior systematically by providing relevant scenarios/rules that analyse the underlying customer transactions and generate automated alerts of activity that may be unusual and indicative of potential money laundering. These alerts are then reviewed by a team of investigators to…
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