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On 14th November 2024, the Chancellor announced the Government’s National Payments Vision (NPV or Vision) in her Mansion House Speech. The Vision sets forth a strategic framework aimed at enhancing the UK's stature as a global leader in the payments sector, structured around three main pillars: innovation, security, and competition.

Businesses continue to transform. The pandemic drove an overall increase in digitalisation across advanced economies and companies now recognise this as a movement rather than a moment. Technological advancements, increasingly sophisticated insights from data, regulation and changes to ways of working and human sentiment are interrelated facets of modern life that require businesses to be ever adaptable.

Operational resilience – the ability for firms to prevent, adapt, respond to, recover and learn from operational disruptions – is a common concern for clients, leading to questions such as: Which management information should firms report against? Or, how can organisations advance testing beyond tabletop scenarios? While the answers often depend on specific contexts, leveraging available data across the business can…

The U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) is part of a suite of new online-safety and consumer-protection regulations aimed at safeguarding users from harmful content on digital platforms. Its implementation is planned in three phases from 2025 to 2026.

With nearly three decades at Europcar, Evelyn Tourish, UK Customer Experience Manager – like many others – has faced a few challenges and was instrumental in helping to create an industry-wide COVID guide during the pandemic. She couldn’t love her job more and her warm, infectious personality beams through. Martina Tagliavia from Protiviti’s iGROWW network delves deeper into Evelyn's professional journey.

From an international upbringing to aspirations of working for the UK Foreign Office, Rhianne Williams, Senior Business Development Manager at Protiviti UK, has had a varied and diverse career – with a recent highlight being invited to join the UK UN Women CSW68 conference as a delegate. She shares valuable lessons learned, her views on gender parity and deeply treasured advice from a personal mentor.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has issued the final updates to the 2024 UK Corporate Governance Code following a 12-week consultation period. The initiative is part of the 'Restoring Trust in Audit and Corporate Governance' reform package and is the first major update to the Code since 2018.As reported in November 2023’s FRC Policy Update, after receiving feedback, much of the existing Code remains the same.…

For Marie Lodňanová, her fearlessness to step into the unknown and her openness to say ‘yes,’ rather than to look for an excuse to say ‘no,’ saw her travel from the Czech Republic, to Poland and Mexico – all in the name of work. Currently calling the UK home, Marie is Global Head of New Business Onboarding with Visa FinTech subsidiary, Currencycloud. She tells one of our senior consultants, Valentyna Sydorenko, her…

Republished from a three-part series of articles on The Protiviti View, our blog featuring commentary, insights and points of view from Protiviti leaders and SMEs on key challenges and risks companies are facing today, along with new and emerging developments in the market.

Dane Pedro is a senior compliance leader in financial services; she has also been a magistrate for the past nine years. Alice Buchanan, consultant at Protiviti UK, hears a story of drive, determination and a desire to progress.