Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Whitepaper March 13, 2024 An Open Letter to CEOs and Board Members: In Support of the Compliance Function We’ve all heard it said: “Tone at the top” is critical to the success of a compliance function, and financial institution regulators expect CEOs and boards of directors to foster a “culture of compliance” in the institutions they oversee. We’d expect most CEOs and boards, when questioned, to say this is their goal. But what happens when the CEO and the board — intentionally or unintentionally —… Whitepaper November 18, 2022 Navigating the Intersection of ESG and Money Laundering: How Financial Institutions Can Prevent Environmental Crime Environmental protection laws have been in place in many countries for more than 50 years.1,2 The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) have highlighted the rise of environmental crime, its links to bribery and corruption, and its devastating impact on environments globally.3 But despite the strong connection to money laundering… Survey November 13, 2019 An Urgent Call for KYC Optimization - A Global Market Study Calling for KYC Innovation and Collaboration Protiviti and the International RegTech Association (IRTA) conducted a global study to investigate the effectiveness of existing (AML) know your customer (KYC or AML/KYC) processes, their impact on customer experience across various jurisdictions and the efforts by financial institutions to innovate KYC controls. This study focuses on the optimization of KYC processes. It provides a blueprint for… Blogs April 8, 2021 U.K. Supervisory Authorities and Basel Committee Refine Operational Resilience Approaches, Align on Expectations for Firms Several Key Policies Take Effect March 31, 2022On March 29, 2021, the Bank of England (BoE), the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a series of policy statements to both refine and finalize their approach to operational resilience for financial services firms. Almost concurrent with the release of the policy statements, the Basel Committee on… Podcast January 20, 2020 Journey to the Cloud: Debunking Myths and the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Cloud Security Welcome to the new edition of Powerful Insights and our series on Cybersecurity Awareness. Protiviti has a series of webinars on cybersecurity awareness that, along with these accompanying podcasts, are intended to highlight ways organizations can be proactive in addressing these critical security challenges today. We explore how leaders can dynamically build cyber resilience while maximizing… Flash Report November 1, 2023 White House Issues Executive Order to “Seize the Promise and Manage the Risks” of AI In this Flash Report, we summarize the key directives contained in the executive order, address key takeaways and concerns for organizations to consider, and outline steps businesses can take to prepare for changes in the AI regulatory landscape. Research Guide September 20, 2021 CFO/Finance Survey: Security, Data, Analytics, Automation, Flexible Work Models and ESG Define Finance Priorities CFOs and finance leaders continue to juggle mounting demands in the emerging post-pandemic environmentThe results of the 2021 Finance Trends Survey reveal an unambiguous conclusion: The world, businesses and corporate finance teams have entered a new era, and there is no going back. CFOs and VPs of finance are being looked to for additional actions and data that, until recently, were considered… Podcast July 18, 2022 Podcast | Coding High-Performance, Post-Quantum Secure Blockchain Systems with Geometry Labs and The QRL In coding, libraries make developers’ lives easier, sparing them thousands of lines of code, while also increasing performance and security. And everyone’s concerned with security as fault-tolerant quantum computing approaches. Geometry Labs has released the “lattice-algebra” library to bring a high-performance cryptographic library to developers interested in using post-quantum cryptography in… Whitepaper June 19, 2024 Can we trust culture and conduct to guide decision making in the financial services industry? More than 15 years after the great financial crisis, the financial industry’s culture and conduct remain very much in the headlines. Has nothing changed? A lot has indeed changed, though bad actors still manage to prevail at times. Maintaining good culture and conduct relies on the collective efforts and responses of financial institutions, regulators, and customers. We itemize a list of steps… Newsletter March 24, 2024 When Executives Stand in the Way — Create the Right Tone at the Top for Change In the race toward innovation and transformation, it can be easy for leadership to overlook their crucial role in driving change in the organization, including fostering vital new mindsets and behaviors.What you should know: Executive engagement is a critical component to enable change. It’s important to make the distinction that leaders and managers don’t “manage” change; they “enable” change.By… Load More