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    November 29, 2023
    Compared to prior years, our suggested 2024 audit committee agenda has taken a bit of a turn due to ongoing and recent market and regulatory developments. A complex business environment: The 2024 audit committee agenda includes important enterprise, governance, process, technology, and financial reporting and disclosure issues that merit consideration by the audit committee beyond its ongoing…
  • Whitepaper

    April 21, 2020
    Issued on April 21, 2020 On March 27, 2020, President Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, into law. Among the law’s more significant provisions was the establishment of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a forgivable lending scheme administered by the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the U.S. Treasury, with loans being…
  • Flash Report

    May 4, 2020
    The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that was signed into law on March 27, 2020, offers a lifeline to small businesses and sole proprietors (generally those with 500 or fewer employees) in the form of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). This program initially authorized $349 billion in forgivable loans, with…
  • Blogs

    June 6, 2022
    IssueJust as companies were starting to believe they had a handle on their internal data management and the governance of structured data, a new technology wave in the form of digitization is sweeping the globe, rendering carefully crafted frameworks obsolete. This digital wave, fueled by massive quantities of unstructured and uncurated data being generated by social media, mobile devices and the…
  • Newsletter

    July 10, 2024
    How a business engages its customers at every point of their buying journey is critical to connecting the organization’s brand promise to, and delivering on, an exceptional customer experience. Does the board understand what the organization does to differentiate itself with its customers? If not, it should.Performance management is on the radar of every board. Customer satisfaction and loyalty…
  • Whitepaper

    October 18, 2021
    Expectations are that the financial services industry will experience a more challenging regulatory environment under the Biden administration than under the former administration[1]. Those who have been tapped to lead the various regulatory agencies – and even those thought to be in contention for key agency roles – have signaled their supervisory priorities, many of which align with key Biden…
  • Whitepaper

    June 4, 2021
    The new U.S. administration in Washington is likely to increase its scrutiny of consumer financial products and services. Nowhere is this more evident than at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which is uniquely positioned to provide greater regulatory oversight of financial services institutions, increase scrutiny of potentially unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices, and…
  • Newsletter

    September 10, 2020
    Churchill said he strived “to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year — and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” His acknowledgment of the futility in predicting the future is especially apropos today as markets transition to the eventual “new normal.” The business model is akin to a finely tuned machine requiring the…
  • Flash Report

    November 5, 2020
    U.S. federal bank regulatory agencies have issued a much-anticipated paper on operational resilience, adding their voices to the chorus of global watchdogs calling on firms to enhance their resilience capabilities to wide-scale disruptive events before they significantly affect consumers, other businesses and the economy. The Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the…
  • Client Story

    January 31, 2022
    Apparel company enhances key processes, customer experience using insights from shoppers’ digital sentimentsBusinesses generate vast amounts of data every single day, mostly so-called dark data or information that go unused. Long before the current pandemic-driven e-commerce boom, a search technology firm estimated that 7.5 septillion gigabytes of data were generated by businesses worldwide each…
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