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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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    April 20, 2020
    Compliance Insights - April 2020
    Your monthly compliance news roundupOCC Reinforces Third-Party Risk Management ExpectationsRegulatory expectations related to third-party relationships have evolved considerably since 2013, when the Federal Reserve Board and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued prescriptive guidances SR 13-19 and OCC 2013-29, respectively. To account for this evolution, the OCC published OCC…

  • Whitepaper

    April 13, 2020
    Cash Control during the Corona crisis
    Marcel de Jongh and Anneke Wieling, Protiviti restructuring specialists The corona virus is spreading quickly around the world. Your company’s first priority is the health and wellbeing of your employees and their families. Your second priority is to keep calm and to control your cash flows and cash position. Nobody can predict the future, but you can take measures to optimize your cash – and to…

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    April 13, 2020
    Managing Conduct Risk: How Aggregating and Assessing Data Can Drive Culture-Changing Decisions
    . . .Second in a Series on Risk Quantification Nearly every financial institution expresses a commitment to fair and transparent treatment of customers, investors and partners, but many still struggle to articulate and communicate to employees what they deem to be appropriate conduct. Often, employees are left to presume whether their actions align with their organization’s culture. This chasm…

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    April 17, 2020
    COVID-19: Paradigm Shift in the Boardroom (An Expanded Discussion)
    The discussion below is a more complete coverage, including examples, of the topic addressed in Issue 127 of Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight and on NACD/BoardTalk. 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…

  • Flash Report

    April 10, 2020
    COVID-19 Crisis Drives FASB to Propose Delays to Effective Dates of Revenue Recognition and Lease Accounting Standards for Certain Entities
    At its April 8 meeting, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) proposed delaying, for certain entities, the effective dates of its accounting standards for revenue recognition (Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)) and lease accounting (Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842)). The board proposed these revised…

  • Whitepaper

    October 6, 2020
    Back to Basics for Private Equity – Four Longer-Term Areas That Warrant Renewed Focus Post-COVID-19
    October 2020  As the global economy slowly emerges from COVID-19 lockdowns, it is important for companies to focus once again on some of the longer-term challenges that may have taken a backseat in recent months. Private equity managers can partner with their portfolio companies to ensure these areas are receiving appropriate attention.  Recently, we have published a number of resources…

  • Whitepaper

    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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    October 5, 2020
    Private Equity and Cybersecurity – Gaining a Holistic View
    An emerging trend among private equity firms is their growing attention to the remediation, monitoring and reporting of cybersecurity capabilities of the companies in their portfolios. Historically, they have not fully appreciated the varying degrees of cybersecurity risk relative to a company’s specific industry. And understandably, the emphasis on investing in promising businesses and improving…

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    September 21, 2020
    Driving Operational Resilience From the C-Suite
    The actions and decisions of C-suite leaders are typically driven by strategies designed to guide businesses toward growth and success. These plans invariably contain many assumptions. One is the expectation that their organizations will be able to deliver goods and services to customers even under stressful conditions – an expectation of resilience that is sometimes ill-conceived and unsupported.
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