Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Flash Report April 4, 2025 Time to Act: SEC Issues Final Climate-Related Disclosure Rules UPDATE: The newly constituted SEC has said it would not defend the climate rule in court. This paves the way for the eventual and likely repeal of the rule, which has been stayed judicially and administratively since shortly after it was originally approved.On March 6, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved its long-awaited — and, for many, controversial — new rule, The… Whitepaper April 29, 2022 A crisis upon a crisis: Human trafficking of Ukrainian refugees The Ukrainian refugee crisisMore than 5 million refugees – greater than 10% of the country’s population – have fled from Ukraine in the two months since the Russian invasion, about 90% are women and children. The number of refugees already rank the Ukrainian refugee crisis among the top five refugee crises in recent times, and there is no indication that the migration is ending. The… Newsletter February 12, 2021 Implementing Operational Resilience Across the Organization: An Essential Checklist Like any enterprisewide organizational change, implementing an operational resilience program across an organization requires a careful and collaborative effort to be successful. Whether implementation has been in the works for several years or is just beginning, turning the resilience program from concept to reality is hard work. Except for the most dynamic and change-oriented… Whitepaper March 28, 2022 Risky Business: The Sanctions Challenges of Trade Finance As governments across the globe, including the EU, US, Canada, UK, Japan, Singapore and more, have imposed sanctions on Russia, with promises of additional action if Russia persists with its war on Ukraine, financial institutions and their customers are forced to review their trade and commodities transactions involving Russia to assess their legal and reputation risk. These reviews are… 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… Whitepaper March 22, 2022 More Than Just Sanctions: How Financial Institutions Are Impacted by the Russian-Belarussian Sanctions Financial institutions face significant legal, regulatory, operational and reputation risks related to their implementation of the Russian-Belarussian sanctions and the world events that have led to these sanctions. These risks have implications across the financial crime compliance program and, more broadly, the entire organization.Not all financial institutions will face the same challenges… Whitepaper November 21, 2022 Preparing financial institutions for an unfamiliar economic downturn We are in unusual economic times. While making predictions may be a fool’s errand, the aggressive posturing among central banks to fight runaway inflation implies that we will soon be — if not already are — in the late stage of the economic cycle. However, considering the past several months of mixed economic data, the outcome of the downturn and the developments that drive it are likely to look… Newsletter June 19, 2025 CFO Insights This month, explore what’s top of mind for finance leaders—from smarter cost optimization strategies to real-world FP&A transformation. Don’t forget to take the 2025 Finance Trends Survey and help shape the future of finance. Newsletter August 30, 2022 Compliance Insights - June 2020 Your monthly compliance news roundupFinCEN: BSA Reporting Obligations Remain Crucial During COVID-19 as Fraud Trends RiseThe first case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States was confirmed on January 20, 2020, two months after the first known cases are believed to have originated in China. While the world turned its attention to the virus and finding effective treatment, a… Whitepaper September 20, 2020 Early Signs of Regulatory Alignment on Operational Resilience Concepts, Themes In early August 2020, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) released a consultative document, titled “Principles for Operational Resilience,” that proposed a pragmatic yet flexible approach to operational resilience, one intended to be principles-based. Publication of the consultative document was expected and timely, coming amid a growing regulatory focus on operational risks and the… Load More