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  • Blog
    February 2, 2024
    Longtime regulator Tom Vartanian on crypto and a CBDC: Proceed with caution
    "I tend to think that cryptocurrency is never going to be money. It may be an investment. It may be a security. It may be a commodity. I don’t ever think it’s going to be money.""We’ve got a regulatory system that I have argued is terribly out of date, terribly misfocused, and at the end of the day, focused on only a small portion of the financial services business.""If you can open up an account…
  • Blog
    February 8, 2024
    Is the U.S. dollar in decline? Financial experts weigh in on its status in a changing world
    The gap between the U.S. dollar and other global currencies will decline over the next decade, as will its share of foreign trade, but I don’t see that happening in a significant way any time soon.A weakened dollar will not only has enormous economic implications, but political and geopolitical implications, as well. Business leaders, executives and directors need to prepare for a world…
  • Blog
    December 15, 2023
    Payments, liquidity and digital solutions with GTS Westpac’s Nish Dharmaratne
    “The Australian Banking Association prepared a report around digital wallets. One of the points is that about 746 million was the total usage of digital wallets in 2018. It has gone to a staggering 93 billion by 2022.”“We are working with a number of institutions, particularly the biller organizations, to help them understand this is going to be the new way of collecting your receivables. This is…
  • Blog
    December 12, 2023
    Aiming for impact, Ripple CBDC lead says proliferation of digital currencies not to be feared
    "In working with central banks around the world, we’ve learned different countries will have different needs in developing their digital currency strategies and ultimately, implementation." "I think success will be where we see sovereign digital currency having an impact for stakeholders; [when that happens], we’re going to see a significant acceleration across the entire landscape.""I think…
  • Blog
    January 24, 2024
    Wealth management in a digital future with Greg Dillon of OneTeam Financial
    "I don’t think that the digitization of the monetary system really changes the game for wealth managers, but I do think that the U.S. is behind a lot of countries as far as payments go and the digital payment systems.""Given the fact that [crypto is] not as traceable as bank deposits, it does open itself up for these illicit transactions and things that are outside of the scope of what we really…
  • Whitepaper
    June 8, 2022
    Seeing the Future More Clearly: How Machine Learning Can Transform the Financial Forecasting Process
    The Challenge and OpportunityForecasting is a key opportunity for finance to add a significant amount of value and provide strategic insight to an organization. One of the areas in which chief financial officers (CFOs) aspire to help their organizations excel is in providing forward-looking, insightful information about future revenues, expenses and cash flow to help decision-makers chart a…
  • Whitepaper
    February 4, 2019
    Oracle Security in the Cloud
    A Step-By-Step Approach to Building Strong Security Architecture During Oracle ERP Cloud Implementation and Redesign Projects. Organizations are becoming more accepting of moving their key business applications to the cloud, including their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. For companies looking to move to Oracle ERP Cloud, the advantages are many — high scalability, consistent…
  • Whitepaper
    October 31, 2018
    The Role of the Internal Audit Function in System Implementation
    Responses to Key Risks Throughout the Organization Although every large-scale system implementation is unique, the risks inherent in these programs are largely consistent across all programs. The internal audit (IA) function can help significantly reduce these risks by playing a role that is educational, consultative or audit in nature, and by bringing deep independent subject-matter expertise…
  • Blog
    August 23, 2021
    How CISOs Prioritize Cybersecurity Spend
    What drives cybersecurity spend and budget decisions? Too often, the reasoning behind these decisions is reactive in nature, rather than proactive. Often, CISOs see budget increases following a breach at their organization or in response to what is happening to industry peers. While this is not inherently negative, fear should not be the primary driver of security program budgeting and spend…
  • Whitepaper
    December 2, 2021
    Global Finance Trends Survey: Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods
    Finance leaders in the retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry have been leading their organizations’ efforts to manage and adapt to challenges produced by the global pandemic. Many of these persistent pandemic-related challenges will continue to be a primary focus for finance leaders over the next 12 months, along with new and emerging priorities. According to the results of Protiviti…
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