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    August 7, 2020
    Tech Can Help Oil and Gas Firms Survive Market Turmoil
    For organizations in the oil and gas (O&G) industry, the combined impact of COVID-19 and erratic oil prices have made for an unprecedented roller coaster ride. Many oil and gas companies are finding it difficult to cope, and others are likely to be severely impaired for the foreseeable future. However, even in the worst of times, there are tools and strategies that can help an organization…
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    August 10, 2020
    Postpandemic Real Estate Strategies: It Pays to Be Nimble
    Of the many things to consider during the pandemic, one of the more challenging areas is real estate. To a large extent, companies have done an admirable job of relocating large portions of their workforce to work-from-home (WFH) status — and on very short notice. But the current crisis will ultimately pass, and now is the time for organizations to consider how the changes they are making now…
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    August 11, 2020
    Know Your Customer: It’s All About Risk
    In early 2017, Protiviti published a white paper titled Remediate Risk, Not Files: Breaking the KYC Remediation Cycle. Primarily authored by my colleague Matt Taylor, the paper proffered that one of the main reasons financial institutions have found themselves caught in an endless cycle of Know Your Customer (KYC) remediation is that their remediation efforts are focused on papering the file and…
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    August 13, 2020
    Internal Audit Leaders Need to Step Up Next-Gen Innovation and Transformation Initiatives, Protiviti Survey Finds
    According to the findings from Protiviti’s 2020 Next Generation Internal Audit Survey, chief audit executives (CAEs) and internal audit leaders report their next-generation competency levels in three vital areas – governance, methodology and enabling technology – to be remarkably low. There is a danger that, if increasing these competencies and transforming the audit process is not viewed as a…
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    August 14, 2020
    A Tale of Two Crises — Hurricane Preparedness in the Midst of COVID-19
    Oil and gas (O&G) organizations have been drastically affected by COVID-19 amid the impacts to the economy, including constrained demand for all O&G products and the necessity of changing business structures and having employees work remotely. However, these lessons learned, if applied mindfully, may help organizations effectively respond to future business interruptions. Case in point…
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    August 18, 2020
    Understanding Spend Is Key to Building Business Resilience in the New Normal
    Spend analysis is frequently identified as a critical procurement capability. Yet surprisingly, few  organizations actually conduct this activity on a thorough or regular basis. Many organizations think of spend analysis as necessary only when they are about to embark upon strategic sourcing events, or when they need spend data totals to use in preparing RFPs in the marketplace. Even then…
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    August 20, 2020
    Ongoing Risks of Government Lending Programs
    I had the opportunity last week to participate in a webinar hosted by the Los Angeles Chapter of The Risk Management Association (RMA), titled “Ongoing Risk Implications of Government Lending Programs.” Joined by my Protiviti colleagues Ariste Reno and Rhonda Gallion, we discussed the current bank regulatory environment, credit risk issues, and fraud and compliance issues related to government…
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    August 25, 2020
    To Meet Today’s Challenges, CAEs Must Stay Focused on Next-Gen Internal Audit Practices
    Progress often moves in fits and starts, and that, apparently, is the case with next-generation internal auditing (IA), according to Protiviti’s 2020 Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey, published earlier this month. The survey was conducted in the last quarter of 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted businesses and their well-laid audit plans. There is no doubt that the…
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    August 28, 2020
    Proposed Rule for Drug Enforcement Administration Theft Reporting
    On Wednesday, July 29, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) proposed a new rule that clarifies that the submission of DEA Form 106 (Report of Theft or Loss of Controlled Substances) shall be submitted electronically through the DEA Diversion Control Division’s secure network within fifteen (15) days of discovery and must be “complete and accurate.” The…
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    August 31, 2020
    As Regulators Boost Market Surveillance Capabilities, Firms Should Enhance Self-Monitoring to Reduce Trading Violations
    Regulatory fines in any industry are not new. For as long as there have been regulations, hefty fines have served as the clearest and most concise method for regulators to publicly rebuke corporate offenders and wrongdoers. Over the last decade, the financial services industry has seen multiple billion-dollar fines, and they have been so recurrent that the public and media are almost…
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