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    March 14, 2018
    Market Volatility: Is Your IPO Ready to Go?
    January 2018 set a record for initial public offerings (IPOs), with 17 companies raising almost $8 billion, surpassing the record of January 2014, when 12 IPOs raised $5.3 billion. That pace slowed considerably in February, however, amid substantial market volatility. It is easy to understand why companies – or their underwriters – grew shy of IPOs amidst the market swings. IPO activity…
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    March 15, 2018
    SEC on Cyber Risk Assessments: Show Us the Cost of Your Loss
    Last week, an important Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Interpretive Guidance, which we analyzed in a Protiviti Flash Report, set the bar for corporate cybersecurity risk assessments. One particular aspect of the new guidance relating to how companies conduct risk assessments and report on cybersecurity risks is the need to understand “the range and magnitude of the financial impacts” of…
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    June 30, 2020
    Getting to Resilient: Reimagining Crisis Management and Business Continuity Planning in a New Reality
    COVID-19 has exposed glaring deficiencies in business continuity and crisis management plans at organizations across all industries. And while executives and management today are focusing the lion’s share of their efforts on responding to the day-to-day upheaval caused by the virus, they should be preparing now for the possibility of a second wave that further disrupts business. In a recent…
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    July 1, 2020
    Beyond Business Continuity Management: Building Resilience for Extreme but Plausible Events in a Post-COVID-19 World
    The concept of an extreme but plausible event is a moving and expanding target. Over time, our thinking on what can be deemed implausible or improbable will continue to evolve. The magnitude of impact from real events will reshape our view of what today is considered extreme. It is true that organizations and their business continuity management (BCM) teams often contemplate scenarios that are…
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    July 1, 2020
    New Territory: Private Equity Firms Eye the 401K Market
    With  good reason, private equity (PE) firms are abuzz about the recent Information Letter from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), which permits PE firms to market PE funds as components of target date, target risk, or balanced funds. On June 3, the DOL issued an Information Letter under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The letter concerns PE investments as components…
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    July 2, 2020
    Effective Third-Party Risk Management During COVID-19 and Beyond
    Organizations that rely on third parties to perform key services or deliver critical goods have had those relationships tested in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic caused critical vendors to become temporarily unavailable, change how they provide services, or forced them to go out of business altogether. Exports from China and other countries have been heavily impacted as factories were taken…
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    July 6, 2020
    COVID-19 Impacts on Accounting, Reporting and Internal Controls
    Recent guidance from the Division of Corporate Finance at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), issued on June 23, 2020, reminds listed companies about their disclosure obligations in light of changes and challenges brought by COVID-19. This latest guidance builds on an earlier advisory, issued March 25, and provides the Commission’s additional views regarding operations, liquidity and…
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    July 7, 2020
    Automating Revenue — Healthcare Revenue Cycle Quick Wins Amid COVID-19
    If you were to walk into the administrative office of a typical healthcare provider’s revenue cycle department and observe core functions, chances are you would observe similarities between 2020 and 2005: a system inundated with static processes that rely heavily on manual intervention. Processes such as financial clearance, claim status checks, denial resolution and late charge entry all look…
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    July 13, 2020
    Fintechs and Regulatory Compliance — A Happily Ever After?
    Ask typical fintech employees what they find energizing in their field of work, and don’t be surprised by the answers: developing cool stuff, working on the go-live, or growing the business by identifying the ideal partners in the market. Ask the same fintech employee whether their heart beats faster when working on regulatory compliance-related projects, and you can expect a less enthusiastic…
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    July 13, 2020
    Healthcare Internal Audit During a Pandemic — Going From React to Rethink
    The past 20 years have presented three distinct crises that have had profound worldwide implications: the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the financial crisis of 2008, and now the global pandemic that is COVID-19. Each of these crises was considered unprecedented and presented real risks to our world, society and the economy. The benefit of living through unprecedented events is that the experience…
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