Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc 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 optimise your cash – and to… Whitepaper 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 organisation’s culture. This chasm… 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… Whitepaper 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 organisations will be able to deliver goods and services to customers even under stressful conditions – an expectation of resilience that is sometimes ill-conceived and… Whitepaper February 24, 2021 The AML Act of 2020 - Top of Mind Compliance Issues for 2021 What to Expect and When The main headline about the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AML Act) has been that the United States finally moved to address a long-standing gap in its anti-money laundering (AML) regime by establishing a national registry of beneficial owners. Not reading beyond that headline, however, would be a mistake because the AML Act includes many other provisions that, taken… Podcast April 1, 2020 Podcast: GRC Technology Perspectives Around the Globe - RegTech This is the latest in our series of podcasts on GRC programmes and technologies in which we’re obtaining perspectives from Protiviti leaders and subject-matter experts around the world on GRC drivers, innovations and challenges in their markets. This episode features conversation with Shubhendu Mukherjee. Shubhendu is a director with our regulatory practice, which is part of our Risk and… Flash Report December 30, 2020 PPP 2.0 – A Renewed Opportunity (and New Set of Headaches) for Lenders As the old saying goes, the best deals are made when neither side gets exactly what it wants. By that standard, the most recent federal pandemic relief bill that finally passed into law in late December certainly qualifies as a great deal. Democrats who for months had been seeking a bill in excess of $3 trillion were undoubtedly disappointed by the final price tag of slightly more than $900… Flash Report May 4, 2020 Treasury Department Continues to Issue Guidelines for Small Business Paycheck Protection Program The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that was signed into law on March 27, 2020, offers a lifeline to small businesses and sole proprietors (generally those with 500 or fewer employees) in the form of the Paycheck Protection Programme (PPP) administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). This programme initially authorized $349 billion in… Whitepaper December 7, 2020 Returning Internal Audit to 'Business as Usual' in a New World Eight Recommendations for Addressing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Financial Services Industry Audit Plans The COVID-19 pandemic continues to create untold havoc on individuals, businesses and economies throughout the world, with no clear end in sight. The financial services industry (FSI) has by no means been immune. An abundance of pandemic-related events, including the… 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
