From Pandemics to Drones to Planning for Resource Scarcity: Protiviti Scans the Emerging Risks Landscape in the Latest Edition of PreView
As the world turns its eyes to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, athletes and visitors alike are being warned to take precautions against the Zika virus – a flu-like strain that comes with the added risk of crippling birth defects. The situation is so serious that health authorities are urging women in South America […]
Real-World Risk Rigors Require Effective Challenge
Man plans, God laughs, according to the Yiddish proverb. Bank regulators, not so much – at least not when it comes to risk management, which continues to be an ever-moving target for financial institutions. Providing stakeholders with assurance that the risk control frameworks financial institutions have adopted will hold fast in an actual emergency is […]
So You’ve Gone Public – What’s Next?
Once a company is public, the event is often celebrated and the organization emits a collective sigh of relief. But then the next daunting question looms: “What’s next?” Recently, I had the opportunity to discuss this very topic on a podcast with my colleague Andrea Spinelli, a director in our Business Performance Improvement practice. The […]
Compliance Issue Resolution: Responsible Business Conduct in Financial Services
In April, I joined several of my Protiviti colleagues on a webinar hosted by The IIA’s Financial Services Audit Center. The two-hour session, titled Hot Topics in Compliance: Consumer Protection and Compliance Governance, focused on recent regulatory developments in consumer protection reforms related to the Dodd-Frank Act, including mortgage lending disclosures and debt collection practices. […]
Top Risks in Financial Services: Ever the Same, Always Changing
Protiviti and North Carolina State University’s ERM Initiative teamed at the end of last year to survey directors and executives across a wide spectrum of industries for our fourth annual Executive Perspectives on Top Risks report. We are drilling down, over a series of blog posts, to provide insight into these executive perspectives within key […]
Global Instability, Cybersecurity on the Minds of Manufacturing and Distribution Industry Executives
Protiviti and North Carolina State University’s ERM Initiative teamed at the end of last year to survey directors and executives across a wide spectrum of industries for our fourth annual Executive Perspectives on Top Risks report. We are drilling down, over a series of blog posts, to provide insight into these executive perspectives within key industries […]
