FINRA’s New Senior Investor Rule and CFPB’s Latest Developments Discussed in This Month’s Compliance Podcast
In our February Compliance Insights podcast, Jill Smiley, a Director, and Steven Stachowicz, a Managing Director with our Risk and Compliance practice, discuss FINRA’s new rule on protecting senior investors and the CFPB’s recent Request for Information notices – two of the topics covered in this month’s Compliance Insights newsletter. Download the full February issue at […]
As Retail Consumers Embrace Mobile Payments, Digital Loyalty Programs Become a Priority
The 2017 holiday shopping season was a wake-up call for any merchant who still thinks mobile commerce has yet to take off. Mobile transactions accounted for about one-third of online revenue during the holiday season — or more than US$35 billion — according to research from Adobe Insights. Mobile sales on Cyber Monday hit $2 […]
SEC Issues Cybersecurity Guidance: Key Takeaways
On Wednesday, February 21, the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published interpretive guidance for public companies disclosing cybersecurity risks and incidents. The guidance provides insight into the regulator’s current thinking on disclosure obligations. Protiviti has prepared a Flash Report, summarizing the guidance and its likely impacts. Cybersecurity is among the most critical risks that […]
Saving Analytical Data Without Violating GDPR – Part 2: Aggregation and Anonymization
In a previous post, we reviewed two GDPR anonymization options – minimization and masking. In this installment we discuss two additional options. Aggregation Another way to comply with GDPR is to group data in such a way that individual records no longer exist and cannot be distinguished from other records in the same grouping. This […]
Saving Analytical Data Without Violating GDPR – Part 1: Data Minimization and Masking
With an effective date less than four months away, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), known officially as “REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016,” is becoming a pressing concern for companies inside and outside the European Union (EU). Broadly, the regulation specifies that personal data protection […]
2018 Audit Committee Agenda: Financial Reporting Risks
Financial reporting issues have always been at the heart of the audit committee agenda, and always will be, even as other risks arise to claim their share of attention. With that in mind, half of Protiviti’s recommended 2018 audit committee agenda focuses on financial reporting risks. Protiviti has identified eight audit committee agenda priorities for […]
