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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful technology that’s driving innovation, boosting performance, and improving decision-making and risk management across enterprises. It’s also turning data into the key driver of competitive advantage. Over the next two years, organisations across all industries plan to deploy or increase their use of artificial intelligence, according to a recent global…
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For those who have read just about everything concerning coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) within their capacity and attention span to absorb, the lethal message is clear: This pandemic is unrelenting. It’s not going away anytime soon, the threat to our health and economy is real, and the world in which we live, work and play has changed from what was familiar.
Most discussions concerning the…
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Financial Services - Our Backbone for Recovery
How is our financial services sector adapting to support our changing consumer needs and behaviors? What more is needed from the sector to underpin our recovery ambitions? How will the pandemic and Brexit be a catalyst for change and opportunity for us all? Watch our session recording to get inspired and challenged by the CEO from the Financial…
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U.S. Edition | June 2020
Financial Crime Risks in the Current Climate
The current economic and business climate is a new frontier for financial institutions seeking to navigate challenges posed by deteriorating market conditions, customer anxiety and the ever-watchful eyes of industry regulators. Concurrently, bad actors that pose an ongoing threat are also discovering new channels of…
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As cloud adoption continues to soar globally, technical considerations and concerns have evolved towards risk, compliance, and financial management. In November, the UK Finance COO Forum explored this evolution of cloud adoption and why skills, governance and clarity on standards matter.
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On 7 October 2020 Protiviti held the second in a series of virtual roundtables designed to discuss financial institutions’ response to identifying and supporting vulnerable customers as required and emphasised by the FCA.
Attended by representatives of UK financial institutions and senior leaders from Protiviti, the event also focused on how banks and insurance companies have so far responded to…
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Internal audit functions are finding more than ever that they need to be closely aligned with, and responsive to, rapidly evolving business demands and priorities. Increasingly, they need to operate in more flexible and agile ways to remain relevant and support their organisation.
Our Chief Audit Executive (CAE) Forum meets regularly online to exchange ideas about how to manage the audit process…
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Internal controls are in the spotlight. Impending regulation over financial reporting, combined with the potential for automation, is creating an opportunity to improve the way risks are managed. At the UK Finance COO Forum in September, chief operating officers explained how they were approaching the task – and what the future could look like.
As UK companies prepare for tighter controls over…
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About John Ashcroft
We are delighted to be partnering with Dr John Ashcroft to bring you the latest in a series of quarterly briefings and monthly updates on the UK and world economy. We will be looking at markets, growth and inflation and what this means for the UK finding its feet post-Brexit on the globally stage.
John Ashcroft PhD, BSC.(Econ) FRSA CBIM is author of The Saturday Economist, a…
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TMT Sector Lists Pandemic Policies, Cyber Threats, Privacy and Information Security as Top Risk Concerns in 2021
The continuing global challenges and potential existential threat posed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Political divisiveness and polarisation. Social and economic unrest. Gridlock. Artificial intelligence (AI), automation and other rapidly developing digital technologies.…
