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Guest host Lucy Pearman talks with Donna Timlen, CCO of OneMain Financial – America’s largest installment lender, about their compliance transformation: talent, technology, strategy and a root cause focus.
Donna Timlen has been Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), based out of Baltimore, MD, of OneMain Financial since November 2015 and reports to the OneMain General Counsel. Donna has served as…
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In this episode, Jackie Sanz –Managing Director leading Protiviti’s Canadian Risk and Compliance solution., interviews Vlad Tasevski –Chief Operating Officer and Head of Product at Purpose Investments, and Elliot Johnson – Chief Investment Officer and Chief Operatating Officer at Evolve ETFs. Jackie, Vlad and Elliot discuss the current and future state of cryptocurrency.
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Cybersecurity continues to be a critical area of concern for organisations and virtually any leader you ask – board members, CIOs, CFOs, and many more. But as elevated as those risks are today, the real threat may be just around the corner, particularly concerning cryptocurrency. Crypto has been viewed as highly secure, but the rapid emergence of quantum computing, which is set to deliver…
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Protiviti has produced a series of podcasts on GRC programmes and technologies in which we obtained perspectives from Protiviti leaders and subject-matter experts around the world on GRC drivers, innovations and challenges in their markets. In this episode, we talked with Ivan Torres, a Director with Protiviti’s Technology Consulting group. Ivan, who is based in Mexico City, offers his views on…
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Protiviti has produced a series of podcasts on GRC programmes and technologies in which we obtained perspectives from Protiviti leaders and subject-matter experts around the world on GRC drivers, innovations and challenges in their markets. In this episode, we talked with Ivan Torres, a Director with Protiviti’s Technology Consulting group. Ivan, who is based in Mexico City, offers his views on…
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Covid-19, the economy, racial equity and climate. These are what the Biden-Harris transition team initially identified as the priorities of its administration. Since President Biden took office, other pressing issues such as immigration, cyber defense, and the U.S.’s exit from Afghanistan have been added to the list. The financial services industry wasn’t expected to, and does not, make the…
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In the novel Tell the Machine Goodnight, Katie Williams tells the story of Pearl, a technician for Apricity Corporation, which has developed a machine that “uses a sophisticated metric, taking into account factors of which we are not consciously aware,” and with 99.7% accuracy, offers recommendations for what will make people happy. Does this narrative provide a glimpse into our future? Will…
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The quality and, in some cases, the existence of the CISO/CFO relationship varies by company. In organisations where the CISO role is positioned and promoted as a source of value, CISOs and CFOs tend to collaborate more often and more meaningfully than in companies that treat information security as a cost center (and typically struggle with cybersecurity as a result).
Protiviti’s 2021…
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Big Tech’s “big” problem
How big is Big Tech? There is little doubt that the big five technology companies (i.e., Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook) are operating in a completely different stratosphere. As one recent New York Times blog described it, “America’s tech titans have formed a separate universe in which they are the sun, and everyone else — billions of humans, other…
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Three months ago, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments to its rules on cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and incident reporting by public companies subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The SEC’s view is that cybersecurity threats and incidents pose an ongoing threat to public companies, investors and…
