governance,
culture,
corporate governance,
monitoring,
controls,
communication,
audit trail,
data sharing
How well can your firm demonstrate effective systems and controls? Corporate Governance isn’t just about who sits on your board and how often the board meets. It’s about the systems and controls as well as the standards set within a firm. It’s about ensuring that the...
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accountability,
oversight,
SOX,
trust,
audit trail,
audit reform,
UK SOX
In 2002, the USA implemented the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX). It caused quite a stir at the time due to the time and effort required to make changes to comply with it. Some felt that it was too onerous. Others felt it was an overreaction to some large corporate failures....
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assessments,
monitoring,
audit trail,
data sharing
All regulated firms are obliged to conduct compliance monitoring. The compliance function is required to monitor and test compliance by performing sufficient and representative compliance testing. Then the results are reported up through the compliance reporting line...
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third parties,
accountability,
corporate governance,
oversight,
risk management,
operational resilience,
monitoring,
audit trail,
BCBS,
IOSCO
We’re all aware that operational resilience requires an holistic view of a firm’s operations. The Financial Services industry operates globally and requires a coordinated effort to establish a resilient framework. Current work to improve resilience focuses on being...
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governance,
third parties,
oversight,
operational resilience,
audit trail,
outsourcing
Operational Resilience has been a hot topic in the UK for a number of years and has gathered momentum recently as the supervisory bodies issued final requirements and firms now prepare for implementation by March 2022. In 2017, Charlotte Gerken, then Director of...
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FCA,
breach management,
CASS,
client assets,
audit trail
With the unprecedented levels of support coming from government to numerous business sectors to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19, Senior Managers at CASS firms could have been forgiven for looking eagerly to the FCA’s responses last month about COVID-related...
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