Introduction Despite the increasingly recognized importance of ESG to decision-makers, most organizations have limited internal infrastructure that is necessary to incorporate ESG components into the business. Management teams struggle to incorporate ESG-related goals into their business strategy because they cannot measure their…
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Welcome to the North America ESG Regulatory Newsletter! The goal of this newsletter is to inform practitioners about current and upcoming ESG regulations, and to provide other information helpful to navigating the rapidly evolving ESG regulatory landscape. Trending Topics (in Collaboration with…
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In Part One of this series, we wrote about the maturation of the regulatory environment and the growing Privacy, Sustainability, and Financial Crime risks. In this blog, we explore evolving privacy risks of universally accessible metadata and the dangers of centralized authorities. …
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Introduction Companies dedicate resources to protect themselves from external fraud, but are sufficient resources devoted to internal fraud? To put it another way, are sufficient resources devoted to the prevention and detection of such things as asset misappropriation, corruption or financial statement fraud? In…
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AI-driven Data Collection Customer-centric companies live and breathe their customers and are laser-focused on providing amazing experiences. Firms want to learn as much as they can about their existing and potential customers. The more a business can learn on its customer needs,…
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Canada has taken a significant step towards the inclusion of climate risk in its oversight of systemic risks affecting the Canadian financial system. On May 26, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), in its capacity as Canada’s prudential regulator…
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The accelerated adoption of digital assets in our everyday lives is creating market demand across organizations as well as increasing focus across regulatory agencies and government. In large part, this is due to cryptocurrency’s potential to destabilize and disrupt traditional financial markets…
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Welcome to the North America ESG Regulatory Newsletter! The goal of this newsletter is to inform practitioners about current and upcoming ESG regulations, and to provide other information helpful to navigating the rapidly evolving ESG regulatory landscape. Trending Topics (in Collaboration with…
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In our initial blog we posited that Intelligent Automation (IA) and, specifically Cognitive Artificial Intelligence (AI), will be essential in Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) programs to achieve long term success and sustainability. This viewpoint comes from assessing pain points that…
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On May 25th, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a number of amendments to rules and reporting procedures for investment companies and registered investment advisors. The proposed amendments are designed to promote consistent, comparable and reliable information for investors concerning…
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On March 30th, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations (SEC) announced its 2022 examination priorities. The focus in 2022 will be on Private Funds and Registered Invest...
If you have paid any attention to the financial regulatory priorities of the Biden-Harris Administration, you know that U.S. regulators are keenly focused on environmental, social and governance (ESG)...
In our last blog, we discussed how businesses and their first line control partners should proactively manage risk as part of a successful transition to cloud and new technology implementation. The em...
The 26th United Nations Climate Change conference was held in Glasgow, Scotland from 31 October to 13 November 2021. While much has been written about the successes and failures of this Conference of ...
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) regulations are emerging with speed and force, both within the United States and globally. Indeed, as we highlighted in Accenture’s 2021 Global Risk Manage...
Accenture frequently partners with leading innovative solution providers, such as 4CRisk, to bring the best technology and business solutions to our clients. 4CRisk.ai provides advanced AI Solutions f...
As evidenced by last month’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (a/k/a “COP26”) in Glasgow, Scotland, global leaders are keenly focused on climate-change and the environment. As a result, compan...
Many financial institutions around the globe have committed to fight climate change by setting ambitious goals in the near and long-term future and working to embed the management of ESG risks into th...
The past year has seen extraordinary growth and positive developments in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) compliance. One of the most surprising of these is that traditional rivals are now...
On February 9, 2022, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) released its “2022 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program.” For each topic, the report identifies the applic...
