Image: The institutions participating in the Greenwich Associates 2017 U.S. ETF Study are preparing their investment portfolios for the return of volatility and the shift to a rising interest rate environment. As part of those efforts, they’re increasing their use of ETFs and integrating the funds into more sophisticated portfolio applications.
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Blockchain Technology and Its Potential Impact on the Audit and Assurance Profession
Blockchain was first introduced as the core technology behind Bitcoin, the headline-grabbing decentralized digital currency ecosystem proposed in 2008. The appeal of blockchain technology lies in its use of peer-to-peer network technology combined with cryptography.
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Five Ways Your Conflict of Interest Process is Creating Risk
An outdated or inefficient process for tracking and dealing with conflicts of interest can be a major contributor to the risk of noncompliance. However, the contributors to risk are not always clear. Outlined in this white paper are “5 Ways Your COI Process Creates Risk.
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Best Practices: Compliance Programs Now Require Microlearning
Traditional long compliance training sessions, whether in-person or online, are no longer effective. Employees get bored, tune out and disengage – shorter attention spans demand shorter bursts of content. Utilizing microlearning methods in your training ensures that employees will engage with and retain your compliance communications.
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BlackRock’s updated outlook for the rest of 2018
Image: In the Q2 2018 Global Investment Outlook, BlackRock details the asset class preferences and highlights two key risks to the global expansion and risk assets: the potential for trade wars in the face of rising U.S. protectionism and a spike in real yields.
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Busting eLearning Myths: Separating Effective Training From Trends
Many compliance e-learning trends promise to deliver cutting-edge capabilities that can engage learners and embed knowledge like never before. But are these trends really fads? Or are these trends going to drive long-term learning value?
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How to Stop Delivering Boring Compliance Training
Many employees see compliance training as fundamentally uninteresting, irrelevant – or just plain boring. Failing to engage employees could increase the risks of unethical or non-compliant behaviors.
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How to Identify Beneficial Ownership in a Not-so-transparent World
Beneficial ownership transparency is in the spotlight, and many compliance experts believe 2017 was a turning point in achieving greater transparency at a global scale, especially in preventing tax evasion and corruption.
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Changing Lanes: Keeping Pace with Converging Pressures on Procurement Organizations
There is ever increasing converging pressures and challenges that corporations face to address transparency of their products and supply chains for all regulated functions.
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Understanding Beneficial Ownership Structures
This guide will help you better understand beneficial ownership legal structures and their complexities. It will also demonstrate how data and analytics can help improve the speed and accuracy of UBO identification, in addition to offering wider organisational benefits from enhanced knowledge management to resource redeployment.