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A group of chief financial officers (CFOs) of high-growth technology companies regularly meets virtually in a small-group setting using Chatham house rules to exchange learnings and discuss business challenges and industry trends. Participants of this exclusive CFO peer group create the agenda through a series of pre-interviews. Protiviti is proud to support and host members of this community.…
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Chief financial officers (CFOs) of high-growth software companies meet virtually in a small-group setting using Chatham House rules to exchange learnings and discuss business challenges and industry trends. Participants in this exclusive CFO peer group develop the agenda through a series of pre-interviews. Protiviti is proud to support and host members of this community.
The agenda topics…
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Your monthly compliance news roundup
Agencies Update Guidance on BSA/AML Compliance Programme Expectations
On August 13, 2020, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released a joint statement that explains the enforcement of certain Bank…
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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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Why technology companies should care about the EU’s Digital Services Act
A new and dramatic approach to regulating big technology firms is coming into force across the European Union. The Digital Services Act (DSA), which the European Council signed into law on September 15, 2022, aims to protect the digital space against the spread of illegal content, particularly on social networks, content…
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Late last month, DeepSeek, the China-based AI startup, sent shockwaves worldwide when it released its latest model, DeepSeek R1, which it says rivals ChatGPT’s capabilities. OpenAI’s o1 model was released on Sept. 12, 2024, roughly four months ahead of DeepSeek’s R1 model release in January.
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Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) of high-growth technology companies met virtually to share leading practices, discuss and exchange learnings on challenges, industry trends and topics of mutual interest. The agenda for this small-group meeting, conducted under Chatham House Rule, was created through a series of pre-interviews. Comments from participating CFOs are summarised below.
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Squeezing every bit of performance out of a NISQ-era quantum processor is usually handled in the software stack. But what if you could actually design QPUs for specific types of use cases? Anastasia Marchenkova is working on this approach at Bleximo and the result has been a remarkable boost to speed. Join host Konstantinos Karagiannis for a chat about the possibilities of these application-…
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The healthcare industry is facing unprecedented challenges, with varied causes. People are living longer, so demand for care continually increases, particularly for chronic diseases. There’s a shortage of skilled labor, and workloads are becoming unmanageable. Skilled workers are leaving the industry as burnout affects doctors, nurses and other clinicians. Administrative burdens often overwhelm…
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The New Finance Labor Model Proves Its Real-World ValueThe finance labor model of the future has passed a major test – and it was a massive one. The results of Protiviti’s latest global survey of CFOs and finance leaders show that finance organisations which leverage a diverse talent pool of full-time employees, contract and temporary workers, expert external consultants, and managed services and…
