Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk and Compliance surveyed more than 800 compliance practitioners, including a significant number of heads of compliance and chief executives, from financial services firms around the world between November 2012 and January 2013, to canvass their views on the costs of compliance and the greatest challenges they expected to face during the year ahead. This new Special Report on the findings is essential reading and covers 7 key themes: (more…)
Today’s graphic shows the results of a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll on holiday shopping plans. A sample of 1,169 adults were asked a variety of questions on when/where they do their shopping, how much they plan on spending and how it compares to last year. Have you finished your holiday shopping? How would you answer these poll questions?
More Americans believe they’ll have to work longer to make ends meet. A new Wells Fargo Retirement Survey shows that 30 percent believe they’ll have to work until they’re 80. Reuters Personal Finance Editor Lauren Young breaks down the survey and explains what it means for people as they near what should be their retirement years.
Thomson Reuters Westlaw, WestlawNext and Pangea3 have won top honors in the 2012 New York Law Journal Reader Rankings. Based on a survey of New York Law Journal readers, and featuring 63 categories, more than 6,800 voters rated the best services and products ranging from legal research to technology products, and litigation support to education, recruiting and more. Here are some more details about the awards: (more…)
SRI-CONNECT.com, in coordination with our Extel team, has released the results of the Independent Research in Responsible Investment (IRRI) Survey 2012. This survey is the most authoritative global survey in evaluating how asset managers rate the services of independent providers of sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) & corporate governance research.
Some award winners from the major categories were: (more…)
The report is based on a survey of online news companies in five countries – UK, US, Germany, France, and Denmark – and is part of an ambitions endeavor to track digital news behavior over the next decade. Some of the key findings in the report range from the significant differences in how people of different nations access their news, how frequently news is switching from print to digital, the rise of smartphone usage, and digital news and the age gap.
Today’s graphic looks at a the results of a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll on U.S. opinions on healthcare and the economy. If you were asked these same questions, what would your answers have been? Feel free to list them in the comments section.
The company recently surveyed over 1,500 global internal audit practitioners, from all parts of the world, to collect their views on the state of internal audit and their greatest challenges for the year ahead. What we discovered reflects an evolving professional discipline that focuses on internal control, IT risk and security, risk management, compliance and fraud.
Read the special results report for insight on current trends and issues facing the internal audit profession. One vital factor mentioned in easing the pressure on the internal audit function is the need for adequate skilled resources to meet the growing demands and challenges for management and professionals in the field. The often under-valued task of internal audit can be made substantially easier when managers visibly and vocally demonstrate support for the audit function.
It is clear to us from both the number of respondents and the details of the information received that internal audit professionals are faced with an evolving and diverse job, expanding job duties, and challenges with internal and external changes. See more about the press release here, see the report, and learn more about our internal audit solutions.
Should there be more legislation to encourage behavior change and effect a change in the cost of carbon or should we let the market control the price? Will US regulators tighten the Greenhouse Gas Initiative cap and will China be able to run and effective emissions trading scheme? If these questions are on the top of your mind check out the Thomson Reuters Point Carbon’s annual carbon market survey to see what those in the know really think.
New solution helps compliance teams rise to the challenge of global regulatory burden.
20 Mar 2012Thomson Reuters
We recently announced the launch of Accelus Compliance Manager, a single platform that allows firms to track, monitor and understand regulatory changes and connect them to their internal compliance process and workflow.
Combining Thomson Reuters trusted global regulatory intelligence with its leading software platform for governance, risk and compliance, Thomson Reuters Accelus Compliance Manager, connects the five key stages of compliance identified by Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance:
Understand, evaluate and map regulatory risk
Identify, monitor and track regulatory change
Define and communicate controls
Monitor, test and audit controls; and
Evidence risk controls to management and regulators.
The launch of Accelus Compliance Manager comes on the back of the results of a recent Thomson Reuters survey of more than 500 compliance professionals globally who report they are often struggling to keep up with the growing demands of global regulation. Accelus Compliance Manager was developed to address this challenge in association with some of the world’s most heavily regulated organizations.
05 Mar 2013
The launch of Accelus Compliance Manager comes on the back of the results of a recent 
