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Practical notes on financial data, risk management and regulatory compliance, and the technology behind them.

  • What a compliance record should show

    A reviewer needs to follow a decision from the document to the entry. What a record has to show for that to work, and where records usually fall short.

  • Where your reporting data comes from

    A report is only as reliable as the records behind it. Four questions to ask about where each number comes from before the next review.

  • Technology risk for finance teams

    Finance work depends on systems and on who can use them. Three gaps in controls that are easy to miss until a review finds them.

  • Judging blockchain by its use cases

    Five questions to ask before a blockchain project gets a budget, starting with who needs to share the record and whether they trust each other.