Insights
News and publications
Thinking from our advisers on audit, risk, banking, insurance and investment, and news from AZ International.
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AZ International: e-learning, webinars and certified professionals across the region
AZ International has developed an online learning platform for specialised courses, runs interactive webinars globally, and has certified professionals across the MENA region.
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How to do your internal audit risk assessment
I believe internal audit should first understand the value drivers and the objectives of the organization.
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Understanding the Costs and Benefits of SOX Compliance
Findings from Protiviti’s 2016 Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Survey show companies are spending more time and money but continue improving their internal controls and business processes.
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Risk and Culture
Questions for board members to address.
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Core tenants of investment strategy
As an Insurance Company is one that can underwrite both short term and long term insurance products, it needs to maintain a conservative posture that ensures that investments are sound enough to withstand adverse market conditions and meet the expectations of investors, rating agencies and regulators.
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Explaining Embedded Value and Appraisal Value of a Life Insurance Company
The aim of the embedded value accounting is to include future gains in the balance sheet.
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International Banking Flocks Ripple
Recently, as some of you might have noticed (or not), many International Banks and Central Banks have partnered with Ripple.
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Can services replace manufacturing as an engine of development?
Horizontal productivity and competitiveness factors that were crucial for a broad and deep manufacturing-led development are now extended to services.
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A new Innovative Insurance Product to Tackle Acid Burning Social Problem
Acid burn health insurance is one such idea to sell such policy to NGOs in South Asia where acid burn propensity is high (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Cambodia, and Myanmar) to allow NGOs to better aid these victims.
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This is why the future of banking lies on its past
Although the technical/transactional challenge of Banking digitization and use of revolutionary emerging fintech technology, occupy the attention of the Boards and CEOs of Banks, the strategic challenge is the most threatening one for banks, and it can mainly be properly addressed morally, not digitally.
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Matchmaking Finance and Infrastructure
The world economy – and emerging market and developing economies in particular – display a gap between infrastructure needs and its finance .
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