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Introduction to Blockchain for Audit, Risk, and Compliance Professionals

Audit Board

Blockchain technology is transforming the world of audit, risk, and compliance. Decentralized, transparent, and secure, blockchain can enhance financial data’s accuracy and completeness, reduce fraud and error risk, and enable more efficient and effective audit processes — but it also introduces new risks.

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Cooley’s 2023 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review: Potent Mix of Creativity and Resilience Spurs Activity Heading Into 2024

Cooley M&A

Looming patent cliffs By 2030, more than 190 drugs will lose patent exclusivity , including 69 blockbuster drugs, putting at risk $236 billion in sales. While the year saw an overall decline in M&A activity (down 17% from 2022) , total pharmaceuticals and life sciences deal value in 2023 increased by approximately 50% compared to 2022.

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Internal Audit 101: Everything You Need to Know

Audit Board

Objectively evaluating risks, analyzing and assessing processes and systems for efficiencies, doing spot-checks for as-yet-unknown issues, and keeping departments aligned and meeting business objectives are all important ways that auditors can bring value. They analyze company records and financial documents. What Is Internal Auditing ?

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Cybersecurity Risk Management Best Practices

Audit Board

Leaps in telecommunications, data analysis, and infrastructure technologies, combined with the blossoming of cloud computing and web-based application solutions has driven work into the digital world. But as companies take up more digital space, they increase their cyber footprint, and encounter more cybersecurity threats of different types.

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The FTX Collapse: Why Did Due Diligence, Regulation, and Governance Evaporate?

Reynolds Holding

Since November 11, 2022, though, FTX has been in bankruptcy, having borrowed extensively and used the assets of its clients in a likely and spectacular fraud. Regulators, lawyers, and central banks still struggle sometimes to put some crypto assets in a category but defining them is possible. Is it a financial asset?

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Paul Hastings Discusses SEC’s Crypto Victory in the LBRY Case

Reynolds Holding

The LBRY team wrote in a blog post that while the “long-term value proposition of LBRY is tremendous,” it is “dependent on our team staying focused on the task at hand: building this thing.”. In a blog post on LBRY’s website in response to a question “How does the company behind LBRY make money?,” a security, including ethereum.” [2].

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App Valuation: How to Build, Value and Sell an App

FE International

Conclusion. Software development is a unique and ever-evolving industry. In recent years, we have noticed an increase in the number of online entrepreneurs entering the app space. Just like any online business, apps of all kinds require special considerations when it comes time to sell. The two might overlap more than you expect! What Is an App?