October 2026 Financial Services Audit Committee Overview

As financial services companies’ audit committee requirements and expectations evolve in today’s dynamic environment, it is critical for audit committee members to be current with industry developments.

This webinar will provide audit committee members and other professionals at financial services companies with an overview of financial reporting developments and recent regulatory updates to inform their responsibilities.

In addition, the webinar will explore the evolving relationship between risk and audit committees, including the fundamental roles of each committee, where their oversight responsibilities might overlap, where they should remain distinct, and how organizations can adapt as the risk landscape evolves. The discussion will explore how organizations can assess whether their current governance model remains fit for purpose, including indicators that might suggest a need for a separate risk committee, characteristics of effective committee governance and oversight, and practices for coordinating responsibilities and information flow when oversight spans both committees. Examples of emerging and cross-cutting risks, such as AI, will be used to illustrate how oversight might span both committees or prompt consideration of a need to change.

As a result of participating in this webinar, you should be able to:

• Describe the latest financial reporting developments and related requirements affecting financial services companies, including developments from industry regulators
• Compare audit and risk committee roles, including key overlaps and distinctions, and how they coordinate oversight
• Identify indicators that might signal when an organization should consider separating risk oversight from the audit committee and recognize effective traits of each committee
• Evaluate how emerging risks, such as AI, might be overseen across audit and risk committees, including when responsibilities should be shared, separated, or reallocated