Do you feel that performance metrics to close cases in a certain number of days negatively influences the substantiation rate? If that question has you shifting uncomfortably in your seat, you’re not alone. Frankly, while...more
Discover valuable whistleblowing trends for 2024 in key regions.
Join us to explore the latest global whistleblowing and incident reporting developments. Our 2024 Regional Whistleblowing Benchmark Webinar promises to...more
4/25/2024
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The compliance and whistleblowing scene is heating up! With more employees speaking up, benchmarking your hotline and incident management data is critical to staying ahead of risks and fostering a resilient, compliant...more
In an era marked by heightened global regulatory scrutiny and enforcement, the landscape of risk and compliance is undergoing an evolution making the strategic imperative for effective, risk-based compliance initiatives...more
2/20/2024
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Human Rights ,
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
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On November 14, 2023 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its annual Office of the Whistleblower Report to Congress for fiscal year 2023 (October 1, 2022-September 30, 2023). This report highlighted several...more
11/21/2023
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Launching the 2023 NAVEX Regional Whistleblowing Report -
Each year the NAVEX Regional Whistleblowing Hotline Benchmark Report delivers an in-depth regional analysis of the world’s largest employee incident database to...more
Launching the 2023 NAVEX Regional Whistleblowing Report -
Each year the NAVEX Regional Whistleblowing Hotline Benchmark Report delivers an in-depth regional analysis of the world’s largest employee incident database to...more
Each year, the NAVEX Hotline & Incident Management Benchmark report delivers a deep analysis of the world’s largest database of employee incident – whistleblowing – reports. Our annual report is the recognized industry...more
3/10/2023
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Whistleblowers
Join Kristy Grant-Hart, CEO at Spark Compliance Consulting, and Carrie Penman, chief risk and compliance officer at NAVEX, for a 90-minute webinar summarizing our annual Top 10 Trends in Risk and Compliance eBook.
In this...more
12/19/2022
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Corporate Executives ,
Corporate Governance ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Risk Management ,
Speak-up Cultures ,
Third-Party Risk ,
Webinars ,
Whistleblowers
The resilience of risk and compliance (R&C) leaders over these past couple of years has been remarkable. Our profession adapted amid the massive and sudden workplace shifts brought on by COVID-19, and by most accounts,...more
9/13/2022
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Compliance ,
Corporate Counsel ,
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Corporate Governance ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Leadership ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
Surveys ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
In January, we presented our annual top risk and compliance predictions that will impact organizations most in 2022. However, things move quickly in today’s risk world, and a mid-year check-in with Kristy Grant-Hart and...more
7/20/2022
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Corporate Governance ,
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Diversity ,
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Employment Policies ,
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Information Technology ,
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Third-Party Risk ,
Webinars ,
Whistleblowers
The Navex 2022 Risk & Compliance Hotline & Incident Management Benchmark Report provides a fascinating look into what’s going on in compliance in general and how employees are using helplines specifically.
The 2021 report...more
On November 15th, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of the Whistleblower (OWB) released its 2021 Annual Report to Congress that reports staggering statistics for FY 2021 and should sound warning bells for...more
Recent compliance-related news coverage has identified an increase in anonymous hoax emails and online reports posted to companies through their internal reporting systems. Whether filed via email or through an online...more
This week, NAVEX Global released its 2021 Incident Management Benchmark Report. The analysis, which tracked and analyzed corporate compliance trends based on data from more than 1.3 million global incident management reports...more
5/20/2021
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Integrity Policies ,
Internal Investigations ,
Internal Reporting ,
Risk Management ,
Whistleblower Hotlines ,
Whistleblowers
While hindsight may be 20/20, how can we use this to gain foresight into 2021?
The last twelve months have permanently altered the role of risk and compliance—increasing it in scope and elevating the function to a...more
12/23/2020
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Cooperation ,
Corporate Governance ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employee Training ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Remote Working ,
Risk Management ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Third-Party Risk ,
Transparency ,
Webinars ,
Whistleblowers
Register for NAVEX Next, our annual risk and compliance virtual conference. Formerly the Ethics & Compliance Virtual Conference (ECVC), the new name recognizes that we must be forward-looking as we face an increasingly...more
10/7/2020
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Chief Ethics and Compliance Officers (CECO) ,
Compliance ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Corporate Culture ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Enforcement ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Ethics ,
EU ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
International Data Transfers ,
New Guidance ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Remote Working ,
Retaliation ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
Social Justice Issues ,
Supply Chain ,
Third-Party Risk ,
Webinars ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
When it comes to effective internal whistleblower hotlines, silence is never a sign of success. It is usually a sign that the compliance program, and its internal reporting systems, are not resonating with employees and is...more
Corporate governance and “long-termism” are key buzzwords in our modern fiduciary lexicon. Between Q1 2018 and Q2 2019, governance deficiencies were responsible for the highest number of enforcement occurrences across major...more
Many compliance officers over the years have wished for the day when what we do is at the forefront of public conversation — a day when people everywhere were eager to talk about the importance of rooting out misconduct and...more
The more things change, the more things stay the same. As compliance matures as an industry, we sometimes forget the foundational best-practices that our programs are built upon. Every last Friday of the month, we revisit...more
For the 25 years I have been working in ethics and compliance, there has been an unfortunate turf battle waging between Compliance and HR over what types of reports should be accepted by the ethics and compliance hotline....more
NAVEX Global’s 2018 Hotline & Incident Management Benchmark Report takes anonymized data collected from the world’s largest and most comprehensive database of reports. The report provides expert analysis of data that ethics...more
In an expected ruling, the Supreme Court held that Dodd-Frank’s anti-retaliation provision does not extend to an individual who has not reported a violation of the securities laws to the SEC. The court signaled this outcome...more
2/23/2018
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Digital Realty Trust Inc v Somers ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Internal Reporting ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Retaliation ,
Sarbanes-Oxley ,
SCOTUS ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Violations ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
Never has it been more critical to create an open and constructive organisational culture, where employees feel the ability to raise issues freely without fear of recrimination, and to have those issues listened to and...more