Steps Your Nonprofit Can Take to Mitigate Fraud Risks - Part 2
A Third Party's Perspective on Third Party Risk
Implications of the SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rule
Privacy Issues from Third-Party Website Tags
What's the Tea in L&E? Employee Devices: What is #NSFW?
Preparing for a Government Healthcare Audit
Tackling Credit Push Fraud: Understanding Nacha's Risk Management Package (Part Two) — Payments Pros: The Payments Law Podcast
Compliance into The Weeds: The Complexity of Risk Assessments
Behavioral Health Compliance
The Importance of Assessment Areas
RegFi Episode 8: The Technological Path to Outcomes-Based Regulation with Matt Van Buskirk
What Physicians Need to Understand About Balance Billing
What Nonprofit Board Leadership Needs To Know About Internal Investigations
Taking a Behavioral Approach to Compliance
Episode 291 -- Interview of Mary Shirley on Her New Compliance Book
ChatGPT Risks for Compliance Programs
Season 2 Episode 3 - The Role of Ethics and Compliance Programs in International Business
In the Boardroom With Resnick and Fuller - Episode 4
What Non-Financial Institutions Need to Know About Gramm-Leach-Bliley
"Board-er" Patrol in Privacy and Cyberattacks - Unauthorized Access Podcast
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Last month, I wrote a blog post on the tone at the top, exemplified in Star Trek’s Original Series episode, Devil in the Dark. Based on the response, some passionate Star Trek fans are out there. I decided to write a series...more
The due diligence process is a critical element in a merger and acquisition transaction. Most companies clearly define the steps and rarely skip them. However, the participants in the process vary widely, and ethics and...more
In a high trust organisation each member can be relied upon to demonstrate behaviours which foster transparency, good decision making and delivery of the shared vision without a large controlling overhead. It’s rare in...more
An Enterprise Risk Assessment is fundamental to managing an organization’s strategic and operational landscapes. For compliance professionals, navigating the intricate world of risk can be particularly complex yet crucial. It...more
The UK Worker Protection Act 2023, amending the 2010 Equality Act, represents a significant milestone in safeguarding employees against sexual harassment. With a compliance deadline of October 26, 2024, this Act places a...more
We conclude our focus on culture this week by returning to some of our long-time compliance roots for improving culture, such as the listening tour. In 2022, returning Starbucks Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Howard Schultz...more
A new law relating to sexual harassment in the UK is due to come into force on 26 October 2024 which places a legal obligation on all employers to take proactive measures to prevent sexual harassment from occurring in the...more
The Economic Crime Bill received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023. Included in the Act is the failure to prevent fraud offence, under which large companies will be liable when a specified fraud offence is committed by an...more
California has recently passed and signed into law two significant pieces of climate legislation: Senate Bill 253 (SB 253), better known as the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, and Senate Bill 261 (SB 261) focused...more
Welcome to a special five-part blog series on building a stronger culture of compliance, sponsored by Diligent. In this series I will visit with Yvette Hollingsworth-Clark, Viktor Cuijak, Jessica Czeczuga; Michael Parker; and...more
Join us September 20 for the 12th annual Virtual Risk & Compliance Conference - NAVEX Next returns on September 20, 2023 — bringing a ton of learning and exclusive resources to help you build your transformative culture....more
Over the recent past, demand for transparent corporate sustainability and socially responsible business practices has been increasing. Consumers and investors alike are seeking to do business with companies that demonstrate a...more
Operational resilience can be considered as the capability of an organization to deliver all critical business processes in the face of disrupting events. This can be particularly tricky to achieve in an ever changing and...more
Companies have to demand a new focus from their CEOs, senior executives and legal compliance team in response to the new DOJ and regulatory initiatives. These steps are not just suggestions nor items that can be prioritized...more
I always enjoy pulling out the crystal ball and looking forward with due consideration of last year’s trends. It is a perspective that gives us all the opportunity to identify important trends and to set an agenda for the...more
I recently returned from the Corporate Compliance Outreach Event—presented in late September by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)—a popular event SCCE & HCCA has sponsored with the FBI annually. I last wrote about the...more
Good morning, and welcome back. This is the eighth edition of OIG Shorts, a publication of Sheppard Mullin’s Organizational Integrity Group. In this series, we discuss practical approaches to creating a more effective Ethics...more
NAVEX continues to be one of the premier sources of essential annual benchmarking studies. Recently, NAVEX issued its 2022 Definitive Risk and Compliance Benchmark Report. The Report was based on over 1100 survey responses...more
CEP Magazine - November 2022 - Inspiration sometimes comes from unexpected places. I like to read books on a variety of topics. In one I read recently, the astrophysicist author described the second law of thermodynamics...more
In-person is back! Join us in Amsterdam for the 2023 European Compliance & Ethics Institute! Strengthen your compliance and ethics program by attending our 11th annual European Compliance and Ethics Institute, 20-22 March...more
United States Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco recently gave a speech in which she outlined both new policies at the Department of Justice (DOJ) as well as enhancements to existing ones that can have a profound...more
For regular readers of Risk & Compliance Matters, you’re surely familiar with the importance of maintaining a mature compliance program – and the benefits this has on an organization’s culture and adherence to regulatory...more
Late last year, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced material changes to the way it intended to investigate, prosecute, and resolve corporate cases. The changes were aggressive, leading us to title our update “DOJ’s...more
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