KISS takes on a new meaning in this podcast: Keep it Streamlined & Strategic.
Keeping it streamlined and strategic is also the topic of a session at the 2025 HCCA Compliance Institute...more
Are your helpline calls being responded to properly? Are the investigations proceeding expeditiously and properly? To find out, it’s good to do an audit periodically.
Before you can begin, though, you need to determine if...more
When we last spoke with Tyler Shultz back in 2020, he discussed his experience at Theranos as both an employee and a whistleblower. Four years later, the case is in the rearview mirror, the former CEO is in prison, he founded...more
Want to improve your code of conduct? Don’t miss the session: Cornering the Code: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach Toward a Better Code of Ethics at the 2025 SCCE European Compliance & Ethics Institute.
In this podcast Matej...more
Auditing and monitoring of the compliance program is pretty standard these days. Entain’s Karen Nightingale, Group Director of Ethics & Compliance and Jonathan Fox, Group Head of Ethics & Compliance Programmes, make the case...more
On November 22, 2024, then Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri recapped the changes made during the Biden Administration in enforcement policies and announced a few new ones. To better understand...more
Do you ever ask yourself, “What kind of compliance officer am I?” Netherlands-based Susan du Becker, Director, Risk & Compliance at Microsoft, thinks we all should. To her experience, there are two answers to that...more
Governments don’t only want to prosecute companies for paying bribes. Increasingly, they are looking for companies to join with them to reduce the global challenge of corruption.
To learn more we spoke with Shruti Shah,...more
In 2023 the US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted rules “requiring registrants to disclose material cybersecurity incidents they experience and to disclose on an annual basis material information regarding their...more
"What else should the board be asking about the compliance group?”
It’s a good question in general and the tile of a session at the SCCE Compliance & Ethics Institute, which will be held September 22-25, 2024 in Grapevine,...more
It’s not for nothing that there’s a year in the title of this blog post and podcast. Social media risks change frequently, explains Kortney Nordrum, VP, Regulatory Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at Deluxe. She is the...more
Michelle Nichols from the compliance team at Farmer Mac definitely wins the prize for the most unexpected title for a session at the 2024 SCCE Compliance & Ethics Institute: “How Dating in My 50s Made Me a Better Compliance...more
Currently on hold due to pending court challenges, the SEC’s rules to standardize climate-related disclosures created a fire storm of controversy and comments when first proposed.
The final rules (assuming the courts sides...more
Decades ago, while at a bit of a career crossroads, I was thinking of making a dramatic change and moving halfway around the world. I was talking it through with a friend who said that one day he asked himself whether he...more
Compliance professionals can face a lot of resistance in the course of their work: leaders who don’t have the time, budget limits, managerial indifference, and even outright hostility. But, sometimes the impediments are...more
When compliance professionals discuss AI most of the conversation tends to focus on the risk. Frank Orlowski, Founder and President of Ation Advisory Group, though, is far from all gloom and doom on the topic. In fact, he...more
Record retention and information governance have grown exponentially more complex as the number of laws have proliferated and the amount of data housed has exploded. This has vastly complicated the question of what data to...more
On February 22, 2022 the European Commission adopted a proposal for a directive on corporate sustainability due diligence. In this podcast, George Porter, Knowledge and Training Manager at Ground Truth Intelligence reports...more
Steve Forman, Senior Vice President at Strategic Management Services, had an eye-opening experience years ago when interviewing for the job of Vice President of Audit and Compliance for New York Presbyterian Hospital. The...more
Currently there is a patchwork of anticorruption laws across the EU. What has been lacking, though, is a EU-wide approach. That is likely to change soon, reports Vera Cherepanova, founding partner of Studio Etica.
Change is...more
You may not realize it, but your compliance program has a brand. Line employees and management all have a host of impressions about the compliance department that color how they respond to what you say and do. A strong brand...more
On October 4, 2023 at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics' Compliance & Ethics Institute in Chicago, US Deputy Attorney General Lia A. Monaco spoke live from Washington to the attendees and used this opportunity to...more
First there was Safe Harbor, then there was Privacy Shield, both of which were struck down, leaving an enormous chasm in the rules for sharing data between the EU and the US. Now, explains, André Bywater, Partner at UK-based...more
So, you’ve got a global compliance program. But, what do you do when a local team says, “That doesn’t really work here” or “We think it would be better if it were changed to something else for us”?
Kristy Grant-Hart, CEO of...more
Melinda Shapiro, Senior Director of Compliance at San Diego-based National University, knew she needed to do something different with the school’s approach to enterprise risk management (ERM). When she took on the compliance...more