On December 7, 2022 The Speak Out Act became law. Stephen Paskoff, the President and CEO of ELI explains that the law was spurred by the #MeToo movement and the Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) that limited recourse available...more
With enhanced concerns and vigilance over cybersecurity has come an increasing number of yardsticks that organizations much measure themselves against. As Troy Fine, Director, Risk and Compliance at Drata explains, in...more
The holidays are here, and with them come good tidings of comfort and joy, and increased corruption risk. Holiday gifts, both given and received, can lead to serious compliance challenges.
In this podcast Richard Bistrong of...more
Go back roughly twenty years and you wouldn’t find a country in South America that had corporate criminal liability laws. Today, though, the picture has changed dramatically.
Felipe Sottorff Araya, a compliance consultant...more
Third-party risk is the risk that keeps expanding. Data security and anticorruption risk have long been the focus. Now, though, the risks are broadening to include issues such as where materials are sourced and the labor that...more
An ethical audit is one that evaluates compliance with laws and regulations but also assess a vendor against ethical standards, explains Bruno Drummond, Senior Director, Global Compliance at DHL Supply Chain. These standards...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
The Organizational Sentencing Guidelines have turned thirty, and what began as an experiment is now an established framework for compliance programs in the US and around the globe.
To commemorate the milestone, the United...more
Having all the privacy policies and procedures in place is one thing. Having them practiced is another, and that’s where a privacy walk-through comes into play.
Jan Elezian, Director Healthcare Provider Practice, Revenue...more
The writing on the wall is pretty clear: regulators expect compliance programs to be custom designed for the organization and kept up to date. That means compliance teams need to stop periodically and reassess their program...more
Getting employees to come forward and raise issue can be difficult. There is often genuine fear of retaliation, and many don’t trust that the company will do anything. It’s a topic that Cindy Morrison CCEP, Director, Global...more
What’s a risk assessment framework? How can it help?
Vin Lacovara, Institutional Compliance Leader, George Mason University and Corey Parker, Director, Baker Tilly, explain that the framework is a document that should be...more
The 2022 Risk & Compliance Hotline & Incident Management Report from NAVEX included data that showed that helpline calls, while increasing, were not back to pre-pandemic levels.
New research from Gartner confirms that data,...more
Melanie Sponholz, Chief Compliance Officer, WCP Healthcare, Nick Gallo, Chief Servant and Co-CEO of ComplianceLine, and Gio Gallo, Co-CEO and CTO of ComplianceLine have a simple message for compliance officers: don’t be...more
While in most cases the pandemic created nothing but challenges, Lola Adekanye, Senior Program Officer for the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) reports in this podcast that, in some respects, it provided...more
The relationship between ESG and compliance is as of yet not a fully defined one. That’s not surprising given both the newness of ESG and the many similarities between it and compliance.
While many see an overlap between...more
One day the war in Ukraine will stop, and many companies will be looking to either enter or return to the country. But what compliance challenges might they face?
In this podcast Eric Hontz, Director-Center for Accountable...more
The recently-released Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program FY 2021 report contains a treasure trove of information for healthcare compliance teams. To gain a better understanding of lessons to be learned from this...more
For a time monitorships were, if not endangered, out of favor. After many years of embracing them, the US Department of Justice had begun calling for cost benefit analyses and looking for alternatives.
Then in 2021 Deputy...more
To get a better understanding of the state of antitrust enforcement we sat down with Andrew Mast, Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust at the US Department of Justice. In this podcast he shares key...more
Being a compliance department of one can be a lonely job, but not for Susan Freccia, Director of Compliance at Oregon State University. Working in a small compliance department doesn’t feel like a challenge.
For one, she is...more
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
Ever-increasing sanctions of Russian individuals and entities are looking to be a long-term challenge for compliance teams. That’s not surprising since they are a part of a war of attrition, according to Oleksandr...more
When we talk about communications in the world of compliance, we tend to focus on training and other forms of mass information sharing. Not as often discussed, but just as important, are the individual one-to-one...more
When it comes to encouraging internal whistleblowers, there are two main barriers to coming forward, reports Jeb White, CEO, Taxpayers Against Fraud. First, is the belief that their concerns won’t be heard. Put another way:...more