What does the SEC expect from an internal investigation? It’s a topic that Nick Morgan, partner, Paul Hastings and Andy Dunbar, Chief Compliance Officer, Herbalife Nutrition tackle in this podcast and will be addressing at...more
Mergers and acquisitions can be filled with landmines. To find out what compliance teams can do to help manage the risk, and help ensure a successful transaction for the business unit, we spoke on this podcast with Fernanda...more
What do the current times and the times to come mean for corporate values?
To answer that question we turn in this podcast to Marjorie Doyle, Principal, Marjorie Doyle & Associates, and Art Weiss, Principal, Strategic...more
Liverpool-based Jenny Radcliffe, who leads Human Factor Security, is not your typical hacker, clad in a black hoodie and working out of basement. Rather than spending her time hunched over a keyboard, she seeks to hack...more
7/22/2021
/ Bad Actors ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Security ,
Hackers ,
Phishing Scams ,
Popular ,
Stress Tests ,
Threat Management
Preventing data breaches is a critical task for all businesses these days, but it’s especially so in healthcare. No one wants to see health information disclosed, and the risks of a ransomware attack are enormous, literally...more
7/15/2021
/ Business Associates ,
Compliance ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Hackers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Hospitals ,
PHI ,
Physicians ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Risk Mitigation
Brooke Nelson, Executive Director, Worldwide Compliance and Business Ethics at Amgen had a unique and broad perspective on managing compliance during the pandemic.
In this podcast she shares what she has seen, including a...more
It isn’t enough just to set your eyes on the goal of chief compliance officer. Nor is it probably advisable to walk into the CEO’s office and make your pitch should the job become open.
In this podcast Jim Passey, who has...more
NAVEX Global recently released its 2021 Risk & Compliance Incident Management Benchmark Report. It is a document rich in data about what’s going on with helplines and incident management.
To understand lessons learned from...more
Cataloguing everything your compliance program does isn’t easy, but Susan Roberts, who recently retired from full-time corporate life after serving as Chief Compliance Officer at three different companies, did just that. And...more
6/17/2021
/ Acquisitions ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Chief Ethics and Compliance Officers (CECO) ,
Code of Conduct ,
Compliance ,
Compliance Monitoring ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Integrity Agreement ,
Corrective Actions ,
Discipline ,
Ethics ,
Incentives ,
Internal Audit Functions ,
Internal Investigations ,
Internal Reporting ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
Third-Party Risk ,
Tone At The Top ,
Training
When a data breach occurs, one step is often overlooked in the rush to remediate: preserving as much of the data logs and backups as possible That’s a mistake, say Debra Geroux, Shareholder at Butzel Long and Scott Wrobel,...more
6/10/2021
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Incident Reporting ,
Cyber Insurance ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Security ,
Hackers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Incident Response Plans ,
Phishing Scams ,
Security Risk Assessments
America’s data is under attack. Solar Winds and other recent headline-grabbing stories have demonstrated that foreign adversaries are eager to hack into computer systems for a wide range of purposes.
The US Department of...more
6/3/2021
/ Certification Requirements ,
Chief Information Officers (CIO) ,
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) ,
Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) ,
Corporate Governance ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) ,
Data Breach ,
Data Security ,
Defense Sector ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Supply Chain
Cheryl Curbeam, Vice President, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Corteva Agriscience has had a very interesting and unusual path to the compliance professional. She studied and began her career in mechanical engineering...more
The Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) movement has been around for a long time, but over the last year it has hit a tipping point. In fact, according to Roy Snell, former SCCE & HCCA CEO and now advisor to Osprey ESG...more
During the second half of 2020 Gartner Research evaluated the compliance spending of 117 organizations, and the company recently released the interesting findings. Brian Lee, Managing Vice President in the Gartner Legal and...more
The playing field for anticorruption never stops changing, with new laws and new risks constantly arising. To help sort things out, and to gain his insight into other compliance challenges, we sat down with Gary Kalman,...more
4/29/2021
/ Anti-Bribery ,
Anti-Corruption ,
Beneficial Owner ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Compliance ,
Corruption ,
Counterfeiting ,
Extortion ,
Federal Contractors ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Fraud ,
Law Enforcement ,
New Legislation ,
Pirating ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Public Corruption ,
Supply Chain
While the CARES Act provided much needed funding, it wasn’t a handout for healthcare providers. There are strings attached, explains Stephen Shaver, an attorney with Wachler & Associates and author of the Chapter “Revenue...more
4/22/2021
/ CARES Act ,
Compliance ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Authority ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Inspector General ,
Internal Controls ,
OIG ,
Provider Relief Fund ,
Relief Measures ,
Risk Mitigation
Few areas of compliance change as rapidly as export controls. People, companies and even countries move on and off the sanctions list. Adding to the complexity, as Matt Silverman, Senior Manager, Compliance & Export Control...more
4/15/2021
/ Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) ,
Compliance ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Departments of Commerce ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Export Controls ,
Exporters ,
Exports ,
Goods or Services ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Risk Management ,
US Department of State ,
Vendors
Goran Musinovic is Vice President of the Realty Trust Group in Knoxville and co-author with Michael Honeycutt and Gregory Gheen of the Chapter “Contracts with Referral Sources: Real Estate Compliance” in the new Health Care...more
4/8/2021
/ Commercial Leases ,
Commercial Property Owners ,
Commercial Tenants ,
Compliance ,
Fair Market Value ,
Health Care Providers ,
Lessee ,
Lessor ,
Office Space ,
Physicians ,
Real Estate Transactions ,
Rent ,
Rental Property ,
Stark Law
Dubai-based compliance veteran Cynthia Khumalo (LinkedIn) is heavily focused on third party due diligence. It’s a difficult task for companies in normal times, but it’s all the more difficult these days.
In this podcast she...more
It’s not an easy time for compliance budgets. Never exactly padded, they are under pressure as organizations try to control costs during the pandemic era.
While management may feel as if compliance should be included in an...more
In-person compliance training can have an impact like no other. But it has to be done right, which isn’t easy especially during the pandemic. Richard Bistrong, who specializes in delivering in-person compliance training,...more
It’s not everyday that a Chief Constable joins the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, let alone one who is the United Kingdom’s police national lead for ethics. So when Richard Lewis signed up we invited him to sit...more
Privacy continues to be a challenging issue for healthcare providers. Chrissy Kyak, Compliance & Privacy Officer for Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, MedStar Montgomery Medical Center and MedStar Health Research...more
3/4/2021
/ Chief Compliance Officers ,
Chief Privacy Officer ,
Compliance ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI ,
Physicians
Preventing retaliation is a constant uphill struggle for compliance programs. There is something in human nature that makes people want to know who made the report and ostracize him or her for it.
Munich-based Darja...more
In 2016 France adopted a new law to help combat corruption. Inspired by legislation in the US, UK and Netherlands, Article 17 of what is known as Sapin II, includes provisions requiring organizations above a certain size to...more