When we think of third parties we tend to immediately think of the risks. But what if it is a third party that differentiates itself by the rigor of its compliance program?
Such is the case with Swiss-based DKSH, which...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
The average ecommerce website has 66 third-party tags on the page. That’s according to our podcast guest, Rui Ribeiro, CEO of Jscrambler. The tags, pixels and scripts control everything from the video to payment processing to...more
Jessica Zeff loves government audits. It’s hard to believe, given the dread they inspire. But, the founder and lead consultant of Simply Compliance makes a very good case in this podcast that audits can be much better than...more
Behavioral health shares many of the same compliance challenges as the rest of healthcare, but it also has several of its own.
To understand the risks, we sat down with Community Counseling Solutions’ Executive Director...more
Much of the day to day of compliance isn’t about understanding laws. It’s about influencing human behavior and steering people in the right direction.
In this podcast, Scott Young, Principal Advisor and Head of Private...more
ChatGPT is, like the movie title, seemingly everywhere, all the time, and all at once. Individuals and corporations have rushed to embrace it, sometimes with great results, other times, not so much.
For better or worse,...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
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
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
Matt Kelly, Editor & CEO of Radical Compliance makes a strong case in this podcast for a need to reassess cyber risk. It is becoming, he says, less of a technical issue and more about how companies interact with others: ...more
Given the dangers of third-party risk, it’s not surprising that so many organizations have developed supplier codes of conduct. Like everything else in compliance, though, the trick is in just having one, its in having the...more
At the 2022 SCCE European Compliance & Ethics Institute Dr. Jan Sprafke, Head of Compliance, Europe and Latin America and Jad Mhanna, Regional Compliance Officer at Ericsson will be leading a session entitled Cultural Divide...more
Due diligence during a merger or acquisition is difficult even in the best of circumstances. There is only so much you can see and so much time to see it before the deal closes. Add the complexities of a pandemic and business...more
So much attention is paid to vetting third parties, it’s easy to forget that it is just the start of the process. Monitoring needs to be done on an ongoing basis as well.
Ronnie Kann, head of Global Ethics & Compliance 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
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
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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
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
The value of good risk management, both in compliance programs and even our personal lives, has never been more important. These days we find ourselves recalculating everything from the compliance risk of a new business...more
9/10/2020
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As business continues to increasingly embrace the concept of risk management, where does compliance fit, particularly in the context of broader Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) frameworks? It’s a tough question that James...more
Judith Spain is a professor of business law at Eastern Kentucky University, Compliance Collaborative Program Consultant with the Georgia Independent College Association, and, most importantly for this conversation, the author...more
Matthew Friedman is the CEO of The Mekong Club, an organization supporting the private sector in the fight against modern slavery. Previously he worked for the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking and US...more
1/2/2020
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