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
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
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
One of the more well-attended sessions at the SCCE 22nd Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute, promises to be “ESG and DEI: How to Position for Stakeholder Success”. The session will be lead by Adrian Taylor, Director of...more
More and more organizations seem to be adopting compliance ambassadors or champions programs. In a nutshell, these efforts involve having members of the business unit serve as the eyes and ears, and sometimes arms and legs,...more
The excitement over Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often met with concerns about its negative potential. That’s especially true in healthcare where the potential gains are met by the principled and practical requirements of...more
For all the talk of tone at the top, the reality is that few employees report to the top. Virtually all report to a manager somewhere in the middle, and it’s the tone that leader sets that is often most important.
Susan Du...more
As environmental expectations keeps rising and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) metrics gain more importance to investors, some organizations will be tempted to greenwash, which is best described as making an...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
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
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
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
Hybrid work is likely here to say, and, as Sheila Limmroth, privacy specialist at DCH Health System, and the author of the chapter Hybrid Work Environment in the Complete Healthcare Compliance Manual observes in this...more
4/21/2022
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare Workers ,
HIPAA Privacy Rule ,
HIPAA Security Rule ,
Home Offices ,
Mobile Device Management ,
Multi-Factor Authentication ,
Network Security ,
Passwords ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PHI ,
Phishing Scams ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Remote Working ,
Risk Management ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Telehealth ,
Videoconference
Social media keeps evolving: From MySpace to Facebook to Twitter to SnapChat to TikTok to whatever comes next. One thing stays the same, though: there are lots of compliance risk.
In this podcast Kortney Nordrum,...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
Operation Lava Jato (Carwash) had a profound effect on business in Brazil, with countless companies caught up in one way or another in the corruption scandal.
State oil company Petrobras was no exception, but, as is the case...more
2/17/2022
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Compliance ,
Crisis Management ,
Ethics ,
Internal Controls ,
Non-Prosecution Agreements ,
Petrobras ,
Risk Management ,
Tone At The Top ,
White Collar Crimes
The relationships between Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and compliance risk management is a complex and confusing one. There is the potential for overlap and even conflict.
To help clear the air and improve the...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
When a crisis hits, what do leaders and the crisis team want from the compliance team? It’s a question that Jonathan Armstrong, Partner at Cordery, addresses in this podcast and will be speaking to at the 2022 SCCE European...more
Perhaps the most intriguing title for a session at the 2021 SCCE Compliance & Ethics Institute was “Re-Thinking Employee ‘Engagement’: What’s on Your Compliance Program’s Dating Profile.” Not often you see references to...more