Compliance officers know that internal reports are the fuel upon which your compliance program runs – the more reports you receive, the better you understand the compliance issues within your organization and the faster you...more
Artificial intelligence keeps improving at all sorts of things – including how to challenge corporate ethics and compliance programs. Even while you may still be struggling to tame the risks of generative AI, its more...more
For many years, corporate compliance officers have followed a certain natural process. First, regulators adopt a new rule, then you decipher how the arrival of that new rule might require changes to your policies, procedures...more
3/26/2025
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Compliance ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Governance ,
Deregulation ,
Employees ,
EU ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
Trump Administration
Sometimes questions about corporate compliance programs can be more complicated than they first seem. Such was the case when a compliance officer recently asked me, “Can you point to anything specific that says why compliance...more
Compliance officers can learn a lot from small businesses, and today we have a fascinating example of that point from the smallest sort of business there is – a boy selling ice cream on the side of the road, who was soon shut...more
Ethics and compliance officers have long had an uneasy relationship with corporate sustainability efforts, mostly because most compliance officers aren’t quite sure they want – or know how to handle – responsibility for it. ...more
7/11/2024
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Contract Management ,
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Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Forced Labor ,
Human Rights ,
Human Trafficking ,
Modern Slavery Act ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Popular ,
Risk Management ,
Supply Chain ,
Sustainability
The U.S. Supreme Court recently gave whistleblowers an easier path to win retaliation lawsuits they file, making the always delicate task of handling corporate whistleblowers that much more delicate. Compliance and HR teams...more
Don’t faint from surprise at this news, but corporate compliance is a world with lots of lingo that can be difficult to understand. Case in point: a “policy about policies” – something that sounds obscure, but actually is one...more