Compliance Perspectives: Volkswagen's Transformation
Compliance Perspectives: Roy Snell and Karen Latchana Kenney on Integrity
Navigating the dynamic landscape of insider risk management requires a nuanced understanding of organisational dynamics, culture and regulatory imperatives. The costs (both direct and indirect) of getting it wrong are high,...more
Hosted by American Conference Institute, the 14th Annual Summit on Anti-Corruption, Integrity & ESG returns to Brazil for another groundbreaking year to discuss the current high-stakes dilemmas impacting your organization....more
I recently read about a banker being fired for inflating his expense report to the tune of a sandwich, some pasta, and a coffee. A judge ruled in the bank’s favor in a wrongful dismissal suit filed by the former employee. ...more
The role of the chief legal officer keeps expanding. In addition to fulfilling their traditional responsibilities as legal counsel and business advisor, chief legal officers today are also called on to inform and drive...more
Over the past few months, the OIG shorts series focused on structuring and implementing a comprehensive and effective ethics and compliance program. Many times, this requires a mindset shift from a checking-the-box mentality...more
New for 2023! Explore the world of sports, compliance, and ethics - From NCAA rules to playoff brackets and betting, compliance oversight in sports and gaming is high-profile and often cutting edge. The Sports,...more
This week, NAVEX Global released its 2021 Incident Management Benchmark Report. The analysis, which tracked and analyzed corporate compliance trends based on data from more than 1.3 million global incident management reports...more
Germany’s new “Law to Strengthen Business Integrity” (“Gesetz zur Stärkung der Integrität in der Wirtschaft”) will have a transformative effect on the German corporate compliance landscape when it is finally enacted,...more
The Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal captured global headlines and was profoundly disruptive to the company, resulting in substantial penalties and a three-year monitorship under former Deputy Attorney General Larry D. Thompson...more
During a roundtable at the Fifth International Debarment Colloquium last month, Joseph Mauro, a spokesperson for the Compliance Unit of the World Bank Group’s (“World Bank”) Integrity Vice Presidency (“INT”), announced recent...more
IntegrityWorks: Tools and Skills to Build Integrity - ....Could you believe in a leader with unlimited charisma but who never keeps her word? Would you question the work of an employee who’s known to tell many small,...more
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 2 (January 23, 2020) - - More than two years after Ozgur Tataroglu’s paper was retracted, the HHS Office of Research Integrity found that it and two grant applications contained...more
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority published its 2019 Report on Examination Findings and Observations (2019 Report) on October 16, 2019. This marks the third annual report of FINRA findings, but in a departure from...more
After a short detour to the Business Roundtable’s Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation, we return to the recent set of articles in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) White Collar crime special section. Today, I want to...more
Everyone recognizes that institutional justice and institutional fairness are key components of any compliance program and ethical business system. The reason is painfully obvious, if you are not going to succeed by playing...more
It is always easy to second-guess or look back with 20-20 hindsight on a compliance breakdown and point out all the problems that were ignored or created by corporate actors. There are common factual scenarios that recur in...more
One of the key differences between healthcare regulators and others, such as anti-trust regulators, is that ensuring access to sufficient quality HCPs, whether they be behavioral HCPs or providers serving other vulnerable and...more
While many Medicare providers and suppliers may not yet have experienced a Targeted Probe and Education (TPE) audit, they should be on the lookout for this newest weapon in the medical review arsenal. It is important that...more
This year is the 200thanniversary of the birth of Wuthering Heights’ author, Emily Brontë. While her sister Charlotte received more acclaim as an author, I found Wuthering Heights to appeal much more greatly to my dark side. ...more
John McCain died over the weekend. I cannot think of a much better example of someone who continually sacrificed himself for his country than McCain. ...more
What’s more important, having integrity or being known for it? Clearly, they’re both important. And it’s pretty much impossible to achieve the latter without doing the work necessary to have the former. But I got to thinking...more
How does one measure the impact of a corporate compliance program? One of the key metrics of a corporate compliance program is to demonstrate the effectiveness of corporate compliance programs. Slowly but surely a body of...more
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has revised and released the 2018 UK Corporate Governance Code which is set to take effect starting January 1, 2019. This revision is shorter and sharper than the current Code, with fewer...more
Here is another profound grasp of the obvious – all companies need to make a profit. However, as companies begin to focus on long-term performance rather than short-term quarterly objectives, innovative leaders believe...more
On July 19, 2017, Mexico’s General Law of Administrative Accountability will go into effect. It is the final part of a historic package of far-reaching anti-corruption laws, dubbed the National Anti-Corruption System, that...more