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Advancing women to leadership roles is not merely a "nice-to-have" feature of your business. It also serves as something other than an employee attraction or a retention benefit. Ironically, women in leadership shouldn't be a...more
Compliance professionals constantly seek to understand how systemic issues within corporate hierarchies can lead to severe consequences. The recent revelations about Bank of America’s (BoA) persistent workplace culture...more
China’s long-awaited amended Company Law (New Company Law) was enacted on 29 December 2023, effective from 1 July 2024. The new amendments are arguably the most significant since China established its company law regime back...more
At the start of 2024, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) issued an industry letter: Guidance on Assessment of the Character and Fitness of Directors, Senior Officers, and Managers (the “Guidance”),...more
Succession planning for senior management should be an annual process, managed by the board. Our panel discusses best practices, including how to develop multiple and next-level candidates, how to keep internal candidates...more
Investigations are stressful for an organization’s leadership. But what is often overlooked is that they are stressful for an organization’s employees as well. The need-to-know nature of internal investigations usually...more
We all know the adage – Keep it Simple Stupid (“KISS”). The principle applies to all organizations and underscores an important communications requirement. The governance landscape has become more complex over the...more
Ethics and compliance are two sides of the same coin. Compliance is following the law, while ethics is doing what is right regardless of what the law says. Compliance is typically thought of as something required by the...more
The Federal Reserve recently published a whopping 118-page review of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), and three days later the FDIC published a 75-page report outlining several ideas to reform our deposit insurance...more
LRN continues to provide important insights and trends on the importance of ethics and compliance programs. LRN’s annual report is an important resource and needs to be reviewed by the board, senior management and all...more
Public company boards face an ever-increasing list of topics that fall under their oversight responsibilities. As the list gets longer, so too does the breadth of skills and backgrounds that boards view as important when...more
The Alberta Government's Business Corporations Amendment Act, 2021 (formerly Bill 84), which we wrote on in our previous insight Additional Changes Coming to Alberta's Business Corporations Act, was proclaimed into force on...more
On November 4, 2021, Ontario’s 2021 Fall Economic Statement announced an intention to address tax evasion, money laundering and other illicit financial activities by amending Ontario’s Business Corporations Act to require...more
I recently visited with Joe Schorr about the managing a multi-entity GRC architecture with 6clicks hub and spoke for a sponsored podcast series. You can check out Joe’s podcast here. Joe is the VP and Global Head of Strategic...more
Yesterday’s joint Discussion Paper (DP21/2) published by the Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA, together “the regulators”) on “Diversity and inclusion in the financial...more
On April 7, 2021, the Government of Canada published Diversity of Boards of Directors and Senior Management of Federal Distributing Corporations. The report is the first report on the effect of the government's efforts to...more
Corporate board members face increasing risks. Federal prosecutors are watching their behavior when corporate malfeasance occurs. Regulators focus on the important issue of board governance. Shareholders are ready to file...more
Pete Hamill died Wednesday. According to his New York Times (NYT) obituary, he was the “streetwise son of Brooklyn who turned a gift for storytelling, a fascination with characters and a romance with tabloid newspapers into a...more
Welcome to our Funds First Update. In this briefing we set out an overview of some of the main developments and upcoming changes that we think will be of impact to fund managers, fund investors and to the funds sector as a...more
I have been taking online classes this year from MasterClass, beginning with the writers. I have made it through James Patterson, Malcolm Gladwell and David Baldacci. It is a great way to hear from some of the top...more
I am reluctant to start off the New Year with a negative comment or posting. But I have a significant concern about the path and current state of ethics and compliance....more
The path of the compliance profession has been remarkable. Recently, I have seen a number of tweets and postings from compliance thought leaders touting the accomplishments of compliance and the transformation of the...more
On 20 September 2019, the Federal Court of Australia delivered its much-anticipated judgment in the highly publicised proceedings brought by APRA against IOOF's Chairman, Managing Director, three senior executives and two...more
Most compliance programs include some form of internal compliance committee separate from the company’s audit committee. An internal compliance committee can play a very important role in advancing a compliance program....more
Yesterday, while honoring Ginger Baker who passed away this weekend, I began a multipart series on the Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments (Framework). Mike Volkov has called this Framework a “game-changer” and has...more