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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) are considering ways to enhance individual accountability, particularly among Senior Managers, by more fully integrating the regulatory...more
The FCA’s focus, in the six years since #MeToo began, upon tackling ‘non-financial misconduct’ (broadly, poor interpersonal behaviour) in the financial services sector has sometimes been said to be a bit odd and/or not the...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
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
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
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
How does your Code of Conduct inform your risk assessment and how in turn does a risk assessment inform your Code of Conduct training? I recently visited with Charlie Voelker, Director, Compliance Products at Skillsoft and...more
Most experts agree that whichever regulatory jurisdiction an organisation is subject to, there are five common fundamentals involved in providing effective corporate compliance....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
Board oversight of significant company risk areas and legal compliance deserves renewed attention, as the Delaware Supreme Court recently ruled that monitoring practices that have previously been considered acceptable may...more
In Marchand v. Barnhill, a unanimous Delaware Supreme Court imposed substantial new procedural expectations on corporate directors to satisfy their fiduciary duty of oversight related to material risk areas and legal...more
Businesses are increasingly relying on the cloud to store confidential and sensitive information. One-third of information technology budgets are used for cloud services. Rapid growth in cloud storage is expected over the...more
How Are Compliance Budgeting and Compliance Officer Autonomy Tied Together When Assessing Compliance Effectiveness? The Department of Justice (“DOJ”)’s compliance program evaluation identifies the need to allocate...more
This week in a special five-part podcast series on the FCPA Compliance Report, hosted by GAN Integrity, Inc. (GAN), we consider the evolution of compliance, from disconnected to connected....more
Why is innovation so critical in every compliance program? Is it simply because the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) say it is so; or are there other reasons?...more
Yesterday the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) resolved a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action involving Kinross Gold Corporation (Kinross). ...more
On February 2, 2018, the Fed announced that it issued a consent Cease and Desist order with Wells Fargo—the bank holding company. The Fed’s press release noted that Wells is replacing 4 directors within this year (out of 17...more
•The Commission has identified a number of regulatory concerns with respect to private funds and discretionary accounts, in particular, funds with concentrated, illiquid and interconnected investments. •The Commission has...more
Yesterday the Fed published a proposed guidance document for its expectations for board of directors of banks. The release only applies to the boards of banks with over $50 billion in consolidated assets, but the intent of...more
In this episode, Roy Snell and myself discuss how incentives are integral to the compensation plans of a wide range of workers. Many experts point to their value in rewarding behavior that is in the interest of the...more
Today we honor one of the most iconic moments of World War II (WWII) and one of the most famous photographs of all time, that of the Marines raising the US flag on Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima. Marine...more
I guess Matt Kelly cannot leave his journalist roots for it was he who broke the story within the greater compliance community that the Department of Justice (DOJ) very quietly released a document, entitled “Evaluation of...more
One of the ongoing questions from members of Board of Directors is how to resolve the tension between oversight and managing. I recently had the opportunity to visit with Joe Howell, the Executive Vice President (EVP) of...more
This week I am considering the passion compliance professionals have for our profession. On Monday I wrote about being passionate about working in the field of compliance. Yesterday, I looked at some of the research and...more