During the second half of 2020 Gartner Research evaluated the compliance spending of 117 organizations, and the company recently released the interesting findings. Brian Lee, Managing Vice President in the Gartner Legal and...more
The playing field for anticorruption never stops changing, with new laws and new risks constantly arising. To help sort things out, and to gain his insight into other compliance challenges, we sat down with Gary Kalman,...more
4/29/2021
/ Anti-Bribery ,
Anti-Corruption ,
Beneficial Owner ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Compliance ,
Corruption ,
Counterfeiting ,
Extortion ,
Federal Contractors ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Fraud ,
Law Enforcement ,
New Legislation ,
Pirating ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Public Corruption ,
Supply Chain
While the CARES Act provided much needed funding, it wasn’t a handout for healthcare providers. There are strings attached, explains Stephen Shaver, an attorney with Wachler & Associates and author of the Chapter “Revenue...more
4/22/2021
/ CARES Act ,
Compliance ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Authority ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Inspector General ,
Internal Controls ,
OIG ,
Provider Relief Fund ,
Relief Measures ,
Risk Mitigation
Few areas of compliance change as rapidly as export controls. People, companies and even countries move on and off the sanctions list. Adding to the complexity, as Matt Silverman, Senior Manager, Compliance & Export Control...more
4/15/2021
/ Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) ,
Compliance ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Departments of Commerce ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Export Controls ,
Exporters ,
Exports ,
Goods or Services ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Risk Management ,
US Department of State ,
Vendors
Goran Musinovic is Vice President of the Realty Trust Group in Knoxville and co-author with Michael Honeycutt and Gregory Gheen of the Chapter “Contracts with Referral Sources: Real Estate Compliance” in the new Health Care...more
4/8/2021
/ Commercial Leases ,
Commercial Property Owners ,
Commercial Tenants ,
Compliance ,
Fair Market Value ,
Health Care Providers ,
Lessee ,
Lessor ,
Office Space ,
Physicians ,
Real Estate Transactions ,
Rent ,
Rental Property ,
Stark Law
Dubai-based compliance veteran Cynthia Khumalo (LinkedIn) is heavily focused on third party due diligence. It’s a difficult task for companies in normal times, but it’s all the more difficult these days.
In this podcast she...more
It’s not an easy time for compliance budgets. Never exactly padded, they are under pressure as organizations try to control costs during the pandemic era.
While management may feel as if compliance should be included in an...more
In-person compliance training can have an impact like no other. But it has to be done right, which isn’t easy especially during the pandemic. Richard Bistrong, who specializes in delivering in-person compliance training,...more
Privacy continues to be a challenging issue for healthcare providers. Chrissy Kyak, Compliance & Privacy Officer for Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, MedStar Montgomery Medical Center and MedStar Health Research...more
3/4/2021
/ Chief Compliance Officers ,
Chief Privacy Officer ,
Compliance ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI ,
Physicians
In 2016 France adopted a new law to help combat corruption. Inspired by legislation in the US, UK and Netherlands, Article 17 of what is known as Sapin II, includes provisions requiring organizations above a certain size to...more
Digitalization and the proliferation of apps have changed the relationship in healthcare between data, the patient and provider, explains Hema Lakkaraju, CEO and founder of Hayag Corporation. It is often unclear who is...more
1/28/2021
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Big Data ,
Blockchain ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Chief Ethics and Compliance Officers (CECO) ,
Compliance ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Data Storage ,
Data-Sharing ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Ethics ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Risk Management ,
Third-Party Risk
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
The approach to compliance programs of the Antitrust Division at the US Department of Justice has evolved considerably over the last few years, starting with the release of their watershed Evaluation of Corporate Compliance...more
1/14/2021
/ Antitrust Division ,
Antitrust Investigations ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Compliance ,
Compliance Monitoring ,
Cooperation ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Remediation ,
Self-Reporting
There has been much discussion over the years about the relationship between enterprise risk management (ERM) and compliance risk management. Making the discussions more complex has been a tendency to approach risk management...more
It’s a very busy time for compliance professionals overseeing businesses operating in India, reports Arpinder Singh, India & Emerging Markets Leader at EY Forensic & Integrity Services. There are a dizzying number of new...more
12/4/2020
/ Auditors ,
Board of Directors ,
Business Disruption ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Competition ,
Compliance ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Investigations ,
Corporate Officers ,
Corruption ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Ethics ,
India ,
Insider Trading ,
New Regulations ,
New Rules ,
Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) ,
Privacy Laws ,
Ransomware ,
Remote Working ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Supply Chain ,
Whistleblowers
In the latest episode of the Compliance Perspectives podcast we are joined by Daniel Kahn, the Acting Chief of the Fraud Section at the Department of Justice.
We begin the conversation with a discussion of the latest...more
11/5/2020
/ Chief Compliance Officers ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Governance ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Data Collection ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Due Diligence ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Fraud ,
Internal Controls
Few things send shivers down the spines of compliance officers more than reports that one of their own has been found personally liable for wrongdoing at their organization.
And while some have tried to increase those fears,...more
The value of good risk management, both in compliance programs and even our personal lives, has never been more important. These days we find ourselves recalculating everything from the compliance risk of a new business...more
9/10/2020
/ Anti-Bribery ,
Anti-Corruption ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Business Strategies ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Compliance ,
Corrective Actions ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Due Diligence ,
Ethics ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
Social Media ,
Third-Party Risk
Staying on top of what’s new in data privacy is tough. As Robert Bond, Partner and Notary Public at the UK-based law firm Bristows explains, over 100 countries have drafted or implemented new data privacy laws in 2019.
To...more
9/3/2020
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Compliance ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data Subjects Rights ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Third-Party Risk
When it comes to battling corruption, different countries in Latin America (and elsewhere for that matter) have different capabilities from an enforcement perspective.
As Geert Aalbers, Partner at Control Risks explains in...more
When Lisa Gross, Ethics Senior Manager at Lockheed Martin and Art Weiss, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at Tamko Building Products set to work as co-chairs of the Ethics Track for the 2020 Virtual Compliance & Ethics...more
The only thing better than a good compliance case study is eighteen of them, and that’s what you’ll find at the 2020 Virtual Compliance & Ethics Institute, taking place September...more
In 2020 the SCCE will again be proud to offer the Compliance Law track at the 2020 Virtual Compliance & Ethics Institute....more
As compliance teams seek to extend their reach into the organization, one idea that has emerged in the development of compliance champions. But what is a compliance champion and how does it work?
In this podcast Duncan...more
All codes of conduct share a common goal of shaping employee decisions and actions. Yet codes differ in terms of size and scope. Some are quite brief, while others are dozens of pages long.
Darrell Contreras, Chief...more