In January, we presented our annual top risk and compliance predictions that will impact organizations most in 2022. However, things move quickly in today’s risk world, and a mid-year check-in with Kristy Grant-Hart and...more
7/20/2022
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The Navex 2022 Risk & Compliance Hotline & Incident Management Benchmark Report provides a fascinating look into what’s going on in compliance in general and how employees are using helplines specifically.
The 2021 report...more
About the Compliance Program Maturity Master Class -
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Program maturity isn’t about crossing the finish line to a "complete" ethics and compliance program....more
3/4/2022
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In the last year, there has been much discussion about upcoming regulation of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) public reporting because of the financial impact of socially responsible investing on the capital...more
On November 15th, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of the Whistleblower (OWB) released its 2021 Annual Report to Congress that reports staggering statistics for FY 2021 and should sound warning bells for...more
By the summer of 2021, compliance officers had spent nearly a year and a half helping their organizations navigate the challenges of COVID-19, as well as the new or heightened risks associated with remote work and enhanced...more
As we've stated before, to say 2020 was disruptive is an exercise in understatement. And while we may reasonably hope that the worst is behind us, the uncertainty and risk that it introduced is unlikely to recede anytime...more
Get a First Look at the 2021 Definitive Risk & Compliance Benchmark Report to Measure Your Program Initiatives -
Attendees will receive a copy of the full report during the event.
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Recent compliance-related news coverage has identified an increase in anonymous hoax emails and online reports posted to companies through their internal reporting systems. Whether filed via email or through an online...more
Who should ‘own’ ESG?
It is an important question - one we have received from our customers and readers, and one that is currently being discussed by some leading voices on sustainability, governance risk & compliance,...more
NAVEX Global recently released its 2021 Risk & Compliance Incident Management Benchmark Report. It is a document rich in data about what’s going on with helplines and incident management.
To understand lessons learned from...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
5/20/2021
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While hindsight may be 20/20, how can we use this to gain foresight into 2021?
The last twelve months have permanently altered the role of risk and compliance—increasing it in scope and elevating the function to a...more
12/23/2020
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For some time now, we’ve been saying on this blog that strong corporate compliance goes hand-in-glove with strong enterprise risk management. The former is often a subset of the latter, and the latter is crucial for a...more
This discussion of ethics at the heart of business success is from a keynote session at NAVEX Next, an annual virtual conference for risk and compliance professionals. The session, Ethics at the Heart of Successful Business,...more
11/17/2020
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Register for NAVEX Next, our annual risk and compliance virtual conference. Formerly the Ethics & Compliance Virtual Conference (ECVC), the new name recognizes that we must be forward-looking as we face an increasingly...more
10/7/2020
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Like every other compliance professional who’s paying attention, I have read the updated Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance issued by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) last month. I found it both...more
Most organizations weren’t prepared to maintain the continuity of their business during a pandemic. So when COVID-19 hit, the most companies could do was dust off their disaster recovery plans, and react to the past while...more
It’s times like these that we realize how meaningful our relationships are to our well-being and health. Separated from all but our household family members – and for those who live alone, separated from everyone – we are...more
COVID-19 is testing every part of a corporation and its business continuity planning. And the very top of the organization — namely, the board of directors — is no exception.
What are the board’s responsibilities during...more
4/22/2020
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When it comes to effective internal whistleblower hotlines, silence is never a sign of success. It is usually a sign that the compliance program, and its internal reporting systems, are not resonating with employees and is...more
Corporate governance and “long-termism” are key buzzwords in our modern fiduciary lexicon. Between Q1 2018 and Q2 2019, governance deficiencies were responsible for the highest number of enforcement occurrences across major...more
Many compliance officers over the years have wished for the day when what we do is at the forefront of public conversation — a day when people everywhere were eager to talk about the importance of rooting out misconduct and...more
The more things change, the more things stay the same. As compliance matures as an industry, we sometimes forget the foundational best-practices that our programs are built upon. Every last Friday of the month, we revisit...more
In NAVEX Global’s inaugural Definitive Corporate Compliance Benchmark Report, ethics and compliance related representatives from a wide range of industries and more than 1,000 organizations responded to survey questions about...more