The other week I was talking with a chief compliance officer, and asked her what she believes her biggest challenge will be in 2025. “Artificial intelligence,” she immediately replied. “Our IT department thinks they control...more
Look around the business landscape today, and supply-chain risks are everywhere – which means that sooner or later, those risks will appear on the compliance function’s radar screen too. They probably already have....more
12/18/2024
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Trump Administration
CISOs, compliance officers, corporate boards, and other senior executives are quick to worry these days about the risks of artificial intelligence – but fear not! Some of the brightest minds in technology have built a tool to...more
9/19/2024
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Ethics ,
Governance Standards ,
Liability ,
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Noncompliance ,
Risk Management
Corporate compliance officers have been bracing for regulation of how companies can use artificial intelligence in their daily business operations. Now we have a fresh glimpse of what that regulatory landscape might look like...more
Risk assessments are one of the most important tasks a compliance officer performs – and also one of the most confounding. How do you keep assessing your organization’s risks in a disciplined, methodical manner, when the...more
For the better part of a decade, the U.S. Justice Department has led the way on calls for a strong, independent corporate compliance function – until recently, that is. Then the Department of Health and Human Services leaped...more
12/8/2023
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Risk Mitigation
For the last several weeks I have been working with NAVEX to research whistleblower protection laws across Europe. Meanwhile, several benchmarking surveys about corporate compliance programs have arrived lately, with some...more
Don’t faint from surprise at this news, but corporate compliance is a world with lots of lingo that can be difficult to understand. Case in point: a “policy about policies” – something that sounds obscure, but actually is one...more
As compliance officers enter 2023, they need to learn how to handle a double-edged sword: the Justice Department’s new requirement that as part of corporate misconduct resolutions, CCOs must certify the effectiveness of their...more
Corporate compliance officers grapple all the time with what their companies should do to develop effective information protection programs. Thankfully the Federal Trade Commission has given us two recent enforcement actions...more
Corporate compliance professionals can learn a lot from the audit world. Our latest lesson comes in a statement from the Securities and Exchange Commission, warning auditors to do better at identifying the risk of fraud among...more
10/20/2022
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Risk Assessment ,
White Collar Crimes