Hill Country Authors – Exploring the Challenges of a Green Transition with Tom Ortiz
Daily Compliance News: August 5, 2025, The Staying Focused Edition
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Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 158, No To Ukraine Corruption
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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
Sittenfeld v. United States – Campaign Contributions as Crimes?
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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 21, 2025
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In recent months, the European Commission has led a concerted effort to coordinate and bolster European defence spending. The ongoing war in Ukraine and the US's current position under President Trump have coalesced to give...more
The 1990s saw the explosion of the internet, transforming the global economy and social development in ways we could have never imagined. But will AI truly have the same impact? While its potential is undeniable, the road...more
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, fraud and financial crime have become an increasingly complex and pervasive issue for organizations, big and small, global, and domestic. Fortunately, advanced technology and...more
Africa is a continent of 1.2 Billion people. From a consumer potential standpoint it matches China or India. Yet historically, it has suffered from its colonial past, and current fractured hostility and corruption. Africa,...more
Innovation in compliance can come in many forms. One such form was described by Vincent M. Walden, Managing Director at Alvarez and Marsal Holdings, LLC (A&M), in his article entitled “Profit & Loss-of-One”(P&L-of-One). In...more
Tap into adjacent expertise and a broad network early in problem-solving. Almost universally, more successful innovators did not immediately solve a problem they were given as “they were likely to ask questions and engage...more
I thought about The Creature from the Black Lagoon in the context of how to move compliance innovation into the corporate pantheon of greater business process efficiency when I read a recent MIT Sloan Management Review...more
Over the past few blog posts, I have been exploring a recent article in Harvard Business Review (HBR) by Gary P. Pisano, entitled “The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures”....more
Over the past few blog posts, I have been exploring a recent article in Harvard Business Review by Gary P. Pisano, entitled “The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures”. Pisano says the conventional wisdom is innovative...more
Yesterday I began a consideration on why design thinking can be such a powerful tool to create a fully operationalized best practices compliance program. Today we consider some of the steps you should take in that process....more
Some of the most interesting innovations in compliance come from folks who do not have a background in either compliance or legal training. I have found it is because their perspective is so different that they spot things...more
The first thing to remember about bribery schemes is that the money to fund the bribes must come from somewhere. Deep Throat was right when he told Woodward and Bernstein to ‘follow the money’ during their Watergate...more
I continue my innovation themed blog week, overlaid with a Sherlock Holmes premise. Today I use The Adventure of the Speckled Band to introduce the topic of the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) as a data translator. ...more
Last Friday on September 1, I began a new installment of my year-long podcast series, where each month I focus on a different compliance topic. This month, I am focusing on innovation in compliance....more
It is rare you are able to write about someone who directly changed the quality of your life. Rarer yet that you did not know about him, only what he created, until you read his obituary. That happened to me recently when I...more
Sometimes what we think is obvious is really not so obvious. Sometimes bold conclusions mask nuances or difficult issues. ...more