Oh, Artificial Intelligence. So much promise, and so much risk. What’s a compliance and ethics professional to do? Start by listening to this podcast about the chapter “Managing the Ethics and Compliance Risks of Artificial...more
Do you ever ask yourself, “What kind of compliance officer am I?” Netherlands-based Susan du Becker, Director, Risk & Compliance at Microsoft, thinks we all should. To her experience, there are two answers to that...more
Governments don’t only want to prosecute companies for paying bribes. Increasingly, they are looking for companies to join with them to reduce the global challenge of corruption.
To learn more we spoke with Shruti Shah,...more
Yes or no: Do you do investigations? Do you prepare questions in advance? Are those questions yes or no in nature? Did you know that may not be the best way to do it?
In this podcast, Michael Johnson (LinkedIn), Chief...more
In 2023 the US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted rules “requiring registrants to disclose material cybersecurity incidents they experience and to disclose on an annual basis material information regarding their...more
The average ecommerce website has 66 third-party tags on the page. That’s according to our podcast guest, Rui Ribeiro, CEO of Jscrambler. The tags, pixels and scripts control everything from the video to payment processing to...more
"What else should the board be asking about the compliance group?”
It’s a good question in general and the tile of a session at the SCCE Compliance & Ethics Institute, which will be held September 22-25, 2024 in Grapevine,...more
It’s not for nothing that there’s a year in the title of this blog post and podcast. Social media risks change frequently, explains Kortney Nordrum, VP, Regulatory Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at Deluxe. She is the...more
Michelle Nichols from the compliance team at Farmer Mac definitely wins the prize for the most unexpected title for a session at the 2024 SCCE Compliance & Ethics Institute: “How Dating in My 50s Made Me a Better Compliance...more
As the risk of human trafficking and modern slavery rises on the radar, compliance teams need to start their risk assessment by looking at the map, says Sam Logan, CEO and founder of Evidencity. The number of jurisdictions...more
Jessica Zeff loves government audits. It’s hard to believe, given the dread they inspire. But, the founder and lead consultant of Simply Compliance makes a very good case in this podcast that audits can be much better than...more
In late 2023, The Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health and Human Services issued its new General Compliance Program Guidance. In this podcast, David Schumacher, Partner and Co-Chair of the Fraud &...more
The FCPA sure isn’t what it used to be, or is it?
While the headline grabbing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases are much less frequent than they once were, there is still substantial risk both for individuals and...more
Imagine you are at a large company with thousands of suppliers. As a part of the compliance team you need to understand the risk of working with each and every one of them. To do that you may need to understand the ownership...more
Behavioral health shares many of the same compliance challenges as the rest of healthcare, but it also has several of its own.
To understand the risks, we sat down with Community Counseling Solutions’ Executive Director...more
Julie Janeway, General Counsel and principal owner, Principled Healthcare Consulting will be speaking about internal and parallel investigations at the 2024 HCCA Compliance Institute. In this podcast she slices off a bit of...more
Mergers and acquisitions create stress, opportunity and risk both for the organization and the compliance team. In this podcast, Sergio Leal, who until recently was head of M&A compliance at Ericsson along with Jan Sprafke,...more
Effective investigative interviews are both important and sensitive. To get some pointers about how to conduct them properly, we turn in this podcast to Wendy Evans, Senior Corporate Ethics Investigator at Lockheed Martin....more
Decades ago, while at a bit of a career crossroads, I was thinking of making a dramatic change and moving halfway around the world. I was talking it through with a friend who said that one day he asked himself whether he...more
Compliance professionals can face a lot of resistance in the course of their work: leaders who don’t have the time, budget limits, managerial indifference, and even outright hostility. But, sometimes the impediments are...more
While most eyes have focused on the US Department of Justice’s document Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs when looking for guidance, it’s not the only DOJ source out there.
Josh Drew, Member, Miller & Chevalier,...more
Steve Forman, Senior Vice President at Strategic Management Services, had an eye-opening experience years ago when interviewing for the job of Vice President of Audit and Compliance for New York Presbyterian Hospital. The...more
You may not realize it, but your compliance program has a brand. Line employees and management all have a host of impressions about the compliance department that color how they respond to what you say and do. A strong brand...more
On October 4, 2023 at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics' Compliance & Ethics Institute in Chicago, US Deputy Attorney General Lia A. Monaco spoke live from Washington to the attendees and used this opportunity to...more