Compliance Tip of the Day: Board Questions and Metrics for 3rd Party Risk Management
Why Privacy is Your Secret Weapon Against Third-Party Risk
A Third Party's Perspective on Third Party Risk
Privacy Issues from Third-Party Website Tags
Episode 329 -- Bryn Sedlacek from Aravo on TPRM Holistic Risks and Unified Visibility
Corruption, Crime and Compliance: Third-Party Risks and Sanctions Compliance
Compliance into the Weeds: Sustainability and Managing 3rd Party Risk
Episode 304 -- Nathalie Druckmann, VP at Certa, on Artificial Intelligence Third-Party Risk Management
One Month to More Effective Written Standards: Day 17 – Policies for Third-Parties
FCPA Compliance Report - Brad Hibbert on Prevalent’s 2023 3rd Party Risk Management Report
Innovation in Compliance - Improving Third - Party Risk Management with Paul Valente
One Month to a More Effective Compliance Program for 3rd Parties - Day 13 - Ongoing Monitoring of 3rd Parties
Corporate Compliance and Enforcement Hot Topics with IBM VP, Una Dean
Innovation in Compliance - Contracts as a Third-Party Risk Management Tool with Brad Hibbert
Cyberside Chats: There is a war in Europe. What does that mean for your cyber insurance policy?
Matt Kelly on Cybersecurity and Suppliers
Patty Houser on Supplier Codes of Conduct
Chris Ford on Compliance and Cloud Computing
Ashley Coselli and Daniel Wendt on Difficult Anti-Corruption Due Diligence Projects
Ronnie Kann and Trent Sandifur on Third-Party Monitoring
We are all familiar with — over and over — third-party risks and FCPA risks. It is drilled in our collective heads — third-party risks and bribery. Legal and compliance professionals have to learn and understand the ins...more
It may seem like a Herculean task — but it can be done. I regularly opine that mitigating sanctions risks for your third-party population is an easier task than doing so for your anti-corruption risks. One big reason —...more
Sorry to start a four-part series with a reference to music from our long-ago past. The Four Tops sang the “Same Old Song, with a Different Meaning” (released in 1965). So, how does that relate to third-party risks? Well,...more
Over the past 12 months or so there have been a series of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions where the respondents have changed and/or modified their sales models to get away from external third parties...more
The building blocks of any compliance program lay the foundations for a best practices compliance program. For instance, in the life cycle management of third parties, most compliance practitioners understand the need for a...more
Nathalie Druckmann, Vice President at Certa, joins Michael Volkov to discuss third-party risk management and the use of advanced artificial intelligence to implement effective risk mitigation strategies. Nathalie sets the...more
The Justice Department has had a slow year in FCPA enforcement (another profound grasp of the obvious). The reasons for this may be a question of timing elements in the pipeline of cases....more
Survey: Tech gaps, third parties pose biggest ABAC threats - Compliance professionals surveyed regarding their anti-bribery and corruption efforts (ABAC) indicated resource support deficiencies in areas including staffing...more
Welcome to a special 5 part blog post series on building a stronger culture of compliance through targeted and effective training, sponsored by Diligent. Over this series I will visit with Kunal Agrawal, Director of Customer...more
Compliance professionals are always looking for ways to collaborate and support internal business partners. Through the years, compliance professionals have devoted significant energy to building partnerships with the...more
Facing the myriad third-party sanctions risks can be daunting. Many global organizations rely on a network of third-party intermediaries that pose a variety of risks. To mitigate those risks, companies have to implement...more
If there is one issue that is repeated over and over (and over), it is third-party risks. Over the last ten years, we have witnessed an explosion in anti-corruption enforcement around the world. And with this enforcement...more
We have heard it over and over, again and again – third-parties pose significant risks of bribery for all global businesses. Almost every FCPA enforcement action includes some form of third-party misconduct. The current...more
Third-party risk management is a favorite topic for compliance professionals. And for good reason. Third parties create significant risks. To state the obvious, companies have less control over third parties than...more
The SEC’s FCPA enforcement action against WPP presents a number of important lessons learned, ranging from third-party risk management, properly responding to employee complaints and red flags, and failure to integrate...more
We all know and hear about third-party risks – over and over again. Despite this recurring theme, organizations continue to pay the price for failing to address third-party issues. It does not take a rocket scientist to...more
The Beam Suntory case is yet another example of a failure of internal and external auditors, and legal and compliance professionals. Reviewing cases involves a focus on how and why a compliance failure occurred....more
We all know it when we see it – a recurring fact pattern in which a company enlists a corrupt third party intermediary for one purpose (and one purpose only) – to pay a bribe. Let me give you a few examples....more
New guidance for prosecutors from the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), Criminal Division, highlights increasing expectations that companies continuously and in real-time reassess fraud and corruption risk and adjust their...more
Earlier this month, the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) updated its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance. In considering enforcement actions against companies, prosecutors...more
On June 1, 2020, the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released updates to its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance (Guidance), last revised in April 2019. ...more
We are finally reaching the end of the road on the beneficial ownership path. In this last posting on the issue (for now), let’s start with a third-party population (third parties, vendors, suppliers) which have been...more
At the outset, if you have a headache after reading my first two posts on the beneficial ownership issue, I apologize. The issues twist and turn depending on whether the situation involves OFAC sanctions or corruption risks,...more
As companies move forward on third-party risk management programs, and as automated third-party risk solutions are being implemented, compliance professionals have to re-examine and re-balance the allocation of resources and...more
Compliance has been pushed more to the forefront in anti-money laundering (AML). As banking institutions, financial institutions and the financial services industries continue to tighten and strengthen AML controls, criminals...more