Compliance

Fred Geldon discusses how establishing a credible compliance program can help contractors and compliance professionals to manage risks specific to government contracting. Read Part 1 here. Special compliance requirements apply when doing business with the government. Many practices or activities that are legal and acceptable in the commercial marketplace are not legal or acceptable in the federal government marketplace. Violating...

Regulating social media may prove to be a tricky proposition. To what organization should the responsibility fall, if any? Access Partnership’s Greg Francis unpacks the complexities involved in regulating content on social media platforms. President Trump’s social media summit at the White House this past July notably didn’t include Facebook or the President’s own favorite social media channel, Twitter. The...

Panorays’ Director of Risk & Compliance, Dov Goldman, provides background on several of this year’s most noteworthy data breaches and offers lessons learned on each. We’re nearing the end of 2019, which is shaping up to be a year of substantial third-party breaches. Such cyber incidents continue to take place frequently, and their ramifications for organizations and compliance professionals are...

Kryon’s CTO Shay Antebi makes the cause for robotic process automation. With the right tools, companies can not only minimize risk, but also introduce much-needed efficiencies, freeing compliance practitioners and other staff to tackle more specialized tasks. As automation concepts become more common in businesses all over the world, the decision about which processes to automate is still a difficult...

Companies leave a trail of breadcrumbs when they design and implement practices that lead to an ethical culture.  Jay Rosen explains how following that trail can be part of the monitoring process. In this final part of my series on corporate culture, I will consider how ethical culture is a part of an overall ethics and compliance program assessment and...

Federal contracting can be lucrative and rewarding – when done correctly. Steptoe & Johnson’s Fred Geldon outlines the various requirements contractors face in the government marketplace. Doing business with the government is different. The federal government makes rules to protect the public interest and the public treasury, waiving enough of its “sovereign immunity” so that contractors will elect to do...

Clifford Chance’s Wendy Wysong and Nick Turner discuss the sanctions risks looming in Hong Kong and what companies operating there can do to protect themselves. with co-author Nick Turner The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) issued its much-anticipated Mutual Evaluation Report (MER) of Hong Kong on September 4, 2019. Among its recommendations, the MER encouraged Hong Kong to closely monitor...

Compliance officers’ responsibilities are growing, and keeping pace with a fast-changing landscape is becoming increasingly difficult. Smarsh’s Shaun Hurst points to a need for CCOs to adopt a new mindset. Chief Compliance Officers (CCOs) have earned their rightful seat at the C-Suite table; no business strategy today can succeed without first addressing the ongoing threats of shifting regulations and newly...

The deadline recently came and went for the DOJ to finally offer clarity on the issue of ADA website compliance. Fortis Law Partners Liz Hartsel discusses how the DOJ’s nonresponse could lead to an increase in litigation. On August 30, the U.S. Department of Justice faced a congressional question-and-answer deadline regarding a costly and ongoing litigation risk for American businesses. Senators had pressed the U.S....

How to avoid fraud and corporate crime (while improving compliance programs) from Rafael Aguilera Gordillo, professor of Corporate Compliance and International Security. Increasingly complex economic crime is jeopardizing justice in general and criminal law in particular. On many occasions, there are issues with effectively facing the questions and difficulties posed by corporate criminality and white-collar crime. For this reason, "traditional"...

Jay Rosen concludes his series on monitoring in health care with a consideration of how using an independent integrity assessment and monitoring can minimize negative impacts. Many compliance practitioners in the health care space (and those in commercial space) often ask if an independent integrity review and monitoring would be helpful where an organization may have reason to believe it...

Many organizations struggle with the payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. Lockpath’s Dennis Keglovits outlines what organizations can do to get ready for the requirement now and to maintain compliance with PCI DSS going forward. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a requirement for any entity storing, processing or transmitting customer cardholder data; essentially designed to...