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Recent events like the enactment of the GDPR and high-profile data breaches have driven compliance into the spotlight – a boon for the GRC field. And, already, 2019 is already shaping up to be an exciting year in the compliance...

Findings from NAVEX’s Annual Study NAVEX Global recently released the annual Hotline and Incident Management Report, a key tool compliance practitioners can use to benchmark and evaluate the performance of the company’s reporting hotline. Michael Volkov provides an overview of...

Moving Beyond Day-to-Day Data Cleansing In the financial services industry, regulation on due process and fit-for-purpose data has grown increasingly prescriptive, and the risks of failing to implement a data quality policy can be far-reaching. In this article, Boyke Baboelal...

Pia Vining of TRACE discusses the five most common due diligence challenges her team sees and the growing sophistication of the international community of third-party intermediaries.  

How can leaders rebound from serious setbacks? Shellye Archambeau, former CEO at MetricStream and board member at Verizon and Nordstrom, discusses grit, risk-taking in leadership and the power of networks. Becoming a CEO Shellye walks us through her leadership trajectory:...

How to Automate Processes with Cognitive Computing Margin lending involves banks accepting credit, market and liquidity risks simultaneously and the risk is primarily dependent on collateral value that is highly dynamic. In the credit life cycle, a number of  banks...

Minimizing Antitrust Risk in Pricing Most manufacturers continue to avoid price maintenance agreements with distributors and resellers and impose unilateral resale price policies. Vedder Price’s Brian McCalmon discusses how what’s visible to the consumer confronted with MAP and MRP is...

Post-Email Channels Deserve Increased Scrutiny Text messages, social media and collaboration platforms are now squarely in regulators’ crosshairs, and organizations are increasingly being caught unaware. Smarsh’s Mike Pagani discusses why, as firms enable contemporary communications to enhance efficiency, it’s critical to...

4 Common Ways Companies Miss the Mark Organizations of all sizes and industries continue to assume the risk of reputational damage, following the suspicion or revelation of fraud. The signals of fraud risks can be faint, but effectively sensing and...

Kara Brockmeyer, former Chief of the SEC’s FCPA Unit and now with Debevoise & Plimpton, discusses key enforcement actions, the shifting legal landscape and compliance trends from 2018, together with a few predictions for 2019.  

3 Tips to Help Organizations Come Out on Top "Compliance audit" is one of the last things a financial advisory firm hopes to hear, but it’s an inevitable, unavoidable fact of life for most. Fortunately, there are steps financial advisory...

How to Improve DSR Processes Data subject requests (DSRs) are a complex and often confusing challenge under GDPR. This article, from data privacy and IG experts at FTI Consulting, discusses ways to streamline DSR operations and ensure they don’t overwhelm...