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Everyone is calling Meta's $18 billion settlement with a coalition of state attorneys general social media’s Big Tobacco moment. How apt that comparison ends up being, only time will tell. But the risk and compliance lessons from the settlement extend far beyond social media, legal and industry experts told CCI’s Jennifer L. Gaskin.

When scope and approach are aligned with answers being sought, organizations are better positioned to act, communicate and make decisions

Sanctioned law firm’s case is a warning for any organization whose AI policy promises human review

Two CJEU rulings on trust structures signal that regulators will look past legal title to who actually benefits, decides and influences assets

AI policy-making is already undergoing shake-ups

Plus: Small firms have higher chance of reaching SOC 2 goals; AI-enabled cyber risk ranks as top threat

Board materials should be channeling the board’s energy and effectiveness as strategic advisers, not bogging them down, Protiviti’s Jim DeLoach writes. He offers a disciplined approach for excellent board operations through a shift from presentation to collaboration that honors the sanctity board members’ time.

Compliance leaders are confident employees are equipped to handle compliance situations when they arise. But confidence and evidence are not always the same thing. The harder question is whether organizations have enough evidence to show that employees can put what they have learned into practice, writes Kristina Ryan, vice president of product and design at...

RCA guidance helps a company avoid improvisation, apply consistent criteria and distinguish fixing an incident from fixing its cause

Seemingly tiny interactions can have a big impact

A bold public target and a cautious financial model can contradict each other inside the same annual report

Companies that delay meeting the act’s requirements may find themselves challenged by enforcement and outpaced by competitors

Draft framework TEVV-Athlon is designed for organizational flexibility

In UK financial services, senior managers in charge of a business area are also in charge of how AI gets used inside that unit

Plus: 1 in 10 UK wealth managers don’t ask for a key piece of information; ransomware payments fall while attacks increase

Beneficial ownership reporting rules that once applied to more than 30 million corporate entities in the US now have just 28,000 in scope. But is this the end or just another fork in the road for BOI reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act? CCI’s Jennifer L. Gaskin explores the turbulent journey of the rules and...

A congressional investigation is a high-stakes event where the response matters as much as the underlying facts

TIs are informal, but records are kept and they are increasingly being videotaped

Third-party assessments generally considered costliest part of FTC decrees

Illinois’ experience with biometric privacy offers a cautionary tale for companies that keep genetic information in the AI era

Few orgs say AI governance is fully mature; data center boom running into risk hurdles

Compliance will never be low-stress, but it does not have to be self-defeating

The FTC is cracking down on “Made in USA” claims, but risk is not equal across all claims and all products. A series of July letters may reveal a hidden triage framework for who gets a warning and who gets a penalty, write Reed Smith attorneys John Feldman and Julia Solomon Ensor, the former leader...

What do capital markets and SEC reporting experts believe a potential reporting cadence change will catalyze, and will it “Make IPOs great again?”

Getting fair-market value isn’t enough to stop the feds from pursuing an anti-kickback statute violation

The environment is likely to change even more with exclusions, negotiations, enforcement guidance, litigation and country-specific actions

With numerous state youth data laws passed and more in the works, count on a patchwork adding to compliance requirements

Understanding how people recount details in an interview is just as important as the words they say

The solution won’t be found in incremental tweaks to existing compliance templates but in a spirit to change how the board is built

Plus: Most finance leaders need to see AI ROI; large majority of companies see rising supply chain risk