Compliance

In part of a flurry of end-of-term activity, the Supreme Court in late June overturned a 90-year-old precedent and held that the president may remove the leaders of most independent agencies at will. CCI editorial director Jennifer L. Gaskin examines what Trump v Slaughter changes for the companies those agencies regulate and why the scariest effects are likely to live...

National laws don’t protect whistleblowers — yet

Functions assessing their programs vs. the new directive typically fall into three maturity stages with different priorities

Corporate integrity is defined not by organizational statements but by how systems perform in demanding operating environments

Aside from potential legal trouble, new obligations could spark business and operational friction

Plus: How popular AI models handle legal tasks; 32% of corporate clients want more from AI providers

Ignoring prediction markets and employee temptations to bet on them isn’t going to make these increasingly popular platforms go away. CCI editorial director Jennifer L. Gaskin explores what actions organizations should be considering to make sure they aren’t overlooking their risk for insider trading or reputation damage.

The missing piece in most speak-up programs is active bystandership, empowering employees to intervene before harm occurs, not just report it after

The combination of global volatility and overwhelming data presents a challenge multinationals must contend with

The Sripetch decision eliminates a meaningful defense previously available to SEC defendants

Plus: EHS professionals’ influence on executives

Agentic AI is already making decisions inside many enterprises — approving transactions, sending communications, executing multi-step workflows — and the governance frameworks meant to oversee it are frequently several steps behind. Steptoe's Matt Galvin examines this massive accountability problem that leaves regulators looking upstream to humans when an agent does something it shouldn't have.