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The DOJ’s newest division has given its corporate fraud prosecutors their most substantive public guidance yet in the form of a memo that outlines factors they are to consider when deciding whether to bring charges against a corporation. CCI’s Jennifer L. Gaskin reports on what the McDonald memo means for corporate compliance programs and what’s still to come (spoiler alert:...
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Federal officials say cybersecurity is squarely an ethics & compliance concern
Seemingly innocuous wording could bring fines under new EU framework
New Illinois law imposes some of the country’s toughest requirements on frontier AI developers, including audits & incident reporting
For most organizations, creating a code of conduct is no longer the challenge — making it useful is, and the 2026 data show a widening gap between access and actual employee engagement.
Rules may be mostly familiar, but the practical significance of the NYC regime lies in enforcement
Constitutional challenge to whistleblower suits isn’t over, but neither is blistering pace of filings
Listing change implicates processes, not just products
A concern reaches a manager before it reaches compliance. What that manager does next decides whether the case gets handled, escalated and documented, or quietly absorbed. This playbook covers seven situations compliance teams meet again and again
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