Compliance

Regulatory scrutiny of the insurance industry has never been more acute. Government regulators from a host of disparate disciplines are intensely focused on making sure we have the controls in place to avoid another financial meltdown. Compounding matters, insurance companies have begun to look more and more like financial services companies, taking deposits, underwriting interest rate and debt swaps, and...

There is certainly no shortage of significant compliance issues in today’s complex business and regulatory environment. Our global economy has produced opportunities for growth and success that can come with an increased need for governance, oversight and formal corporate compliance. Clifton Gunderson's Jennifer Leary discusses the top five corporate compliance concerns trending today.

Depending on a company’s ultimate objectives, having the correct balance within the control structure is the key to a successful internal fraud investigation.

This article by Matthew Reinhard of Miller & Chevalier will not only assist oil companies in ensuring compliance with anti-corruption laws and policies, but assist the compliance department in adding real business value to transactions.

When properly managed, non-employees give businesses a competitive advantage, but improper hiring and management practices can introduce employers to a whole other set of challenges and risk. Matt Rivera breaks down the potential co-employment and independent contractor compliance issues, and discusses the best practices for implementing a compliance program to protect your organization.

Too often, organizations forget that busy people working in challenging times need to know what to do and what not to do related to compliance -- with the same clarity as other job responsibilities they shoulder. Most importantly, they need to know and believe to their core that their employer sincerely wants to find out about problems and welcomes the...

Tod Reichert, Bonnie Green, and David Wilson discuss the roles of the General Counsel and the Chief Compliance Officer, and responsibilities can and should be divvied up when the titles are held by two individual people.

This article, by Ron Kral of Candela Solutions, defines and identifies several elements of successful corporate compliance programs and also looks at compliance within the realm of the bigger governance, risk and compliance (GRC) picture.

I have done the painstaking work of sifting through the highest rated Dilbert strips on Dilbert.com. It was very arduous work, but I persevered. My goal was to find my favorite strips and share them with you here.

According to CCI's Code of Conduct expert Jason Lunday, monitoring - despite being a little understood element of process management - serves as a powerful tool to ensure that ethics and compliance processes continue to work and improve.

For the most part, a company’s standards of conduct serve as the central component of its integrity management program. Jason Lunday describes some typical weaknesses of such codes and how companies can overcome them.

Lack of a documented security policy is a huge red flag when determining liability in the event of an incident. You do not know when the next attack will happen and if someone is aggressively targeting you, they will cause pain. When it comes time to defend yourself, no matter the strength of your security environment, the lack of a...