Findings from recent studies on compliance trends and developments are a mixed bag; some positive, some negative. Michael Volkov shares an uncharacteristic view of corporations and their failures to embrace E&C strategies. We all like to believe in straightforward and consistent trends and developments. For example, compliance programs are improving, budgets are increasing and CCOs are embracing new technologies. Everything is just...
Nearly half of compliance and procurement professionals find it difficult to identify environmental, social and governance within customer due diligence processes. Brian Alster discusses this and other findings from a recent Dun & Bradstreet survey. There is little doubt amongst supply chain industry experts that knowing and actively managing potential risk is essential to the success of an entire supply...
People need reminding more than they need instruction. Compliance training expert Ronnie Feldman stresses that instruction isn’t enough. Think like an ad man to influence workplace behavior and corporate culture. A very wise and important person once said, “people forget stuff.” I can’t remember who said it first, but I know most recently… it was me! “People Forget Stuff” Most...
More than half of all shareholder proxy proposal exclusions allowed by the SEC are based on Rules 14a-8(i)(7) and 14a-8(i)(10), according to research and analysis in our new whitepaper. In this whitepaper, Intelligize’s Rob Peters and Alyson Clabaugh leverage public company filings and SEC correspondence available in Intelligize’s No-Action Letters database to examine and visualize discernible and instructive trends over the last...
Financial reporting still involves pulling data manually out of an ERP/EPM system into Excel, then manipulating the data to create custom reports – a slow and error-prone process. insightsoftware’s Craig Nickerson outlines a better alternative. A big part of financial reporting for businesses and organizations is related to regulatory compliance. This can vary widely depending on the organization and industry,...
While training is helpful and important, it can get too much focus. After all, training doesn’t address the primary reasons people do what they do. Ronnie Feldman discusses the importance of changing the culture. Ethics and compliance programs tend to put much of their focus on training – making the training shorter, making it modular, making it interactive, making it...
In the advent of automated GRC tools, data-compliance professionals are shooting themselves in the feet by over-relying on old-fashioned spreadsheets. Joe Stanganelli and Alia Luria discuss a better way to manage GRC data. Terry Ray, a senior vice president at cybersecurity-software firm Imperva, is fond of saying that even when organizations are able to identify where their data is, they...
With Europe’s fifth AML directive set for implementation in a matter of months, banks should be preparing now. Opus’ Kelvin Dickenson explores how the regulations have changed. In an effort to quash money laundering, sanctions evasion and the funding of terrorist activities in the EU, regulators have overhauled the 4th Money Laundering Directive (4MLD) with the laudable goal of increased...
Jay Rosen, “Mr. Monitor,” continues his series on corporate monitorships. Here, he discusses the various ways a proactive pre-settlement monitorship is used and the reasons an organization may want to employ one. Today we are exploring the many uses of pre-settlement monitorships. Most generally, a pre-settlement monitorship occurs when an organization engages an independent body to conduct any kind of...
First published by CCI in 2014, Jeff Kaplan's Compliance & Ethics Risk Assessment: Concepts, Methods and New Directions covers an array of risk assessment ideas, methods, practices, tools and noteworthy items of C&E-related history. It's more than a compilation of Kaplan’s popular columns for Corporate Compliance Insights -- the timeless book supplements and informs C&E risk assessments of all kinds,...
The Clifford Chance team covers OFAC’s recently published “Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments,” with a particular focus on how the guidelines will impact companies based or operating in the Asia-Pacific region. with co-authors Ali Burney and Nick Turner Officials from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) have been teasing for months that they would issue guidelines to help...
Roger Carson, Co-Founder and Global Financial Sales Director at encompass corporation, introduces the concept of digital know your customer (KYC) profiles. Created by intelligent automation, digital KYC profiles help financial institutions manage and retain valuable information, control complexity and reduce costs while improving compliance. The KYC Legacy KYC can prove difficult for financial institutions of all sizes; it is often...
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