Compliance

A crisis tends to highlight the “cracks” in the system. Mathad Al-Ajmi, Chair of the B20 Saudi Arabia Integrity & Compliance Taskforce, which is focused on advancing a global anti-corruption agenda across all G20 member states, discusses the effect of corruption on the pandemic’s economic impact and the ongoing recovery phase. As the global community fights the COVID-19 pandemic and...

Business conditions continue to change amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s putting organizations at risk. Conga’s Jason Gabbard provides best practices to protect the contracts that protect their businesses during these unexpected times. It might not feel quite like it at this moment, but we’re about to enter a post-pandemic business world. Exactly when that will be — and what...

Velocity Global COO Jose Montero explores options organizations have to stay nimble and responsive despite ever-changing business conditions brought about by COVID-19 – and what they need to know to continue cross-border growth. Businesses watch for signs of recovery and signs of opportunity. As the pandemic-imposed isolation slowly lifts, companies get back to business, back to growth, back to global...

Americas Society/Council of the Americas (AS/COA) and Control Risks, the global specialist risk consulting firm, present the publication of the 2020 Capacity to Combat Corruption (CCC) Index, a data-driven analytical tool to assess Latin American countries' ability to uncover, punish and deter corruption. "The Index shows in detail how the anti-corruption wave that was advancing in Latin America a few...

The DOJ has issued revisions to its Guidance on evaluating corporate compliance programs while corporations are responding to unprecedented disruption in their businesses. Reed Smith’s Jennifer Jordan and Thomas Suddath, Jr. discuss what companies can reasonably do now to forestall critical review in future investigations. Corporations large and small are trying to turn on a dime to react to new...

Tom Fox provides an overview of the DOJ's updated Guidance on the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, exploring key themes and notable changes and considering how the Guidance will impact CCOs and compliance programs more broadly in 2020 and beyond. Instant Download: Read it Now Can’t see the download form? Disable your ad blocker.

Without a strong culture of ethics, even the best compliance and ethics program is just window dressing. Jim Nortz explains why controls only take you so far and why ethical leadership is so critical. A True Tale of Transformation and the “Control” Myth We were a global, multibillion-dollar specialty chemical company. We had some of the most experienced, highly credentialed...

Jurisdictions around the world are increasingly requiring companies to have Modern Slavery compliance programmes in place to prevent the risk of forced labour and human trafficking from occurring within their operations and supply chains. Download the latest whitepaper from The Red Flag Group, written by Scott Lane, CEO & Chairman, and Juliet Lui, Director of Corporate Strategy & Development. GET...

Husch Blackwell’s Avi Meyerstein discusses the impact COVID-19 may have on OSHA investigations. Are we looking at increased enforcement? Deregulation? New regulation? Time will tell. All bets are off as regulatory agencies are tugged in every direction in this pandemic world. Normally, an election year probably would not have seen particularly aggressive enforcement or rulemaking. For a while, COVID-19 health...

Compliance audits and financial audits are different animals calling for different skill sets. Level 2 Legal’s Leigh Vickery explains why your organization might not want to choose a Big Four firm. Compliance is a top concern in the business world and an area of increasing concern for corporate board members, executives and legal departments. While privacy is certainly not the...

How recently has your organization evaluated its guardrails to protect against conflicts of interest? Most companies need work in this area. Jeff Kaplan and Rebecca Walker cover how to conduct a conflict of interest assessment. Many compliance and ethics (C&E) program assessments are of what might be considered a general scope – meaning they are not focused on a particular...

SAI Global unveils key data from its first Ethics & Compliance Report  Seeking to identify and examine the E&C program goals organizations aspire to achieve -- and what's stopping them from doing so -- SAI Global has launched an independent research initiative. The first annual Ethics & Compliance Report represents SAI's initial research findings from its 2020 Ethics and Compliance Benchmark...