Compliance

While moving email to the cloud can be relatively straightforward, moving messaging and collaboration channels to Office 365 raises a significant number of questions pertaining to how those communications are captured and preserved for regulatory compliance and e-discovery purposes. Office 365 offers native archiving features which require thorough analysis to determine if they are sufficient to meet each organization’s e-discovery...

Welcome to a new feature at CCI:  We're calling it "New Voices," and it's a way to showcase the fresh perspectives offered by those who are new to careers in compliance.  Margarita Derelanko shares the wisdom she’s found on succeeding in compliance, albeit from an unlikely source: her experience with motherhood. Here, Margarita offers guidance relevant to parents and compliance...

At this year’s ACAMS AML & Financial Crime Conference in Las Vegas, it was clear that an ever-changing environment is driving urgency around combating risk. K2 Intelligence’s Michelle Goodsir and Gabe Hidalgo discuss this and other hot topics from the event. At the 18th Annual ACAMS AML & Financial Crime Conference in Las Vegas, it was clear that an ever-changing...

Compliance practitioners beware: Following regulations doesn’t always mean you are doing the right or moral thing. Join Sandra Erez in uncovering hidden demons in the rarely seen “dark side” of compliance and hope the day won’t come when you will have to decide which side you are on. “The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is...

Jay Rosen considers the impact mergers and acquisitions have on both the acquired entity and the acquirer, starting with the inherent risk in the entire M&A process. Surprisingly, a company’s ethical and cultural perspective is not often considered in the pre-acquisition phase. Companies spend huge amounts of resources to hire lawyers, investment bankers and accountants for the pre-acquisition phase. They...

The new communication and collaboration tools millennials insist on are creating data retention nightmares in the workplace. The trouble is, the tools also bring increased productivity to organizations that rely on them. That's why compliance and IT professionals are giving in to pressure. They're abandoning prohibition policies that didn't work in the first place, and now they're struggling to stay...

It's the most detailed statement to-date of OFAC’s views on the best practices that companies should follow to ensure compliance with U.S. sanctions laws and regulations, and some would call it a total "game changer." It's meant to be a roadmap for ABAC compliance practitioners working to prevent sanctions violations from occurring in the first place and, when violations do...

Jay Rosen discusses how to assess ethics and compliance in the context of a merger or acquisition, what to look for in an assessment and why you should consider engaging an independent third party. Many issues in the M&A context are driven by the target or acquired company and usually arise due to the acquiring entity not paying enough attention...

Fred Geldon discusses how establishing a credible compliance program can help contractors and compliance professionals to manage risks specific to government contracting. Read Part 1 here. Special compliance requirements apply when doing business with the government. Many practices or activities that are legal and acceptable in the commercial marketplace are not legal or acceptable in the federal government marketplace. Violating...

Regulating social media may prove to be a tricky proposition. To what organization should the responsibility fall, if any? Access Partnership’s Greg Francis unpacks the complexities involved in regulating content on social media platforms. President Trump’s social media summit at the White House this past July notably didn’t include Facebook or the President’s own favorite social media channel, Twitter. The...

Panorays’ Director of Risk & Compliance, Dov Goldman, provides background on several of this year’s most noteworthy data breaches and offers lessons learned on each. We’re nearing the end of 2019, which is shaping up to be a year of substantial third-party breaches. Such cyber incidents continue to take place frequently, and their ramifications for organizations and compliance professionals are...

Kryon’s CTO Shay Antebi makes the cause for robotic process automation. With the right tools, companies can not only minimize risk, but also introduce much-needed efficiencies, freeing compliance practitioners and other staff to tackle more specialized tasks. As automation concepts become more common in businesses all over the world, the decision about which processes to automate is still a difficult...