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The Need for Aligned Assurance Today’s changing risk landscape has put increased pressure on assurance functions to simplify their requirements and to provide the board, senior management and other key stakeholders with a complete risk and assurance picture. To do...

Part 1 in a Series Exploring the "Auditor of the Future" In this first installment, Protiviti's Jim DeLoach and Brian Christensen discuss the nature of the relationship between the "auditor of the future" and the board of directors with respect...

Commission Prepares to Implement Self-Reporting Program The Director of the Division of Enforcement at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) noted recently that the Division's role is “to facilitate healthy, robust and resilient markets” to deter misconduct. To that end,...

Trouble Remains for Uber and Others As Uber faces being banned from operating in London mainly due to compliance problems, it’s time to face up to the fact that Uber, and the wider gig economy, has a real compliance problem....

Read Part 1. Changing the Game Plan In late June, FIFA, the world’s governing soccer organization, released the “Garcia Report,” chronicling the extensive corruption and conflicts of interest that occurred in FIFA’s awarding of the men’s 2018 and 2022 World...

Key Considerations for Your Next Compliance Tech Dun & Bradstreet's Global Regulatory Strategist outlines six key traits compliance professionals should be on the lookout for when evaluating next-gen compliance solutions. In an increasingly global economy where pressure for cost control is high,...

Practical Steps Non-U.S. Companies Can Take Now The international business community is watching intently to see whether the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.  Although the consequences of a U.S. withdrawal, and the European Union's response, could...

Foul Play The first installment of this two-part series summarizes the Garcia Report's findings of misconduct. Author Brandon Fox also focuses on the difficulties investigators faced as a result of leaders failing to cooperate and contrasts the misconduct and lack...

Investigations: Don’t Lose Sight of the Basics These days, attorneys and in-house legal departments can easily get caught up in the electronic evidence frenzy and in their rush to embrace the ever-evolving world of electronic evidence, they may find themselves...

What Compliance Professionals Need to Know About Employee Data The deadline for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is on the horizon, and a customer's information is not the only thing that should be on a compliance practitioner’s radar. After all,...

A Tectonic Shift in Operating Models? Financial services has always been a heavily regulated industry. And while anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regulations are getting more stringent by the day, financial criminals continue to find ways to bypass the strict...

Alexandra interviews Peter Humphrey today. He and his Chinese-American wife were well-respected compliance professionals active in China when they were arrested, tried and imprisoned for two years. Peter tells the story of his practice, ChinaWhys, which conducted American-style FCPA investigations,...