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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,...

The Need for Regulatory Support Financial institutions and federal bank regulators can integrate location intelligence as a regulatory technology (Regtech) solution to ensure compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) standards, financial inclusion requirements, and fair lending regulations. This article outlines the...

Rethinking Independence in Internal Investigations Demonstrating and ensuring independence in internal investigations is a critical issue for corporate counsel to consider, especially when facing or anticipating parallel regulatory probes. How to properly do so is a nuanced process: as this...

Addressing the Bias Problem Though virtually every involved party was at fault to some degree, bias on multiple fronts was largely the cause of the 2008 financial crisis. Given that bias in risk management can result in a disastrous event...

Expanding the View to Include Culture Does your organization view compliance as a “check the box” exercise? Many companies do. Chuck Saia, CEO of Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory, feels differently and shares five ways a board can start broadening...

Is Your Program Adaptive? True Office Learning works with major corporations to provide detailed compliance insights through data analytics. Over the years, they’ve learned a lot about how employees learn and the benefits of creating adaptive learning environments. This kind...