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How Much Reliance on Technology is Too Much? The last few years have seen a significant rise in regtech, technological solutions for compliance. These solutions can be hugely helpful to companies as their compliance burdens increase in scope and complexity,...

A Compliance Officer’s Role in Mitigating This Risk Mobile computing presents a unique set of challenges to compliance officers. Our devices are truly omnichannel and not just dedicated to one aspect of our lives.  No organization can be fully compliant with...

What Does This Mean for You? The Department of Justice (DOJ) has increasingly been using pretrial diversion programs, which often take the form of deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) and non-prosecution agreements (NPAs), as a tool to hold corporations accountable for...

And How an Automated Solution Can Help You Overcome Them In 2017, it’s time for many organizations to stop viewing risk management in silos and begin implementing a comprehensive enterprise risk management (ERM) program. Adoption is slow, however, due to...

Lessons from Panama One Year On It’s been more than a year since the Panama Papers incident, the leak of more than 11 million documents pointing to a lack of corporate transparency around shell structures. As a result, the global...

4 Techniques for Auditors While data analytics in audit has been discussed for more than two decades, most internal audit teams are just beginning to make serious investments to embed analytics in their engagements and processes. Vendors highlight techniques such as predictive and prescriptive analytics; however, it is often unclear...

What Kinds of Social Media Posts are Protected? Employees are increasingly using social media to complain about their employment and employers.  As a result, employment-law retaliation claims based on social media activity are on the rise. Employers must treat social...

Morals and Morale in the Workplace There’s a degree of trust at every level of an organisation. Depending on size, it may or may not be easy to communicate with every echelon, but senior figures should always be fully aware...

Using Artificial Intelligence to Minimize Risk Money laundering continues to be a serious concern for financial institutions across the globe, as legacy technologies allow an unacceptable number of illicit transactions to go unidentified. However, many forward-thinking financial institutions have begun...

Landmark Decision on Criminal Liability In the ongoing, global fight against corruption, it appears the gloves are coming off. Charges were leveled against the acting director of Kassar Logistics and World Eastern International for his negligence in incorporating the companies...

The Opaque Nature of Ownership As regulation around global business relationships increases in importance, it’s critical for enterprises to know the true owner of the businesses they are working with. Brian Alster of Dun & Bradstreet describes the opaque ownership...

What Business Owners Need to Know as Governments Outsource Code Enforcement Companies across virtually every industry are experiencing a rapid increase in regulation. Naturally, regulatory agencies are having a hard time keeping up with enforcement. That being the case, some...