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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...

Strategies to Ensure Compliance as Deadline Approaches Whether your company is already operating in the European Union or has expansion plans there in the future, the upcoming GDPR rules will have a profound impact on how all organizations handle, manage...

6 Critical Changes for Client Life Cycle Management In less than six months’ time (January 3, 2018), banks must be fully compliant with MiFID II regulatory obligations, bringing in wide-ranging compliance changes. Laura Glynn, Fenergo Director of Regulatory Compliance, examines...

(And How to Avoid Making Them) We all make mistakes, and CCOs are no exception. While CCOs are a creative and dedicated bunch, they are often susceptible to these five common mistakes. Probably unsurprisingly, the cure for these ills is...

On today’s episode, Shaul Shalvi, an Associate Professor of CREED, part of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests are in behavioral and experimental economics with a focus on behavior ethics, and currently...

Musings of a Cognitive Risk Manager To drive change, you need buy-in, and to achieve buy-in, your people need to know the “why” behind the change. This is the premise behind cognitive risk governance, the “designer” of human-centered risk management....

The ex-compliance chief of MoneyGram International Inc. (MoneyGram) is found personally liable for MoneyGram’s AML failures. The lawsuit is unprecedented in growing regulatory efforts to impose personal liability on a compliance officer for a company program failure. Patty Tehrani offers...

Siemens' story was a real turning point for the compliance community; the company continues to hold the record for the largest penalties in an international bribery case (a total of $1.6 billion in fines, penalties and disgorgements). Alexandra Wrage speaks...

Ethics experts from Bentley University's Center for Business Ethics discuss several reasons why businesses should have values-driven management, as well as give you a good starting point for implementing values-driven management in your company.

Following last year’s Principles for Improving Board Risk Reporting comes an updated list. This expanded set of principles comes from Protiviti’s Jim DeLoach and Rick Steinberg, CEO of Steinberg Governance Advisors. While the original six principles focused primarily on what...

In this critical time for compliance officers, Volkov explores the implications of the DOJ's latest move.