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Moving Beyond Routine Contract Provisions If companies are to maintain a commitment to risk mitigation, they must keep an eye on (and extend its oversight to) distributors – as well as sub-distributors and sub-sub-distributors. This will mean leveraging distributor relationships...

Mitigating Risk to Enhance Data Security In this article, Jason Allaway, RES Area VP for the U.K. and Ireland, reveals what the true cost of a ransomware attack like WannaCry will be in the GDPR era. As many organizations struggle...

Risk Profiles for Key Employee Groups It’s becoming an all-too-familiar scenario: a hacker steals an organization’s customer and employee data, creating substantial remediation costs, slowing down the business and generating negative publicity. That said, there is a far more common...

Findings from the 2017 Ethics and Compliance Survey Convercent and Ethisphere recently released findings from a survey about the importance of an ethical business culture. A culture of ethics is finally being recognized by the top brass as a key...

Discarding the Fear-Driven Mentality Traditional wisdom is that stress is bad, and the lack of it is good. They’re not all wrong, there, but professionally speaking, a little stress can be the difference between lolling about in your comfort zone...

Ike Sorkin, formerly of the SEC and DOJ and later a white collar criminal defense counsel, is best known for representing Bernie Madoff and Jordan Belfort. Alexandra Wrage and Mr. Sorkin discuss the differences between these well-known financial crimes and...

8 Helpful Tips Issuers Should Know The SEC’s new rule amendment requiring issuers who present exhibits in numerous regulatory forms to begin providing active hyperlinks is drumming up plenty of questions. The confusion is particularly acute because larger issuers are...

The Key to M&A Success The ability to handle data integration and management efficiently is a key factor in M&A success. Companies that are contemplating M&A activities should consider taking a modern approach to data integration and management so they...

Evaluating Effectiveness Companywide Regulatory authorities don’t expect perfection in a compliance program, but they do expect a concerted effort on all fronts, from the C-suite to the front-line employees. Internal controls are an essential part of a robust compliance program,...

The National Association of Corporate Directors published an authoritative guide in 2009 on risk governance, and the principles outlined therein are as relevant today as ever. Jim DeLoach provides an analysis of each of the 10 principles, demystifying the process...

Today we share an interview between CCI’s own Maurice Gilbert and Bloomberg Law’s VP and GM of Corporate, Tech & IP, Alex Butler. Alex chats with Maurice about the future of compliance and ethics programs and how Bloomberg’s new Corporate...