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Tax evasion, money-laundering and fraud: Jeff Kelly Lowenstein describes his research – and that of colleagues – into the surprising forms of financial crime associated with lotteries. (Their research was supported by The Fund for Investigative Journalism.)  

The Outlook for AML in the Year Ahead 2018 proved to be a challenging year in the fight against money laundering. Criminals continued to come up with schemes to hide and cash out on their dirty money. With new legislation...

Simple Navigation for a Complex World Protiviti's Jim DeLoach shares insights on the myriad of risk-related challenges facing corporations today -- from cybersecurity to reputation risk and brand hijacking -- along with guidance for boards of directors and executives on...

The Real Costs to Companies People get emotional over cyber data breaches, and the media loves to report on the latest hack attack that exposed millions of users’ information. Other than reputational damage (which is quickly forgotten, given the 24/7...

This is the first installment in a series on whistleblowing solutions from VinciWorks’ Sandra Erez. In Part 1, Sandra provides a brief history of whistleblowing and discusses the importance of a whistleblowing portal. It was a cold winter’s day in...

Growing Risks for Directors and Officers In the third of a series of articles discussing emerging theories of liability for directors and officers Stephanie Resnick, Philadelphia Office Managing Partner and Chair of the Directors’ and Officers’ Liability Practice Group at...

(And Why U.S. Companies Should Take Note) The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Europe’s sweeping data protection law, has been in effect for six months, and while fines have yet to be levied against U.S. companies for breach of the...

Robert Clark, Manager of Legal Research at TRACE, discusses the challenges associated with measuring something as widespread and varied as corruption and refinements to the 2018 TRACE Bribery Risk Matrix after another year of research.  

Key Steps in the Early Stage of a Federal Investigation Although many were unsure how white collar crime enforcement would fare in the Trump administration, the past two years has shown that enforcement actions have nearly stayed the course, with...

What the CCPA Signals About the Future California is leading the way to pass meaningful legislation on data privacy and cybersecurity. The new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is a strong complement to the EU's GDPR, although many businesses will need to comply...

Best Practices for Merging Security and Compliance Within many organizations today, security and compliance teams are running in isolation. This introduces significant enterprise risk, as the security team might be doing what’s best to combat advanced attackers, but their actions...

3 Arguments for Integrating RMIS and GRC Processes Gartner suggests that integrated risk management (IRM) is the next evolution of risk management practices. This piece from Riskonnect’s Dawn Ward explores IRM practices and what they mean specifically for GRC and...