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Global consulting firm Protiviti has recently released results of its annual Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey. Over 1,500 Chief Audit Executives (CAEs) were surveyed globally, the majority representing organizations with more than $1 billion in revenue. According to this...

TRACE’s Alexandra Wrage interviews Guillermo Jorge, a partner at Governance Latam, TRACE’s partner firm, in Buenos Aires. Guillermo discusses the new Argentinian law, effective March 1, that creates corporate liability for bribery.  

Embracing New Technologies Fenergo’s Laura Glynn discusses how banks around the world are embracing a more digitalized and transformative approach to compliance and, indeed, client life cycle management. Read Part 1. The global financial services industry is currently on the...

The Rights of the Alleged Harasser In the second installment of this four-part series from Vedder Price’s Amy Bess and Sadina Montani, the authors discuss the balance employers must strike when investigating sexual misconduct: the company must act swiftly, but...

Modern Finance’s Imperative to Manage Risk with Data While businesses have more information than ever to drive decision-making, many are struggling to shift organizational structures and manage data to minimize business risk. Eric Dowdell, Global Head of Dun & Bradstreet’s Trade Credit business,...

Little Movement in Latest Transparency International Rankings Transparency International published its 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on February 21, 2018, showing modest improvements for most countries in Asia-Pacific. Some higher-risk countries, however, continue their downward slide in the overall rankings....

What does the executive of the future look like in today’s increasingly volatile world? We continue our conversation with Beth Comstock, former vice chair at GE, who shares her perspectives on the expanding role of the CMO and adapting to...

Making Sense of Dollars and Cents With the upcoming GDPR directive on everyone’s minds, compliance is a hot issue. Many see compliance as an unnecessary additional expenditure. What they fail to realize, however, is that noncompliance costs nearly three times...

Under the Regulatory Microscope Faced with increased regulatory demands and scrutiny in the midst of heightened regulatory enforcement, Nordic banks need to take a hard look at their AML/KYC systems and embrace a digital transformation approach to compliance. Fenergo’s Laura...

Trump and the FCPA Instances of global corruption pepper our newspapers and news feeds. Closer to home, allegations of corruption have taken center stage in the American political landscape, and President Trump has been openly critical of the Foreign Corrupt...

Lessons Learned from the Trenches The #MeToo and #TimesUpNow social media campaigns sparked a movement to expose intimidating behavior and sexual assault in the workplace. Because of the resulting paradigm shift, harassed employees are empowered to speak up about wrongdoings....

But Will it Change Anything? The Supreme Court recently narrowed the Dodd-Frank whistleblower definition and excluded from protection employees who do not take their complaints to the SEC.  It is impossible to know at this point what effect the case...