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The State of Corruption Risk in Latin America The biggest-ever corruption and bribery investigation in Latin America has seen scores of business leaders and politicians end up in prison. So riveting is the story that it’s now been dramatized into...

A Leader’s Formula for Success As leaders move upwardly through an organization, they need to also graduate from their role in day-to-day problem solving. The bigger decisions are theirs to own, but middle management and front-line employees must learn to...

Q&A with Ajay Katara, Domain Consultant with Tata Consultancy Services Today we share an interview between CCI’s Publisher, Maurice Gilbert, and Ajay Katara of Tata Consultancy Services. Ajay shares his background; insights on risk and compliance; and thoughts on how...

Common Concerns for CLOs In the past, the law department was positioned solely as advisors on legal problems, but this year brings the chief legal officer’s role as a key business strategist to the forefront. While chief legal officers and...

CFTC Penalizes Registrant for Outsourced IT Security Lapses Last month, the CFTC settled charges against an organization for its failure to ensure the security of its’ customers’ records and information. The registrant’s third-party vendor gained unauthorized access to more than...

Easing the Burden for Financial Services Firms Financial services firms that are headquartered or do business with customers in the European Union (EU) have been subject to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) since its enactment in 2007. But...

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...

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....

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...