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Yan Tougas
The Ethical Leader
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Living Your Best Compliance Life
Adam Balfour
Ethics & Compliance for Humans
Preemption is No Panacea: Congress Must Create a Workable National Framework for American AI Dominance
Even with light-touch regulation as its lodestar, new AI action plan requires authorization and funding for standards development, testing infrastructure...
Internal Audit Is About True Expertise, Not Just Staffing Numbers
Credentialing can provide structured frameworks for developing critical thinking skills
Has Latin America Outpaced the US on Crypto Oversight? El Salvador Makes the Case.
Regulation is catching up with how people actually move money, not the other way around — a healthier order than...
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The Sustainability Shake-Up: When the World Pulls Back, Should You Push Forward?
Smart approach to sustainability is about long-term risk management
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Geopolitical hotspots demand stepped-up processes
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Big wins and small achievements matter — in both marathoning and compliance
Why NIST & SOC 2 Still Matter, Even as Oversight Changes
Frameworks arose from decades of real-world lessons
Will AI-Powered Checks Spell the End of ‘Compliance Theater?’
Sample-based reviews could become a thing of the past
The EU Has Taken Another Step Toward Unified AML Supervision; Are Your Processes Ready?
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How Power Changes Leaders’ Decision-Making
Empowering those around them to speak up can help insulate leaders from power’s negative effects