Opinion

The data general counsel analyze for risk and compliance is increasingly displaying potential for value creation elsewhere in business operations. Corporations need to recognize this opportunity when it comes their way.

The WOTC program incentivizes employers to hire veterans and other individuals who have traditionally faced obstacles to employment. When tapped correctly, it can drive down unemployment and nurture DEI. As of June, U.S. unemployment sits at roughly 9.5 million according...

Some make it seem like automating compliance functions is a question of do or die. But if anyone hopes to have a seat at the table, they need to understand the risks involved – along with the evolving set of...

With data analytics in compliance, you don't need to boil the ocean. A concentrated program can deliver most of the outcomes of a large automated system but is significantly more affordable. As organizations maintain more data than ever before, it...

Michael Volkov argues CCOs have to refuse leadership of ESG but dovetail their oversight with their roles in the overall governance framework. The “G” can be leveraged to build an even better corporate culture and improve governance operations. Forgive me...

COVID-19 eroded gender equality in many sectors, industries and regions. Leaders now have a responsibility to reverse this trend. It's going to require a combination of extrinsic and intrinsic pressure to make that happen. The past year has been marked...

CDD and KYC have been baked into AML compliance for two decades now, yet enforcement of money-laundering violations continues to accelerate. How is it that penalties from a highly regulated environment are not able to serve as a bulwark against...

An overstressed data-gathering process can generate information silos, and the process of proving data-backed valuations can be laborious. Greater data transparency is needed to ultimately facilitate, rather than impede, compliance efforts. While investment firms seem to be doing well handling...

A family trip to Israel to honor the memory of my father-in-law turned into a war story. News of people displaced from their homes, followed by protests and riots, police blockades, and then missiles fired towards Jerusalem came on the...

GDPR and CCPA have proven to be landmarks of consumer data protection. Virginia’s new privacy law moves the needle even further. While the CDPA may evolve before it goes into effect in 2023, there is reason to believe it will...

Countries and economic unions around the world are adopting national privacy laws. Rather than state-by-state privacy legislation, wouldn’t it be easier to have one all-encompassing privacy law for the U.S.? Imagining a National Business Landscape Without a National Privacy Law...

Is there any discipline that keeps you more on your toes than Compliance? It has been gripping to observe the compliance function as it has evolved from administering regulatory risk and compliance to now include serving as the ethical and...