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Report on Diversity in Compliance Teams
Compliance officers often talk about the importance of building diverse teams, but a fresh report from an executive search firm shows how difficult that push for diversity can be — including the significant portion of legal and compliance teams that don’t use any diversity recruitment strategies at all. The report comes from search firm Barker…
Read MoreAn Update on Diversity Programs
The Securities and Exchange Commission has published an analysis of diversity and inclusion programs at broker-dealers, investment advisers, and other financial firms, providing yet another reference point for other businesses about how you might structure your own D&I efforts and what regulators would like to see from them. The report was released Monday by the…
Read MoreCFPB Offers Clues on Diversity Programs
Ethics and compliance professionals looking for guidance about how to develop diversity efforts might want to visit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB just published a report reviewing diversity efforts at financial firms and how the agency will assess those efforts in the future. Financial regulators are obligated to assess the diversity policies and…
Read MoreDigging Into Diversity Disclosures
The other week we had a post on what companies are saying about ethics and corporate culture in the new human capital disclosures now required in annual reports. Today I want to circle back to another subset of that information: what companies are saying about their diversity and inclusion efforts. Diversity disclosures have been on…
Read MoreTrump Admin and Diversity Training, Part II
Don’t die of surprise at this news, but the Trump Administration is dragging Corporate America into its attacks on diversity training and racial equity. Compliance officers would do well to understand what’s happening and prepare accordingly. The action is happening along two fronts. First, President Trump issued an executive order on Sept. 22 that directs…
Read MoreTrump Admin Targets Princeton for Diversity
The Trump Administration has opened an investigation into Princeton University and its anti-racism efforts — claiming that because Princeton officials say the university needs to do more to fight racism today, perhaps the school’s previous attestations about compliance with federal anti-discrimination law haven’t been accurate. So says a letter the Education Department sent to Princeton…
Read MoreTrump Comes for Diversity Training
Compliance professionals involved in corporate training, watch this development: President Trump has ordered federal agencies to review their training programs and cancel any diversity training that contains certain keywords or concepts the White House deems “un-American propaganda.” The Office of Management & Budget, which acts as the managerial conduit between the White House and the…
Read MoreQuestions for Incoming SEC Chairman
Last week President-elect Trump said he will nominate Paul Atkins to be the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Now compliance and audit professionals can start considering how an Atkins-led SEC will shape corporate compliance for the next few years, and there are lots of questions to contemplate here. Start with the biographical…
Read MoreTrump & Compliance: Here We Go Again
Well, brace yourselves, ethics and compliance professionals. The American people in their mighty wisdom (or lack thereof) have returned Donald Trump to the presidency. This is one of the most consequential moments in the history of the country, sure to affect regulatory enforcement, risk management, and corporate ethics for years to come. We might as…
Read MoreAn Update on TPRM Programs
A new survey finds that companies are — at long last — pushing their third-party risk management programs up the maturity curve, as they move from monitoring the cybersecurity risks among their vendors to actually reducing those risks. The report comes from BlueVoyant, a firm that helps businesses to manage their supply chain cybersecurity risks.…
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