Posts by Matt Kelly
Ethical Culture and Feeling Supported
Every organization wants its employees to feel like they’re part of an effective team, and compliance officers know that a strong ethical culture is crucial to that sense of “team.” A new study has arrived that tries to pinpoint the role that ethical culture plays in strong teams — and what else needs to be…
Read MoreAI Risks Coming Fast; Controls Lag Behind
Gird your loins, compliance officers. In the last several weeks numerous examples of AI-enhanced risks have streaked across the headlines, all of them reminding us of just how woefully unprepared most companies are to address the threat of artificial intelligence in unethical hands. I fear this will become a recurring theme in 2026. You might…
Read MoreSix Compliance Events to Watch in 2026
Welcome back to the grind, fellow compliance enthusiasts! If you’re looking to avoid all those Zoom meeting requests and everyone else suddenly “circling back,” fear not — Radical Compliance is here to help in your procrastination, with our annual list of compliance events worth watching in the next 12 months. Every January I try to…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Jan. 2
The Compliance Jobs Report is back with our first update for 2026! We have news from DHL, the European Parliament, JPMorgan Chase, Irrimax, and elsewhere; plus a slew of promotions at Applied Materials, Walmart, Citibank, Medtronic, and many more. Job leads this week are in higher education, medical imaging, and PDFs; and Meme of the…
Read MoreRadical Compliance Turns 10
We interrupt our usual stream of news and analysis about corporate compliance to note a milestone: Radical Compliance turned 10 years old today! Our very first post was published on Jan. 1, 2016, announcing Radical Compliance to the world — which doesn’t quite count as news, so our first “real” news posts were an obituary…
Read MoreFresh Help on Bribery Risk Indicators
Good news for anti-corruption enthusiasts! Five law enforcement agencies around the world have published fresh guidance on indicators of foreign bribery, to help you focus your anti-corruption risk assessments and be sure that your compliance program has the right structure and resources to tackle the threat. The guidance was released just before Christmas by the…
Read MoreCompliance One Year Into Trump 2.0
As 2025 draws to a close, I’ve been pondering this first year of the Trump 2.0 Administration and what its arrival has meant for corporate ethics, compliance, and governance. That’s not easy to do. Over the last 12 months we’ve seen an endless stream of tweets, policy pronouncements, lawsuits, and threats from the Administration —…
Read MoreWait, Does Bribery Pay Off After All?
Fresh research suggests that the Trump Administration’s freeze on FCPA enforcement earlier this year led to a jump in the share price of corruption-prone businesses — which, in turn, raises some unsettling questions about how to make a culture of ethics and compliance truly stick in an era of diminished enforcement. The research comes from…
Read MoreTrump’s Feckless AI Order
You might have seen news the other week that President Trump proudly proclaimed an executive order that purported to bar states from enforcing their own laws and regulations for artificial intelligence. Corporate compliance teams should probably respond to Trump’s order the same way that U.S. states are: by ignoring it. Just this weekend, New York…
Read MoreGood Compliance Wins Another Declination
Well look at that, compliance community! A plastics importer in upstate New York has avoided criminal prosecution for tariffs evasion because the company did everything right by U.S. Justice Department standards: self-disclosed its misconduct, helped prosecutors nail its now-former chief operating officer, and improved its compliance program. The company in question is MGI International, which…
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