Posts by Matt Kelly
Europe Forms Anti-Corruption Enforcement Team
Stay on your toes, compliance officers! Britain, France, and Switzerland have announced the launch of a new anti-corruption taskforce, meant to keep up the pressure against corporate bribery and corruption even as the Trump Administration retreats from it. The leaders of the U.K. Serious Fraud Office, the Parquet National Financier in France, and the Office…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: March 21
The Compliance Jobs Report this week has retirements at IBM, United Airlines, and elsewhere; plus new hires at Fonterra, Vizient, Inspire, Allianz, and more. We also have promotions to note at Harley Davidson, Flipkart, Nordea, and Xylem (among others), and job leads in airlines, manufacturing, and higher education. Always remember that we need your help…
Read MoreCompliance, AI, and Corporate Strategy
Compliance officers are always striving to articulate their role in the setting of corporate strategy. Over the weekend I stumbled across an excellent example of how compliance officers might do that — even though the article’s principal point was that corporate leaders shouldn’t define any strategy for everyone’s favorite issue of the day, artificial intelligence.…
Read MoreTalking About Compliance Career Security
Radical Compliance loves to talk about career development issues for ethics and compliance professionals, so we’re delighted to announce today a special webinar that we’re hosting next month in conjunction with recruitment firm BarkerGilmore about how to have a long and successful career in this line of work. We hope you’ll join us. The webinar…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Mar. 14
Another Compliance Jobs Report full of news, this week with updates from Scout Motors, Cox Enterprises, Apple, Nidec Motors, Gilead Sciences, Jumeirah, Pfizer, and elsewhere. New jobs, promotions, compliance folks joining consulting firms or vice-versa; we have it all. Job leads are in data analytics, healthcare, and audit firms; and don’t forget Meme of the…
Read MoreDispatches From SCCE Europe
The Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics held its annual European conference this week in Portugal, where more than 300 compliance professionals gathered to talk shop, schmooze over port and vinho verde, swipe branded swag from vendors, and otherwise support our glorious corporate compliance community. Yours truly had the great fortune to be there in…
Read MoreCompliance Programs and Leaks
This week I’m in Portugal at the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics’ annual European conference, where I attended an excellent discussion on the ethics and compliance challenges of employees leaking confidential matters outside the business. So in the spirit of leaks, I took lots of notes and now pass them along to you. Compliance…
Read MoreTwo Examples of Compliance Issues in Trump 2.0
Today we have two more examples of what ethics and compliance in the Trump 2.0 era might look like: one demonstrating the need for compliance capabilities right now, the other suggesting the ethics and integrity pressures companies could face in the future — and both worth compliance professionals’ attention, because folks, this stuff is coming.…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Mar. 7
Another bustling Compliance Jobs Report this week! We have notable moves at Wells Fargo, Levi Strauss, Bastion, Hiscox, and the University of Missouri; plus notable promotions at Deluxe, Cargill, Etihad, and lots more. Job leads are in insurance, medical research, and videogames, and don’t forget Meme of the Week! Always remember that we need your…
Read MoreFCPA and ‘Under Pressure From the President’
One of the great puzzles (to me, at least) about President Trump’s pause of FCPA enforcement was why he might want to allow U.S. companies to engage in corruption with foreign government officials. Now we can conduct a useful thought experiment, courtesy of the news that BlackRock is buying two ports that control access to…
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