Posts by Matt Kelly
When Trump Tells You to Eat It
Here’s a conundrum of corporate governance for you: What should you do when the president of the United States starts hectoring your company to keep its prices low, even at the expense of profit margins? This is not a hypothetical. It is yet another outburst from President Trump, who opened fire on Walmart this weekend…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: May 16
Another big Compliance Jobs Report! We have a departure from CEVA Logistics, new hires at Eli Lilly, JLL, Avnet, Xylem, Rabobank, and many more; plus promotions to note at Alaska Air, Julius Baer, Macquarie, CNOOC, and elsewhere. Job leads are in pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and more manufacturing; and Meme of the Week goes out to Justice…
Read MoreGlencore, Part III: Third-Party Agents
Today we have another exploration of Glencore’s recent compliance progress report, this time looking at how the trading giant handles third-party risk management. Glencore’s report does offer extensive detail into how it runs its compliance program and third-party risk drives everyone nuts, so let’s see what lessons we can learn. For those unfamiliar with the…
Read MoreGOP Moves Ban on State AI Laws
Another bold move from Congress while you were sleeping last night: an important House committee voted to support a 10-year ban on states enforcing any laws or regulations they adopt for artificial intelligence. The vote happened at the House Energy & Commerce Committee, which was marking up various pieces of legislation destined to be part…
Read MoreJustice Dept. Promises More Declinations
The Justice Department has announced new, more relaxed policies for when it will prosecute corporate crime, promising “a clear path to declination” that bypasses the criminal resolution process entirely for companies that self-disclose and remediate their misconduct. Matthew Galeotti, acting head of the Criminal Division at the Justice Department, announced the new policy in a…
Read MoreTroubling New Data on AI Risks
Today I want to go back to artificial intelligence and some of the policy management and corporate culture challenges that the technology keeps posing. KPMG recently released a wide-ranging survey of how people view and use AI, with statistics that could cast a long shadow over your own AI compliance efforts. Let’s take a look.…
Read MoreTackling Third-Party Risk Management
This week I had the good fortune to moderate a webinar on third-party risk management, and the role that compliance officers should play in this critically important — but increasingly complicated — task. The conversation was excellent and I took plenty of notes; and now pass them along to the compliance community for whatever they’re…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: May 9
This week the Compliance Jobs Report has a changing of the guard at Kroger, plus new hires at Sanofi, Lucid Motors, Moneycorp, Parkland Health, Veon, and more. We also have a slew of promotions to note, plus job leads in financial services, manufacturing, and sports betting. Meme of the Week goes out to tight budgets…
Read MoreTalking Tariffs and Compliance
Today we have another Radical Compliance podcast interview, this time talking about the compliance implications of the Trump Administration’s proposed tariffs regime — although the more you consider tariffs and President Trump’s erratic approach to them, the more you realize that their implications will spill far beyond the compliance function. To help me unpack all…
Read MoreOh, Great: Trump Memecoin Risk
Another sign of our ethically challenged times in the Trump 2.0 era: a freight logistics company in Texas is planning to buy as much as $20 million’ worth of President Trump’s personal cryptocurrency, so the company can “advocate for fair, balanced, and free trade between Mexico and the U.S.” Translation: the company, Freight Technologies Inc.,…
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