Posts by Matt Kelly
Study Ranks AI Models on Compliance Tasks
We’re back to artificial intelligence today, with fresh research on how well various AI models perform at tasks that compliance teams encounter on a daily basis. The bottom line: yes, just about all AI models are generally good at lots of compliance work, but integrating AI into compliance workstreams is still going to be a…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Oct. 17
Lots of notable names in the Compliance Jobs Report this week. We have new compliance chiefs at Qatar Airways and Scout Motors; other new hires at Mastercard, Sleep Number Mattress, X-Rite, and Adtran; plus promotions at AbbVie, Boeing, Huntington Bank, and lots more. Job leads are in skincare, higher education, and banking; and don’t forget…
Read MoreNY DFS Nails Insurance Firms on Cyber Fails
Regulators in New York have fined eight auto insurance businesses for poor cybersecurity practices that led to widespread privacy breaches in 2021. It’s our latest example of what cybersecurity risk looks like in the modern era, with numerous points that IT auditors and privacy compliance professionals can ponder. The New York Department of Financial Services…
Read MoreAn Intriguing Whistleblower Award Case
We haven’t talked about whistleblower awards in a while, but a recent spat over one such award from the Securities and Exchange Commission might be worth our attention. It raises some interesting questions about whether the SEC’s whistleblower award policies might squelch employees’ incentives to first report misconduct concerns on internal hotlines. The SEC issued…
Read MoreThe ‘Dual Crisis’ of AI-Driven Fraud Today
More glum news from the anti-fraud world: A new report says financial firms are getting hammered by rising levels of AI-enhanced fraud — but at the same time, consumers are embracing online privacy technologies that make anti-fraud efforts more difficult because firms can’t easily verify an online user’s identity. So says Fingerprint, which on Tuesday…
Read MoreImportance of ‘Feeling Heard,’ Yet Again
By now most people have heard that grand juries in Washington and Chicago are declining to indict people arrested for anti-ICE protests. The political subtext here is that juries in Democratic regions won’t indict people arrested by the Trump Administration. What does that tell us about the breakdown in cultural norms within large organizations? That…
Read MoreKeeping Humans in the AI Loop
I spent this week in Lithuania attending a conference for compliance officers in Eastern Europe, and this being Europe, of course that meant artificial intelligence and data privacy were all over the agenda. So it’s rather poetic that European regulators also just published fresh guidance on human oversight of automated decision-making systems. The guidance was…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Oct. 10
The Compliance Jobs Report is back with another week’s worth of personnel news! We have a new ethics and compliance boss at Georgia Tech, other new hires at the Nature Conservancy, Danaher, Stripe, Sierra Nevada, and more. Also promotions at AbbVie, Stryker, and Hewlett-Packard, among others; plus job leads in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and toys! We…
Read MoreOct. 30: Compliance Career Forum
Readers of Radical Compliance know that we love to talk about the compliance job market around here. So I’m delighted to announce that we are co-hosting a virtual Compliance Officer Career day on Oct. 30, to discuss what the job market looks like for compliance officers these days and how you can keep positioning yourselves…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Oct. 3
The Compliance Jobs Report kicks off October with several retirements to note, plus new hires at Organon, Eli Lilly, Loews, Visa, Nabors, and lots more; and promotions at Bulgari, Caterpillar, Thermo Fisher, Elevance, and elsewhere. Job leads are in nature, nuclear power, and banking. Meme of the Week goes out to voluntary self-disclosure! We also…
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