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On Vacation This Week
Thank you for visiting, dear readers, but Radical Compliance is taking some much-needed vacation this week. We likely won’t have any updates to the website, and no newsletter on Friday, April 25. You can always send us tips at mkelly@radicalcompliance.com. Otherwise, behave yourselves and we’ll be back as usual on Monday, April 28.
Read MoreDiving Into Glencore Compliance Report
Commodities trading giant Glencore published an in-depth look at its ethics and compliance function this week, part of the company’s penance for a corporate corruption scandal it settled in 2022. Anyone wanting a glimpse into how global businesses might structure their compliance operations, especially when recovering from a misconduct scandal, look no further. As you…
Read MoreThat New York Action Against Block
Last week New York state regulators sanctioned online payments giant Block for persistent shortcomings in the anti-money laundering compliance program for Cash App, the popular digital wallet owned by Block. Even for folks not in financial services or subject to New York state regulation, this case offers important lessons about modern compliance risks that any…
Read MoreThe Unsexy Keys to Data Analytics
Compliance officers need a strong data analytics capability for their programs to succeed, so today I want to talk about the nitty-gritty “infrastructure issues” you need to resolve with the rest of the enterprise if you want to get that capability where it needs to be. This has been on my mind since I moderated…
Read MoreOn Navigating Global Legal Tensions
One big challenge for compliance officers is how to manage your program at a global level, when so often that means juggling multiple legal jurisdictions with conflicting standards for corporate behavior. So when I had the chance recently to moderate a webinar on that very subject, I took lots of notes. I pass them along…
Read MoreMore on CCOs and Law Degrees
My phone rang the other day. At the other end of the line was a source who had to remain anonymous. Why? “Because I’m a compliance officer with a law degree, calling to explain why it’s so useful to have a law degree,” he said. “If my name gets out, the compliance officers without law…
Read MoreNuggets From Navex on Internal Reporting
Compliance software vendor Navex released its 2025 Whistleblower Benchmarking Report last week, a document always worth reading for its analysis of trends in internal reporting and what those trends might mean for your compliance program. Let’s take a look, shall we? The Navex report is useful because it’s so expansive, this year crunching 2.15 million…
Read MoreWhere Compliance Goes From Here
Last week I attended a forum here in Boston talking about the future of the corporate compliance profession. The conversation meandered across numerous issues, but one unspoken question was never far from people’s minds: Should compliance officers be worried that some day soon, your role will become obsolete? My answer is no — or at…
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…
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