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The 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…
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 MoreCCOs and Law Degrees, Yet Again
One of the more lively discussions Radical Compliance sparked last year was a debate about whether compliance professionals need a law degree to have a successful career. Short answer: a nice to have, but certainly not necessary. Today I want to revisit that issue thanks to some fresh perspective from our friends in the finance…
Read MoreWhy Strong Compliance Still Matters So Much
Earlier this week I had the good fortune to attend a panel discussion here in Boston of compliance officers talking about how their approach to compliance might change thanks to the arrival of the Trump Administration. As I suspected, all of them said their approach really hasn’t changed at all — and they weren’t sure…
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