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Nuggets 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…
Read MoreParsing Trump’s Latest Power Grab
Today I want to return to President Trump’s efforts to consolidate executive power, and what that might mean for regulatory compliance and corporate governance if he succeeds. Our latest example worth dissecting: his executive order issued last week to take control of independent government agencies. Those agencies include regulators near and dear to compliance professionals’…
Read MoreStudy Warns on Ethical Culture Disconnect
LRN released its annual compliance program effectiveness report last week, which is always worth a read to understand the challenges of holding your corporate culture together and driving it forward in a unified way. One big issue in this year’s report: a perceptions gap on ethical culture that exists between senior executives and other employees.…
Read MoreMore Musings on FCPA Enforcement
I wanted to share more thoughts today about President Trump’s order to pause all enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Lots of corporate compliance professionals have been talking about it — and while nobody has any clear sense yet of what comes next, we do have a better sense of the important questions to…
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