Tone at Top Gone Wrong: The Christie Example

By Matt Kelly | July 5, 2017

Nothing says “America!” these days like righteous indignation at a fellow American doing something we don’t like. So as we return from our Fourth of July holiday, let’s all give thanks to one American who cultivates that spirit and gives chief compliance officers a great example to cite next time you’re talking with the CEO…

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Compliance Jobs Report: June 30

By Matt Kelly | July 1, 2017

Another busy Compliance Jobs Report this week! New compliance and risk officers at Humana, Bank of the West, and Funding Circle; promotions at Tata Motors, Teva Pharmaceuticals, and Standard Chartered; and lots of other move around the industry. This week’s jobs report was delayed one day to make room for our outstanding interview with Hui…

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At Last! Chen Talks Compliance

By Matt Kelly | June 30, 2017

The Hui Chen hit parade continues! Today the corporate compliance community can, finally, hear her thoughts on the one subject Chen hasn’t yet discussed publicly: the actual love and care of corporate compliance programs. I spoke with Chen earlier this week, and you may already know her backstory. She was hired in October 2015 as…

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FCPA Enforcement in Trump Era: Example 1

By Matt Kelly | June 28, 2017

Two weeks ago we had our first FCPA enforcement action under the Trump Administration: a decision not to prosecute Linde Corp., a German chemical company that confessed sketchy transactions a subsidiary made with officials from the Republic of Georgia nearly 10 years ago. As the first FCPA action we’ve seen in the Age of Trump,…

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Hui Chen Breaks Silence on DoJ Exit

By Matt Kelly | June 25, 2017

Hui Chen, the Justice Department’s now-former compliance counsel who raised eyebrows with her social media jabs at the Trump Administration, finally spoke over the weekend, saying she left her job because “holding companies to standards that our current administration is not living up to was creating a cognitive dissonance that I could not overcome.” Chen…

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Compliance Jobs Report: June 23

By Matt Kelly | June 23, 2017

We have another doozy of a Compliance Jobs Report this week. Lots of personnel turnover in the Fraud Section in the Justice Department (farewell, Hui Chen); plus compliance officer news at JBS, Crane Co., Fresenius Medical, Allergan, and elsewhere. And don’t forget, SCCE wants some lucky compliance officer to be its next CEO. I gather…

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Compliance, Careers, and Cannabis Industry

By Matt Kelly | June 22, 2017

Good news for all you compliance professionals secretly intrigued by those stoners from Pineapple Express: compliance in the cannabis industry is shaping up to be a fascinating, and possibly lucrative, career niche. Earlier this week I caught up with Amy McDougal, a compliance consultant at CLEAResources who recently gave a presentation to members of the…

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Snell Announces SCCE Exit

By Matt Kelly | June 20, 2017

Roy Snell, chief executive officer at the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics and the Health Care Compliance Association for 16 years, will retire in 2020. Snell announced the news on Tuesday afternoon, although rumors of his retirement had been circulating for several months. And Snell isn’t disappearing immediately, either: the plan is to bring…

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Talking About Information Risk

By Matt Kelly | June 19, 2017

Compliance officers can’t ponder the threat of information risk enough these days—so to fill that need, I’ll be hosting a three-part webinar series starting next week to explore the subject. Set your calendars! Information risk intrigues me so much because it’s so hard to define, and therefore so slippery to address. Sure, once upon a…

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Compliance Jobs Report: June 16

By Matt Kelly | June 16, 2017

This week’s Compliance Jobs Report has new compliance officers appointed at Player’s Network, Gerson Lehrman Group, and Marvell Semiconductor. Columbia Sportswear just lost its GRC head to a software vendor, and we have some turnover in the regulatory world to report too. I gather these bits of information from LinkedIn, news alerts, and friends emailing…

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