Immigration visas might be an obscure topic for corporate compliance officers, but we should spend some time today examining the changes President Trump just announced for holders of H1-B visas. It’s emblematic of so much that we encounter in this messy Trump 2.0 Administration. Here’s what happened. On Friday evening, Trump announced a new $100,000…
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The Compliance Jobs Report this week has new hires at Albemarle, Becton Dickinson, TMS International, and more; and also departures from Allianz Life, HP, and Commonwealth Financial. Promotions to note at Stripe, Lending Club, AbbVie, and elsewhere; plus job leads in insurance, consumer products, and online auctions. Meme of the Week goes out to AI!…
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That’s a wrap on the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics 2025 conference, where more than 1,200 people gathered to swap tips about corporate compliance programs, hear from keynote speakers talking big ideas, and swipe swag from several dozen vendors. As always, we have a roundup of social media dispatches for those who couldn’t attend…
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Compliance officers might be hoping to avoid the vicious political fallout from the assassination of right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk. Well, no such luck: online activists are now trying to out supposed anti-Kirk critics, sometimes getting it wrong, and heaping a pile of investigative and due process headache onto your doorstep. The headache happens as follows.…
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The new head of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics made his public debut today at the SCCE annual conference in Nashville, praising ethics and compliance officers as doing work “more important than any job I’ve had in my life” and the profession overall as one that should endure through the ages. Garth Jordan…
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The Compliance Jobs Report this week has the return of an old Danske Bank compliance leader, a retirement at Citibank, and new hires at BNY, Marqeta, McKinsey, Pacific Life, and lots more. Promotions are at Boston Scientific, Southern Co., Walmart, Temu, and elsewhere; job leads are in steel, farm equipment, and video games. We also…
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Compliance software vendor LRN Corp. released its latest study of corporate codes of conduct last week. Given that the code of conduct is a sacred text for compliance programs everywhere, let’s look at the findings to see what’s common practice for codes these days and how much those practices do or don’t matter in today’s…
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This week I’m attending the annual user conference for Workiva, maker of software for internal audit and GRC teams. This means, of course, that artificial intelligence is all over the agenda and everyone is talking about how AI will transform internal control and SOX compliance. Let’s review the notes I took. One point that came…
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The professional association for compliance officers in the financial services industry has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to form a Compliance Advisory Committee, so that compliance officers at regulated firms can have a stronger voice in SEC policy matters that might affect them. The National Society of Compliance Professionals, which caters to compliance officers…
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This week the Compliance Jobs Report has personnel news from the World Economic Forum, MUFJ, Ralph Lauren, American Express, Boehringer Ingelheim, Roku, and lots more. Job leads this week are in energy, credit cards, and Caribbean cruises; and Meme of the Week goes out to fans of The Office! We also take any other gossip…
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