Research firm Gartner has published a report documenting what most compliance officers have probably known for a while now: the bonkers regulatory environment these days is driving you all nuts. Gartner released today its Quarterly Emerging Risk Report, with findings based on a survey of 266 senior risk assurance executives. The “unsettled regulatory and legal…
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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…
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Tariffs may be putting the world through the blender, but the Compliance Jobs Report marches on. This week we have news from Novartis, Northeastern University, IBM, Fannie Mae, Sutter Health, Vanguard, and more. We also have another compliance consulting firm launched; job leads in social services, online payments, and medical devices; plus Meme of the…
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We’ve seen a flurry of news in anti-corruption compliance this week — and while not all of it is bad, nor does it mean an end to corporate ethics and compliance, lots of it is rather disheartening. Let’s take a look and try to make sense of things. First is news from the Securities and…
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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…
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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…
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The Compliance Jobs Report this week has a big promotion at Uber, a CCO departure at Sonic Healthcare, and other new hires, promotions, and other gossip from Edelman, American Honda, State Street, and many more. Job leads this week are in Connecticut, Nebraska, and South Carolina; and Meme of the Week goes out to messaging…
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Another week, another example from the Trump Administration of how not to run an organization if you have even a passing awareness of integrity, compliance, and common sense — none of which seem present in this pack of bumblers running the country. Our example is, of course, the Signal debacle. We presume that by now…
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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…
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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…
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