Talking Compliance Analytics at AB-InBev

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We have another Radical Compliance podcast today, this time looking at data analytics and integration challenges at the largest beer brewer in the world: Anheuser-Busch InBev. For anyone considering more analytics in your compliance program (which should be all of you) this chat with Matt Galvin, vice president of ethics and compliance at AB-InBev, is…

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Audit, Compliance, and Data-Driven Behavior

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Last week I had a guest post on Navex Global’s blog exploring the future of the internal audit function, and how a more powerful internal audit function might help the ethics and compliance department in new ways. Today we have a practical example from Fidelity Investments, and the news that it has recently sacked more…

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TEC 2017: Importance of Reliable Data

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Workiva’s TEC 2017 conference opened on Tuesday with a group of CFOs fretting about data—and, when you think about it, who can blame them? Companies are drowning in data. CFOs, CEOs, and other senior leaders spend far more time than they should simply confirming the authenticity and accuracy of it. The morning session even featured…

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Getting Started With the Cloud, Data, and Risk

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This week I attended Oracle’s Modern Finance Experience conference here in Boston, where financial reporting professionals convened en masse to talk about risk management and new approaches in cloud-based IT to get that task done. Attendees also had the raw thrill of a private concert with the Goo Goo Dolls on Wednesday night, a band I…

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So You Wanna Do Compliance Analytics…

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Earlier this week I eavesdropped on a webcast hosted by Financial Executives International, talking about how data analytics continues to march its way into the heart of auditing. Almost every compliance officer would say that analytics is marching its way into corporate compliance as well, but let’s be honest—the audit world is ahead of the…

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Conducting Risk Assessments in a Big Data Future

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Last week I came across a gem of a post over on ACL’s in-house blog, about the future of internal audit. One of the senior executives there, Dan Zitting, was talking about the premium that recruiters now place on audit executives who understand data analytics—to the extreme that one recruiter told Zitting, “Frankly no one…

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Keeping Your Compliance Bearings in Big Data World

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Corporate compliance officers have another agency firing warning shots across the bow these days: the Federal Trade Commission, which has shared more of its thinking recently about how businesses should handle Big Data. Last week the FTC published a 35-page report looking at that various ways a firm could get into trouble by using Big…

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Compliance Jobs Report: Apr. 11

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The Complaince Jobs Report this week has new hires at Boston Pharmaceuticals, FNB Corp., a few big European firms, and elsewhere; plus notable promotions at AbbVie, Pepsico, Gilead Sciences, Microsoft, and more. Job leads are in manufacturing, healthcare, and online travel services. Meme of the Week goes out to our frenemies in legal! Always remember…

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Compliance Jobs Report: April 4

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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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Compliance Jobs Report: Mar. 14

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Another Compliance Jobs Report full of news, this week with updates from Scout Motors, Cox Enterprises, Apple, Nidec Motors, Gilead Sciences, Jumeirah, Pfizer, and elsewhere. New jobs, promotions, compliance folks joining consulting firms or vice-versa; we have it all. Job leads are in data analytics, healthcare, and audit firms; and don’t forget Meme of the…

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