Here’s a theory of corporate conduct that seems just too perfect for this year’s fraught political climate: what if companies are more likely to commit misconduct depending on the political fervor of their CEOs? So says a fascinating bit of research from two business professors, who developed a way to measure the political enthusiasm of…
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The Compliance Jobs Report this week has news from Anthropic, Citibank, Lear Corp., the Gap, Raymond James, and lots more. We also have some work anniversaries to note, and job leads all along the East Coast in banking, higher ed, and photocopying! Meme of the Week goes out to fans of “Mean Girls.” Always remember…
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An exclusive new report finds that most corporate compliance teams struggle to perform adequate testing and monitoring of their compliance programs, and also struggle to get access to the enterprise data they need to address their organizations’ compliance risks effectively. Those are just some of the findings of a study released this week by Rethink…
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The Justice Department wants companies tinkering with artificial intelligence to be more open-minded about testing their AI systems and products for vulnerabilities, and specifically wants them to adopt a “vulnerability disclosure program” much the same way tech companies already disclose software bugs. So says Nicole Argentieri, head of the Criminal Division, who delivered a speech…
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Today let’s return to the Justice Department’s newly revised guidance for effective corporate compliance programs. Specifically, let’s give a close analysis of what those updates say about compliance officers’ access to data and IT systems. For starters we should appreciate why access to data is such an important issue for the Justice Department at all.…
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The Compliance Jobs Report this week has news from TransUnion, Timken, Stripe, Uber, Expedia, JLL, and lots more. We also have a few compliance pros opening their own consulting firms, new board directors at SCCE, job leads in healthcare, motorcycles, and mobile phones, and plenty other gossip! Always remember that we need your help to…
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For nearly three years now, the Securities and Exchange Commission has fired off one enforcement action after another at the financial services industry for employees’ improper use of messaging apps. Today let’s consider two contrarian voices that raise a fair question: exactly how are firms supposed to satisfy this nearly impossible compliance goal? Those contrarian…
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The Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics held its 2024 conference this week in Dallas, bringing together more than 1,200 compliance professionals to schmooze, hear news, and attend a battalion of informative sessions on how to address all the compliance headaches that corporations face. As always, Radical Compliance was on the scene to capture the…
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The Justice Department is rolling out fresh guidance for how it evaluates corporate compliance programs, with new sections addressing artificial intelligence, a company’s speakup culture, and whether compliance teams have sufficient access to the data they need to keep their programs on the right path. The head of the department’s Criminal Division, Nicole Argentieri, announced…
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Today we have another Radical Compliance podcast, this time to talk about compensation clawback policies: how to structure them, the challenges in using them, and what one recent FCPA case tells us about the favorable outcomes your company can achieve when clawbacks are part of your compliance program. The case in question involves Boston Consulting…
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