A new report finds that most large corporations in the United States assign oversight of cybersecurity risk to the board’s audit committee, which isn’t the craziest governance decision a board can make but does raise questions about whether boards are addressing cybersecurity as wisely as possible. The report comes from MyLogIQ, a software firm that…
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Here’s a tricky one for corporate risk managers and internal audit teams everywhere: worries about geopolitical risk are surging among organizations around the world, but audit teams still rate geopolitical risk as a low priority — creating an “alignment gap” between risk and risk management in some places is alarmingly large. So says a report…
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Compliance officers talk all the time about how artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the programs you run. Today I want to unpack an example of how that might work, courtesy of a case-study I saw last week involving AI and policy management. The company in question is a global IT services firm (23,000…
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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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