Well that didn’t take long: on the same day that Pam Bondi was sworn in as the next U.S. attorney general, Bondi issued a flurry of policy memos that will have the practical effect of taking several big steps back from enforcement of corporate misconduct laws. Bondi arrived at the Justice Department on Wednesday afternoon…
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Most compliance officers will at some point in their careers find themselves needing to turn around an under-performing corporate compliance program. So today we have another Radical Compliance podcast interview, this time with a compliance officer who styles himself as a “turn-around specialist.” He had plenty to say about how to get under-performing programs back…
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Don’t look now, compliance professionals, but remember the DOGE commission’s promises to streamline federal regulation and improve efficiency? That’s all falling apart. Now it’s just another Elon Musk slash-and-burn campaign to break everything and let others clean up the mess. At least some of those others will likely be you. It seems like just weeks…
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FINRA, the regulator for broker-dealer firms, published its annual report on regulatory oversight issues this week — and to little surprise, the report included a section on third-party risk and the internal controls that your firm should consider to keep those risks in check. The advice is useful to anyone in any business sector, so…
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The Compliance Jobs Report this week has new hires to note at Avanos Medical, TD Bank, Palo Alto Networks, Honeywell, and many more. We also have promotions at BNY, Cash App, and elsewhere; plus job leads in banking, defense contracting, and the best engineering school in the world. Meme of the Week goes out to…
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Good news for compliance officers who believe our great and noble profession should be running the country: An ethics and compliance professional at Medtronic won a special election on Tuesday for state senate in Minnesota! Doron Clark, senior director of ethics, training, and communications at Medtronic, cruised to victory, winning roughly 90 percent of the…
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Compliance officers, we need to talk about corporate culture. It’s been going through some stuff lately, that stuff could have big implications for the compliance programs you so desperately want people to take seriously. First is the push to bring employees back into the office once and for all — full time, five days a…
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President Trump fired more than a dozen inspectors general across the federal government Friday night, yet another sign that Trump has little concern about objective mechanisms for accountability in his administration. The president fired at least 12 inspectors general, according to an article in the Washington Post, although other news outlets later reported that as…
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Here’s an interesting item for all you cybersecurity auditors and GRC professionals: the state of New York just fined PayPal $2 million for “failing to use qualified personnel to manage key cybersecurity functions,” which led to an inept rollout of new accounting processes and a subsequent privacy breach. The New York Department of Financial Services…
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Lots of items as usual in the Compliance Jobs Report this week. A compliance officer is joining the board at TD Bank (good), plus new hires at Dentsply Sirona, Zimmer Biomet, RBC, Snyk, and other firms. We also have a ton of promotions to note, and job leads are in telecom, retail, and financial analysis.…
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