Keeping Humans in the AI Loop

By Matt Kelly | October 10, 2025

I spent this week in Lithuania attending a conference for compliance officers in Eastern Europe, and this being Europe, of course that meant artificial intelligence and data privacy were all over the agenda. So it’s rather poetic that European regulators also just published fresh guidance on human oversight of automated decision-making systems.  The guidance was…

Compliance Jobs Report: Oct. 10

By Matt Kelly | October 10, 2025

The Compliance Jobs Report is back with another week’s worth of personnel news! We have a new ethics and compliance boss at Georgia Tech, other new hires at the Nature Conservancy, Danaher, Stripe, Sierra Nevada, and more. Also promotions at AbbVie, Stryker, and Hewlett-Packard, among others; plus job leads in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and toys! We…

Oct. 30: Compliance Career Forum

By Matt Kelly | October 3, 2025

Readers of Radical Compliance know that we love to talk about the compliance job market around here. So I’m delighted to announce that we are co-hosting a virtual Compliance Officer Career day on Oct. 30, to discuss what the job market looks like for compliance officers these days and how you can keep positioning yourselves…

Compliance Jobs Report: Oct. 3

By Matt Kelly | October 3, 2025

The Compliance Jobs Report kicks off October with several retirements to note, plus new hires at Organon, Eli Lilly, Loews, Visa, Nabors, and lots more; and promotions at Bulgari, Caterpillar, Thermo Fisher, Elevance, and elsewhere. Job leads are in nature, nuclear power, and banking. Meme of the Week goes out to voluntary self-disclosure! We also…

AI and Policy Chatbots, Part II

By Matt Kelly | October 2, 2025

Today I want to return to the idea of using an AI-driven chatbot as a compliance policy adviser for employees. On one hand, the potential gains for your compliance program are clear; but are we miscalculating some of the potential risks that AI chatbots might bring to your program too? This particular bee crept into…

California Nails Tractor Supply on Privacy

By Matt Kelly | September 30, 2025

Tractor Supply Co. has agreed to pay $1.35 million to settle charges with California regulators that the company violated the state’s tough data privacy law — the largest privacy fine in state history, and the state’s first enforcement action that extends to privacy rights for job applicants. Let’s take a look. The California Privacy Protection…

Party Alert! Boston Compliance Meetup

By Matt Kelly | September 30, 2025

Calling all compliance, audit, and risk professionals around Boston: we’ll be hosting another after-work cocktail party on Wednesday, Oct. 15. All are welcome to attend, meet colleagues, and talk shop.  A merry band of compliance enthusiasts in Boston (me included) try to hold these networking events every few months. Boston doesn’t have nearly as much…

When Bots Rip Apart Your Business

By Matt Kelly | September 29, 2025

Corporate compliance officers are always thinking about how to make sure that your organization’s various stakeholder groups — employees, shareholders, customers, donors, business partners — all understand your corporate culture, values, and ethical priorities. Now we have a new stakeholder group threatening that goal: stakeholders that don’t actually exist.  So says a fascinating article from…

Compliance Jobs Report: Sept. 26

By Matt Kelly | September 26, 2025

What better way to celebrate World Compliance Officer Day than with the Compliance Jobs Report? This week we have new hires at TD Bank, U.S. Bank, Lockheed Martin, Equifax, Heinecken, and many more. Promotions at AbbVie, Google, Capital One, and elsewhere; and job leads are in insurance, convenience stores, and documents! We also take any…

Are Boards Getting Cyber Wrong?

By Matt Kelly | September 25, 2025

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…