corporate culture

Study Warns on Ethical Culture Disconnect

By Matt Kelly | February 17, 2025 |

LRN released its annual compliance program effectiveness report last week, which is always worth a read to understand the challenges of holding your corporate culture together and driving it forward in a unified way. One big issue in this year’s report: a perceptions gap on ethical culture that exists between senior executives and other employees.…

Read More
Compliance jobs

Compliance Jobs Report: Feb. 14

By Matt Kelly | February 14, 2025 |

What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than the Compliance Jobs Report? This week we have news from Walmart, Bicycle Therapeutics, Pax8, Goldman Sachs, Square, and more. Job leads are in banking, online auctions, and fintech firms; and Meme of the Week goes out law firms feeling the pressure.  Always remember that we need your…

Read More
fcpa

More Musings on FCPA Enforcement

By Matt Kelly | February 13, 2025 |

I wanted to share more thoughts today about President Trump’s order to pause all enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Lots of corporate compliance professionals have been talking about it — and while nobody has any clear sense yet of what comes next, we do have a better sense of the important questions to…

Read More
trump

Trump Halts FCPA Enforcement

By Matt Kelly | February 11, 2025 |

OK, the inevitable has happened. President Trump has issued an executive order directing the Justice Department to halt all enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and devise new enforcement guidelines for future prosecution. Let’s all take a deep breath, and then move on to consider the implications for corporate compliance programs. Is Trump’s anti-anti-corruption…

Read More
CFPB

Deregulatory Bluster at CFPB

By Matt Kelly | February 9, 2025 |

I didn’t expect to write another post so soon on the deregulatory shenanigans of the Trump Administration and the implications for compliance officers, but already we have an example too perfect to ignore: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the deep freeze that agency entered this weekend.  In case you missed it, on Saturday night…

Read More
Justice

Justice Department Policy Changes, Part II

By Matt Kelly | February 7, 2025 |

We now have more clarity on attorney general Pam Bondi’s plan to overhaul Justice Department enforcement priorities — and yes, it’s going to be a big retreat from holding corporations accountable for certain types of misconduct, while the department spends more time prosecuting drug cartels, illegal aliens, and organizations with DEI programs. Bondi first announced…

Read More
compliance jobs

Compliance Jobs Report: Feb. 7

By Matt Kelly | February 7, 2025 |

Another brisk Compliance Jobs Report! We have new hires at ZenDesk, University of Arizona, Acuity Brands, FlagStar Bank, and many more. Promotions to report at Aramco, AT&T, Bon Secours, Saab, and elsewhere; and job leads are in artificial intelligence, mortgages, and equipment manufacturing. Meme of the Week goes out to AI too! Always remember that…

Read More
Bondi

New AG Signals FCPA Retreat

By Matt Kelly | February 6, 2025 |

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…

Read More
program

Turning Around Compliance Programs

By Matt Kelly | February 5, 2025 |

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…

Read More

DOGE, Baited & Switched

By Matt Kelly | February 3, 2025 |

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…

Read More

About Us

Technically, Radical Compliance is the personal blog of Matt Kelly, long-time writer and observer of the corporate compliance and GRC scene. I was a writer, editor, and publisher at Compliance Week, 2003 through 2015; some of you may know me from my career there. I also speak frequently at compliance conferences and other events, and will pretty much shoot the breeze on any compliance topic with anyone who asks.