Our Compliance Jobs Report for the Memorial Day Weekend includes a compliance officer driving off from Ferrari and another departure at Northern Trust; new hires at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, OSI Group, and RTÉ; a changing of the compliance guard at Toyota Motor North America, and lots more. Job leads are in elevators, water, and oil! Always…
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Update from Washington: those bills to abolish the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and to bar states from adopting their own rules for artificial intelligence for 10 years both made it into the tax-and-spending legislation that House Republicans adopted Thursday night, bringing both measures another step closer to becoming law. The “big, beautiful bill,” which…
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Managing conflicts of interest is a big part of any corporate compliance officer’s job. Today we have a fascinating glimpse of how complicated that work can be, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal and its detailed account of how the now-former Kohl’s CEO Ashley Buchanan sent company business to his girlfriend. You probably remember the…
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Here’s a conundrum of corporate governance for you: What should you do when the president of the United States starts hectoring your company to keep its prices low, even at the expense of profit margins? This is not a hypothetical. It is yet another outburst from President Trump, who opened fire on Walmart this weekend…
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Another big Compliance Jobs Report! We have a departure from CEVA Logistics, new hires at Eli Lilly, JLL, Avnet, Xylem, Rabobank, and many more; plus promotions to note at Alaska Air, Julius Baer, Macquarie, CNOOC, and elsewhere. Job leads are in pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and more manufacturing; and Meme of the Week goes out to Justice…
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Today we have another exploration of Glencore’s recent compliance progress report, this time looking at how the trading giant handles third-party risk management. Glencore’s report does offer extensive detail into how it runs its compliance program and third-party risk drives everyone nuts, so let’s see what lessons we can learn. For those unfamiliar with the…
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Another bold move from Congress while you were sleeping last night: an important House committee voted to support a 10-year ban on states enforcing any laws or regulations they adopt for artificial intelligence. The vote happened at the House Energy & Commerce Committee, which was marking up various pieces of legislation destined to be part…
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The Justice Department has announced new, more relaxed policies for when it will prosecute corporate crime, promising “a clear path to declination” that bypasses the criminal resolution process entirely for companies that self-disclose and remediate their misconduct. Matthew Galeotti, acting head of the Criminal Division at the Justice Department, announced the new policy in a…
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Today I want to go back to artificial intelligence and some of the policy management and corporate culture challenges that the technology keeps posing. KPMG recently released a wide-ranging survey of how people view and use AI, with statistics that could cast a long shadow over your own AI compliance efforts. Let’s take a look.…
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This week I had the good fortune to moderate a webinar on third-party risk management, and the role that compliance officers should play in this critically important — but increasingly complicated — task. The conversation was excellent and I took plenty of notes; and now pass them along to the compliance community for whatever they’re…
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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.