The Compliance Jobs Report this week is dominated by hires in finance, healthcare and pharma, or trade compliance; no surprise given the economic uncertainty these days. Promotions to note at Baxter International, Upgrade, Northrop Grumman, Tyson Foods and elsewhere; plus job leads in AI, health insurance, and jam! We also take any other gossip you…
If you’re one of the many white-collar workers quietly freaking out over the possibility that artificial intelligence will wipe out your career, then like me, you probably saw the news yesterday that payments company Block is cutting its workforce by 40 percent — thanks to the power of AI, according to chief executive Jack Dorsey.…
Federal prosecutors in New York have released their new policies for prosecuting corporate misconduct, with promises of no monetary penalties, no monitors, and pretty much no prosecution at all for most corporations; and with big shifts in what prosecutors define as “aggravating circumstances” that do or don’t leave you eligible for a declination in the…
The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced several “significant updates” to its Enforcement Manual, including more user-friendly policies for the targets of investigations and a refresher on how the agency evaluates cooperation when deciding whether to impose civil penalties. The agency unveiled the new policies on Tuesday, although chairman Paul Atkins has been talking up…
COSO has released new guidance on how businesses can manage the risks of generative artificial intelligence, warning that generative AI is moving into corporate organizations “far faster than traditional governance models anticipated” and bringing a host of new risks that need attention sooner rather than later. The guidance, 30 pages of how to fit COSO’s…
Here’s a thorny question quickly bubbling into existence at the intersection of HR, risk management, corporate ethics, regulatory compliance, and technology. To what extent should a company require its employees to use artificial intelligence as part of their jobs? This is on my mind because numerous stories have streaked across the headlines lately of companies…
Lots of healthcare-related news in the Compliance Jobs Report this week, although we also have a few hires at Anthropic and other news from RealPage, Compassus, Fanatics, Takeda, Walmart, Cargill, Etihad Airways and elsewhere. Job leads are in hotels (yes, that CCO opening at Hilton), software development, and pharmaceuticals. Plus Meme of the Week! We…
We have another reminder today of the long and sweeping range of sanctions enforcement — and especially for you folks in the education world! The Treasury Department just imposed a $1.7 million penalty on a swanky youth sports camp in Florida for enrolling the children of two senior members of Mexican drug cartels. The Office…
Retaliation against compliance professionals is back in the news again, this time with allegations that cryptocurrency giant Binance fired five investigators who had found evidence that Iranian interests had received at least $1 billion through the exchange in recent years. Even worse, former Binance CEO Chengpeng Zhao — who pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges in…
Last week Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index, which presented a rather depressing decline in clean government around the world. Today I want to take that concept of corruption perceptions and apply it at the small scale: How could you calculate a corruption perception index for your own organization? This nifty idea came…
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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.