Podcast: The Chief Risk Officer Role
We have another Radical Compliance podcast to start the week, this time catching up with those folks at Deloitte who recently published a report urging companies to do a more disciplined job with enterprise risk management. The report, published two weeks ago, surveyed 500 senior executives at large U.S. firms across a range of industries.…
Read MorePodcast: CCOs Facing Retaliation
Today we return to a subject of high importance to compliance officers: how to handle retaliation against yourselves — which, for better or worse, is a reality in this line of work. Several weeks ago I wrote a post recounting the tales of the compliance professionals now suing their former employers, alleging retaliation after those…
Read MoreTalking Compliance Analytics at AB-InBev
We have another Radical Compliance podcast today, this time looking at data analytics and integration challenges at the largest beer brewer in the world: Anheuser-Busch InBev. For anyone considering more analytics in your compliance program (which should be all of you) this chat with Matt Galvin, vice president of ethics and compliance at AB-InBev, is…
Read MorePodcast: Compliance Trends in Finance Sector
Several weeks ago I had a post about compliance trends in the financial sector, based on a report from Thomson Reuters. That report found most financial firms aren’t cutting compliance budgets, and it offered practical insights into how compliance officers might tiptoe into more automation and use of technology. Both issues are important for compliance…
Read MorePodcast: Communicating Compliance
Communicating the importance of ethics and compliance to a diverse workforce is a critical part of a corporate compliance officer’s job. Alas, it’s also a challenging (and sometimes thankless) part of the job, too. So today we’re going to hear from one compliance professional about how she brought the message of compliance to her company’s…
Read MoreCCOs Seeking Public Office in 2018
Now that the 2018 political season is picking up, we should talk about a small but splendid phenomenon I’ve noticed this spring: ethics and compliance officers running for public office. In New York we have Luke Brussel, a former head of compliance at GE Capital, First Data Corp., and Cengage Learning; he’s is running for…
Read MoreReview: Complete Compliance Handbook
Tom Fox, the self-proclaimed “FCPA Evangelist” and my friend for years in compliance news and commentary, just published a new book: The Complete Compliance Handbook: A Guide to Operationalizing Your Compliance Program. Fox was generous enough to supply me with an advance copy, so today we have a review of his book in case you’re…
Read MorePodcast: Materials Declarations and IPC-1754
Our latest Radical Compliance podcast is for heavy industry, aerospace, and defense contractors grappling with hazardous materials in the supply chain, and the new IPC-1754 standard to simplify the declaration of those materials as you send components along to other parties. The standard is the latest in a family of materials compliance regulations that have…
Read MorePodcast: New COSO Chairman Sobel
Internal control and risk management enthusiasts, listen up: we have a new podcast with incoming COSO chairman Paul Sobel, who talked about his desire for COSO to publish more guidance to help companies understand how to put its internal control and risk management frameworks to good, practical use. As always, you can listen to the…
Read MorePodcast: Better Whistleblower Reporting
It’s time for another Radical Compliance podcast, this week discussing how compliance officers can improve the mechanisms they use for whistleblower reporting — a subject that could not be more timely, given that casino magnate Steve Wynn just lost his job over harassment allegations. Our guest is Scott LaVictor, CEO of Neighborhood Watch for Corporations.…
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