Compliance

This article was republished with permission from Tom Fox’s FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. This week I have been exploring the different types compliance committees an organization can utilize to help effect a best practices compliance program. I have written about compliance committees at the board of director level; at the junction between…

This article was republished with permission from Michael Volkov’s blog, Corruption, Crime & Compliance. CCOs face many challenges in their jobs. One area that is difficult but usually can be solved with common sense is where to draw the line on attorney-client privilege issues. As a practicing attorney, I can attest to…

This article was republished with permission from Michael Volkov’s blog, Corruption, Crime & Compliance. As the headlines continue to point to major misconduct and scandals involving senior corporate executives, compliance officers need to refocus their efforts and address a critical need. All too often, CCOs have difficulty in requiring board members and…

Today we bring you an interview between Maurice Gilbert, Managing Partner at Conselium, and Galina Datskovsky, CEO of Vaporstream, a leading provider of secure and compliant messaging offering best-in-class infrastructure enabling companies to meet complex bring your own device (BYOD) and information governance requirements. Maurice Gilbert: How did you get…

The first annual report from the U.K.'s anti-slavery commissioner Kevin Hyland has highlighted ways businesses can do more to identify and stop modern slavery in their supply chains. The Commissioner wrote to over 1,000 companies in the U.K., outlining his expectations on what needs to be done under Section 54…

Between new rules from the likes of the SEC and FDIC, a compliance director's day-to-day is getting increasingly complex. In fact, the House Financial Services Committee estimates private sector firms will spend 24 million man-hours annually to comply with Dodd-Frank rules alone. And now that compliance directors can be held…

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) implementation date approaching and an abundance of new requirements coming with it – companies are scrambling to figure out what they need to do in order to ensure their data protection programs are ready. Nothing like a deadline to get everybody moving, right??…