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should be your prime source.”- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Aly McDevitt2025-04-30T14:03:00
Necessity is the mother of invention, and the latest example is also this year’s Compliance Program of the Year award winner: the Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS), which built a full-fledged compliance program from scratch in the middle of a war.
The URCS initiated its compliance program less than two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As the war waged in 2024, the program’s chief risk officer, Dr. Mariia Polomoshnova, and her small team built the compliance program from the ground up, policy by policy, process by process, all while facing the unimaginable stress test of war and the rapidly shifting regulatory and humanitarian environments that come with it.
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2025-06-04T20:56:00Z By Ian Sherr
Compliance is increasingly in the spotlight as companies are tackling everything from artificial intelligence and other new technologies to risk management and mitigation. But it’s soft skills of communication and relationship building that are becoming the most critical tools for success.
2025-06-04T18:34:00Z By Ian Sherr and Aaron Nicodemus
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked a war with unusual implications: The U.S. has stepped up sanctions and export controls. But companies are increasingly learning that the most seemingly innocuous products can find themselves in “dual use,” as a product for daily life and a product for war. A gyroscope ...
2025-05-29T16:07:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Corporate governance is, all too often, handed down from generation to generation. Like a well-worn jacket, it works great—until it doesn’t. Typically, it is a crisis that forces companies to reassess their corporate governance framework, as gaps are filled and poor policies rewritten. But it doesn’t have to be that ...
2025-04-30T14:25:00Z By Ian Sherr
We all have terrible attention spans. Understanding how people learn can mean the difference between effective compliance training programs or an eye roll.
2025-04-29T15:25:00Z By Ian Sherr
Too often, compliance professionals do their jobs only to receive a pink slip at the end. Panelists at Compliance Week’s 20th Anniversary National Conference in Washington, D.C. this week said compliance professionals need regular access and reporting lines to CEOs and boards of directors, and to feel free to speak ...
2025-04-29T15:00:00Z By Ian Sherr
More than half of the people who sit on corporate boards have a background in finance, with far fewer from compliance. But change may be coming. Panelists in a session of Compliance Week’s 20th National Conference in Washington, D.C., discussed the way boards of directors are changing in response to ...
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