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Top E&C fails of 2024: Boeing, TD Bank, RTX/Raytheon on compliance naughty list

2024-11-27T15:09:00+00:00By

The biggest Compliance Fails of 2024 show the real-world consequences of noncompliance for the companies that faltered, but also for their customers and their employees.

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Book review: Larry D. Thompson’s memoir revisits lessons from VW, Enron, and PepsiCo.

2024-11-25T14:04:00+00:00By

Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Larry D. Thompson participated in landmark legal cases, such as the Justice Department’s Enron investigation and the Volkswagen Independent Compliance Monitorship. Now his memoir looks back on his extensive career in compliance, offering profound insights into corporate culture, diversity, ethics, and integrity.

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Ian Sherr joins Compliance Week as its new editor-in-chief

2024-09-03T13:47:00+01:00By

New Compliance Week Editor-In-Chief Ian Sherr shares his thoughts on where compliance is headed as businesses meet the realities of not just following the rules, but staying ahead of the pace of regulatory change at a global scale. 

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Top-of-mind takeaways from TPRM Summit

2024-06-17T21:11:00+01:00By

Top-of-mind issues addressed at Compliance Week’s Third-Party Risk Management & Oversight Summit, held June 3-4 in Atlanta, included safe deployment of artificial intelligence, assessing vendor viability and sustainability, understanding the role of procurement in risk ranking, the intersection (or lack thereof) between data privacy and cybersecurity, and many others.

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​Book review: How compliance can help build organizational trust at speed

2024-05-22T16:29:00+01:00By

Anne Morriss, co-author of “Move Fast and Fix Things,” advises compliance officers to tap into curiosity, communicativeness, and comfort with discomfort to build organizational trust, fast.

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FDIC culture scandal begs question: Why don’t regs have CCOs?

2024-05-16T13:43:00+01:00By

Regulators and government agencies often speak to the value of empowered corporate compliance programs to advancing their mission. Why not practice what they preach by empowering compliance among their own ranks?

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Binance CEO got 4 months in prison. FTX’s got 25 years. Was compliance the difference?

2024-05-15T20:00:00+01:00By

Why the wild disparity in the sentences of Binance’s Changpeng Zhao and FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried? Aaron Nicodemus argues the performance of the compliance teams at the two cryptocurrency exchanges was as big a contrast as the penalties earned by their respective founders.

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Five reasons I’m excited for CW’s Financial Crimes Summit

2024-05-09T11:00:00+01:00By

Compliance Week’s Financial Crimes and Regulatory Compliance Summit will feature more than 50 prominent speakers representing government agencies, regulators, banks, investment advisers, and more tackling the top-of-mind risk areas facing the financial services industry.

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Highlights from Compliance Week 2024

2024-04-11T13:00:00+01:00By

Compliance officers took to the main stage to share their experiences at Compliance Week’s 2024 National Conference, while other highlights included conversations around artificial intelligence and the modern challenges the industry is confronting.

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New leadership no easy fix for Irish DPC’s GDPR woes

2024-03-29T13:41:00+00:00By

The Irish Data Protection Commission has a new leadership structure, but it is uncertain whether the changes can get the key privacy regulator caught up on enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation.

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Ten things I’m excited for at CW National 2024

2024-02-22T13:00:00+00:00By

A new month and a new venue but a lot of the same you love about Compliance Week’s National Conference. CW Editor in Chief Kyle Brasseur shares what he’s looking forward to most at the 2024 edition of the annual event.

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Ten things I’d like to see happen in 2024

2024-01-08T16:02:00+00:00By

Election years in the United States, United Kingdom, and at European Parliament, along with ongoing geopolitical tensions, make 2024 difficult to predict—aside from the expectation compliance officers will be busy.