The Compliance Week Podcast Archive

Compliance Week regularly chats with executives, lawyers, auditors, regulators, consultants and other people in the know, to hear their thoughts about the latest compliance and corporate governance issues. The archive of those podcasts is available below to Compliance Week subscribers; simply click on the headline to download the audio file.

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Podcast: The Starwood Approach to Local Cultures

March 26, 2013

Plenty of corporations talk about the need to better understand overseas markets. Well, $6.3 billion Starwood Hotels takes that goal seriously: every other year, it relocates its senior leadership team to a foreign market for one month. In our latest podcast we tracked down General Counsel Ken Siegel—at Starwood's temporary HQ in Dubai—to ask what ethics and compliance lessons he learns while on the road.
 

Podcast: Gamification of Compliance Training

February 01, 2013

Looking for ways to make compliance training more engaging? How about turning it into a video game? In this week's podcast we talk with Adam Sodowick, founder and CEO of True Office, a company that turns compliance training into video games that employees play on their computers. There's an added benefit to the gamification approach, Sodowick says: "instant feedback." How employees score on the games indicates how much training they absorb.
 

Podcast: Energy Cos. and Derivatives Compliance

August 10, 2012

Compliance Week's news podcast series returns this week! We chat with Bill Hederman, head of the energy compliance practice at Deloitte, about new derivatives trading rules imposed by Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act, and the steps energy companies should take to prepare for deadlines only six weeks away. Don't miss our virtual forum on Title VII on Aug. 20.
 

Podcast: Q&A WIth PCAOB Member Jeanette Franzel

April 19, 2012

Our compliance podcast series returns this week! We catch up with Jeanette Franzel, newest member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Franzel shares her views on controversies such as the possibility of mandatory auditor rotation and on the more rigorous role auditing firms should play generally to avoid auditing failures.
 

Podcast: Anti-Money Laundering Today

September 18, 2011

Next month brings the 10th anniversary of the Patriot Act—which transformed how financial firms monitor and police against money laundering. In this week's podcast, we look at how anti-money laundering compliance has evolved, how compliance officers have evolved along with it, and what the future may bring next.
 

Humanitarian Crisis and Conflict Mineral Disclosure

August 22, 2011

Compliance officers already know the technical challenges of the SEC's proposed rule for "conflict mineral" disclosure. This week, we chat with former chief compliance officer Marcia Narine—who is going to the Congo to work with victims of the conflict mineral trade directly—about the humanitarian disaster there, and whether the SEC rule will help to ease the crisis.
 

BIS Proposes Export Control Reforms

July 25, 2011

The Bureau of Industry and Security has proposed tweaking export control regulations to shift some military goods from one control list to another. In this week's podcast, we explore how that seemingly bureaucratic change could possibly cause larger licensing headaches for defense contractors.
 

Proper Use of SSAE 16 Audits for Service Providers

July 15, 2011

Public companies now have a new tool to help them investigate the reliability of IT outsourcing firms and other service providers: the SSAE 16 audit of service providers' internal control. In this week's podcast we explore what assurances this new audit does (and does not) provide.
 

Podcast: SOX Whistleblower Decision

July 08, 2011

Good news on the whistleblower protection front: A federal appeals court recently upheld a ruling that yes, companies can fire a corporate whistleblower for other, unrelated reasons, and not run afoul of anti-retaliation language in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In this week's podcast we chat with a lawyer from the firm Seyfarth Shaw to learn more.
 

COBIT Framework for IT Controls

July 01, 2011

The COBIT framework, used by IT departments for years to govern IT controls, has released the exposure draft for its major new upgrade. We called up ISACA, the group that publishes COBIT, to ask what changes are coming and how risk, governance, and audit executives should approach the framework. Hear what ISACA had to say inside.
 
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