You might want to dismiss 2013 as an irritating year for corporate compliance, marked by botched healthcare reform, a government shutdown, litigation that left new regulatory efforts in limbo, and the like. And you’d be right: all of them were distractions, whose significance over will fade to nothing. I’d be irritated by that too.
Still, as the year draws to a close, we have other landmark events in compliance that do matter, either as harbingers of trends to come or as glaring examples of problems we still need to solve. My list, no particular order, is below.
