MENLO PARK, Calif.—There we were, in the heart of Silicon Valley, hosting Compliance Week West and talking about the most pressing challenges compliance officers face today in privacy and data management. Suddenly, we stumbled into a superb string of insights about policy management generally. Let me share a few of them here. Thank the two-person […]
Matt Kelly
Posted inFrom the Archive
Warren 2016 Whispers Raise a Point on Reform
I’m loathe to bring up 2016 presidential politics, but an article on Politico.com the other day about one possible candidate three years hence does raise a point compliance and regulatory officers might want to consider. The article speculates about the possible candidacy of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Warren herself has said repeatedly that she has […]
Posted inFrom the Archive
Compliance Lurches From Financial Crisis to Staffing Crisis
Prepare yourselves, compliance officers: the banking crisis is back to haunt you yet again. So say more and more of you, talking to me, wondering how your lives will change as one Wall Street bank after another announces dramatic plans to expand its compliance staff. “This is going to be huge,” one chief compliance officer […]
Posted inFrom the Archive
Another True Tale From Compliance Front Lines
There I was, having drinks with the director of risk and compliance at a mid-sized private bank near Chicago. He had just visited a newly acquired operation down south. I asked him how that trip had gone. “Well,” he said with a sigh, “the first sign of trouble was the gun in the Beauregard Room. […]
Posted inFrom the Archive
First Sessions for Compliance Week 2014 Conference Announced
Fans of the Compliance Week annual conference will recall that last month I launched a poll to solicit ideas for our 2014 conference, to be held May 19-21 in Washington, D.C. We received great feedback, and I am happy to announce the first group of sessions that will be on our agenda. They are: Integrating […]
Posted inFrom the Archive
LinkedIn Scouting for First-Ever Compliance Chief
News on the jobs scene: LinkedIn is hiring its first-ever head of compliance. The social networking company apparently posted the job—on LinkedIn, naturally—about two weeks ago. It will be based in Mountain View, Calif., and looks to be the standard-issue job description for someone building a company’s compliance program: develop and implement policies, respond to […]
Posted inFrom the Archive
Privacy Compliance: Everything Old Is New Again
BRUSSELS—Well, compliance officers, for all the years of frustration you’ve endured struggling with anti-corruption programs, I have good news from last week’s Compliance Week Europe conference: that experience will give you a superb grounding for the years of frustration coming next with privacy programs. Time and again during our Europe conference, issues of privacy streaked […]
Posted inFrom the Archive
Core Values Aren’t Enough; Look at Your Core Priorities
Last week I wrote about the importance of companies articulating their core values and then creating a corporate culture to support them. This week I’d like to write about how those two steps don’t do the whole job. Values and culture are important, to be sure. Yet so often I hear compliance officers, from all […]
Posted inFrom the Archive
Researchers Discover Brain’s ‘C-Spot’ for Compliance
News just in from the science desk: researchers in Europe say they have found the part of the brain that encourages compliant behavior—and even better, they believe they can improve compliance with what they call “transcranial direct-current stimulation.” Sounds like the plot of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” to me, but this is news […]
Posted inFrom the Archive
The Politics of Doing Nothing
A certain segment of America—the cranky segment—has long said they would like to see a new political party emerge in Washington to break the stale politics of Democrats and Republicans. Well now we have one, and if nothing else, that party has certainly left Washington broken. I speak of the Tea Party, that band of […]
