Matt Kelly

Let’s talk about the importance of corporate culture at highly regulated industries. In fact, Compliance Week will literally talk about that subject later this fall, when we hold an executive roundtable on the subject in December. The idea came from the folks at LRN, who spend a lot of time thinking about how to improve […]

Last week I had the privilege of hosting the latest Compliance Week executive forum, this time in Cincinnati to talk about building effective anti-corruption programs. We’ll have a comprehensive look at the discussion there (and at a companion roundtable in Chicago also last week) in an upcoming edition of Compliance Week. Today I want to […]

Calling all privacy officers and other compliance or audit executives worried about data security—we need your help quantifying just how much Corporate America should panic about cyber-attacks. The law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, working with Huron Legal and AJ Gallagher, has assembled a survey for senior-level executives asking questions such as how many attacks […]

Let’s dispense with one alleged outrage about the Twitter IPO announced last week right away: the confidential registration statement. Try as I may, I simply cannot muster much indignation that Twitter is using the JOBS Act to have the Securities and Exchange Commission review its Form S-1 before filing it publicly. Sure, the talking heads […]

Compliance Week fans, it is that time of year again! Today marks the launch of the Compliance Week 2014 annual conference, nine months from now—so as usual, I am calling for speakers, advisers, and all other hangers-on who want to help with one of the compliance community’s premiere events. Typically what I do with this […]

We haven’t had a meeting of the Compliance Week book club in a while, so let me share what I’ve been reading lately: A Real Look at Real World Corporate Governance, by David Larcker and Brian Tayan. If you want a book that lives up to its name—giving practical examples of corporate conduct, both good […]

Earlier this month our compliance compatriots in Latin America gathered in Argentina, for the 2013 Latin America Congress on Ethics, Transparency & Compliance. The event was held in Buenos Aires, and drew more than 200 compliance professionals. I attended the first annual LatAm Congress last year and learned quite a bit about compliance issues in […]

I can’t help but read about the governance farce happening at JC Penney these days and think: Anyone with a pulse can see the characters involved aren’t setting a good tone at the top for a once-respectable retailer. They are screeching at each other while the rest of the business wonders who will be unemployed next. […]

Last week I was looking for a powerful news hook to announce the agenda for Compliance Week West—our privacy and Big Data summit, to be held Nov. 14-15 in Silicon Valley. A group of Russian and Ukrainian hackers, freshly indicted by the feds in New Jersey, delivered exactly what I needed. “Oh yeah, that’s really […]