Matt Kelly

This week I had the privilege of appearing at the info360 Expo in New York—yet another convention exploring the potential of “new media,” an idea that can be rather vague, but I was tapped to discuss one of my favorite topics: squaring our social media world with our compliance-centric regulatory system. I shared the stage […]

The Compliance Week 2012 conference is now part of history, and we had a fantastic three days of panel discussions, keynote addresses, product demonstrations and case studies. More than 450 people attended, and you can read plenty of coverage of the event in this week’s newsletter and our print magazine arriving on your desks in […]

Every year I kick off the week of the Compliance Week annual conference by spot-lighting what I suspect will be the most interesting, important, or just plan newsworthy sessions we have on our agenda. This year we have so many prominent keynote speakers and so many pressing issues, the choices are harder than ever to […]

I had the good fortune to spend last week in Buenos Aires, enjoying the local parrilla cuisine, but more importantly, also attending the first-ever Latin American Congress on Ethics,Transparency, and Anti-Corruption. The conference was hugely informative and eye-opening for an americano like me; too often, compliance officers perched here in Corporate America, headquarters for the […]

The British Parliament has published its final report on the phone-hacking scandal at News Corp., a blistering critique that calls media mogul Rupert Murdoch “not a fit person” to lead the $33 billion conglomerate. The report singled out numerous employees of News International, the European newspaper wing of News Corp., and said they lied to […]

Good Lord, considering all the sorry spectacle of Corporate America in the news right now, if I were a corporate compliance officer, I’d probably want to quit and walk away from the business too. That was my recurring thought all weekend, as I read the New York Times’ damning portrait of corruption and bribery at […]

It was a quiet morning last week when the phone rang. I answered. “Hey, it’s me!” said the voice on the other end of the line. He was one of my spies in the nonprofit world, the head of internal audit at a nationally known charity—a group that holds fund-raising walks all the time, and […]

So there we were: me and a business associate, at the RSA Conference in San Francisco a few weeks ago, trying to get a document printed. One would expect this to be an easy task to accomplish. Of course, this is Corporate America, so nothing could be further from the truth. The printer at my […]

Sometimes the news around corporate compliance, risk, and governance just comes too fast and furious to keep pace. Various items on my mind today… Your mystery regulator. Last week I had the privilege of hosting another Compliance Week executive roundtable, where we met with compliance and risk officers from the banking sector to talk about […]

Well, for better or worse, Congress now seems poised to pass the JOBS Act this week. From here forward, a large swath of companies going public on U.S. capital markets will be classified as “emerging growth companies” and receive a five-year exemption from the corporate governance and investor protections Washington has instituted over the last […]