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 […]
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Calling All Compliance Pros!
Compliance Week subscribers, we need your help! The magazine has not one, but two upcoming items of business that need input from compliance experts, and that means you. First is our Compliance Week 2012 annual conference, which will happen June 4-6 next year in Washington, D.C. Behind the scenes we’ve been busy assembling a superb […]
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Pride and Prejudice, Risk and Regulation
Spare a thought for your company’s treasurer or head of risk management this week. If you don’t know who that person is, just look for the one banging his or her head against the wall. One of that person’s primary roles is to manage your company’s cash: to invest it as wisely as possible for […]
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Policy Management Best Practice
Who knew that compliance officers could get so animated about policy management? You did, apparently, since Compliance Week had a full house recently when we held our most recent editorial roundtable on that very subject in Boston with co-hosts EthicsPoint. Faithful readers of my column will recall that I’m a recent convert to the importance […]
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Proper Use of SSAE 16 Audits for Service Providers
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. (15 min., 3.2 Mb)
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A Trio of Compliance Thoughts
Sometimes so much is happening in the world of corporate compliance that I can’t address just one subject in my usual column here. This would be one of those weeks… Corporate Culture, Crystallized Compliance officers and regulators alike talk all the time about the importance of a “culture of compliance” and “strong ethical tone at […]
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The Hardest Department to Work With?
Last week I was chatting with the chief compliance officer of a large manufacturer, yet another U.S. corporation that is growing briskly overseas and acquiring foreign business units to bolster those operations. We were talking about the challenges of running a compliance department, which is often small and highly dependent on other departments in a […]
