Matt Kelly

Well, that was quite a political curveball Massachusetts threw yesterday. Scott Brown’s startling victory in the special U.S. Senate race should, in truth, startle very few people. Compliance Week is based in Massachusetts and I personally have lived here almost my entire life, so first let me dispel a few notions about why Republicans captured […]

You may have missed it among the orgy of SEC enforcement news this week, but over at the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, the lead prosecutor of the Galleon Group insider-trading case is quitting—to start his own practice in white-collar defense. Joshua Klein, an assistant attorney in the Southern District of New York for 10 […]

Shortly after that Nigerian nitwit tried to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day, I was listening to a talk radio program discussing the federal government’s response and all the new security procedures airline passengers will inevitably be asked to endure: more questioning at the security checkpoint, less freedom of movement on the plane, […]

Well, Compliance Week seems to have touched a nerve with news of the latest speaker for our annual conference this spring: Congressman Barney Frank. As some of you might have seen already, earlier this week we sent out a mass email announcing that Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, will be the keynote […]

Well, that was quite a decade. You may need to dust off some old brain cells to recall (I did), but the 2000s began with recession, financial meltdown and radical legislative overhauls from Congress to fix corporate governance. Next came years of struggle to master the new contours of corporate compliance, complete with policy spats […]

Well, that was quite a decade. You may need to dust off some old brain cells to recall (I did), but the 2000s began with recession, financial meltdown and radical legislative overhauls from Congress to fix corporate governance. Next came years of struggle to master the new contours of corporate compliance, complete with policy spats […]

The following is a guest post from Compliance Week assistant editor Jaclyn Jaeger. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Dec. 7 in the long legal challenge against the legitimacy of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board—and by extension, the legitimacy of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act itself. Conservative activists teaming up with a small auditing […]

Perhaps it’s time to start shooting those black swans. For the last several months we’ve all heard more and more about risk management, primarily because a class of supposed geniuses on Wall Street ruined the economy for the rest of us. Now the buzzword in Washington is risk management, all the time. And the most […]