Sometime in the future, after tempers have cooled in Ferguson, Mo., over the shooting of Michael Brown, compliance officers should devour all the post-mortems and case studies that inevitably will come. The lessons that can be learned from Brown’s shooting, and police response afterward, are many. They dizzy the mind, really. One week ago I […]
Matt Kelly
Posted inAnti-Bribery
Putting AML Practices to Better Use
Suddenly, anti-money laundering compliance is the new black. We saw that last week with the latest advisory bulletin from FinCEN, a six-page bulletin of advice on how financial institutions can promote a culture of compliance for AML. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe published guidance in July about how AML compliance can be […]
Posted inFrom the Archive
Compliance Week 2015 Conference: Help Shape Our Agenda!
Compliance Week fans, it is that time of year again! Today we open registration for the Compliance Week 2015 conference, which will happen May 18-20 in Washington, D.C.—and as usual, we are calling for speakers, advisers, and all other hangers-on who want to help with one of the compliance community’s premiere events. First, a thank […]
Posted inData Privacy
Privacy Compliance Programs: What the Data Really Says
Hand-wringing about privacy and cyber-security is all the rage in corporate governance and regulatory circles these days. So I was delighted when NERA Economic Consulting published a research paper recently asking a long-overdue question: Exactly how much is privacy worth to consumers, anyway? The research on this point is scarce—which is startling, since companies devote […]
Posted inFrom the Archive
Welcome to the New Compliance Week Website!
For all visitors to ComplianceWeek.com, the new site will be a more visually pleasing experience. We have sharper presentation, more features, and more ability for you to find information useful to you and then share that with your peers. For subscribers, you now have even more ability to find and share content useful to your […]
Posted inUncategorized
Yellen Wants to Manage Risk; Anyone Else Care to Join Her?
Over in Perfect World, Janet Yellen was a sharp regulator who knows how to avoid market meltdowns smartly. In Perfect World, everyone noticed the Federal Reserve chairman’s speech on July 2, where Yellen said she prefers not to raise interest rates as markets grow heated and bubbles start to appear in asset prices. A better […]
Posted inRisk Management
Yellen Wants to Manage Risk; Anyone Else Care to Join Her?
Over in Perfect World, Janet Yellen was a sharp regulator who knows how to avoid market meltdowns smartly. In Perfect World, everyone noticed the Federal Reserve chairman’s speech on July 2, where Yellen said she prefers not to raise interest rates as markets grow heated and bubbles start to appear in asset prices. A better […]
Posted inEthics & Culture
Tackling Culture at the VA
Students of corporate culture should turn their eyes to Washington. We are about to see whether a gigantic effort to re-engineer a deeply flawed culture can actually succeed. I speak of the Veterans Administration, where discussion of poor culture could occupy us for days. On Friday the White House released a blistering diagnosis of what […]
Posted inEthics & Culture
Tackling Culture at the VA
Students of corporate culture should turn their eyes to Washington. We are about to see whether a gigantic effort to re-engineer a deeply flawed culture can actually succeed. I speak of the Veterans Administration, where discussion of poor culture could occupy us for days. On Friday the White House released a blistering diagnosis of what […]
Posted inRisk Management
Getting to Global Financial Crisis 2.0
Let’s talk about global financial meltdowns and economic disaster. We have some fresh thinking on that subject. Last week the International Organization of Securities Commissions published its annual survey of securities markets risks, which takes a look at what’s on the mind of securities regulators around the world. In theory, IOSCO members (the Securities and […]