A new study from NAVEX Global reveals whistleblower hotlines don’t often prove detrimental to business outcomes.
Neil Hodge
Neil Hodge is a freelance business journalist and photographer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He writes on insurance and risk management, corporate governance, internal audit, compliance, and legal issues for a wide range of publications in the United Kingdom and United States.
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As deadline nears and ‘Brexhaustion’ sets in, still no deal in sight
With less than 100 days until Brexit and the sides taking a break until mid-January, it’s looking inevitable that anxious businesses will not have long-sought certainty on the issue until the clock ticks close to zero.
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U.K. Financial Reporting Council receives scathing review
An independent review of U.K. corporate governance regulator and audit watchdog the Financial Reporting Council calls the agency a “hangover from a bygone era.”
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CMA looks at tackling Big Four’s stranglehold of U.K. audit market
The audit market is facing serious scrutiny from the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, which hopes to carve out external audit from consulting, impose a “joint audit” regime, and increase audit committee chair accountability.
Posted inEthics & Culture
Ted Baker launches probe into CEO ‘hugs’
Ray Kelvin, the founder of fashion retailer Ted Baker, stands accused of giving unwanted hugs to employees and has stepped down temporarily amid an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
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MPs release ‘secret’ Facebook e-mails
The U.K.’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee has released 250 pages of e-mails that show Mark Zuckerberg and other senior executives at Facebook gave certain app developers special access to user data.
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Regulators raise problem of AI in decision making and accountability
Are companies transferring too much decision-making power to machines? That’s the opinion of EU data regulators, who say companies should “think seriously” about telling investors and stakeholders automatons are now in charge of their data.
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‘No-deal’ Brexit risks U.K. and EU data transfer problems
In the event of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit, EU data commissioners are warning of data transfer restrictions between the European Union and the United Kingdom, which will be treated as a third country.
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Compliance is feeling GDPR’s growing pains
Six months after its enactment, the EU’s data privacy regulation still hasn’t provided the clarity many were looking for … and it might not come for a while yet.
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Privacy advocate Schrems foresees lax enforcement of GDPR
Speaking at the recent Compliance Week Europe conference in Amsterdam, leading privacy campaigner Max Schrems cast doubt on whether the newly enacted GDPR would have any teeth.