Ethics & Culture

On Nov. 6, Compliance Week and Boeing presented an editorial roundtable at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Dallas. The focus of the roundtable, which was moderated by Executive Editor Joseph McCafferty, was on structuring compliance and ethics. Attendees’ full biographies are below. Candice Aaron Chief Compliance Officer, Equipment & Commercial DivisionGeneral Electric   Candice Aaron joined […]

LRN announced today that it will incorporate Convercent’s helpline and case management modules into its suite of ethics and compliance education and advisory services. Convercent’s helpline and case management software is part of an integrated governance, risk and compliance platform that centralizes anonymous helplines, web portals and in-person reports, allowing organizations to identify and manage […]

Image: In its full glory, corporate compliance is a complex subject. Compliance Week does its best to provide subscribers with timely, concise looks at news in this field to help you understand how you can build and manage a better compliance program, but let’s be honest—sometimes you need an even deeper dive. Compliance Week now provides even that deeper dive, too. Editor Matt Kelly has more on our new offering inside.

Earlier this month, the University of Houston Law Center, building upon a program first launched in 2010, released a searchable database of the compliance codes for Fortune 500 companies. In our latest podcast, we talk to Houston attorney Ryan McConnell, an adjunct professor who teaches international corporate compliance, about what the database tells us about how companies are approaching such hot topics as social media, facilitation payments, and whistleblowers in their codes.

BRUSSELS—The 2014 Compliance Week Europe conference took place last week, and yet again it was an outstanding event that left me convinced the compliance profession has taken firm root here. A few random observations while they are fresh in my memory… Europeans don’t care about compliance? Baloney. We had more than 150 attendees from 22 […]

The Ethics & Compliance Officer Association and the Ethics Resource Center today announced a strategic alliance to join forces to conduct research, and develop education and other materials for ethics and compliance professionals. The Ethics Resource Center (ERC) is a non-profit group that promotes ethics standards and practices for public and private organizations. The Ethics […]

If there is one lesson that compliance officers know well, it is to learn from others’ mistakes. The mess that the NFL finds itself in following an act of domestic violence by Ray Rice of the Baltimore Ravens seems to grow worse by the day. The botched investigation of the incident by the National Football […]

A new compliance benchmark report reveals some alarming findings for compliance and ethics officers: fraud and instances of retaliation against those who report it continue to rise. According to the 2014 Corporate Governance and Compliance Hotline Report conducted by The Network, the percentage of fraud-related incidents across all reports increased from 23.6 percent in 2012 […]