When external regulation lags, internal audit becomes the only line of defense. AI’s environmental footprint is a live governance exposure, and right now, almost no one is auditing it. A company can run an AI product billions of times a day with no obligation to measure what it consumes: No requirement to report the energy […]
Risk Management
Posted inBest Practices
AI demands a new risk operating model. Are risk leaders up to the task?
For years, risk, compliance, and internal audit functions have been asked to absorb and integrate new technologies and ways of working while facing off against increased business expectations without fundamentally changing the risk management operating model that underpins them. Capabilities such as continuous controls monitoring, dynamic risk assessments, and new reporting requirements have been layered […]
Posted inBest Practices
Two clean companies, one exposed entity
Why compliance integration after a merger is a risk event, not a cost exercise.
Posted inRegulatory Policy
Key steps to prepare for the Crime and Policing Act
Companies that do business in the United Kingdom will soon find themselves subject to a new regime where more people in the organization can be subject to criminal prosecution—and not just for a handful of serious economic crimes.
Posted inRegulatory Policy
CW National: New DOJ policy based on partnership with corporate compliance, Duva says
Compliance officers, listen up: when trouble of a potential criminal nature hits your company, give the U.S. Department of Justice a call, which wants to be your partner in fighting corporate crime.
Posted inRisk Management
AI governance: The new compliance imperative
Artificial intelligence has moved from the innovation lab to the operating core of the modern enterprise. That shift has profound implications for corporate compliance professionals. AI is no longer simply a technology issue for the CIO, a legal issue for the general counsel, or a cybersecurity issue for the CISO. It is now a governance […]
Posted inEthics & Culture
HQP Assessment: Top Strengths and Weaknesses of Ethics and Compliance Programs
Most companies have in place the foundational elements of an ethics and compliance program, but the more elusive elements that get to the heart of improving corporate culture provide key opportunities for improvement, according to the latest findings of the Ethics and Compliance Initiative’s High-Quality Program Assessment.
Posted inRegulatory Policy
EU moves step closer to harmonizing anti-corruption laws
The European Union has moved a step closer in its plans to introduce new rules meant to harmonize how member states tackle corruption, as well as how EU institutions and agencies such as Europol, Eurojust, and the European Anti-Fraud Office work together to protect the bloc’s budget and combat corporate crime.
Posted inRegulatory Policy
Preparing for the EU’s anti-corruption directive
The EU Anti-Corruption Directive is set to come into force in a few months’ time and will take effect in mid-2028. It will harmonize bribery and corruption rules across the Single Market, as well as raise the prospect of better enforcement in those EU countries that have—so far—taken a decidedly lax approach to investigating and prosecuting serious corporate crime.
Posted inOpinion
Gartner director Stuart Strome on how compliance can shift from the ‘no’ department to an instigator of innovation
AI governance is crucial to organizational innovation, according to Stuart Strome, director at Gartner. Businesses that lead corporate governance initiatives around AI will be better placed to manage regulatory risks and facilitate technological advances without increasing friction.
