Corporate governance is, all too often, handed down from generation to generation. Like a well-worn jacket, it works great—until it doesn’t. Typically, it is a crisis that forces companies to reassess their corporate governance framework, as gaps are filled and poor policies rewritten. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Surveys & Benchmarking
Posted inEthics & Culture
Survey: Compliance, now at the leadership table, navigates an uncertain risk landscape
At a time when the Trump administration is rewriting many of the rules, the compliance function is being embraced as a strategic partner to the C-suite and board, Compliance Week’s 2024 “Inside the Mind of the CCO” survey shows. The new objective: risk-assess the implications of Trump’s confetti of executive orders and actions.
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Inside the Mind of the CCO: Salaries level out in 2024
An overheated demand for compliance officers in the post-Covid era finally cooled off in 2024, according to Compliance Week’s Inside the Mind of the CCO survey.
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Under intense reg scrutiny, compliance teams report implementing off-channel comms policies
Three of four respondents to Compliance Week’s Inside the Mind of the CCO survey said their employers have policies and procedures in place that govern employee use of unauthorized communications on their cell phones.
The survey, conducted in November and December, found that another 11 percent of the 179 practitioners who answered the question were currently drafting new policies under regulatory scrutiny. Fifteen percent reported that they had no off-channel communications policies in place.
Posted inEthics & Culture
Survey: Compliance faces ‘epistemic risk’ of Trump administration
Compliance officers are coping with uncertainty following President Trump’s election win, with fewer choosing to disclose their political affiliations in this year’s pulse survey. Since Inauguration Day, the President’s actions have signaled a capricious era of compliance, one where respect for dissent might be in question.
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CW Survey Results: Inside the Mind of the CCO
This webcast will discuss the results from our sixth annual benchmarking survey with perspectives from our readership, including 67 chief compliance officers, 12 chief ethics and compliance officers, 37 compliance directors/VPs, and more than 50 junior-level practitioners.
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Ukrainian Red Cross Society ensures compliance in a warzone, as 2025’s Excellence in Compliance Program of the Year
The Ukrainian Red Cross Society, CW’s 2025 Compliance Program of the Year award winner, built a full-fledged compliance program from scratch in twenty months during a full-scale war against Russia. “We didn’t just manage logistics; we built momentum,” says URCS’s Chief Risk Officer Dr. Mariia Polomoshnova.
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Excellence in Compliance Awards: PepsiCo’s Farzin Firooznia is the 2025 Compliance Officer of the Year
Some compliance teams consider it outside their roles to learn the ins and outs of their businesses, and something to explore when they have time.
Posted inAccounting & Auditing
A lot of us are misusing AI at work, and it’s putting our companies’ data, reputations at risk
Almost half of employees in a new global survey admitted to improperly using AI at work, underscoring the risks companies face by the fast-growing technology. And that’s despite many of their efforts to slow its use.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
CW National Notebook: Convincing companies about compliance during deregulation
At some point, many compliance professionals say they’ve met an executive who approached their role dismissively. “I don’t want to talk about anything that doesn’t bring money in the door,” one attendee remembers a senior executive saying to them.