In this session, ECI CEO James Lindstrom and Integrity Bridge CEO Andrew McBride look at where AI governance stands today, including recent cases where vendors’ unmanaged AI use led to fabricated citations and exposed personal data.
Third Party Risk
How Does Your Third-Party Risk Management Program Compare?
ECI Compliance Week and Diligent have partnered on a new benchmarking survey of ethics, compliance, and risk professionals, asking how their organizations are managing third-party risk today.
Compliance must counter rising third-party financial crime risks with risk-based, integrated due diligence
Third-party risks around financial crime are accelerating and becoming more complex. Evolving sanctions rules, a renewed focus in the EU and UK on money laundering, bribery and corruption, and the UK’s Failure to Prevent Fraud criminal offense all put the onus on companies to understand exactly who their third parties are, who is behind them, and how they expose them to risk.
Beyond the AI Hype: What’s Actually Working in Third-Party Risk Management
AI has produced no shortage of demos, claims, and new terminology. But after the initial wave of experimentation, TPRM teams need a more useful conversation: What is actually working?
KPMG report urges CCOs to collaborate and invest to boost operational resilience
Enhanced operational resilience is key to improving responses to interconnected cyber, third-party and regulatory risks, according to KPMG’s 2026 chief ethics and compliance officer survey.
Navigating the supply chain’s new normal
A supply-chain disruption can look simple: A supplier cannot deliver, procurement finds an alternative, engineering qualifies it and production continues. Geopolitical disruption rarely arrives labeled as a compliance problem. It arrives as a sourcing decision, engineering fix or logistics reroute before compliance becomes involved. Recent developments include: Enforcement shows what can be at stake. In […]
Ag company pays $10M and overhauls compliance under DOJ agreement
A U.S. agricultural supply company will pay more than $10 million and make significant compliance upgrades under a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) to settle a Department of Justice (DOJ) charge of bribing Mexican border officials. The DPA, signed by the Scoular Company, is the DOJ’s first in 2026 related to violations of the Foreign Corrupt […]
Remember the GDPR scramble? The EU Anti-Corruption Directive clock is already running.
This isn’t just a European story. GDPR caught global businesses off guard. This is for everyone. The directive is already in force. And like GDPR before it, the organisations caught off guard won’t be the ones who didn’t know about it. They’ll be the ones who assumed it didn’t apply to them.
U.K. financial firms urged to prepare for operational and third-party incident reporting changes
Financial services firms in the U.K. must prepare now for new reporting rules aimed to promote operational resilience in the face of increasing global threats.
The Safe Bridge to the Americas: How data technology protects American companies
The government procurement market in Latin America represents a multi-billion dollar opportunity for American corporations, especially in the information technology, infrastructure, and medical equipment sectors.
