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 to 26.31 percent last year—marking an all-time high since 2005, when The Network first issued its Corporate Fraud Index.
