For compliance professionals, the key sign that a whistleblowing hotline is working properly is the fact that more people are prepared to use it. And in Ireland’s financial services sector, it looks like recent attempts to encourage employees to come forward with suspicions of wrongdoing are paying off.

Neil Hodge is a freelance business journalist and photographer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He writes on insurance and risk management, corporate governance, internal audit, compliance, and legal...