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Executive board

Directors should be more accountable for failure, while also taking more risks, says U.K. regulator

2025-04-24T12:00:00+01:00By

Director accountability is back in the spotlight in the U.K., even as the government pushes for regulatory simplification to cut red tape and drive growth. This raises questions about how boards can be encouraged to take risks to grow their businesses while also being held more accountable for governance failings. ...

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UK’s deregulation drive raises compliance risk, say top lawyers

2025-04-21T12:00:00+01:00By

The United Kingdom’s latest effort to encourage regulators to pare down rules to attract companies and investment as a way to stimulate the economy has received mixed reviews from lawyers.

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Ex-FBI informant says three things can save companies from themselves

2025-04-17T12:00:00+01:00By

Tom Hardin paid the price for crossing legal and ethical lines as a financial analyst accused of insider trading in one of the most notorious Wall Street scandals. Now he’s on a mission to save businesses from themselves. A keynote speaker at Compliance Week National, he built a second career ...

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Glencore compliance monitorships ended early by DOJ

2025-04-16T16:00:00+01:00By

The U.S. Department of Justice ended two compliance monitorships on Glencore International more than a year early, monitorships imposed in 2022 after the company was convicted of paying bribes and manipulating commodities markets.

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AI regulation: U.K. sits on regulatory fence between U.S. and E.U.

2025-04-16T12:00:00+01:00By

The U.K. has pressed pause on artificial intelligence regulation as its government comes under twin pressures from those who fear the growing power of unregulated AI and the overriding need to generate growth. The postponement of long-expected legislation means that the U.K. is left sitting on the fence between federal ...

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Trump is making it harder for whistleblowers. That’s a problem for corporate America

2025-04-15T12:00:00+01:00By

As U.S. President Donald Trump takes a wrecking ball to the norms, rules, and laws that have governed the United States for decades, whistleblowing as we know it – a way to right wrongs, call out misconduct and hold people accountable – may be under threat.

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Trump family buys into crypto as regulators consider soft touch on the industry

2025-04-14T12:00:00+01:00By

Any doubts that the new administration will take a light touch to upcoming cryptocurrency regulation vanished with President Donald Trump’s launch of his own stablecoin and his family’s growing investments in crypto businesses.

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FCA faces criticism for email retention policy critics say risks erasing evidence

2025-04-10T12:00:00+01:00By

The UK’s financial regulator has come under fire for its announcement that it is going to delete emails after a year in an effort to become a more “efficient” regulator, raising concerns that it might accidentally erase evidence in the process.