Ukrainian Red Cross Society ensures compliance in a warzone, as 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.
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.
How to convince 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.
Our rapidly changing world still needs thoughtful compliance, now more than ever
Sometimes, it feels like the only thing that’s certain is that tomorrow will be different from today. For an industry that’s focused on rules, regulations, and ethics, that lack of consistency can seem overwhelming. That’s why the next few days will matter so much.
CPE Webcast: Slow Vendors, Changing Risks: The Compliance Customization Gap
A recent survey found that 66% of compliance leaders say their training programs are hard to customize quickly, and nearly half (46%) are being asked to cut training time.
Survey highlights demand for quick, customizable, and cost-effective compliance training
Compliance training has become less expensive and more customizable to keep up with the constant rule changes, according to a new survey by microlearning training platform Ethena and Compliance Week.
Survey: The State of Third-Party Due Diligence
This is a Compliance Week Survey, sponsored by GAN Integrity. It is completely anonymous and designed to help benchmark the state of third-party due diligence. Results will be shared by Compliance Week and GAN Integrity in the form of a benchmark report.
Why are CFOs struggling to stay compliant?
CFOs are tasked with overseeing an organization’s entire financial processes, not least ensuring that financial operations remain compliant with the multitude of global regulations. It’s a heavy burden to carry that might be alleviated slightly with the help of artificial intelligence, writes Markus Hornburg, head of compliance at Basware.
Summit will offer framework for ethical AI use
Artificial intelligence tools are being adopted at a rapid clip in many organizations, in some cases without proper guardrails and without taking ethical considerations into account.
What’s keeping compliance leaders up at night? Struggles and strategies for 2025
Managing the unrelenting pace and increasing complexity of regulations is the top concern among compliance professionals, according to a recent survey by Compliance Week and Resolver.
Survey: Organizations broadly adopting AI, with varied governance
The majority of businesses are using AI and doing so without governance–a compliance gap that poses extreme risks, a new survey by Compliance Week and GAN Integrity found. A webinar will discuss why it is crucial to have AI governance, how to implement it, and what strategies to strengthen programs.
KPMG report on regs in 2025: Use data analytics to predict, respond to Trump administration changes
Regulations are sure to be rolled back under President Donald Trump, but the question is which regulations, and how much? Is your organization as prepared to respond when regulations are loosened as it was when they were tightened?
Speakers at Compliance Week AI & Compliance Summit talk future rules around technology
While companies are exploring and building artificial intelligence technology, lawmakers and regulators are trying to identify what ground rules they need to set. These guardrails are what companies and governments alike believe are essential parts of ensuring safe and responsible use of the technology.
How to adopt AI tools the right way at your company, from people who’ve tried
Companies are adopting artificial intelligence tools at a breakneck pace, but it’s increasingly clear that they set guardrails early. AI leaders say that approaching the technology with safety and ethics in mind will help ensure its upside benefits, while avoiding the significant risks it poses as well.
AI Governance Benchmarking Survey
This is a Compliance Week Survey, sponsored by GAN Integrity. It is completely anonymous and designed to help benchmark the approaches compliance is taking to AI Governance. Results will be shared by Compliance Week and GAN Integrity in the form of a benchmark report.
Deloitte survey: AI adoption raising concerns about trust, reputational damage, ethics
As the artificial intelligence boom sweeps into the business world, employees are increasingly concerned about ethics questions and data privacy, a new Deloitte survey found, leading them to increasingly lose trust in their organizations.
All hands on deck needed to get ESG disclosures right, report finds
Multiple emerging environmental, social, and governance and disclosure standards pose legal and operational risks to many companies, but also opportunities to improve reporting and get ahead of requirements, a new report found.
Compensation survey pegs annual pay at $419K for public company CCOs
Annual pay and bonus compensation for chief compliance officers at public companies jumped to $419,000 since 2023, while CCOs at private companies saw a slight decrease to nearly $300,000, according to a new compensation survey.
LexisNexis survey: Compliance costs soared for U.K. banks in 2023
Nearly all but a tiny minority of financial institutions saw their costs of financial crime compliance rise in 2023, a survey by LexisNexis and Oxford Economics found.
AI can help reel in ‘unsustainable’ breach costs, IBM report finds
The global average cost of a data breach jumped to an all-time high for the second year in a row, but companies can reel in the ballooning drag on profits by adopting artificial intelligence, according to an IBM report.
Compensation survey finds average annual CCO pay jumped above $400K
A new compensation survey found base pay for chief compliance officers has risen 36 percent since 2021 to an average of more than $403,000.
Risk visibility striking fear in companies onboarding new customers
A lack of risk visibility is causing companies to reject customers–and potentially lose money–over fears they might be in danger of violating rules around anti-money laundering and sanctions regulations.
Survey tackles aligning cross-generational views of ethics in the workplace
Companies may need to examine employees by age group to find out how likely some workers might be to ditch compliance to complete tasks.
CPE Webcast: Real-life reactions to current corporate reporting landscape
In this session we will discuss the current state of financial and nonfinancial reporting and recent survey findings from Workiva about how attitudes on integrated reporting are evolving.
Citi report: GenAI revolution will bring increased need for compliance
A new report on the use of artificial intelligence in financial services predicts that the technology will drive profits, disruptions, and change over the next decade.
Panelists break down robust sanctions landscape at TPRM Summit
Sanctions compliance officers face myriad challenges as complex geopolitical situations heighten risks worldwide, experts discussed during Compliance Week’s Third-Party Risk Management & Oversight Summit.
FinCEN BSA data: Fraud, money laundering top suspicious activities
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network published its latest collection of Bank Secrecy Act data, including number and type of suspicious activity reports.
Experts: AI risk mitigation second nature for compliance professionals
Compliance has been “sleeping on” artificial intelligence, two panelists discussed at Compliance Week’s Women in Compliance Summit. The profession should be positioned to lead on AI governance at the business level.
SEC’s Grewal shares views on ‘Five Principles of Effective Cooperation’
Gurbir Grewal, director of the Enforcement Division at the Securities and Exchange Commission, spelled out plainly his view on the best path to earning cooperation credit during settlement negotiations with the agency.
Survey: Social media remains vexing issue for financial firms
A recent survey by surveillance technology firm SteelEye found most financial institutions do not monitor their employees’ use of social media or factor in market risks exacerbated by social media posts.
Survey: Public companies fear added cyber risks from SEC disclosures
Large public companies say they are prepared to comply with the disclosure requirements of the SEC’s new cybersecurity incident rule, according to a survey conducted by Compliance Week and DLA Piper, but concerns exist that those reports could enhance the threat of future cyberattacks.
CW2024 panel: TPRM board buy-in earned through impact, activity
Identifying critical measures for third-party risk management has become vitally important as risk professionals face an uphill battle in fighting for resources, experts discussed at Compliance Week’s 2024 National Conference.
Podcast: Responsible development and implementation of AI
Three experts join the Compliance Week podcast to discuss opportunities and risks posed by artificial intelligence, as well as governance frameworks your organization can implement to ensure AI tools are utilized safely and ethically.
Report: Human error driving growing number of data breaches
Verizon’s annual data breach report shows trends in cybersecurity incidents, including more ransomware and extortion attacks last year.
Microsoft report describes its artificial intelligence safety efforts
Microsoft published a public report covering its artificial intelligence endeavors and steps it is taking to make the controversial technology safe.
Survey: Compliance digital transformation hampered by data access, AI concerns
Few compliance teams describe their access to company data as “robust,” according to a new survey conducted by Compliance Week and NAVEX, while apprehension toward the adoption of artificial intelligence remains a hurdle for the profession to clear.
Survey Report: The digital transformation of compliance
A new survey conducted by Compliance Week and NAVEX on compliance team access to data and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze it found many compliance professionals lack full and transparent access to their firm’s data.
PCAOB removes redactions on 2022 KPMG inspection
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board published the full results of its 2022 inspection for Big Four firm KPMG after its initial report contained more than two dozen redactions.
CCO liability: How to protect your compliance career
Despite significant issues outside the control of most chief compliance officers, some regulators have signaled more individual liability cases are to be expected. Will accepting the wrong job, in hindsight, make it your last?