All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 9
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News BriefESG goes beyond politics: Vendor management, forced labor, sustainability
ESG is no longer in vogue. But its issues still are. Almost none of the nearly 200 attendees at Compliance Week’s Third Party Management summit this week said they’re currently working on ESG when informally surveyed. The show-of-hands results marked a dramatic reversal from even just a couple years ...
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News BriefIn a world filled with uncertainty, boards need to focus on connecting dots
Regulators and investors increasingly say boards of directors need more expertise to ensure they can respond to fast-changing politics, policy, and technology that threaten to undermine their businesses. In the U.K., government officials say boards need to think more about cyber. In the EU, they need to prepare for the ...
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News BriefGoogle’s $500M compliance overhaul may fall short, amid antitrust fallout
Google parent Alphabet has struck a new agreement with shareholders, settling a shareholder lawsuit with a promise to ”completely revamp and rebuild its global compliance structure,” according to a new legal filing. The investment may not go far enough to reform Alphabet’s compliance failings, which are particularly under scrutiny following ...
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PremiumForced labor risks push global supply chains into compliance crosshairs
An increasing number of regulations worldwide regarding human rights due diligence, especially concerning forced labor and child labor, are relevant for any company that is serious about running an ethical business supply chain, experts say.
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PremiumTPRM has become the business continuity plan in turbulent times
Global supply chains are constantly in flux: crucial vendors could suddenly go bankrupt, fail to produce key components without warning, or even lose your firm’s data in a breach. The result has drawn ever more attention to third-party risk management as a critical element of many businesses.
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News BriefApple, Google face compliance crossroads as states push digital safeguards
A new law in Texas will go into effect next January that requires Apple and Google to verify the age of their app store users. This marks another piece of legislation from the state level intended to protect children, and the second such law specifically from Texas to limit children’s ...
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Basic PageSEC drops Binance lawsuit as Trump admin continues reshaping crypto enforcement
The Securities and Exchange Commission dropped its case against cryptocurrency exchange Binance, just the latest in a string of dismissals that highlight the SEC’s change of course under the crypto-friendly Trump administration.
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News BriefCOSO’s draft corporate governance framework provides roadmap to compliant business practices
Corporate governance is, all too often, handed down from generation to generation. Like a well-worn jacket, it works great—until it doesn’t. Typically, it is a crisis that forces companies to reassess their corporate governance framework, as gaps are filled and poor policies rewritten. But it doesn’t have to be that ...
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PremiumUK regulator’s efforts to coax self-reporting fraud could fall flat, experts warn
To both clean up corporate behaviour and rack up its own enforcement record, the UK’s anti-bribery agency has seemingly largely guaranteed companies a pass from prosecution if they spill the beans on their misconduct. There’s only one problem: experts believe businesses may still stand a better outcome if they front ...
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WebcastCPE Webcast: Adapting to Global Regulatory Change and Supply Chain Disruption in 2025
Wondering how new approaches to age-old regulations affect ethical business practices across your extended enterprise? What about how tariffs may impact your supply chain integrity, and how to best adapt your organization to accelerated shifts in business practices?
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PremiumSurvey: Compliance, now at the leadership table, navigates an uncertain risk landscape
At a time when the Trump administration is rewriting many of the rules, the compliance function is being embraced as a strategic partner to the C-suite and board, Compliance Week’s 2024 “Inside the Mind of the CCO” survey shows. The new objective: risk-assess the implications of Trump’s confetti of executive ...
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PremiumInside the Mind of the CCO: Compliance in an uncertain world, still with fuzzy reporting lines
The world is rapidly changing. The European Union is stepping up rules and enforcement, while the United Kingdom is charting its own course. And now the United States is taking a third tack, with unclear regulation enforcement under a mercurial Donald Trump’s second term as president underway.
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PremiumInside the Mind of the CCO: Salaries level out in 2024
An overheated demand for compliance officers in the post-Covid era finally cooled off in 2024, according to Compliance Week’s Inside the Mind of the CCO survey.
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PremiumUnder intense reg scrutiny, compliance teams report implementing off-channel comms policies
Three of four respondents to Compliance Week’s Inside the Mind of the CCO survey said their employers have policies and procedures in place that govern employee use of unauthorized communications on their cell phones. The survey, conducted in November and December, found that another 11 percent of the 179 practitioners ...
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PremiumCompliance Week’s Inside the Mind of the CCO reveals stubborn gender pay gap
Despite years of attention, male compliance professionals remain more highly compensated than women, according to the sixth annual Compliance Week Inside the Mind of the CCO survey.
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PremiumSurvey: Compliance faces ‘epistemic risk’ of Trump administration
Compliance officers are coping with uncertainty following President Trump’s election win, with fewer choosing to disclose their political affiliations in this year’s pulse survey. Since Inauguration Day, the President’s actions have signaled a capricious era of compliance, one where respect for dissent might be in question.
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PremiumFor the first time, a majority of compliance teams using AI: Inside the Mind of the CCO
For the first time, more compliance teams than not used artificial intelligence (AI) to assist them in their work, according to Compliance Week’s 2024 “Inside the Mind of the CCO” survey. About 56 percent of compliance teams used AI in 2024—a sizable jump from the 41 percent who relied on ...
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WebcastCPE Webcast: CW Survey Results: Inside the Mind of the CCO
This webcast will discuss the results from our sixth annual benchmarking survey with perspectives from our readership, including 67 chief compliance officers, 12 chief ethics and compliance officers, 37 compliance directors/VPs, and more than 50 junior-level practitioners.
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News BriefDOJ says BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street pressed ESG goals to lower U.S. coal output
The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have bolstered a conservative legal effort to dismantle environmental, social, and governance-based investment strategies from three large asset managers by claiming they illegally conspired to artificially raise energy prices.