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"Whew! SEC Isn't Targeting CCO's"

 

8/4/15: Chief Compliance Officers haven’t disappeared completely from the watchful eye of US enforcement agencies but they aren’t the target of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. At least that’s the expressed statement of SEC officials including SEC Chairman Mary Jo White explained at a recent...

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"The Supply Chain Isn't Just a Quality Issue"

 

8/4/15: Managing a company’s supply chain often falls most heavily on the quality department. An article by Sonal Sunha in Quality Digest should give compliance professionals a heads-up about the quality function, outsourcing and their potential risk to regulatory compliance under multiple anti-corruption laws. She makes...

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"Are You Monitoring Your Employees' Social Media Presence?"

 

8/4/15: Social media – whether you like it or hate it – isn’t the wave of the future; it’s the reality of today, both inside and outside the working world. But, how much is an employer allowed by law to monitor the activities of employees, even during their off time, through their social media accounts? The answer is that it...

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"What Makes an Organization Corrupt?"

 

7/15/15: The characteristics of an ethical organization have been covered in many different formats but only occasionally is there an article about the characteristics of a corrupt corporate culture. On the Global Anticorruption Blog, guest poster Alison Taylor, Director of Advisory Services for the global non-profit BSR offers...

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"The State of DPAs and NPAs in mid-2015"

 

7/15/15: In July, the law firm Gibson Dunn released its 2015 mid-year update on the US’ enforcement of corruption laws through Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) and Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs). As usual, the in-depth update is worth reading from front to finish but one section of particular interest...

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