Is That a Target I See?

10/6/17:  Chief Compliance Officers have enough to occupy their time without worrying that there’s a flashing target on their backs.  In an article on the Compliance & Enforcement website of New York University School of Law’s Program of Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, Patty P. Tehrani, Esq. points to a trend of increasing liability for CCOs in the financial sector.   Tehrani focuses on several factors that may be contributing to the trend including regulatory expectations and enforcement actions.  Fortunately, she also gleans practical lessons that may help compliance professionals remove – or at least lighten – the “targeting trend.”