EU packaging EPR: 5 questions compliance teams should be able to answer
Packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) is often treated as a sustainability, waste, or finance issue. For companies selling physical products across the EU, it is also a compliance process: the business needs to know where it has obligations, who owns them, what data sup…
When leaders silence employees: The ethical cost of suppressing a speak-up culture
A healthy organization depends on more than policies and procedures. It also depends on whether people feel they can raise a concern without being ignored, discredited, or labeled as difficult. Employees who are close to day-to-day operations are often the first to identify situ…
A vacant governance role does not usually look like a compliance problem. Meetings continue. Papers go out. Filings are made. Someone takes the minutes, someone else follows up the actions, and legal or compliance colleagues cover anything urgent. On the surface, the organization m…
View More →This spring, 50 compliance professionals were selected to participate in the SCCE/FBI Corporate Compliance Professional Outreach Event, a unique two-day experience designed to strengthen the relationship between compliance professionals and federal law enforcement. Hosted at FBI Headquarters in Wash…
View More →Let’s talk about the F-word that makes compliance professionals more uncomfortable than a surprise DOJ inquiry: feedback. You’d rather sit through a four-hour records retention training than tell your deputy compliance officer that their investigation memos read like they were …
View More →AI Governance as a Compliance Obligation: Integrating ISO/IEC 42001
Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in business operations, influencing decisions related to hiring, customer interactions, financial assessments, and risk management. As adoption expands, the risks associated with AI are no longer confined to system performance. They …
View More →Navigating Data Privacy and Compliance Challenges in Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is no longer optional; organizations across industries are adopting cloud platforms, automation, and AI-driven tools to improve efficiency, customer experiences, and competitiveness. While these innovations bring significant business advantages, the…
View More →The Compliance Illusion: Why Passing an Audit Doesn’t Mean You’re Secure
One hundred customers. Their highly sensitive information, including full names and business addresses, email addresses and phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth. All remained exposed for 6 months (July–Dec 2025). Now, th…
View More →This spring, 50 compliance professionals were selected to participate in the SCCE/FBI Corporate Compliance Professional Outreach Event, a unique two-day experience designed to strengthen the relationship between compliance professionals and federal law enforcement. Hosted at FBI Headquarters in Wash…
View More →By the time a fraud investigator walks into an organization, the money is usually gone. Wire transfers move within hours. Funds are routed through two or three intermediary accounts before the victim has finished their first call with the bank. What the investigator spends most of …
View More →Most compliance teams are still running annual audits and calling it governance. But your security controls do not wait for audit season to fail. The average cost of a data breach in 2025 is USD 4.44 million globally. A big part of that cost comes down to timing—organizations a…
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