Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from experimentation into the operational core of modern enterprises. Financial institutions deploy machine learning to detect fraud. Retail companies use predictive models for pricing and personalization. Healthcare systems rely on algorithm…

Nothing happens. That sounds like a criticism. It isn’t. Some of the most important decisions I’ve been involved in or helped take to fruition left almost no trace. A vendor due diligence process that quietly stopped. A key hire that didn’t go ahead…

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…

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 …

Recent international reporting and policy analysis highlight the increasing relevance of digital financial systems in the context of serious and organized crime, including human trafficking. As illicit activities rely more heavily on digital infrastructures, financial syste…

Regulators often describe silence as neutrality. In practice, silence interprets. When oversight bodies delay guidance, decline to clarify standards, or defer enforcement positions, regulated entities do not pause. They infer. Compliance programs adapt. Internal norms settle around a…

, author of Quantum & AI: The Awakening of Cyber Defense For decades, digital identity has been protected by cryptographic systems that most organizations trust implicitly. Encryption underpins how we verify who someone is, how we protect personal data, and how we maintain trust ac…

Although Indiana adopted the Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) in 2023, on January 1, 2026, the CDPA rubber officially hit the road. This data privacy law regulating how businesses must handle the personal information of their Indiana customer…

The U.S. Department of Justice’s guidance on evaluating corporate compliance programs underscores the critical role of data retention policies in demonstrating program effectiveness. Yet many Chief Compliance Officers only realize the impact of poor retention prac…

In the last year, prediction markets (once niche, now everywhere) have grown into a billion-dollar frontier for trading on real-world events. Platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi allow users to buy and sell contracts on outcomes ranging from the winner of awards shows to geopolit…

Michael Savicki, Senior Vice President and Chief Risk & Compliance Officer at American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT), best known as Amex GBT, knows the challenges and opportunities in merger’s and acquisitions. The company  recently completed the acquisition of CWT…

Neurodiversity tends to be spoken of as an issue to be recognized and, quite often, as a barrier to overcome. Katie Roemer, Vice President, Compliance & Privacy Officer at Alta Hospital Systems see it differently: as an asset to your compliance team. In this podcast she points ou…

What do a secret wedding and Richard Nixon have in common with HIPAA? A lot more than you might think, shares Bailey Mack, Chief Compliance Officer at Together for Youth. In this podcast she tells us the interesting history of privacy and the law.  We begin in 1890 when a photo…

Executive presence isn’t simply walking in the room and having everyone instantly feel that that you are in charge.  It is something different explains Jay Greenberg, the recently retired Chief Compliance Officer at the FBI.  Instead, it is being powered by your core values an…

By  Adam Turteltaub Listen up people:  It’s all about the people. That’s the key message from Gabor Sulyok, Global Head of Commercial and Healthcare Compliance at BioNTech and experienced senior compliance counsel Luciane Mallmann. At its core, ethics and compliance is a human endeavor. While …

The rise of generative AI has brought transformative potential to healthcare—from streamlining administrative tasks to supporting clinical decision-making. But alongside these benefits comes a growing concern: Shadow AI. Alex Tyrrell, Chief Technology Officer, Health at Wolters …

There are few parts of an investigation that are more stressful than the interview with the investigation’s subject.  Done right it can close all the loops.  Done wrong, everything can unravel. To learn how to handle things best we turn in the second of our two podcasts on inv…

The race is on for artificial intelligence (AI) automation and efficiency improvements in the workplace. Although we hear daily news stories about big-name companies racing to adopt AI strategies—aiming to innovate, improve efficiencies, and ev…

Few people know more about conducting a compliance investigation than Georgina Heasman, Senior Manager, Global Investigations at Booking Holdings and Wendy Evans, Senior Corporate Ethics Investigator, Lockheed Martin.  The two of them are the co-authors of our new book Fundamenta…

Uh oh.  The Feds are in the front lobby with a search warrant.  Things are bad, and you don’t want anyone on site to make it worse. The secret is preparation, shares Veronica Xu, SCCE & HCCA Board Member and Chief Compliance Officer, HIPAA Privacy Officer, ADA Administrator a…