By Glenn Oborne
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 may appear to be coping well.
The difficulty is that the visible work can continue while responsibility for the wider governance system becomes fragmented.
a director at Ingen Partners, a specialist company secretarial and governance recruitment and consultancy firm.
Glenn Oborne is a director at Ingen Partners, a specialist company secretarial and governance recruitment and consultancy firm. He works with organizations on permanent and interim governance appointments, helping them identify professionals with the judgment, authority, and experience needed to support effective boards and strong regulatory oversight.
By Rahul Sachdev
AI is great at automating complex tasks, and product compliance has historically been a highly complex, manual task. At first glance, this might make AI seem like the perfect solution to modern product compliance challenges. And it can be, when approached in the right way.
By Jonathan Armstrong and Vivien Yanni-Gan
Andy Burnham became the UK’s 59th Prime Minister on 20 July 2026. He comes into office at a difficult time with an increasingly complex international agenda and a wide range of issues facing the UK including the cost-of-living crisis. But why should SCCE members care? What will this mean for compliance? It’s likely that initially at least there won’t be much time for legislative change but there might be some quick fixes which the new administration may look at.
By Tanya Ganguli
When a serious allegation surfaces (whether through a whistleblower complaint, an internal audit finding, or a regulatory query), the Board of Directors and/or Audit Committee face a set of decisions that must be made quickly and correctly. Who investigates? Who oversees the investigation? What’s the mandate? How do we scope the allegation? How is privilege protected? What must be disclosed, and to whom?
