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Thursday, March 26, 2026
Iratxe Gurpegui

Fines for non-compliance hit $6.7 Billion — and that's just antitrust

Regulatory fines make headlines. Last year, antitrust authorities alone issued roughly $6.7 billion in penalties worldwide. But anyone who has lived through a serious regulatory incident knows that the fine is rarely the most expensive part.

Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Jean-Christian Le Meur

AI in compliance: automation is not enough — why compliance AI must produce defensible outputs, not just answers

A compliance output is only valuable when you can stand behind it. Picture a familiar moment: an auditor (internal or external) asks how you concluded that a third-party due diligence control is effective, or why a risk scenario was scored “medium” rather than “high.

Monday, March 23, 2026
Iratxe Gurpegui

5 ethical code of conduct red flags to spot and remediate fast

A code of conduct rarely fails because the text is “wrong.” It fails because you cannot prove it changes decisions and behavior, and because the organization cannot produce evidence fast when an auditor (or leadership) asks, “show me it works.

Friday, March 20, 2026
Iratxe Gurpegui

6 Enron ethics traps everybody ignored

Enron did not fail because it lacked documents. It failed because a code of ethics in business was treated as branding, while leadership signals, incentives, and governance quietly taught people what “success” really meant.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Iratxe Gurpegui

How companies can transform compliance from cost center to profit driver

Compliance turns into a profit driver when it does three things at once: it prevents avoidable loss, it accelerates revenue, and it produces decision-grade evidence that leaders and customers can trust.