Tone at the top: leadership in compliance risk management
Few elements of a compliance program change outcomes as decisively as tone at the top. Regulators and auditors consistently look for visible, sustained leadership that sets expectations, funds the work, and acts when it is inconvenient to do so.
Managing the risks of gifts and hospitality, the AFA guide
Gifts and hospitality are one of the most common, and most misunderstood, sources of corruption risk. They sit at the intersection of commercial reality (maintaining relationships) and regulatory expectation (preventing undue influence).
How to handle conflicts of interest
Conflicts of interest are one of those compliance risks that can look “small” on paper and still create outsized damage in the real world.
Internal investigations and root-cause analysis
A whistleblowing alert is a stress test of your compliance program.
Beyond the Law: The Corporate Culture That Justified the Great Electrical Cartel
In the late 1950s, one of the largest antitrust scandals in U.S. history revealed not just corporate collusion — but a culture that justified it. The Great Electrical Cartel wasn’t born from greed alone, but from loyalty, conformity, and a society that no longer saw white-collar crime as a crime.