7 Compliance Program Needs for the Coming Year

7 Compliance Program Needs for the Coming Year

Compliance seems to be everyone's business, since, for many firms, it involves managing financial crime, money laundering and cyber risks. This means compliance has to be offensive as well as defensive. Given this increased area of responsibility and scope, here are seven ways to have an effective compliance program.

Read More

4 Resources to Help You Prepare for the GDPR

4 Resources to Help You Prepare for the GDPR

According to the regulation’s detailed website full of helpful tips and background information, the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was designed to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, to protect and empower all EU citizens data privacy and to reshape the way organizations across the region approach data privacy. But, as i-Sight’s Dawn Lomer recently pointed out, fewer than half of the companies recently surveyed were prepared for the regulation that comes into effect May 25.

Read More

Theranos’ Appeal Not Enough to Cover Up Massive Alleged Fraud

Theranos’ Appeal Not Enough to Cover Up Massive Alleged Fraud

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Theranos, a Silicon Valley company founded on supposedly revolutionary, portable blood testing technology, its founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, and its former President Ramesh Balwani with fraud this week related to false statements and representations made while raising more than $700 million from investors.

Read More

CFE Shares Unique IT Challenges and Most Memorable Case

CFE Shares Unique IT Challenges and Most Memorable Case

Shannon Grayer, CFE, CBM, CCEP, may have earned his CFE more than a decade ago, but his passion for learning more about the world and fraud examination has never waned. The head of ethics and compliance investigations for CSRA Inc. has lived in multiple countries, stays abreast of technological advancements in the IT industry and works with major players in U.S. national security.

Read More