Implement a best-in-class compliance platform without minimizing your outbound marketing reach. eBook How to Manage Contact Compliance Without Compromising Outreach What’s in this eBook from Gryphon.ai Sometimes organizations believe that by implementing a contact compliance solution, they will sacrifice their marketing outreach database, therefore limiting the success of marketing campaigns. However, that does not have to be the case. Your organization can execute successful marketing campaigns while still prioritizing compliance and customer contact preferences. In this guide ..read more

At big corporations, few of the faces around the boardroom meeting table have more first-hand knowledge of the company’s history than the corporate secretary. But if you look at this role as purely administrative, Kuberno’s Jay Dodd argues, you’re missing out. Is it time to think about what’s in a name? Names can fundamentally change the way we think about things. How an organization describes certain functions is a reflection of the value it attributes to those roles. Who would have known just two decades ago, for example, that positions that emerged in the wake of new regulatory directives ..read more

Pending a court challenge, a new federal rule would prohibit virtually all noncompetition agreements between employers and workers. Hannah Addison and Michael Twomey of Kane Russell Coleman Logan break down common questions surrounding the FTC’s new noncompete ban. In April, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule implementing a comprehensive ban on noncompete agreements with workers after determining such agreements represent an unfair method of competition under the “Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices” section of the FTC Act. Given the scope of the Rule, substantial conce ..read more

Leadership consultant and author Ty Wiggins helps incoming CEOs transition into their new roles. He’s learned a thing or two over the years about those early days. Each CEO is unique, and so is their transition period. But what does every single CEO I have worked with struggle with? The balance between learning and taking action. This is perhaps the toughest common aspect of a CEO transition. From my privileged position of sitting alongside CEOs in transition, there is an easy answer to the question about how fast to move. The answer is, of course, that you should act as fast as you can, onc ..read more

A 2023 law in the UK seeks to encourage employee fraud prevention, and as finserv specialist Sujata Dasgupta argues, it’s not a moment too soon. Up until now, monitoring employees to prevent fraud in organizations has remained a taboo subject and not discussed or reported very often, possibly to avoid tarnishing the company’s image and reputation. Yet, internal fraud committed by employees and agents have accounted for high volumes of fraud losses in organizations globally. While huge budgets are spent every year to prevent and intercept fraud committed by external parties, employee surveill ..read more

Anti-money laundering programs in British financial institutions are notoriously weak, and government fines for noncompliance may be weaker still, but Trapets’ Gabriella Bussien says it doesn’t have to be this way. Editor’s note: The author of this article, Gabriella Bussien, is CEO of Trapets, a provider of financial crime prevention software. A new report on financial crime around the world has found that the UK is the second-worst country for anti-money laundering (AML) events per capita, behind the U.S. In Britain, three-quarters of these events are directly related to money laundering ..read more

Culture proving increasingly relevant in management disclosures Third Annual Report Human Capital Disclosure Report What’s in this report from Seyfarth Shaw: Law firm Seyfarth Shaw’s third annual human capital disclosure report analyzes the human capital management disclosures of 200 S&P 500 companies across 10 industries. The SEC requires publicly listed companies to provide disclosures describing the management of their human capital resources. As such, human capital management has become intertwined with environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy over the pa ..read more

Security compliance and automation provider Drata has had a busy spring, acquiring user governance platform Harmonize.io in April and cloud native security company oak9 about one month later. Details of the deals were not disclosed. Drata also has announced a beta release of a new capability it has dubbed Compliance as Code that it says will inject continuous compliance into the software development lifecycle. “It’s time to break down infrastructure and application silos and transform compliance and security into one cohesive concept. This is the future of compliance automation and GRC,” sai ..read more

Apptega, a cybersecurity compliance platform provider, recently announced it had raised $15 million in capital and debt from Mainsail Partners, an equity firm that invests in fast-growing software companies. Founded in 2018, Apptega says the investment will go toward development of the company’s continuous security and compliance platform designed for managed services and security providers. Its Series B round comes on the heels of a period of robust growth, including being named a leader in G2’s security compliance software category for 12 straight quarters. The post Cyber Compliance Platfo ..read more

CCI staff share recent surveys, reports and analysis on risk, compliance, governance, infosec and leadership issues. Share details of your survey with us: editor@corporatecomplianceinsights.com. Workiva: 80%+ of companies not subject to EU’s sustainability reporting mandate intend to meet the rule anyway The European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), a landmark new rule mandating financial and management disclosures on social and environmental matters, is already having a global impact, according to new research commissioned by Workiva, which finds that 81% of compan ..read more