When the Dodd-Frank Act passed in 2010, an urgency existed to enact its many provisions. A decade later, 11 of its rules remain unfinished. Will a change in leadership at the SEC get the law across the finish line?
Shortlisted for CW’s 2021 Lifetime Achievement award, Joe Murphy discusses blazing the trail in compliance and ethics, why incentives matter, and the single-most important skill of a compliance practitioner.
Welcome to newest edition to the Compliance Podcast Network: From the Editor’s Desk, a podcast where Tom Fox and Dave Lefort, Editor in Chief at Compliance Week unpack some of the top.
By Aaron Nicodemus2021-06-01T12:03:00+01:00
Pressure on companies to respond to employee activism has been steadily building, fueled by increased emphasis from the public; investors; and employees on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives.
Some ESG issues have become flashpoints for activism. Corporate responsibility for contributing to climate change is one. Another is promoting a more diverse corporate leadership and workforce, seen through the lens of the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements. Employee activists are increasingly challenging their employers to re-evaluate institutional biases and problematic vendor relationships.
And then there are political issues in the United States, particularly in the wake of the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The list goes on.
By Dave Lefort2021-05-17T13:00:00+01:00
A unique combination of wrong turns a culture of fear, integrity deficit, unrealistic goals, and even a bit of national pride set Volkswagen down the bumpy road that dead-ended in the biggest scandal in automotive history. The course back to regaining trust was much more straightforward.
That journey began when VW finally admitted to installing defeat devices in more than 500,000 U.S. cars, was fined more than $4 billion, and was forced into arguably the most high-profile compliance monitorship on record. VW’s three-year monitorship, which lasted from 2017 until September 2020, is chronicled in Compliance Week’s latest in-depth case study: “Coming Clean: Volkswagen’s Dieselgate scandal and compliance monitorship.”