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Decline in senior leader compliance training raises ethics culture questions

Jul 26, 2015

4 min read

For all the lip service being paid recently to ethics and compliance at US companies, the top concerns for E&C professionals...

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Taking sustainability reporting up a few notches

Jul 20, 2015

By David Bogoslaw

5 min read

One of the Corporate Governance Awards bestowed by Corporate Secretary each year is for best CSR disclosure. In the minds of a...

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Regulatory, corruption and reputation issues driving losses in emerging markets

Jul 12, 2015

By Matthew Scott

4 min read

Most companies are losing an inordinate amount of money in their operations in emerging markets, a recent report by FTI Consulting...

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Compliance needs bigger role in business strategy, PwC survey shows

Jun 21, 2015

By David Bogoslaw

5 min read

As business risks multiply and the pace of regulatory change accelerates, making more companies susceptible to compliance failures...

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Two hats better than one for ethics and compliance outcomes, says LRN

Jun 16, 2015

By David Bogoslaw

6 min read

New data released this morning by LRN, which provides ethics and compliance advisory services and education to more than 500...

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PRI signatories now dominate among world's institutional assets

Jun 11, 2015

By Adam Brown

2 min read

Signatories to the UN-sponsored Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) increased 29 percent in the past year in terms of...

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Compliance officer bounties call for faster internal investigations

Apr 27, 2015

By Abigail Caplovitz Field

3 min read

The SEC announced on April 22 that it had paid about $1.5 million to a whistleblower who had acted ‘to prevent imminent misconduct...

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Sustainable investments mostly match or beat traditional ones

Apr 08, 2015

By Adam Brown

2 min read

Sustainable investments match or beat the performance of comparable traditional investments most of the time, according to a...

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Insights from the Best Practices Symposium

Mar 26, 2015

By David Bogoslaw

7 min read

State-of-the-art reporting on CSR and the next steps in shareholder engagement were the focus of Corporate Secretary’s second...

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Reports of misconduct rise, and so does substantiation of retaliation claims

Mar 19, 2015

By Matthew Scott

4 min read

Reports of misconduct to compliance and ethics programs nationwide increased for a fifth consecutive year, highlighted by a...