— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The 2018 rewrite of the ACM code of ethics and professional conduct has brought it up-to-date with new technologies and societal demands. This code supports the ethical conduct of computing professionals through a set of guidelines for positively working in the…
The cannabis industry has a corporate governance problem. And it’s an issue that marijuana executives can ill afford to ignore. This can be especially troublesome for execs at publicly traded firms, which risk alienating investors and consumers. Corporate governance issues are commonplace in an emerging industry such as cannabis, where company founders can have blemishes on their…
I’ve noticed some confusion about the roles that ethics and compliance play in organizations. This confusion arises, in part, from the way these two fields are identified. Some companies have only a compliance department. Others have a compliance and ethics (or ethics and compliance) department. Some companies have a Chief Ethics Officer separate from compliance. To get…
AI ethics is definitely trending. I’ve seen the phrase in my reading and heard it trip from the tongues of professional acquaintances many times in the past several months. Management fads come and go, and I wonder whether AI ethics might be one of them. In much the same way that product quality deficiencies triggered…
Cyber security has risen as a key issue on the radar of virtually all organisations. As a recent AT Kearney report suggests, cyber-attacks have been topping executives’ lists of business risks for three straight years. In fact, the overwhelming majority of organisations have experienced some form of cyber-attack at some point over the past few years. This…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News At a time when so much attention is placed on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union and the Protection of Personal Information Act (Popia) in South Africa, companies must consider a plethora of permutations when it comes…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The importance of compliance and ethics is gaining momentum at corporations across all industries and around the world. Help your organization navigate compliance issues during this time of increased corruption enforcement activity in Asia. Attend the Society of Corporate Compliance’s (SCCE’s) first-ever…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News 2018 brought about a major shift and more clarity in the world of individual data privacy. May marked the one-year anniversary since the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced. The regulation was an attempt to unify the existing legislation…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The moon has always served as an inspiration for humanity, and there are many potential benefits for further exploration of our planet’s rocky satellite. But we need to establish guidelines to prevent unethical behavior on the moon, particularly regarding the use of…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Koji Nagai, group CEO of Nomura Holdings Inc., left, apologizes at a news conference in Tokyo on May 24. (Katsunori Takahashi) Nomura Securities Co., Japan’s leading brokerage, has been accused of leaking important nonpublic information to clients in a fresh scandal…
