Risk & Compliance Matters

This NAVEX blog post provides a preview into the NAVEX Next Virtual Risk and Compliance Conference Europe 2022.

Recently, Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth A. Polite Jr. delivered remarks at Compliance Week’s annual conference detailing how the DOJ evaluates corporate compliance programs. This post details the content of Polite’s speech, and what you need to know to ensure your company is aligned with the DOJ’s expectations.

Compliance training is one of the first touch points for new employees and also serves as an ongoing reminder of company values and priorities. Creating and sustaining a mature and impactful training program engages learners and ensures compliance. In this post, we’ll answer questions in response to a recent webinar that discusses trends in learning and how organizations should prioritize learner experience.

Personal pursuits and relationships outside the workplace lead to richer, more fulfilling lives for employees. Inside the workplace, gifts and entertainment can lead to stronger bonds with business partners. However, these potential conflicts of interest stemming from personal or professional endeavors require proper training, disclosure channels, and management to be consistently applied across the workplace to avoid potential consequences.

NAVEX is excited to honor our customers for their work in ethics and compliance, ESG, integrated risk management and GRC programs in the annual Customer Excellence Awards. In this post, we’ll review last year’s winners and new categories to celebrate our customers’ leadership and hard work.

An addition to addressing risk, mandatory ethics and compliance training during new employee onboarding is a strong opportunity to communicate an organization’s values. As companies compete for workers, this represents an early chance to improve retention.

Recent cyber-related events and news about the SEC oversight proposal is bringing the cybersecurity management and oversight conversation to the forefront for many organizations. With or without formal rules regarding oversight from the SEC, businesses should start shoring up cybersecurity practices to protect against an ever-evolving threat landscape.

The entity-level reporting requirement described in the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive is one of the more complex and (as yet) underdefined aspect of the emerging legal standard. This post covers the essentials on how to make sense of entity-level reporting in the Directive.

Ethics and compliance programs have measurable benefits for any sized business, and for small-to-medium size organizations, can be a strategic differentiator in culture and employee retention.

ESG has been in the news a lot lately. With the SEC’s recent proposal for disclosure regulations and increased investor, public and employee attention on how companies are addressing their impact, now is the time to act. While the whole conversation around ESG is nuanced, to celebrate Earth Day 2022, we’re going to share some actionable ideas you can use to make your company more sustainable.

As differences in country transpositions of the EU Whistleblower Directive emerge, it is critical to understand the implications for your organisation. This post outlines these differences and addresses frequently asked questions related to the Directive.

Since the launch of the EU Whistleblowing Protection Directive, 21st December 2021, EU countries and organisations have been working to transpose the rules into their current national laws. With each EU member state potentially having different variations of the Directive, affected organisations must navigate a complex landscape. Here, we answer some of the most common questions.

Each year, NAVEX publishes the Top 10 Trends in Risk and Compliance. This publication features trends and predictions for the year to come and features contributions from experts in the industry. In this excerpt, Karin Henriksson and Jan Stappers cover the implications the EU Whistleblowing Directive will have on Europe and foreshadow what the rest of the world should pay attention to.