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2 Jul 2026 Matt Kelly
When AI Meets Antitrust Risk, and What to Do About It
New DOJ guidance signals that AI won’t shield companies from antitrust risk. Learn how compliance teams can help govern AI use and reduce enforcement exposure.
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10 Jun 2026 Matt Kelly
What Makes Whistleblowers Blow the Whistle?
Why do employees wait days or weeks before making an internal report? Explore the emotions, fears and motivations that shape speak-up behavior and reporting decisions.
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12 May 2026 Matt Kelly
A Better Way to Manage the EU Anticorruption Directive and Whatever Comes Next
The EU Anti-Corruption Directive introduces stricter penalties, broader accountability, and greater expectations for compliance programs operating across Europe.
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28 Apr 2026 Matt Kelly
Case Closure Times are Increasing: What Compliance Leaders Need to Know
Case closure times are rising across industries, signaling potential gaps in resources, processes or tools. Explore what’s driving the trend and how to respond effectively.
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13 Apr 2026 Matt Kelly
One Easy Prediction: More Risks From Prediction Markets
This post discusses the rising risks of prediction markets to your organization and compliance program.
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8 Apr 2026 Matt Kelly
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
Compliance officers need to speak the language of the business and communicate in terms that the board, management, and other leaders will understand.
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31 Mar 2026 Matt Kelly
Preparing for the Risks of ‘Rogue AI’
This article discusses how you can prepare for the risks of ‘rogue AI’ in your organization.
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13 Mar 2026 Matt Kelly
Risk Assessments, Part II: Deciding What to Assess
What risks should your risk assessment cover? This post unpacks practical questions to address key risk indicators.
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27 Jan 2026 Matt Kelly
Taking a Deep Dive Into Successful Compliance Risk Assessments
This article explores what’s needed for successful compliance risk assessments.
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21 Jan 2026 Matt Kelly
How AI Will Impact Compliance Teams’ Work and Staffing
Chief compliance officers need to find the right ways to integrate AI into their program and consider what an AI-enhanced program will mean for their team.
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12 Jan 2026 Matt Kelly
Ethics, Compliance and Lessons from Sports
In fall 2025, we saw high-profile examples of misconduct in the sports world that offer important lessons for compliance officers.
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21 Oct 2025 Matt Kelly
Risks of AI in the Workplace: Weaving Ethical Risks Into Your AI Governance
Delegating tasks to AI can increase unethical behavior, creating new governance risks. Learn how to manage the risks of AI in the workplace.
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14 Oct 2025 Matt Kelly
Tips for Compliance When Your Middle is Thinned Out
What considerations must compliance make when middle management is thinned out? This post discusses the key questions and strategies.
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7 Aug 2025 Matt Kelly
Exactly What Are ‘Systemic’ AI Risks, Anyway?
This article unpacks the difference between “high” and “systemic” AI risks.
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21 Jul 2025 Matt Kelly
Uncertainty Ahead: What the Trump Administration's New FCPA Enforcement Priorities Mean for Compliance
This post discusses considerations companies should make related to the changing FCPA enforcement priorities of the Trump administration.
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12 Jun 2025 Matt Kelly
The Art of Compliance Testing and Monitoring
This article explores best practices in testing and monitoring your compliance program.
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5 Jun 2025 Matt Kelly
AI Literacy Training: A Compliance Necessity Under the EU AI Act
This article discusses the need for AI literacy across your workforce and tips on how to enable AI best practices and training in your organization.
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23 Apr 2025 Matt Kelly
How to Include Reports to Managers in Internal Reporting
This article explores how and why reports to managers are a vital part of your incident management program – and how to ensure they’re handled properly.
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10 Apr 2025 Matt Kelly
Preparing for the Compliance Challenges of Agentic AI
This NAVEX article discusses the compliance challenges of agentic AI and the core questions your organization should consider.
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11 Mar 2025 Matt Kelly
Strong Compliance Programs Will Always Matter
How should Compliance programs should respond to the Trump Administration’s new priorities – spoiler, the answer is to keep calm and compliance on.
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20 Feb 2025 Matt Kelly
FCPA Enforcement Might Take a Pause – Your Compliance Needs Won’t
With regulatory priorities shifting with the second Trump Administration, many CCOs are wondering what to prioritize. This article explores the shift in U.S. FCPA enforcement.
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11 Feb 2025 Matt Kelly
Here Comes Compliance with the EU AI Act
This article covers the articles of the EU AI Act that went into effect in February 2025 and what you need to know to comply.
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21 Jan 2025 Matt Kelly
Leveraging Privacy Compliance for Your Looming AI Risks
This post discusses the privacy and compliance risks of using AI and how to prepare your organization to proactively address them.
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7 Jan 2025 Matt Kelly
How Better Technology Makes You a Trusted Adviser
Looking to move from being mired into the tactical to being a trusted business adviser? This post explores how you can do just that.
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26 Nov 2024 Matt Kelly
How Compliance Teams Can Think About Risk in Modern Times
Risk doesn’t care if it’s regulated or not – this post explores how compliance can manage risk in the current environment.
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14 Nov 2024 Matt Kelly
The Importance of Benchmarking Your Compliance Program
This article discusses the importance and benefits of benchmarking your compliance program.
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24 Sep 2024 Matt Kelly
Revamped Compliance Program Guidance!
This post discusses the recently updated U.S. DOJ Compliance Program Guidance.
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19 Sep 2024 Matt Kelly
Five Ethics Questions to Ask About Your Company’s Use of AI
Stymied by the ethical implications of using AI in your company? This post breaks down the five essential questions you should be asking.
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15 Aug 2024 Matt Kelly
Brainstorming Ways to Brainstorm Compliance Risks
Brainstorming sessions – either wildly productive or a relative snooze-fest. Let’s dig into some strategies to increase your brainstorming effectiveness.
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3 Jul 2024 Matt Kelly
The Supreme Court Made Its Rulings; Corporate Compliance Needs March On
This article discusses three recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings and the impact on corporate compliance programs.
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28 May 2024 Matt Kelly
What a New SEC Enforcement Sweep Is Really Telling Us
Attention all compliance officers at large technology companies – have you checked your mail lately? Because you might find a letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission with FCPA risk written all over it.
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7 May 2024 Matt Kelly
The Ethics and Compliance Challenges of Noncompete Bans
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission sent shockwaves through the corporate world in April when the agency imposed a ban on noncompete agreements – and like any good shockwave, this new rule will reverberate through the ethics and compliance function too.
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1 May 2024 Matt Kelly
How Ethics Supports Compliance Management and Innovation
Financial regulator Michael Hsu argues strong ethics and compliance culture isn’t at odds with innovation, but fuels it by helping anticipate and avoid future problems. Learn how to implement this approach in your organization.
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15 Feb 2024 Matt Kelly
Artificial Intelligence – The Good, The Bad… The Future
Each year, NAVEX releases the Top 10 Trends in Risk and Compliance eBook. This post is one of the articles, “Artificial Intelligence – The Good, The Bad… The Future."
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8 Feb 2024 Matt Kelly
How to Build a Good Risk Assessment Process
Risk assessments are one of the most important tasks a compliance officer performs – and also one of the most confounding. How do you keep assessing your organization’s risks in a disciplined, methodical manner, when the range and nature of those risks changes so often?
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7 Dec 2023 Matt Kelly
From Healthcare Sector, a Big Push for CCO Autonomy
This post discusses what you need to know about the guidelines released from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General on effective compliance programs for the healthcare sector.
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18 Jul 2023 Matt Kelly
Whistleblower Hotline Success, in the EU and Beyond
This post discusses the recent wave of EU Whistleblower Protection Directive transpositions and how, when paired with research from both KPMG and NAVEX, a picture begins to form about how organizations need to focus on gaining trust in hotline reporting systems in order to see true program success.
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8 Jun 2023 Matt Kelly
Why a ‘Policy on Policies’ Is So Important
A policy about policies is just what the name suggests: a single, master policy that dictates how all other policies at your business are created and used. This blog post discusses why your organization should have a policy on policies.
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19 Oct 2022 Matt Kelly
The Compliance Program’s Role in Anti-Fraud Efforts
Corporate compliance professionals can learn a lot from the audit world. Our latest lesson comes in a statement from the Securities and Exchange Commission, warning auditors to do better at identifying the risk of fraud among their corporate clients – and that statement has plenty of practical implications for compliance officers, too.
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8 Mar 2022 Matt Kelly
Building the Case for Case Management
A recent report by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) reveals that many businesses lack dedicated and disciplined technology for managing fraud cases. Detecting fraud in today’s environment is increasingly complex, and businesses that only do the minimum or use outdated or disjointed technology are well-advised to reevaluate how fraud is detected and addressed.
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9 Feb 2021 Matt Kelly
4 Steps To Start a Business Continuity Plan
Planning for disruption has never been more important. To start creating a business continuity plan, you’ll need a risk assessment, business impact analysis, business continuity plan, and ongoing testing and communication.
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10 Nov 2020 Matt Kelly
How Compliance Should Work With Business Operations: The First Line of Defense
If the business operations people are responsible for managing the risk, what does compliance do? How should compliance officers monitor and guide that risk management happening in the operations?
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8 Sep 2020 Matt Kelly
Clarifying New Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Guidance on PEPs
Regulatory guidance isn’t always direct and specific. It’s often left to interpretation. That’s the case with two August regulatory reports related to the CDD Rule and the issue of high-risk customers, especially politically exposed persons (PEPs).
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11 Aug 2020 Matt Kelly
3 Ways to Apply New DOJ Guidance to Antitrust Compliance
The Justice Department gave compliance officers a significant piece of guidance in June which begs the fundamental question: Is the compliance program “adequately resourced and empowered to function?” Here are three ways to use the latest guidance to test your antitrust compliance.
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