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So You’ve Created a policy – What’s Next?

Nothing is more frustrating than spending time, energy and money in creating meaningful policies that fall flat. Between writing and researching to revisions, legal review processes and internal sign-off, creating just one policy is no easy feat. Creating a policy, […]

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Patrick Quinlan Talks Data at Global Ethics Summit

A few months ago now we attended Ethisphere’s 8th Annual Global Ethics Summit held in New York City in early March. This event is what we deem as one of the most important events of the year where seasoned compliance […]

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Compliance - not Complacence

Compliance – not Complacence

I read an article recently in Kroll’s blog entitled “Serious Fraud Office’s second DPA highlights lessons for global organisations and their subsidiaries.” As Convercent’s London-based director, I wanted to provide my response to this approval. UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) […]

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CCOs: Never Stop Learning

CCOs: Never Stop Learning

I recently read a LinkedIn blog post by Maurice Gilbert, who shared a recent article by Julie DiMauro, entitled “The State of the Chief Compliance Officer in 2016.” I thought it was a well-written article that touched on some very valid […]

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What Compliance Can Learn From Marketing

I’ve always been fascinated with marketing and how the profession is able to perfectly connect with their target audience.  About four years ago I was working as in-house compliance. It was during those 10 years that my appreciation for marketing […]

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Cultural Halftime

June 2016: Cultural Halftime

Open up any news outlet in your internet browser and it’s hard to see past the headlines relating to compliance scandals. From the big splash this week hitting about Volkswagen’s settlement coming in at $14.7 billion, the largest in automobile […]

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Compliance Tech Talk Chicago

Compliance Tech Talk: Chicago

American author and poet H.D. Thoreau once said, “Simplify, simplify.” To which essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson replied, “One ‘simplify’ would have sufficed.” Thoreau’s view on brevity and simplification was relevant to our 10th Tech Talk held last week in Chicago. […]

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Minneapolis Blog Banner 2016

Predictive Analysis is Compliance’s Holy Grail

We just wrapped up our 9thCompliance Tech Talk, this time returning from the Twin Cities. We spoke with compliance, legal, investigation and audit professionals on the challenges they face in their compliance programs. From retail and medical device to construction […]

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