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Compliance And Risk Management In Today's Business World

Eric Jacobson

Yarin : Typically, the Chief Compliance Officer, often in connection with legal counsel, is the person who leads action in response to a warning. Given this part of the Chief Compliance Officer''s role, it''s critical that his or her function be independent of other functions within the company (e.g.

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Why Our Trust in Banks Hasn’t Been Restored

Harvard Business Review

To address this concern, banks have been hiring an increasing number of compliance officers. For example, JP Morgan has hired an additional 13,000 people in the area of compliance since 2012. Banks might be better served by focusing less on compliance and more on benevolence.

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Social Media Compliance Isn't Fun, But It's Necessary

Harvard Business Review

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. The result is a happy medium: The intimacy and immediacy that give social media its mojo live side by side with the archiving and approval features that compliance officers demand. 132 characters for Goldman; one giant leap for the Twitterverse.