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Data Driven Compliance

Data Driven Compliance – AI Tech for Data Compliance, Part 1

Are you struggling to keep up with the ever-changing compliance programs in your business? Look no further than the award-winning Data Driven Compliance podcast, hosted by Tom Fox, is a podcast featuring an in-depth conversation around the uses of data and data analytics in compliance programs. Data Driven Compliance is back with another exciting episode The intersection of law, compliance, and data is becoming increasingly important in the world of cross-border transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

Data compliance risks are a major concern for organizations of all sizes as data collection and storage grows. A key is to prevent these risks by detecting misconduct before it occurs. AI technology is used to pinpoint risk and misconduct, providing context to alerts. Searching unstructured data is a critical process for organizations to identify and mitigate hidden risks, and the right technology is necessary to incorporate multiple file types and data sources. By equipping with the right processes and technology, organizations can proactively look for hidden risks and take preventative steps to ensure compliance.

Data has become much more ubiquitous and needs to be incorporated into business processes. AI data cleansing helps to reduce false positives and provides context to alerts generated by the system. AI capabilities are divided into three categories: removing duplicative content, detecting risk, and providing context. AI-powered data cleansing strips out non-human generated content and focuses on what was sent by an individual. This helps to lower false positives in alerts generated by the system.

Regulators are now focusing on prevention as part of best practices compliance programs. A key is to prevent misconduct before it occurs by setting expectations that this behavior is not tolerated in the organization. Compliance teams can quickly take action and remediate activity when an incident is found. Consistent approach by compliance teams in quickly remediating bad behavior creates a culture where misconduct is not tolerated.

Unstructured data is data that doesn’t have a hierarchy associated with it, such as Word documents, emails, and text messages. Your app built on unstructured data analytics problems, such as responding to government requests, cyber breach response, and compliance monitoring. Organizations should have processes in place to proactively look for hidden risks. Technology is needed to search through unstructured data to find hidden risks.

 Key Highlights

·      Data Compliance Risks

·      Data Cleansing Importance

·      Preventing Misconduct

·      Detecting Risk with AI

·      Searching Unstructured Data

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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: July 25, 2023 – The Ted Cruz Be Damned Edition

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance brings to you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the Daily Compliance News. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day we consider four stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional.

  • Chinese fight seed corruption. (WSJ)
  • UM Law bans using ChatGPT in applications. (Reuters)
  • Another ex-con embraces compliance. (WSJ)
  • Barbie No. 1 movie for the weekend. (NYT)
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31 Days to More Effective Compliance Programs

One Month to Better Reporting and Investigations – How an Investigation Informs Remediation

There is nothing like an internal whistleblower report about a FCPA violation, the finding of such an issue or (even worse) a subpoena from the DOJ to trigger the Board of Directors and senior management attention to the compliance function and the company’s compliance program. Such an event can trigger much gnashing of teeth and expressions of outrage followed immediately by proclamations “We are an ethical company.” However, it may well be the time for a very serious reality check.
In addition to robust investigation, a company must engage in remediation of the offending conduct. The 2020 Update to the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs mandated the additional significance of this by providing that this process must be considered “both at the time of the offense and at the time of the charging decision and resolution”. When you consider the strictures around continuous monitoring and continuous improvement in compliance programs it is clear why this analysis is so important. Obviously, a key test of any compliance program is when a deficiency is found and a violation occurs. The question then becomes, what did you do about it.
But from the DOJ (and Securities and Exchange Commission) perspective, the key is to use the information to both fix the problem so that it does not occur again but also improve your compliance regime.

Three key takeaways:

  1. How does your investigation inform your remediation plan?
  2. A compliance program failure offers a way to upgrade your regime.
  3. Your investigative team must inform your remediation team.