Innovation In Compliance With Tom Fox

Jordan Domash is Tom Fox’s guest on this week’s episode of the Innovation in Compliance Podcast. Jordan is the General Manager at Relativity, a company that makes software to help users organize their data. The platform is used by more than 180,000 people around the world to identify key issues. Jordan has been leading Relativity’s communications surveillance product for the past few years and has been in charge of the sale and development of the platform. He joins Tom in the first part of this two-part episode to talk about his role at Relativity, data cleansing, and how the Relativity Trace platform helps its customers. The Importance of Data Cleansing With the move to remote work, individuals have come to rely on different sources such as Slack and Microsoft Teams to communicate with one another. Jordan tells Tom that this has led to an explosion in the amount of data that needs to be actively monitored, and that there is a larger need for data cleansing. He shares how Relativity is tackling this issue. “

Welcome to this special podcast series, Series Spotlight: Revolutionizing GRC with 6clicks, sponsored by 6clicks. This week I visit with Joe Schorr, Vice President (VP) of Global Channel Sales, Andrew Robinson, co-founder and Chief Information Security Officer, Stephen Walter, head of Marketing, Dr. Heather Buker, Chief Technology Officer, and Ant Stevens, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. Over the series, we will break down 6ckicks Hub and Spoke approach, utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning in governance, risk and compliance (GRC), curating and maintaining a robust GRC content, producing audit ready reports, and look at what’s next for 6clicks down the road. In Part 1, I am joined by Joe Schorr on Managing a Multi-Entity GRC Architecture with 6clicks Hub and Spoke. Schorr handles global channels, which encompasses service provider partners and technology partners and the traditional channel resale role. We turned to the ‘hub and spoke’ model which 6clicks advocates. He said that

Troy Fine is Tom Fox’s guest on this week’s episode of the Innovation in Compliance Podcast. He is the Senior Manager of Cybersecurity Risk Management and Compliance at Drata. Troy joins Tom to talk about data security, data protection, and risk management. Internal and External Auditing Auditing is external and internal. External auditing entails third parties coming in to assess a company's controls, security frameworks, and determining if they meet compliance requirements. Internal auditing involves people who work directly for the company they are assessing. They are a lot more involved with the business, and understand the requirements of the business better, so they take a more collaborative approach. Internal audit identifies the gaps within the organization, so the business can remedy them quickly, and so that the business can be prepared for an external audit. Troy points out that sometimes internal audit would assist external audit, with external audit relying on the testing that internal already p

Dan Sholler is Tom Fox’s guest on this week’s episode of the Innovation in Compliance Podcast. He is the Software Product Marketing Leader at Exterro, an organization that creates software that helps clients address regulatory, compliance, and litigation risks at affordable costs. Dan joins Tom to talk about the work Exterro is doing in the realms of compliance risk governance. The Evolution of Exterro Exterro has adapted its ability to measure its results more easily, as well as test alternative approaches. Dan explains to Tom that they can test alternative messages, as well as alternative means of delivering those messages. Technology can be used to drive some of the communication to make that initiative work.  The Importance of Plan Sponsor Audits Plan sponsor audits are significant because it’s a universal change in regulatory posture. This affects how compliance professionals need to think about their responsibilities. In the past, regulatory agencies would use a checklist for compliance personnel on c

This week’s guest is Lindsay Sweeney, Senior Manager of Communications at K2 Integrity, a risk, compliance, investigations, and monitoring firm. She graduated with degrees in journalism and history and was convinced that her career would be in either of those industries. However, she started working in a small shop whose clients were mostly associated with fintech; she would eventually join K2 Integrity. She joins Tom Fox to discuss how you can use social media and communications to drive home internal messages and get your message and brand out to your clients, customers, and the compliance community.  At K2 Within her first six months at K2 Integrity, the company expanded their presence in the media with a major financial crimes practice and merged with a financial integrity network in DC. From there, they kicked off a rebrand, which was both challenging and easier to do remotely due to the pandemic. She tells Tom, “It wasn't just a matter of changing our name in certain places,” she shares. “It was a matt

Amii Barnard-Bahn, C-Suite Coach and Consultant, is Tom Fox’s guest on this week’s episode of the Innovation in Compliance Podcast. She is a compliance professional, an author, and a key speaker. Amii joins Tom to talk about her new book, The PI Guidebook: How the Promotability Index® Can Help You Get Ahead in Your Career, and how leaders can create a healthier workplace environment for their employees. How The PI Guidebook Helps Workplace Cultures Amii is a firm believer in the concept of radical self-reliance, especially in your career. She is a big advocate for employees learning how to own their jobs and thinking of their responsibilities surrounding their careers differently. Amii has created a framework within the PI Guidebook that helps them with this, and she has divided the framework into five key elements: self-awareness, external awareness, strategic thinking, thought leadership, and executive presence. Becoming efficient in these disciplines will go a long way at keeping you from becoming expenda

Debbie Mrzaek, President of The Sales Company, is Tom Fox’s guest on this week’s episode of the Innovation in Compliance Podcast. She has spent her career helping individuals and companies around the world as a sales consultant helping them develop good customer relationships. Debbie joins Tom to talk about sales processes and what compliance professionals can learn from sales personnel.   Active Listening and Communication: The Key To Success in Sales Active listening is the key to success in sales, as the sales process is all about communication. Knowing when to speak and when to be quiet is vital, Debbie stresses: “If you’re talking more than 60% of the time, shut up. You’re not learning anything; you’re not getting any new information.” Learning to ask open-ended questions and allowing the other person to do most of the talking will go a long way. Anyone can learn the skills of a salesman, and you don’t have to be extroverted or a social butterfly to be successful in sales. All you need to do is be able t

Tom Fox welcomes back Alexander Dill on this week’s episode of the Innovation in Compliance Podcast. Alexander is a lecturer at UCLA, as well as an author and advisor, specializing in financial regulation, risk management, and compliance. Alexander and Tom talk about anti-money laundering and the key problems compliance professionals encounter. The Importance of Compliance Ratings Compliance Systems Compliance rating systems were created to measure accuracy and integrity. After the events of Enron and WorldCom, there was a general criticism of credit rating agencies. Moody's Investors Service, where Alexander spent a considerable amount of time working, got a great deal of that criticism due to the organization's poor ratings performance and its lack of fraud rating. Moody's wanted to continue to self-regulate as opposed to being regulated by the global regulators, and so the creation of these compliance systems helped with that. Alexander explains that the initial work that was done with respect to the rati

Cecilia Akuffo is Tom Fox’s guest on this week’s episode of the Innovation in Compliance Podcast. Cecilia is a Talent Acquisition Partner who has extensive experience in management, interviewing, recruiting, and social media. Cecilia works in the higher education industry as a Tech Recruiter. She joins Tom to talk about her career, workplace dignity, and what she is looking forward to in the future. Setting The Tone in Talent Acquisition Talent acquisition communications training is crucial in the compliance context because that's where it all starts, Cecilia points out. The first time you look at someone's resume, or the first time you have an interaction with them in the talent acquisition process, you can start to convey your company's values, culture, and expectations. Doing recruiting right sets the tone at the beginning for how you expect individuals to comply within your organization.  The Evolution of Talent Acquisition The main evolution in the world of talent acquisition is that it is its own enti

Welcome to this special podcast series, Integrity Matters: Culture, Training and Compliance, sponsored by K2 Integrity. This week I visit with Koby Bambilia, Managing Director, and Tina Rampino, Associate Managing Director. Over the series we have broken down corporate culture, compliance training and communications. Topics included breaking down the big picture on culture, espresso shots of training, skills development and regulatory changes, tailored and risked based training and operational aspects of training. In this concluding Part 5, I am joined again by Tina Rampino who reviews key operational aspects of training, including budget, delivery and more. We began with a discussion of one of the most critical issues around compliance training, but one I believe does not get nearly enough discussion in the compliance community, that being the issue of budgeting. During times of economic stress compliance training budgets are often tightened. Rampino believes this approach needs to be avoided. The reason is

Welcome to this special podcast series, Integrity Matters: Culture, Training and Compliance, sponsored by K2 Integrity. This week I visit with Koby Bambilia, Managing Director, and Tina Rampino, Associate Managing Director. Over this series, we will break down corporate culture, compliance training and communications. Topics include breaking down the big picture on culture, espresso shots of training, skills development and regulatory changes, tailored and risked based training and operational aspects of training. In Part 2, I am joined by Tina Rampino who discusses ‘espresso shots’ of training to help facilitate attainable training demands.

Welcome to this special podcast series, Integrity Matters: Culture, Training and Compliance, sponsored by K2 Integrity. This week I visit with Koby Bambilia, Managing Director, and Tina Rampino, Associate Managing Director. Over the series, we break down corporate culture, compliance training and communications. Topics include breaking down the big picture on culture, espresso shots of training, skills development and regulatory changes, tailored and risked based training and operational aspects of training. In Part 4, I am joined by Koby Bambilia to discuss why tailored and risked based training is so critical now. In this episode we went into the weeds of specific tailored and risk-based training. Getting ahead of regulators and ensuring your institution has skills-based trainings is critical. But more than this, regulators now want to see specific risk-based training, tailored to individual needs. This approach is not limited to financial institution regulators but the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Secur

Welcome to this special podcast series, Integrity Matters: Culture, Training and Compliance, sponsored by K2 Integrity. This week I visit with Koby Bambilia, Managing Director, and Tina Rampino, Associate Managing Director. Over this series, we are breaking down corporate culture, compliance training and communications by discussing topics such as breaking down the big picture on culture, espresso shots of training, skills development and regulatory changes, tailored and risked based training and operational aspects of training. In Part 3, I am joined by Koby Bambilia to discuss the intersection of meeting compliance skill development and regulatory requirements.

Peter Baumann is Tom Fox’s guest on this week’s episode of the Innovation in Compliance Podcast. He is the founder of ActiveNav, a company that helps its customers reduce data risk, make better management decisions and comply with privacy regulations. He has been in the information governance field for 30 years both as a publisher and as a content creator. Peter joins Tom to talk about how the disciplines of information governance, and the data industry, relate to a variety of compliance issues. How Information Governance Has Changed The most significant change in information governance, Peter tells Tom, has been its explosion of growth. Companies used to only operate from a singular network, and via a single machine. There was well managed control, and no-one else was able to have access to the information filtered through those single networks and machines. That is no longer the case. With the rise of the internet and connecting corporate networks with each other, the control has collapsed and sensitive da

Welcome to this special podcast series, Integrity Matters: Culture, Training and Compliance, sponsored by K2 Integrity. This week I visit with Koby Bambilia, Managing Director, and Tina Rampino, Associate Managing Director. Over the series, we will break down corporate culture, compliance training and communications. Topics include breaking down the big picture on culture, espresso shots of training, skills development and regulatory changes, tailored and risked based training and operational aspects of training. In Part 1, I am joined by Tina Rampino who breaks down the big picture on culture. We began with the basics: that a culture of Compliance is the foundation of an organization’s compliance program. Rampino said it is a measure of how well employees feel empowered to identify, mitigate, and escalate risk within their institution. An institution’s compliance culture is set by an institution’s Board and Executive Leadership team. Their messaging should be continuously reinforced in an institution’s risk

John Lee Dumas, host of the award-winning podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire, joins Tom Fox on the last installment of Looking Back at 9/11 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack. He tells Tom how his life changed in that pivotal moment, and the big lessons he learned.  A Time of War John tells Tom that he was in his final year at Providence College, and in the ROTC cadets, on 9/11. When he saw the towers fall, he knew at once that it would change the trajectory of his career. He and his roommate looked at each other and they knew “that our next four years of active duty army experience went from being in the peacetime army to looking like we were going to war.” Within hours they were called to active duty: “We just became officers in the US army during a time of war,” John recalls. Leadership Lessons from the Army Tom asks John what leadership lessons he learned from his time in the army. John outlines three major takeaways that his time in combat taught him: To learn from those who went before

Scott Moritz is Tom Fox’s guest on this episode of Looking Back at 9/11. Scott is the Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting Risk and Investigations, assisting clients and their outside counsel in managing their response to white collar crime, misconduct and bribery incidents. He is also the host of the podcast series, Fraud Eats Strategy. Scott joins Tom to talk about how the events of 9/11 impacted the FBI. How 9/11 Changed The FBI: Structural and Cultural Ambidexterity 9/11 fundamentally changed the FBI overnight. Scott remarks that for a long time after 9/11, the FBI was primarily focused on the attack on the Trade Center. That was the Bureau’s main investigation, and it was being worked on by all the FBI field offices, and virtually every foreign attache office in the world. Many scholars, through various organizational studies and surveys, assumed that the FBI would have created simultaneous frontline structures and processes to balance their two competing missions: national security and law enforc

Eric Feldman is Tom Fox’s guest on this episode of Looking Back at 9/11. Eric is the Senior Vice President and Managing Director at Affiliated Monitors, a company that deals with monitoring large and small companies in the government contracting, construction, engineering, manufacturing, and financial services. He also conducts assessments of corporate ethics and compliance programs across many countries. Eric joins Tom to talk about the impact the events of 9/11 had on the role of Inspector General. The Impact of 9/11 on The IG's Role Eric explains to Tom that 9/11 was the most informative time of his career, and the careers of many other Inspector Generals. It was a refocusing moment for everyone. Eric got to work within the oversight function, but as part of the mission he was overseeing. "That focus on mission was it for me," he tells Tom. Eric expresses that understanding the mission helped make him a better Inspector General. IGs all over the world became more concerned with looking at the broader pict

Alex Dill is Tom Fox’s guest on this episode of the Looking Back at 9/11 Series. Alex is a scholar and professor specializing in financial regulation, risk management and compliance. He also has corporate experience in ​​the ethics of business practices in finance, bankruptcy, bond covenants, and debt markets. He joins Tom to talk about The Patriot Act’s impact on responding to terrorist threats. How 9/11 Changed AML Before 9/11, AML regulations were very lax and backward looking. The focus was on prosecuting crimes that were already committed, and prosecuting money laundering, more so than the financing of terrorism. Banks weren’t engaging in meaningful customer due diligence as they felt the process invasive. After 9/11, this all changed. Law enforcement agencies and financial institutions revamped their policies and procedures to take a more preventive approach to AML and financing of terrorism. This led to The Patriot Act. The Financial Response Tom asks Alex if he saw a similar regulatory response with

Juan Zarate is the Global co-Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at K2 integrity. On 9/11 he was a prosecutor at the Treasury Department working on international enforcement issues, anti money laundering, anti-corruption and anti-terrorist financing. He joins Tom Fox to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11. They discuss how his role changed, the Treasury Department response and what the tragic event means for him. A Change of Mission 9/11 changed the mission of the Treasury Department. Juan tells Tom, “We went after terrorist financing to try to disrupt and dismantle Al-Qaeda's terrorist networks and infrastructure, and disrupt how illicit financing was flowing through the international system.” He recalls where he was on the fateful day and how seeing the smoke from the Towers and the Pentagon affected him emotionally. Something very different was happening, he recalls; the country was under attack. He outlines the strategic, departmental and tactical changes implemented after 9/11 to fight ter