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4.3.21 - We Launch - GOVindicia

The last 18 months of my life has been full of failure; the most beautiful failures. Trying something and failing, trying something else...

Governance, risk and compliance

GRC, as it's often termed, is an emerging discipline, probably originally from the information technology domain. It has now been much...

Governance is not really about rules

Last year in the UK, 400 million GBP of fines and sanctions were issued to organisations as a result of corporate governance failings....

GOOD GOVERNANCE IS 'THE' KEY

Good governance is not an outcome of itself, it is forged deep inside organisations and has an almost primitive connection with culture....

REGULATORY VISIT PREPARATION

Preparing for a regulatory visit can feel a bit like embarking across La Coupée, the causeway which joins big and little Sark. It's about...

GRC, UNPLUGGED AND UNSCRIPTED

The role of a compliance officer has come along way since 1999, when I first started. I was a regulator at that point, heaven forbid! The...

SUICIDE, GAMBLING AND RISK MANAGEMENT

Too many people lose their lives from suicide and some of these are as a direct consequence of gambling. Thank you to Tim Poole of...

COMPLIANCE, IT'S LIKE LEARNING TO RIDE A BIKE

We have become dependent on the compliance stabilisers of policies, procedures and controls. If we think about what cultural change is...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE BOARDROOM

The future of governance, risk management and compliance could be disrupted significantly by the use of AI. It's here now, but do we...

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