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In Part 1 of this blog series, we explored how the Department of Justice’s “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” document can help provide a b...

In February 2017, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued its “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” document. Exactly a year later, it remains ...

Now that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has been around for many years, the expectations from the DOJ have become clearer. Having compliance...

What does that mean? Leading analyst firm Gartner recognized Oversight as a “Cool Vendor” in the Procurement and Sourcing Technology report. Of course...

There’s been a lot of lip-service paid to “operationalizing compliance” since the Department of Justice’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs ...

Do you need a Compliance Oversight Review Committee? I recently read Thomas Fox’s article in FCPA Compliance Report on this very topic. Fox advocates ...

The potential changes coming to the regulatory landscape can get your head spinning. President Trump has demonstrated that he is ready to make changes...

More frequently we read news alerts about cyber attacks. The scary notion is that the cyber world has become a dangerous arena where most anything goe...

We come to you with this whitepaper because of the many recent FCPA violations and settlements large companies have faced since the implementation of ...

Batter up! As we head into Major League Baseball playoffs, it’s a good time to revisit FCPA compliance. That’s right, I said FCPA compliance.

I love this article by Tom Fox for Compliance Week. In the piece he states that ‘Tone at the Top’, while effective, is one of the most clichéd terms i...

Recently the Wall Street Journal published an article on how modern companies are using analytics to better assess risk and combat fraud. Although the...

I recently read this article in Computer Weekly about making fictional expense claims a thing of the past, and I enjoyed it.

Given that we provide technology for ensuring Fortune 500 company’s T&E programs are FCPA compliant, we like to stay abreast of the latest news in the...

At Oversight, we’ve been investing a lot of energy into developing our platform for Insights On Demand™ for FCPA. Recently we read Joseph Spinelli’s a...

FCPA – we’re talking about it all month long. If you keep up with FCPA news (like we do) you’ll know that creating a culture of compliance is more imp...

We’re unofficially calling June “FCPA month” here on the Oversight blog.  But why is FCPA compliance so important? In this piece on The FCPA Blog (whi...

We loved seeing this Information Week Article by Lisa Morgan on the “8 Reasons to Consider Insights-As-A-Service.” While some of the reasons given are...

When researching what a company is all about online, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the amount of information available. Particularly with a compa...

Recently, Novartis came to a settlement with the SEC about an FCPA action.  In case you are unfamiliar, the key points of the violation are this: 

On February18th, Compliance Week held a webinar presented by Oversight’s CEO, Patrick Taylor. In excess of 700 corporate compliance executives registe...

Some believe that they only have two choices to improve compliance within their disbursement processes:

Whether or not you believe that Valentine’s Day is a money-suck, chances are you’ll buy flowers for that special someone in your life. To cover the ba...

Writing about FCPA compliance and the reduction of FCPA risk is well tread territory on the Oversight blog. It’s also a big topic in the news and on s...

2015 has come to an end. Can you believe it? If you’re like us at Oversight, you’re probably wondering where the year went. It seems like the days wen...

Prospects always want to know why our clients have selected Oversight Insights On Demand™, but rather than just the “why,” it’s nice to show them the ...

It’s that time of year again. You know the one—with the bird and the cinnamon and football. It’s time for friends and family and thankfulness. Unfortu...

On Tuesday, October 27th 2015 Oversight’s CEO Patrick Taylor participated in a joint webinar with the Anti-Fraud collaboration. The webinar featured M...

I was recently researching the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) while developing sales material for Oversight's FCPA monitoring solution. While vi...

During the trial process many of our prospects like to ask us this question: “Why did your clients select you?” This is an excellent question, and whi...

For any prospective client, an important step in evaluating the value of Oversight Insights On Demand is taking advantage of our Free Test Drive. This...

I recently came across a great multi-part series of articles entitled “Why Should Americans Care About the FIFA Indictments?” by Thomas Fox. In this i...

Here are three of the most common objections I hear to people declining the FREE trial of our software.

My favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movie is Kindergarten Cop (Twins is a close second). If you haven’t seen the movie (do so immediately), it’s about a...

Following up on Julia Versaci’s series on Oversight’s technology solution for FCPA, we would like to highlight additional important FCPA blog posts fr...

I recently came across a great multi-part series of articles entitled “Why Should Americans Care About the FIFA Indictments?" by Thomas Fox. In this b...

I recently came across a great multi-part series of articles entitled “Why Should Americans Care About the FIFA Indictments? by Thomas Fox. In this in...

Working as an account manager for Oversight Systems, I get a lot of questions from new customers who want to know about the system: Where do we start?...

At Oversight, we’re lucky to have a CEO who takes time out of his busy week to contribute regularly to our blog. Being a thought leader in the data an...

Julia Versaci As one of the solution designers for Oversight’s FCPA compliance modules, I keep an eye on the news regarding FCPA to make sure that our...

On June 23rd I had the pleasure of co-hosting a webinar with Eric A. Sohn, Director of Business Product for Dow Jones Risk and Compliance. The webinar...

Mike Kenealy, COO of Insiders Integrity, is involved in a project on the Philippines designed to take on ethics at the local level.  The project has f...

The Economist, in its May 9 article, “The anti-bribery business”, takes to task both the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and “FCPA Inc.”  The DOJ is cr...

At Oversight, we’re always striving to create a better software platform and user experience for our customers. As such, we continually release update...

We hear a lot about “Compliance 2.0” in our industry, but what does this really mean?

Oversight’s commitment to furthering thought leadership in our industry is evident in the white papers, reports, and blog content produced for both cu...

I love LinkedIn. I think the reason I love the platform the most is because it provides access to groups full of like-minded individuals in the data a...

There have been several high-profile scandals in all sports including doping in track and field, cycling (Lance Armstrong, anyone?), American football...

Each week I’ve been aggregating great pieces of thought leadership we’ve put out on the blog that you may have missed. This week we’re focusing on Big...

Oversight is no stranger to Tom Fox’s blog and podcast The FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report. Having last appeared on the show over a year ago, Patric...

Since March 2014, Oversight has published nearly 100 blog posts, the topics running the gamut from fraud prevention, ensuring FCPA compliance, busines...

Recently, I read an article on the Wall Street journal about an SEC official giving a talk on how an effective compliance program can limit FCPA risk ...

My name is Ashlee and I started with Oversight in January 2014. I spent over a year on the Demand Generation team, driving sales for Oversight Insight...

When I came on board the marketing department at Oversight Systems, a little over a year ago, I was pleasantly surprised by the wealth of information ...

Jonny Frank and Rex Homme do a nice job of succinctly addressing why transaction monitoring is the next “must have” anti-corruption tool (http://shar....

Sonny Carpenter, in his Criminal Justice article, “Avoid an Investigation: Automate FCPA Compliance”, makes one of the more succinct and clearly reaso...

I confess to having grown weary of companies in the data analysis and/or compliance business that scream tales of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (AKA, “...

Reconciling sales strategy with FCPA compliance seems like a difficult task, particularly in high-risk markets that offer the evil twins of big market...

I just read a great article from FCPAblog.com about how transaction monitoring (what we here at Oversight specialize in) is the new “must have” item f...

Christopher Bauer makes a quick and effective case for why companies can afford to boost their ethics, compliance, and accountability programs in his ...

Women’s Make Up Retailer, Avon, has been in the news recently for a large FCPA action against the company. The following article is an interesting rec...

President Ronald Reagan was using an old Russian proverb, in speaking to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev about an arms control treaty when he said ...

Predictions are traditional at the beginning of the year and the world of fraud and compliance is no different. In this tradition, ACFE Insights blog ...

2014 has been a great year for Oversight. So great, in fact, that we wanted to highlight 10 moments and relive it all again. What a year!

The Thomson Reuters list of benefits from self-reporting FCPA compliance violations boils down to two very good reasons for self-disclosure: 1) cost s...

As Oversight moves forward into the holiday season, we wanted to take a moment to recap our big “wins” for the quarter. It’s been a banner year for Ov...

I recently read a great article from CFO.com about how Chief Financial Officers can generate more value in their offices. The article gives great tact...

As a published author, blogger and thought leader in the fraud risk management arena, I’m in the unique position of seeing global fraud trends across ...

Have you ever looked at the dashboards in your business intelligence tool and thought….what stunning conclusion am I supposed to see?

In Rebekah Mintzer’s Corporate Counsel article, “Stepping Up Your FCPA Compliance Program”, she quotes experts who accurately point to the positive, a...

I recently read an article on the Foreign Corrupt Practices act has become an industry unto itself, and I couldn’t agree more. With the exorbitant ris...

Tom Fox suggests that “Blue Ocean Leadership” has implications for how Chief Compliance Officers (CCO) and other compliance practitioners can influenc...

Walmart has become the hot topic in anti-bribery and corruption/FCPA circles.  FCPA professionals, commentators, and other interested parties have com...

Marubeni Corporation’s second FCPA fine in two years is indicative that compliance is easier said than done. Over two years Marubeni has paid a total ...

What does an effective compliance program look like?  CEOs read this question and think about it from the perspective of, “What do we need to do to ma...

One of our customers calls T&E “the window into the soul of a company.”  Viewed from a corporate compliance perspective, particularly through a briber...

I really enjoyed this piece from the FCPA Blog about how compliance should report more directly to a corporate board, namely through the use of a Chie...

Asking good questions, as Tom Fox observes in his April 10 blog, “Asking Questions to Build Your Compliance Program”, is the key to opening people to ...

The big news in the compliance world lately has been the enormous costs associated with FCPA probes and Investigation for Fortune 500 companies. First...

I recently had the pleasure of reading Tom Fox’s blog, “The Alchemist of Comedy and Utility Industry Compliance”. In addition to a nod to the late Har...

With the close of fraud prevention month, Oversight wanted to recap our favorite fraud prevention tips. How many of our examples below apply to your o...

The cost impact of FCPA investigations is less related to fines and more related to internal investigations. These internal costs easily enter the ten...

Oversight Systems CEO, Patrick Taylor, was recently featured on the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report, a weekly blog that covers the latest trends and...

In an insightful compliance-minded blog, Tom Fox recently discussed how conducting internal investigations can be a laudable best practice when it com...

I recently spoke with Dann Anthony Maurno at Compliance Week on the gaining popularity of on-demand transaction monitoring and analysis. As a culture ...

I used to think that for FCPA, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) lists were “the bomb.” I thought that the lists were both a) required and b) THE key ...

Compliance as noted in the recent CFO article “Compliance Mountains to Climb” is interesting because it is a pass/fail endeavor. Either a company is c...

An equally entertaining and informational blog post shared by Tom Fox on his FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog correlates the story of the Charlie Brown...

Oversight Systems is thrilled to teaming up with The Network to host an event this week to help companies strengthen their Foreign Corrupt Practices A...

Travel Market Report recently covered a story on how many firms are slow to automate their business travel expense reports. Firms that are slower to a...

In an article published in Ethisphere Magazine, Thomas Fox analyzes recent FCPA related cases and makes the case for Transaction Monitoring as a best ...

The processes that Sanjeev Kumar discusses in the recent piece Fighting Fraud Offers Insurers Operational Improvements for fighting insurance fraud re...

Last time, I wrote about evidential reasoning as a necessary technique for an analysis system. To recap, using a single approach to identify fraud, su...

I recently read a fascinating change management story by Tom Fox "How to Introduce Change into Your FCPA Compliance Program (Without Blowing It Up)". ...