IT governance disasters are everywhere. IT projects run off the rails, a bank's ATMs might be taken out of service because of early release software obtained from a very pushy vendor, benefit...

In the lead-up to AMD's anti-trust case against Intel, the two firms are at it hammer and tongs, according to this news report.Lawyers tell me much of this case might well come down to emails...

In a world where more than 50 of the world's top economies are corporations, where Wal-Mart's GDP is bigger than Denmark's and where foot-loose capital and the rising power of...

Poring through charts and documents for compliance purposes can be absolutely mind-numbing. It's a language of its own. So the consultants JuiceAnalytics have come up with new buzzwords for data...

Are annual reports on the way out?The Financial Times reports that HSBC'S annual report has grown to such a massive size that Britain's postal service, the Royal Mail, has had to limit the...

Companies are still struggling to get their heads around important non-financial metrics like reputation risk, global competition, and increased scrutiny from the media and NGOs.A new Deloitte report...

The other day I had a chat with Axentis president Ted Frank.Axentis is regarded as one of the leading providers of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management solutions.We talked about why...

Google, the company with the informal corporate motto of "Don't be evil", has run into trouble with regulators about how it pays its taxes.Google has disclosed that the Securities and...

Costs of complying with the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley financial and accounting disclosure law are leveling off, but overall compliance costs are heading north, reports The Wall Street Journal.THE WSJ,...

For many business executives, the word "document" is still associated with paper. But with e-discovery now commonplace and new rules coming in for handling electronic documents during...

A definite pattern has emerged with what appears to be morgan stanley's cavalier attitude to emails.It looks like the brokerage might have to have to make payments to hundreds of investors in...

Might be something in the water! Or is it just the regulations?Employees on Wall Street are much more aware of the regulatory compliance culture and electronic monitoring of their email than their...

Is this a sign of things to come worldwide?Green pressure groups in Britain are now pushing for a change in the listing rules which would require companies floating on the London Stock Exchange to...

Back in August, I did a blog entry on the court decision to set aside the conviction of contractor Custer Battles, the first corporate fraud case to emerge from mess that's Iraq.At the time, I...

Here's some disturbing evidence from a study on compliance-readiness, or the lack of it.And with more companies going to court over employee email issues, or having their own emails subpoenaed,...

The Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics and the CFA Centre for Financial Market Integrity have issued a joint report calling on companies to stop giving quarterly earnings...

Back in May, I blogged on how the Securities and Exchange Commission had turned itself into the grammar police in its campaign for plain English.But now it seems that the SEC only wants its own brand...

Last month I blogged on how US banks, Internet-service providers and other companies were joining the telcos in providing confidential information about their customers to security agencies. I also...

Here's a reason why annual reports are hard to read - the directors and managers might be trying to hide something.Those are the findings of a University of Michigan study.......

Think before you hit that "send" key.With emails now a compliance minefield, the big corporations in the US and Britain are now bringing in snoops to monitor and vet emails at the...