Building a Robust Compliance Risk Assessment Framework: Expert Strategies and Best Practices
Speaker: Kenneth Barden
Speaker Designation: Independent Consultant/ Compliance Expert
Speaker: Kenneth Barden
Speaker Designation: Independent Consultant/ Compliance Expert
Organizations must develop and facilitate effective compliance risk assessments to mitigate potential risks and comply with legal and regulatory requirements. A thorough compliance risk assessment involves identifying potential risks, evaluating their likelihood and impact, and implementing measures to manage and monitor those risks. This process requires collaboration between various departments and stakeholders, including compliance officers, legal teams, and senior management. Effective communication and training are also crucial to ensure that all employees understand their roles and responsibilities in maintaining compliance. Organizations can proactively identify and address potential risks by developing and facilitating effective compliance risk assessments, maintain legal and regulatory compliance, and safeguard their reputation and financial stability.
During this webinar, attendees will gain insight into different methods for evaluating risk within a company's business portfolio. They will also learn about effective techniques for conducting risk assessments to assess compliance risks, categorize them, and prioritize them accordingly. Additionally, attendees will discover how to implement mitigation strategies to minimize any negative consequences.
Businesses are encountering mounting compliance requirements from government regulatory agencies and public and peer pressure to fulfill legal and ethical obligations. With the complexity of these regulatory, legal, and ethical hurdles, companies are struggling to avoid incurring substantial liabilities. A thorough risk assessment can identify many of these obstacles and offer suggestions for limiting exposure.
A risk assessment can aid managers in comprehending and categorizing the numerous risks, and devising a risk management plan that can be implemented to reduce exposure and potential harms.
This webinar will examine many of the common risk exposures that companies face, outline various approaches for identifying risks and assessing the likelihood of occurrence as well as provide some options on how a company can best implement recommendations into action.
Attending the webinar will teach you about best practices for conducting risk assessments in a company's business portfolio. The training will provide attendees with various approaches for evaluating compliance risks, rating them, and prioritizing them accordingly. Furthermore, attendees will discover how to implement mitigation strategies to minimize any negative consequences.
At the conclusion of this webinar, attendees will learn:
Kenneth Barden is an attorney and a seasoned Compliance and Regulatory Specialist. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and is COSO-certified. He has over 37 years of professional experience, both within the US and internationally. His primary focus has been on compliance, financial integrity, and public financial management development. Ken has developed regulations and processes for several countries in the development of their AML/CFT regimes. Specifically, he helped set up the financial intelligence units within Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Palau and Palestine.
He previously served as Senior Anticorruption and Governance Advisor with the US Agency for International Development and served as that agency’s representative on a number of inter-agency committees with Treasury, State and Commerce and represented the US at several UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) Conference of State Parties. He has written extensively on AML/CFT, compliance and financial integrity and frequently presents at workshops and online webinars. He is a graduate of Indiana University School of Law, and has completed several post-graduate study programs.