Corporate investment in compliance in general and compliance management systems (CMS) in particular, follow the cardinal management obligation to always obey the law (so-called "management duty to legality"). But does the compliance function as any other corporate investment really add value...

Many firms use the “3 lines of defense” (3LOD) model to clarify responsibility for risk management but this approach has limitations, as three distinct “lines” do not always enable sufficient clarity, mindsets formed through deployment in one business can be difficult to break when...