Here are three resolutions I’d love to see the ethics and compliance community adopt for 2010.

First, let’s promote innovative approaches to regulation that are less descriptive of process, and focus instead on real accountability. For example, SOX mandated an anonymous reporting channel for employees to report financial fraud or misconduct. Consequently, businesses adopted some form of a hotline, which barely moved the needle in encouraging people to report misconduct. But what if

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In the field of Anti-Money Laundering enforcement, 2010 will see new proposed Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) regulations requiring non-bank residential mortgage lenders and originators to have anti-money laundering programs and to report suspicious activity. These businesses need to be ready to implement these programs, because mortgage fraud, and scams involving home loan modification and foreclosure rescue businesses, are already key targets of criminal law enforcement.

The New Year will also bring

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With the amount of criticism being directed at contractors from agencies, watchdog organizations, and Congress, and with agency inspector general offices and the Department of Justice receiving ever-greater resources and missions,

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