Sabine Fercher on ISO 19600 for Compliance Programs [Podcast]




Compliance Perspectives show

Summary: <a href="http://complianceandethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/podcast-graphic-1024x1024.png"></a><br> <a href="http://complianceandethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/turteltaub-adam-200x200-150x1501.jpg"></a><br> By Adam Turteltaub<br> adam.turteltaub@corporatecompliance.org<br> While at the 2018 SCCE Basic Compliance and Ethics Academy in Singapore I had the good fortune to meet Sabine Fercher, the Group Head of Compliance for<a href="https://www.avaloq.com/en/"> Avaloq</a>, a provider of IT solutions for the banking industry.  She was attending the Academy with several of her colleagues from around the world.<br> Sabine is an advocate for <a href="https://www.iso.org/standard/62342.html">ISO 19600</a>, which is a standard for compliance programs.  Unlike the better known and oft-discussed ISO Standard 36001 for anti-corruption programs, 19600 is not a standard companies are certified against.  Instead it “provides guidance for establishing, developing, implementing, evaluating, maintaining and improving an effective and responsive compliance management system within an organization.”<br> As Sabine explains in the podcast, work on this standard goes back many years.  It was designed to be used by companies and organizations from a wide range of industries.<br> Listen in as she explains what it covers, what it emphasizes, how it should be used, and how it shouldn’t.<br>