Session outline:
In today’s regulatory and risk landscape, organisations face a growing web of legal, ethical and operational challenges. Compliance sits at the center of this environment – not as a box-ticking exercise, but as a critical driver of resilience.
The Audit Network introduces Peter Spake, who explores how the core elements of a corporate compliance programme work together to identify, manage and reduce risk. He looks at the legal framework underpinning compliance, before examining key risk areas including anti-bribery and corruption, third-party risk management, sanctions, fraud and the importance of effective training. The role of whistle-blowing and speaking up will be explored as a cornerstone of ethical culture and early risk detection.
Crucially, this session moves beyond policies and procedures to focus on what makes compliance effective in practice. Peter discusses why ongoing monitoring, testing and challenge are essential to ensuring compliance programmes remain robust, credible and fit for purpose, providing boards and audit functions with confidence that risks are being actively managed.
The session’s central message is simple: when compliance is well-designed, well-understood and properly tested, it transforms risk into resilience – protecting the organisation while enabling it to operate with confidence in an increasingly complex world.
Creator: CQI (Uploaded 25 February 2026)
Date of recording: 12 February 2026
Duration: 41 minutes
Price: Members – free, Non-members – £10