Quarterly Compliance Round-up: September 2026

A quarterly round-up of ethics and compliance enforcement and rulemaking from July to September 2026: BIS and ITAR export enforcement, CFTC whistleblower awards, anti-boycott and sanctions settlements, DOJ’s new fraud division, the Scoular FCPA case, and EU Russia sanctions and FDI screening.

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What compliance teams expect from case management now

Ethena rebuilt its ethics hotline and case management for compliance teams: custom fields, case linking, AI case summaries and import, deadlines, and analytics that read across your whole program.

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Your hotline renewal countdown: what to do in the 12 months before your contract renews

A step-by-step timeline for compliance teams heading into a hotline contract renewal: when to give notice, what to review, what to require, and how to evaluate.

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[Webinar] Let’s Talk About Pay: Comp conversations in the AI era

Comp conversations are some of the hardest conversations, and most HR leaders are having it without a real playbook. Add AI to the mix, reshaping what roles are worth and...

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Five questions to ask your hotline contract (and a prompt that answers them)

Paste this prompt and your hotline vendor contract into any AI tool to find your renewal date, notice window, auto-renewal terms, and exit costs in minutes.

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New features coming to Hotline & Case Management

New features are leaving beta in Hotline & Case Management. Each one takes a piece of that administrative work off your desk. Check your settings page once they are live...

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Where does your hotline sit on the AI maturity curve?

Twelve questions, three stages, and an honest answer about how much of your speak-up program still runs on people doing things by hand.

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Disclosures is here: run conflict of interest reviews where your compliance program already lives

Disclosures is rolling out to Ethena customers: campaigns that reach everyone, manager first review, and one triage queue for the compliance team.

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Phishing Defense levels up: reporting a phish now counts

Employees can finally get credit for reporting a phishing test, and your click rates just got a lot more honest. Meet Reporter, the newest part of Phishing Defense.

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Ethena Announces Record First Half of 2026 and new CECO as Compliance Leaders Embrace Agentic Compliance

Accelerating enterprise demand for Ethena's AI agents drives more than 60% year-over-year growth; company names Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer NEW YORK, August 10, 2026 — Ethena, the AI compliance...

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Policy Bot turns one. Meet the Policy Agent.

“Do I have to tell HR if I’m dating my coworker?” One year ago, we shipped Policy Bot because of questions exactly like that one. Every workplace generates them by...

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Chatbot, vibe code, agent, automation: a compliance leader’s field guide

Chatbot, agent, vibe coding tool, automation — the four AI categories compliance leaders need to know are blurring fast, and the same word means different things across different products. Here's the field guide.

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