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Fraud and/or Compliance?

May 14, 2007 12:46 AM
From Blog: David Loshin

My company has been involved in a lot of data governance work recently. Two of the mian drivers are regulatory compliance and consistency in reporting (which often rolls back to compliance). Interestingly, in some of the client industries, fraud detection seems to be an additional driver. This is a little curious to me. On the one hand, fraud detection fits into the compliance framework - looking for non-conformance to business policies. In both cases, we essentially identify critical policies, rules that indicate conformance to those policies, and generate alerts when those policies are violated.

The difference is that compliance is introspective while fraud detection is outward looking. Compliance seeks to guard your own behavior, looking for how the organization is living up to everyone else's expectations. Fraud detection is outwardlooking, seeking to figure out how your own rules are being transgressed by others.

I can imagine another significant difference - fraud is performed proactively, with the perpetrators intentionally trying to avoid detection. Compliance issues are potentially intentional, but inadvertent non-compliance is certainly targeted by control processes.

This raises a different business challenge: it may be possible that there are corporate business policies that conflict with externally-imposed regulations. If so, does the issue of compliance change from self-policing to weighing the risk of noncomplaince with the risk of getting caught? And if the latter is the case, it suggests that internal governance programs are "window-dressing," especially when the real (i.e., intentional) transgressions are going to be well-hidden.

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