Compliance officers are important people with a very important task: to help ensure their companies operate their businesses legally while mitigating the risk of unethical or potentially illegal conduct. It is because their job is to prevent bad things from happening that it’s hard to appreciate the work they do when things are going well - but make no mistake, they play a key role in preserving the integrity, reputation and bottom-line of their companies. Unfortunately, more often than not, they are expected to get the job done with lean teams, limited budgets and little attention; despite the fact that the regulations they seek to implement and the risks they fight to mitigate are only getting more complex.