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Vince Walden

Vince Walden

Aug 17, 2026

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6:09
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6:16
I always make this case, Tom, you can't pay a bribe with email.
6:20
You can talk about it, which attorneys love to find in the emails, but you got to use the accounting system to pay it, right? And when you look at a good investigator and a good compliance program takes into consideration both structured data and which is transactions and payments and unstructured data which is trend words etc now when you say the word unstructured and i'll be quick here it's not just emails it's what people put in the free text fields of a payment description are and in the line item invoice of an invoice those are that's gold mine even probably even better than an email because that's what's going into the descript into the payment And what general ledger account it's booked to.
7:05
So obviously customs broker expense, when the payment is invoiced, it's got to be expensed to something.
7:12
It's broker's fee expense or shipping expense.
7:17
There's oftentimes bribes can be hidden in miscellaneous accounts or gifts and charity accounts.
7:22
And you've heard these before as well.

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21:40
How would you help a chief compliance officer think through this refinement or using feedback to continually improve to move to almost a continuous monitoring situation?
29:19
How is it impacting work-
29:20
You know, it's funny.
29:22
I-- There's so much talk about AI in every conference, and I made a New Year's resolution this year to not demonstrate or talk about AI unless I could actually show it because there's way too much talk and not enough actual demonstrations.
29:36
Um, and here we are.
29:37
I'm not demonstrating, so I'm breaking my own rule.
29:40
But workplace transformation is huge.
29:43
At Kona AI, we are a risk and compliance transformational, uh, SaaS program company, and what we're building are digital assistants.
31:45
What are three pieces of advice you'd give a compliance leader when they're looking at what they should be doing with AI immediately?

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