Beginning in 2009, shortly after the Market Meltdown, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics and the Health Care Compliance Association have periodically surveyed the compliance community on economic issues.

The goal of this research has been to determine what has happened to compliance programs and staffing, as well as where budgets and staffing are likely to go in the coming year. The survey has also examined the job security of compliance professionals, as well as risk levels and management attitudes towards compliance and ethics programs.

The latest survey was fielded during October 2014, a time at which economic indicators had risen sharply. So, too had the level of enforcement. Settlements for mortgage-related cases have totaled well into the billions, and a number of recent scandals were also subject to settlements and investigations across the banking industry. Simultaneously FCPA prosecutions continued and data breaches had grown into a significant concern for industry.

The 2014 survey sought to determine how these forces were impacting both compliance spending, as well as attitudes, and how key measures had changed since the previous survey was conducted in 2013.

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