From Noise to Signal: The Sherlock Holmes Approach to Compliance
Sherlock Holmes solved crimes by spotting the pattern hidden in plain sight, and that's exactly the skill compliance officers need in the age of AI and data analytics.
In this webinar, "The Sign of Four," compliance leaders Tom Fox and Karen Moore use Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mystery to explore how compliance teams can turn mountains of siloed data into actionable signals, moving programs from reactive detection toward real prediction. They walk through the "noise to signal" funnel, the fraud triangle of pressure, opportunity, and rationalization, and why data analytics without human judgment just produces false positives.
The conversation gets specific with a breakdown of the Scholar Corporation FCPA case, pointing to the exact anomalies, like a suspiciously flat $2,000 bribe amount and repeated vague "reinspection fee" descriptions, that should have been caught years before the DOJ got involved. Part detective story, part practical playbook, this session is worth watching for any compliance professional who wants to spot trouble before it becomes a crisis.