This Week in FCPA

As Tom celebrates the release of The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition, he and Jay are back to take a look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Trump Organization Indicted edition.

Stories

1. The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is released. Learn about it here. Purchase it here.
2. Four ways to update you ABC compliance program right now. Ann-Maire Zell in the FCPA Blog.
3. John Wood Group DPA with SFO. Tom has a 2-part series on the FCPA Compliance Report. Part 1-deplorable conduct and Part 2-lessons learned.
4. Alex Cotoia takes a deep dive into the EU Whistleblower Directive in a 4-part series. On Compliance Crime and Corruption.
5. Emerging trends in 3rd Party Risk Management. Jaclyn Jaeger in Compliance Week (sub req’d)
6. Mengqi Sun interviews Sherron Watkins in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
7. Anti-trust concerns at the Board level. Elizabeth Ising, Stephen Weissman, Cassandra Tillinghast and Chris Wilson in NYU Compliance and Enforcement Blog.
8. How to avoid buying a FCPA issue. Valerie Charles, Jamen Tyler and Robert Johnston in CCI.
9. Compliance on the inside v. outside. Amy Landry in CCI.
10. Compliance officers are disciplinarians (at times). Dick Cassin in the FCPA Blog.

Podcasts and Events

1. How does history inform compliance? What are the leadership lessons from ancient Greeks and Romans? Find out in this special 10 part podcast series on famous Greeks and Romans from Plutarch’s Lives this week on 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership, hosted by Richard Lummis and Tom Fox. In Episode 5, they mined Plutarch about the lives of and leadership lessons from the Greek Epaminondas and the Roman Scipio Africanus.
2. A new month on The Compliance Life! In July I visit with Asha Palmer, CECO at Convercent. In Episode 1, from Claire Huxable to the DOJ.
3. Tom premiers a new podcast, Greetings and Felicitations. In the inaugural episode, CPN fan fav Dr. Ben Locwin is back to discuss the current state of the Covid-19 pandemic and where we might be headed.
4. Trekking Through Compliance Returns! Tom reviews all 79 episodes of Star Trek, the Original Series beginning June 1. Each day at 3 PM on the Compliance Podcast Network. This week’s offerings included The Apple, The Doomsday Machine, Catspaw, I, Mudd and Metamorphosis.
5. On July 13, join K2 Integrity for its Virtual Compliance Conference on Environment, Social, and Governance Compliance Risks for Financial Institutions. Information and Registration here.
6. Join Tom, Asha Palmer and Stephen Martin for a coming out webinar for The Compliance Handbook, 2nd We will focus on 3rd party risk management. Attendees will receive a special article and offer. Best of all, it’s at no charge. Details and registration here.

Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.

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As the Trump Organization and its CFO are criminally indicted, Tom and Jay prepare for the 4th of July and are back to take a look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Trump Organization Indicted edition. 

Stories

1. Trump Organization and CFO indicted on criminal charges. NYT, WSJ, FT, WaPo
2. How whistleblowers protect the bottom line. Bob Conlin in Navex Global’s Risk and Compliance Matters.
3. Amec Foster Wheeler, the first FCPA corp enforcement action in 2021. Tom takes a deep dive in a 3-part series on the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. Tom and Matt Kelly take a deep dive in Compliance into the Weeds. Mike Volkov goes deep on Corruption Crime and Compliance. Harry Cassin (as usual) breaks the story on the FCPA Blog.
4. US government AML priorities. FinCen issues report, here. Kyle Brassuer in Compliance Week (sub req’d) Dylan Tokar in WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
5. Do lawyers make good gatekeepers? Sung Hui Kim says ‘perhaps’. Keith Bishop says you shouldn’t even ask the question.
6. Human-Centered Design: An Engaging Ethics & Compliance Program Serves Users’ Needs. Carsten Tams in Part 2 of his five-part series on LinkedIn.
7. Reducing your CCPA risk. Debevoise lawyers on NYU’s Compliance and Enforcement blog.
8. Was Amec Foster Wheeler afraid of its agents? Dick Cassin explores in the FCPA Blog.
9. Auditing your climate risk. Mark Texler in a two-part series on PracticalESG.
10. How do you evaluate the value of ethics? Henry Kronk in CCI.

 Podcasts and Events

1. How does history inform compliance? What are the leadership lessons from ancient Greeks and Romans? Find out in this special 10 part podcast series on famous Greeks and Romans from Plutarch’s Lives this week on 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership, hosted by Richard Lummis and Tom Fox. In Episode 1, they mined Plutarch about the lives of and leadership lessons from Themistocles and Camillus. In Episode 2, they looked at Solon and Popsicola. In Episode 3, Pericles and Fabius Maximus. In Episode 4, Alcibiades and Coriolanus.
2. Are you a MCU fan? If so check out the special series on the Disney streaming service Loki and Tom Fox and Megan Dougherty who return to review the entire series. They catch up on Episode 1-3 in this edition of Popcorn and Compliance.
3. Trekking Through Compliance Returns! Tom reviews all 79 episodes of Star Trek, the Original Series beginning June 1. Each day at 3 PM on the Compliance Podcast Network. This week’s offerings included Operation Annihilate, Amok Time, Who Mourns for Adonias, The Changeling and Mirror Mirror.
4. On this episode of Integrity Through Compliance, join Affiliated Monitor’s Rod Grandon, Jenner & Block Partner, David Robbins, and former Engility Holdings, Inc. General Counsel, Tom Miller, for an in-depth discussion focusing on crisis management from the perspectives of a General Counsel, outside legal counsel, and federal acquisition official.
5. On July 13, join K2 Integrity for its Virtual Compliance Conference on Environment, Social, and Governance Compliance Risks for Financial Institutions. Information and Registration here.
6. It is now HERE, the book you have all been waiting for, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for purchase. The Compliance Handbook 2ndedition is available in both print and eBook editions. Available here.

Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.

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Tom and Jay are back to take a look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Design Thinking in Compliance edition. 

Stories

1. Design Thinking returns to compliance as Carsten Tams begins a 5-part series on LinkedIn. Check out Part 1.
2. Ex-Goldman Sachs banker settles FCPA matter. Dylan Tokar in WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
3. Want a refresher in red flags, check out this FBI-produced multipart series, all available on YouTube. Red Flag Fraud Signs, Part 1, Red Flag Fraud Signs, Part 2, Red Flag Fraud Signs, Part 3, Red Flag Fraud Signs, Part 4, Red Flag Fraud Signs, Part 5, Red Flag Fraud Signs, Part 6
4. Tricky Dicky lives in FCPA enforcement. Dick Cassin explains why in the FCPA Blog.
5. Using captives to provide FCPA D&O Coverage? Daniel Chefitz and Sergio Oehninger in the FCPA Blog.  
6. Do we need to ban high-value currency? Sam Magaram in GAB.
7. Compliance opportunities in and after Covid. Stephen Naughton in Compliance Law Journal.
8. Building an effective AML action plan. Peter Fitzgerald, Scott Zucker and Tristan Souness-Wilson in CCI.
9. SEC settles pre-taliation case with Guggenheim Partners. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance.
10. Will laws requiring Board diversity survive court scrutiny? Kevin LaCroix in the D&O Diary. 

Podcasts and Events

1. Microsoft Week on Innovation in Compliance. Alan Gibson on Legal Compliance for the Future, Abbas Kudration Innovation Through Info Security, Joseph Davis on A Progressive and Humble Leadership to Cybersecurity, Erica Toelle on Records Management and Information Governance, Jesus Fernandez on the Digital Transformation of Compliance.
2. How does history inform compliance? What are the leadership lessons from ancient Greeks and Romans? Find out in this special 10 part podcast series on famous Greeks and Romans from Plutarch’s Lives this week on 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership, hosted by Richard Lummis and Tom Fox. In Episode 1, they mined Plutarch about the lives of and leadership lessons from Themistocles and Camillus. In Episode 2, they looked at Solon and Popsicola. In Episode 3, Pericles and Fabius Maximus.
3. Trekking Through Compliance Returns! Tom reviews all 79 episodes of Star Trek, the Original Series beginning June 1. Each day at 3 PM on the Compliance Podcast Network. This week’s offerings included Space Seed, Return of the Archons, This Side of Paradise, Devil in the Dark and Errand of Mercy.
4. On July 1, join K2 Integrity’s Snezana Gebauer and Darren Matthews will present a webinar on asset tracing at the IBA Global Influencer Forum. Learn more and register here. 
5. On July 13, join K2 Integrity for its Virtual Compliance Conference on Environment, Social, and Governance Compliance Risks for Financial Institutions. Information and Registration here.
6. Compliance Week is looking at 3rd risk management in 2021 in a two-day virtual event on June 29 & 30. For information and registration click here. Use the Code Dave100 for a free ticket.
7. Tom announces his latest book, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 and go here. The Compliance Handbook 2ndedition will be available in both print and eBook editions.

Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.

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Jay is back from moving. He and Tom are shocked, shocked that there is another cheating scandal in baseball. While ruminating on just how shocked they are, they take a look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the More Cheating in Baseball edition.

Stories

1. This year’s cheating scandal in baseball. Stephanie Apstein and Alex Prewitt in SI. David Waldstein in NYT. Buster Olny in com. Tom takes a deep dive in three blog posts on the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog.
2. EU Prosecutor’s Office opens for business. Jon Rusch in Dipping Through Geometries.
3. Exxon BOD vote should be a wake up call. Jaclyn Jaeger in Complinace Week. (sub req’d)
4. Compliance when no one is watching. Julie DeMauro in the FCPA Blog.
5. What are 5 things CCOs can do to comply with Biden’s Statement on Corruption? Al Barbarino in Law360.
6. What do pirates teach us about leadership? Fransesca Gino in XpertsLeague.
7. Should CCOs run ESG? Mike Volkov say ‘No’ in Corruption, Crime and Compliance.
8. Is your Supply Chain ethical? Andrew Blasi and Nicolas Diamond in CCI.
9. What are some reasons for the lack of FCPA enforcement? Harry Cassin speculates in the FCPA Blog.
10. Get on one page for risk management. Sandar Erez in CCI.

Podcasts and Events

1. CPN premiers a new podcast, The ESG Report. In the first episode, Tom has a two-part series featuring Trysha Daskem, head of ESG at Silver. Check out Part 1 and Part 2.
2. How does history inform compliance? What are the leadership lessons from ancient Greeks and Romans? Find out in this special 10 part podcast series on famous Greeks and Romans from Plutarch’s Lives this week on 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership, hosted by Richard Lummis and Tom Fox. In Episode 1, they mined Plutarch about the lives of and leadership lessons from Themistocles and Camillus. In Episode 2, they looked at Solon and Popsicola.
3. Trekking Through Compliance Returns! Tom reviews all 79 episodes of Star Trek, the Original Series beginning June 1. Each day at 3 PM on the Compliance Podcast Network. This week’s offerings included The Conscience of a King, Balance of Terror, Shore Leave, The Galileo Seven and The Squire of Gothos.
4. Vin DiCianna turns the tables on Tom by interviewing him for this week’s Integrity Through Complaince. Check it out here.
5. Join Convercent for a Converge Innovation Forum, with a look into the future of compliance on risk visibility up, down, and across the businesson June 23 at 11 AM CT. for information and registration click here.
6. On July 1, join K2 Integrity’s Snezana Gebauer and Darren Matthews will present a webinar on asset tracing at the IBA Global Influencer Forum. Learn more and register: https://www.k2integrity.com/en/events/k2-integrity-webinar-at-iba-global-influencer-forum-fraud-debt-and-judgements-how-to-maximize-asset
7. Tom announces his latest book, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 and go here. The Compliance Handbook 2ndedition will be available in both print and eBook editions.

Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.

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With Jay moving this week, Tom is joined by Complinace Kristy (Kristy Grant-Hart) as special guest host. They take a look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Biden Statement on Corruption edition. 

Stories

1. President Biden’s Statement and Memorandum on corrption. Tom takes a deep dive in four blog posts on the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance. Alexandra Wrage on the FCPA Blog. Rick Messick in GAB. Jessica Tillipman in the FCPA Blog.
2. Don’t get caught up in endless internal investigations. Lloydette Bai-Marrow in the FCPA Blog.
3. Biden Dumps PCAOB Board. Aaron Nicodemus and Kyle Brasseur in Complinace Week. (sub req’d)
4. More on Caremark. Jeff Kaplan in the Conflict of Ethics Blog.
5. What is conflict due diligence? Lawarence Heim in PracticalESG Blog.
6. Can you measure a ‘speak-up’ culture by the number of complaints? Martin Lønstrup in the FCPA Blog.
7. Two former Chadean diplomats indicted for corruption. Mike Volkov in Corruption, Crime and Compliance.
8. Are there smoking guns in your Board minutes? Terry Quimby in the Compliance Cosmos.
9. Do you need a People Committee on your BOD? Reshmi Paul and Jeff McLean in Compensation In Context.

Podcasts and Events

1. How does history inform compliance? What are the leadership lessons from ancient Greeks and Romans? Find out in this special 10 part podcast series on famous Greeks and Romans from Plutarch’s Lives this week on 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership, hosted by Richard Lummis and Tom Fox. In Episode 1, they mine Plutarch about the lives of and leadership lessons from Themistocles and Camillus.
2. Trekking Through Compliance Returns! Tom reviews all 79 episodes of Star Trek, the Original Series beginning June 1. Each day at 3 PM on the Compliance Podcast Network. This week included Mudd’s Women, What are Little Girls Made Of?, Miri, Dagger of the Mind and The Corbomite Maneuver.
3. AB InBev invites you to the Compliance Open House on June 15 at 10AM EST on the topic “Collaboration Framework for Democratizing Compliance Analytics – where are we and what is next.” Registration and information here.
4. On July 1, join K2 Integrity’s Snezana Gebauer and Darren Matthews will present a webinar on asset tracing at the IBA Global Influencer Forum. Learn more and register: https://www.k2integrity.com/en/events/k2-integrity-webinar-at-iba-global-influencer-forum-fraud-debt-and-judgements-how-to-maximize-asset
5. What is the role of compliance in managing Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives? Join this Convercent Global Forum to learn what’s ahead for ESG and what you should start thinking about now, to be prepared before regulations go into effect. On June 16, 11 AM ET. Registration and information here.
6. Tom announces his latest book, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 and go here. The Compliance Handbook 2ndedition will be available in both print and eBook editions.

Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com. 

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As the Astros (nearly) sweep the BoSox (in the Cheater’s Bowl), we enter the 6th month of 2021, Jay and Tom take a look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Welcome to June edition. 

Stories

1. Compliance and goverance for NFTs. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes in XpertsLeague.
2. Compliance risks in post-acquisition integration. Jennifer Fondrevay in the FCPA Blog.
3. A collective response to ransomware attacks is needed. Jaclyn Jaeger reflects in Complinace Week. (sub req’d)
4. Using stories to make your values stick. Brett Beasley in Notre Dame Delloite Center for Ethical Leadership.
5. What is the cost of compliance? Thompson Reuters report, in CCI.
6. Is AI up to AML work? Mayze Teitler explores in the Global Anti-Corruption Blog.
7. Are echos of 2008 in the air? Mark Jensen and in Ian Roffman CCI.
8. More charges still coming down from the Odebrecht case. Mike Volkov in Corruption, Crime and Compliance.
9. Lessons for corp BODs from Exxon. Nell Minow the Havard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.
10. What is the status of your financial crimes compliance program? Frank Staelens in Risk and Compliance Platform Europe. 

Podcasts and Events

1. Mikhail Reider-Gordon is back with a special two-part week on The Wirecard Saga. Check out the top podcast on Germany’s biggest financial scandal over the past 70 years. Listen to the ‘Know When to Hold ‘Em’ edition, Part 1 & Part 2. On the Compliance Podcast Network.
2. Compliance Man Returns with a New Season: True or False? Tom and emerging market compliance special Tim Khasanov-Batirov are back with a new 10-episode season. In Episode 2, they explore how whistleblowers are received in emerging markets. Can’t get out of your Ivory Tower, the check out Compliance Man to learn about compliance in emerging markets. The season’s episodes will post at 7AM each Friday over the next few months. Part 2 .
3. Trekking Through Compliance Returns! Tom reviews all 79 episodes of Star Trek, the Original Series beginning June 1. Each day at 3 PM on the Compliance Podcast Network. This week included The Man Trap, Charlie X, Where No Man Has Gone Before, and The Naked Time.
4. The Compliance Podcast Network premiers a new podcast, From the Editor’s Desk, with Dave Lefort, Editor in Chief of Compliance Week. In this Episode 1, we review some of the top stories from the CW 21 Conference, the top stories from CW in May and a special segment with Aly McDevitt, author of the CW special report on the VW monitorship. From the Editor’s Desk will appear on the first and last Friday of each month at 8 AM. 
5. Two great K2 Integrity events. On June 9, join K2 Integrity’s Lindsay Di Fede and Olivia Allison to hear about the benefits of taking a holistic and programmatic approach to preventing, detecting, responding to, and remediating insider threats. Learn more and register: https://www.k2integrity.com/en/events/insider-threats—taking-a-proactive-and-preventive-approach. On July 1, join K2 Integrity’s Snezana Gebauer and Darren Matthews will present a webinar on asset tracing at the IBA Global Influencer Forum. Learn more and register: https://www.k2integrity.com/en/events/k2-integrity-webinar-at-iba-global-influencer-forum-fraud-debt-and-judgements-how-to-maximize-asset
6. Tom announces his latest book, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 and go here. The Compliance Handbook 2ndedition will be available in both print and eBook editions.

Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.

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As our thoughts turn towards Memorial Day and what it represents, we contemplate James Bond streaming on Amazon. Jay is now podcasting from a disclosed location, as he and Tom take a look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Shaken Not Stirred edition.

 Stories

1. Big corruption trial and great lawyer gossip going on in London, as ENRC sues former lawyer and SFO. Check out these reports in Rueters, here, here and here.
2. Revisiting the FCPA Top 10. Harry Cassin in the FCPA Blog.
3. GDPR turns 3. Neil Hodge reflects in Complinace Week. (sub req’d) Tom and Jonathan Armstrong podcast on Life with GDPR.
4. More anti-trust troubling the world of chicken prodcuers. Mike Volkov in Corruption, Crime and Compliance.
5. What is the intersection of ESG and Compliance. Tom explores the role of compliance here and here. Matt Kelly weighs in on the SEC comments in Radical Compliance.
6. How to lessen extortionware attacks. Rob Shavell in CCI.
7. DFS fines two companies for data breachs. Paul Weiss lawyers in NYU’s Compliance and Enforcement Blog.
8. Internal reporting is down. What does it portend? Andrew Burt in Navex Global’s Ethics Matters.
9. Caremark Developments and the Imperative of Regular Risk Review. William Savittin the Havard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.
10. What is Bizzaro Malware? Jonathan Rusch explains in Dipping Through Geometries.

Podcasts and Events

1. In this episode of The Compliance Handbook, Tom has a great discussion with Hui Chen about her thoughts on the evolution of compliance.
2. Compliance Man Returns with a New Season: True or False? Tom and emerging market compliance special Tim Khasanov-Batirov are back with a new 10-episode season. In Episode 1, they explore how whistleblowers are received in emerging markets. Can’t get out of your Ivory Tower, the check out Compliance Man to learn about compliance in emerging markets. The season’s episodes will post at 7AM over the next few months. Part 1 .
3. Trekking Through Compliance Returns! Tom reviews all 79 episodes of Star Trek, the Original Series beginning June 1. Each day at 3 PM CT on the Compliance Podcast Network.
4. Join K2 Integrity 9 June 2021 to hear a team of experts discuss the benefits of taking a holistic and programmatic approach to preventing, detecting, responding to, and remediating insider threats. Learn more and register here. 
5. Tom announces his latest book, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 and go here. The Compliance Handbook 2ndedition will be available in both print and eBook editions.

Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.

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As the Rosen Family returns to DisneyLand, with Jay still podcasting from a still undisclosed location, he and Tom take a look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Back to DisneyLand edition.

Stories

1. $28MM whistleblower award in FCPA case. Menqui Sun in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal. SEC Press Release.
2. Will investigations on China become even more difficult? Helen Hwang and Eric Carlson in the FCPA Blog.
3. Ephemeral messaging guidelines. Rebecca Cronin in JDSupra.
4. What is moral equilibrium? Vera Cherepanova in the FCPA Blog.
5. Great series on the VW monitorship. Aly McDevitt in Compliance Week Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 (sub req’d).
6. Using neuroscience in leadership. Dr. David Rock in Flexworks.
7. Corruption and soccer. In Risk and Compliance Platform Europe.
8. Underarmour settles EC charges. Mike Volkov in Corruption, Crime and Compliance.
9. How do you mind the data gap? SEC Commish Caroline Crenshaw in the Havard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.
10. Judge admonishes Paul Wiess and Alex Oh. Mike Volkov comments in Corruption Crime and Compliance.

Podcasts and Events

1. In this episode of Survive and Thrive, Tom and Korney Nordum discuss how to naviage an SEC review of your Code of Conduct.
2. In the most recent episode of Integrity Through Compliance, recorded before the recent Colonial Pipeline Ransomware attack, Affiliated Monitors, Inc.’s MD Dionne Lomax, sat down with Dentons’ Kelly Graf to discuss Privacy and Cybersecurity Issues for 2021 and Beyond. Now that cybersecurity is in the news more than ever, this conversation couldn’t be more relevant. Check it out here.
3. In a special K2 Integrity Matters podcast, Tom visits with Gabe Hidalgo on the latest on cryptocurrencies and their issues.
4. Join K2 Integrity’s team on the latest DOLFIN Webinar: Ask an Expert FINQuiry on High-Risk Banking. Chip Poncy, Gabe Hidalgo, Gail Fuller, and Archana Bea will lead the discussion on high-risk banking, businesses, and products; emerging risks in the virtual assets space; and financial crime risk management for fintechs. Learn more and register here. 
5. Tom announces his latest book, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 and go here. The Compliance Handbook 2ndedition will be available in both print and eBook editions. This week on The Compliance Handbook podcast, Eric Young joins Tom for a deep dive into the role of internal controls in a best practices compliance program.

Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.

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Bitcoin goes on a wild ride this week with its buddy, Elon Musk. With Jay podcasting from a still undisclosed location, he and Tom take a look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Musk and Bitcoin edition.

 Stories

1.     Of Elon Musk, Bitcoin and Uturns. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance. Tom and Matt in Compliance into the Weeds. Andrew Ross Sorkin in Dealbook. On SNL here.

2.     Benchmark with the Walmart Global ABC policy.  Harry Cassin in the FCPA Blog. 

3.     Closing the moral hazard gap. Jeff Kaplan in the FCPA Blog. 

4.     Boards and cybersecurity oversight. Wachtell lawyers, John F. Savarese, Sarah K. Eddy, and Sabastian Niles in the NYU Corruption and Enforcement Blog.

5.     You are ready for th EU Whistleblower Directive? Neil Hodge in in Compliance Week (sub req’d)

6.     Are companies serious about Diversity & Inclusion? Henry Kronk in CCI. 

7.     Who are a CCOs most important resource (Hint: it’s customers). Steve Chapman in Navex Global’s Ethics and Compliance Matters Blog. 

8.     What happens when whistleblowers joust over an award? Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance.  

9.     Do you have a mindset of respect? Sam Silverstein in the Accountability Blog.

10.  How does ESG serve investors? Lawrence Heim in PracticalESG.com. 

 Podcasts and Events

11.  Check out the 5-part podcast series this week sponsored by K2 Integrity. We consider the intersection of Compliance, Diligence and M&A. Part 1-Core Diligence, Part 2-Current state of M&A; Part 3-Avoiding Reputational Issues, Part 4-Global M&A issues, Part 5-Post-acquistion integration. 

12.  In the most recent episode of Integrity Through Compliance, Jesse Caplan, Dionne Lomax and Jim Anilot discuss “From Business Opportunities to Compliance Risks: Health Expectations in 2021”. Check it out here. 

13.  In a special two-part series, Tom visits with Joey Seeber, CEO of Level Legal. They discuss alternative legal services providers and the Baylor Bears 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Part 1 and Part 2.

14.  CCI releases a new eBook, The FCPA Year in Review by the Compliance Evangelist, Tom Fox. You can obtain a copy here.  Best of all its available at no charge. 

15.  Tom announces his latest book, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 and go here. The Compliance Handbook 2nd edition will be available in both print and eBook editions. This week on The Compliance Handbook podcast, Eric Young joins Tom for a deep dive into the role of internal controls in a best practices compliance program. 

Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.

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With Jay back online, he and Tom take a look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught his interest on This Week in FCPA in the It’s a New Dawn edition.

Stories

1.     SAP trade sanction enforcement action. Matt Kelly with two pieces in Radical Compliance. Mike Volkov takes a deep dive in a 4 part series on Corruption Crime and Compliance. 

2.     Should compliance make folks uncomfortable?  Anna Romberg explores in the FCPA Blog. 

3.     Has FCPA enforcement stopped? Of course not and Dick Cassin explains why on the FCPA Blog. 

4.     Scott Moritz synthesizes the FCPA Resource Guide and Evaluation of Corp Compliance Programs. On LinkedIn.

5.     The Zombie idea of corruption risk? Matthew Stephenson in the Global AntiCorruption Blog.

6.     What does Solar Winds mean for businesses? Dan Verton in CCI. 

7.     On the intersection of governance, fraud and culture. Jonathan Marks in Board and Fraud. 

8.     Compliance and Supply Chain Risk Management. Josh Reed in Navex Global’s Ethics and Compliance Matters Blog.

9.     DNB fined $48.1MM for AML violations. Aaron Nicodemus in Compliance Week (sub req’d)

10.  Compliance officers taking the lead in corp ESG. Dylan Tokar in WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal. 

Podcasts and Events

11.  Check out the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network, Survive and Thrive. In this podcast, co-hosted by Tom Fox and Kortney Nordrum, we unpack some compliance disasters and more importantly how to avoid them. Check out Episode 1 here, where we unpack the risk of timing. 

12.  In this episode of Integrity Through Compliance, Jesse Caplan, Dionne Lomax and Jim Anilot discuss “From Business Opportunities to Compliance Risks: Health Expectations in 2021”. Check it out here. 

13.  Join Jay and Tom at Compliance Week 2021. For information and registration, click here. Listeners to this podcast can receive a discount of $200 by using the code PODCAST599 at check out. 

14.  CCI releases a new eBook, The FCPA Year in Review by the Compliance Evangelist, Tom Fox. You can obtain a copy here.  Best of all its available at no charge. 

15.  Tom announces his latest book, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 and go here. The Compliance Handbook 2nd edition will be available in both print and eBook editions. This week on The Compliance Handbook podcast, Eric Young joins Tom for a deep dive into the role of internal controls in a best practices compliance program. 

16.  Special Treat-Grace Slick opens the Jefferson Airplane’s Woodstock set with “It’s a New Dawn.”

Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.

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