This Week in FCPA

Jay is moving this week so he is 000. Tom takes a solo look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught his interest on This Week in FCPA. He is joined by special guests Dave Lefort to talk about the upcoming Compliance Week 2021 and Matt Kelly on Alex Oh. 

Stories

1.  Alex Oh resigns. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance.
2. What are 3 top BOD priorities? Maria Motes in CCI.
3. Why compliance must understand business process. Mike Volkov in Corruption Crime and Compliance.
4. Post pandemic business resiliance. Jim Deloach in CCI.
5. What is location risk? Atul Vashistha in CCI.
6. Investor due diligence on modern slavery. Subodh Mishra in the Havard Law School Forum on Corp Governance.
7. ComEd as a wake up call. Vincent Wu in the Global AntiCorruption Blog.
8. May is Internal Auditors Month. Navez Global’s Ethics and Compliance Matters Blog.
9. German ups its AML game. Risk and Compliance Platform Europe.
10. Want insight in WFH procrastion? Dick Cassin says look to writers, in the FCPA Blog.

Podcasts and Events

1. Tom and Megan Dougherty are doing a special podcast series around The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, currently streaming on Disney+. Check out Episodes 1&2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5. Episode 6 drops next week.
2. This month on The Compliance Life, Tom welcomes Jonathon Kellerman. In Episode 1, Jonathon discusses the path he took to compliance. In Episode 2, he talked about his early professional career in healthcare compliance consulting. In Episode 3, he moves to the CCO Chair. In Episode 4, Jonathon looks down the road for what’s next in compliance.
3. Join K2 Integrity on 6 May 2021 for a webinar, presented in Spanish, “Reputational Due Diligence for Companies and Investment Firms.” The team will discuss scenarios and cases in which reputational due diligence helped uncover hidden areas of risk and opportunities for our clients. Learn more and register here. 
4. Join Tom and Jay at Converge21, the Workshop Edition, click here. Best of all, its free.
5. 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.
6. 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.
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. 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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Big news in whistleblower information and an award this week. Tom and Jay are back to look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA. We are joined by special guest Asha Palmer to talk about the upcoming Converge21 Workshop Edition.

 Stories

1. SEC whistleblower program big award and news. Mengqi Sun in WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance. How did compliance manage reporting during Covid-19. Jaclyn Jaeger in Compliance Week. (sub req’d)
2. Human capital management. Paul Washington and Rebecca Ray in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.
3. NYDFS cybersecurity enforcement action against National Securities. In NYU Compliance and Enforcement Blog.
4. Post pandemic business resiliance. Jim Deloach in CCI.
5. The cost of unethical requests. Isaac H. Smith, Maryam Kouchaki, and Justin Wareham in the MIT Sloan Management Review. (sub req’d)
6. To Russia with Love. Mike Volkov on the US ramping up sanctions on Russia. For a deeper dive check out this week’s episode of Embargoed! On the Compliance Podcast Network.
7. ComEd as a wake up call. Vincent Wu in the Global AntiCorruption Blog.
8. Making your values stick. Brett Beasley in Center for Ethical Leadership.
9. The role of complexity in compliance. Risk and Compliance Platform Europe.
10. Can the government make us more ethical? Jeff Kaplan explores in the Conflict of Interest Blog.

Podcasts and Events

1. Tom and Megan Dougherty are doing a special podcast series around The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, currently streaming on Disney+. Check out Episodes 1&2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5.
2. Affiliated Monitors, Inc.’s Donald Sternand Eric Feldman CFE, CIG, CCEP-I host special guest Rod J. Rosenstein, former Deputy Attorney General and currently a partner at King & Spalding, for part two of an engaging discussion on “The Past, Present and Future of Monitoring”. Rod and Eric conclude with key takeaways at the end of this podcast.
3. This month on The Compliance Life, Tom welcomes Jonathon Kellerman. In Episode 1, Jonathon discusses the path he took to compliance. In Episode 2, he talked about his early professional career in healthcare compliance consulting. In Episode 3, he moves to the CCO Chair.
4. For more information on the Converge21, the Workshop Edition, click here.
5. 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.
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. 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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As Gary Gensler is confirmed to chair the SEC, Tom and Jay are back to look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA. We are joined by special guest Pat Harned to talk about the upcoming ECI Impact 2021.

Stories

1. Environmental crime enforcement under the Biden Administration. Mike Volkov in Corruption Crime and Compliance.
2. Jason Meyer on what the Masters means to him, on LinkedIn.
3. Policies and Procedures not enough in compliance. Klaus Moosemeyer in the FCPA Blog.
4. PCAOB charged with discrimination in suit. Aaron Nicodemus in Compliance Week. (sub req’d)
5. AI in compliance. Shurti Shah and Joanthan Rusch in NYU’s Compliance and Enforcement Blog.
6. What is audit fieldwork. Dr. Herman Murdock in XpertsLeague.
7. DOJ to increase cross-border enforcement? Jon New and Patrick Campbell in CCI.
8. Is moral leadership an art? Brett Beasley in Center for Ethical Leadership.
9. FTC gearing up on enforcement. Get ready. Jaclyn Jaeger in Compliance Week. (sub req’d)
10. More on ESG. Jonathan Marks in BoardandFraud. 

Podcasts and Events

1. Tom and Megan Dougherty are doing a special podcast series around The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, currently streaming on Disney+. Check out Episodes 1&2, Episode 3, Episode 4.
2. Check out the 5-part podcast series, sponsored by Lextegrity on the most cutting edge use of data analytics in compliance. All on the Compliance Podcast Network.
3. This month on The Compliance Life, Tom welcomes Jonathon Kellerman. In Episode 1, Jonathon discusses the path he took to compliance. In Episode 2, he talks about his early professional career in healthcare compliance consulting.
4. This week on The Compliance Handbook, I visit with AMI’s Vin DiCianni and Eric Feldman on the role of culture in compliance. Check outthe video podcast here.
5. 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.
6. Join Tom and Jay at ECI’s IMPACT 2021, which will be held virtually April 20-22. Listeners to this podcast will receive a 20% discount to the event. For more information and registration details click here. Use the code Tom20for your discount.
7. Join K2 Integrity’s financial crimes compliance professionals on Thursday, 22 April 2021, at 10 AM ET for DOLFIN’s “Ask an Expert FINQuiry” webinar, for a discussion on the impact of ongoing developments in the financial integrity community. Information and Registration here. Third-party due diligence, through creative and comprehensive gathering of information and intelligence, can help organizations better assess the third-party and associated risks and identify areas of potential concern or opportunity that would otherwise have gone uncovered. Join K2 Integrity’s Anna Gumowska and Shannon Rainey on Wednesday, 21 April as they discuss scenarios in which third-party due diligence helped uncover areas of risk and opportunity for clients. Information and Registration here.
8. 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, the ladies from #GWIC join Tom for a deep dive into written standards.

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 Baylor Bears win their first NCAA BB title and Ethisphere’s annual Global Ethics Summit is just around the corner, Tom and Jay are back to look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA. This week we are joined by special guest Kevin McCormack from Ethisphere who highlights the 2021 Global Ethics Summit.

Stories

1. Credit Suisse feels the pain of poor risk management. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance. Dylan Tokar in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal. Tom Smith in the Financial Times.
2. Jason Meyer sees a win for compliance and ethics, on LinkedIn.
3. Is a SOX whistleblower required to prove fraud? Jason Zuckerman in the Whistleblower Protection Blog.
4. Karen Woody named Herndon Fellow. Peter Jettons in The Columns.
5. Accountability: it’s all of us. Sam Sliverstein in LinkedIn.
6. Time for a national privacy law. Steven Cavey in CCI.
7. Is what you need Goldilocks compliance? Jeff Kapan in CEP.
8. Ready to move into compliance or risk management? Dick Cassin says asks some questions first, in the FCPA Blog.
9. How to protect whistleblowers? Alexander Ghavinian in the FCPA Blog. Six principles of whistleblower protection. František Nonnemann the Risk and Compliance Platform Europe.
10. As int’l anti-corruption evolves, is the US losing its place. Robert Clark explores in the FCPA Blog. 

Podcasts and Events

1. On Integrity Through Compliance, Don Stern and Eric Feldman host former DAG Rod Rosenstein for a two-part series on the past, present and furture of compliance and independent monitoring. Check out Part 1 here.
2. Tom and Megan Dougherty are doing a special podcast series around The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, currently streaming on Disney+. Check out Episodes 1&2 and Episode 3.
3. This month on The Compliance Life, Tom welcomes Jonathon Kellerman. In Episode 1, Jonathon discusses the path he took to compliance.
4. 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.
5. Join Tom and Jay at Ethisphere’s 2021 Global Ethics Summit, which will be held virtually April 13-15. Listeners to this podcast will receive a 15% discount to Ethisphere’s Global Ethics Summit For more information and registration details click here. Use the code tomfox15 for your discount.
6. Join K2 Integrity’s financial crimes compliance professionals on Thursday, 22 April 2021, at 10 AM ET for DOLFIN’s “Ask an Expert FINQuiry” webinar, for a discussion on the impact of ongoing developments in the financial integrity community. Information and Registration here.
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. This week on The Compliance Handbook podcast, the ladies from #GWIC join Tom for a deep dive into written standards.

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 Great Women in Compliance podcast series hits its 100 anniversary, the first annual #GWICies are awarded. Tom and Jay are back to look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA. 

Stories

1. Tom takes a deep dive into Ethisphere’s WME awards and reports. Part 1-WME awards. Part 2-managing a global workforce. Part 3-managing third-party risks. Part 4-communications and training.
2. What is the price of nice? Mary Shirley explores in CCI.
3. Criminalization of sports corruption. Ubong Udoeyo in GAB.
4. Are you FARA compliant? Jonathan Marks in Board and Fraud.
5. James Comey channels Bette Davis (and Jim Deloach). Aly McDevitt in Compliance Week. (sub req’d)
6. How to prevent money-laundering. Alia Noor in XpertsLeague.
7. Where to start with ESG reporting. MaryAnn Rains in Risk and Compliance Matters.
8. Should compliance have outside competition? Dick Cassin opines in the FCPA Blog.
9. Are you curious? (Not in a blue or yellow way) Joe Murphy channels Tim Harford in LinkedIn.
10. Are you tone deaf from the top. Jon May in LinkedIn. 

Podcasts and Events

1. The Great Women in Compliance has its 100th anniversary edition. Mary and Lisa reflect back on their journey. Join us in congratulating them. Listen in on the Compliance Podcast Network.
2. MoFo joins the Compliance Podcast Network. Check out this week’s episode where Morrison & Foerster partner James Koukios speaks with fellow partner Brandon Van Grack about what to expect in the National Security space under the new Biden Administration.
3. Coffee & Regs joins the Compliance Podcast Network. In this episode, host Natalie Silverman, former Chief Compliance Officers Matt Calabro and Allison Fraser sit down to discuss public pension fund independent compliance reviews.
4. 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.
5. Join Tom and Jay at Ethisphere’s 2021 Global Ethics Summit, which will be held virtually April 13-15. Listeners to this podcast will receive a 15% discount to Ethisphere’s Global Ethics Summit For more information and registration details click here. Use the code tomfox15 for your discount.
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. This week on The Compliance Handbook podcast, the ladies from #GWIC join Tom for a deep dive into written standards.

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 March Madness descends upon us in the bubble this year, Sister Jean leads Loyola of Chicago into the Sweet 16. Tom and Jay are back to look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA.

Stories

1.     Universities behaving badly. Tom looks at the KU hiring and firing of Les Miles in a four-part blog post series on the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. 

2.     Bette Davis and Jim Deloach both say fasten your seatbelts. Jim Deloach in CCI. 

3.     Do you have a Money Laundering Reporting Officer? Alia Noor in XpertsLeague.

4.     How to avoid an OIG investigation. Sara Kropf in Grand Jury Blog. 

5.     Why do SPACs give compliance fits? Aaron Nicodemus in Compliance Week. (sub req’d)   

6.     Risk Management and IT Security in WFH. Sam Abadir in Risk and Compliance Matters.  

7.     Building bridges between compliance and BD. Mike Volkov in Crime Corruption and Compliance. 

8.     Three significant CCO hires. What does it mean? Nicholas Trutanich to Fox Corp (WSJ); David Searle to Tesla (Bloomberg) and Antonio Fernández to FirstEnergy (WSJ).

9.     Why ignoring red flags around Iran is bad. Doug Cornelius in Compliance Building. 

10.  Paucity of FCPA enforcement in Q1, good or bad? Harry Cassin explore in the FCPA Blog. 

Podcasts and Events

11.  On The Compliance Life, Rob Chesnut joins me for the month of March.  In the first episode, In Episode 1, Rob talks about his academic career at UVA and how its Honor Code influenced his thinking about ethics in his professional career and his his career as an AUSA. In Episode 2, Rob moves cross country to join eBay. In Episode 3, Rob talks about moving into the Chief Ethics Officer role at Airbnb. In Episode 4, Rob looks down the road for compliance. 

12.  Microsoft has joined the Compliance Podcast Network, with two podcasts, Voice of Data Protection and Uncovering Hidden Risks. In Episode 5 of Voices of Data Protection, Bhavanesh Rengarajan discusses your information governance and records management journey.  In Episode 5 of Uncovering Hidden Risks, Raman Kalyan Talhah Mir how far insider risk programs have come.

13.  Coffee & Regs joins the Compliance Podcast Network. In this week’s episode, hosts Natalie Silverman visits with Alison Taylor and Victoria Olsen to discuss the compliance playbook for regulagtory change. 

14.  AMI’s Mikhail Reider-Gordon and Eric Feldman continue their discussion on trends in independent monitoring in this episode of Integrity Through Compliance. 

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, the ladies from #GWIC join Tom for a deep dive into written standards. 

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 March Madness descends upon us in the bubble this year, Tom and Jay look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA. 

Stories

1.     Retaliation against whistleblowers on the rise. Tom interviews Pat Harned on the FCPA Compliance Report. 

2.     Novaris announces a new ABC compliance program. Harry Cassin in the FCPA Blog. 

3.     Expect closer cooperation between DOJ and SFO. Neil Hodge in Compliance Week. (sub req’d)   

4.     Developments in state of New York antitrust law. WilmerHale lawyers in NYU Compliance and Enforcement Blog.

5.     NatWest facing criminal charges in UK over money-laundering. Mengqi Sun in WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.

6.     Due Diligence and SCRM. Matt Kelly in Navex Global’s Risk and Compliance Matters Blog. 

7.     Braskem investigates bribery of Pemex official in Mexico. Dylan Tokar in WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.

8.     Here be the Dragon for Internal Audit. Ali Noor in XpertsLeague. 

9.     Continuous monitoring through continuous auditing. Jonathan Marks in Board and Fraud. 

10.  What do BODs and senior execs see as the top risks for 2021. Jim Deloach in CCI. Charles Mitchell in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corp Governance.

Podcasts and Events

11.  On The Compliance Life, Rob Chesnut joins me for the month of March.  In the first episode, In Episode 1, Rob talks about his academic career at UVA and how its Honor Code influenced his thinking about ethics in his professional career and his his career as an AUSA. In Episode 2, Rob moves cross country to join eBay. In Episode 3, Rob talks about moving into the Chief Ethics Officer role at Airbnb.

12.  Microsoft has joined the Compliance Podcast Network, with two podcasts, Voice of Data Protection and Uncovering Hidden Risks. In Episode 3 of Voices of Data Protection, Bhavanesh Rengarajan discusses the value of information governance.  In Episode 3 of Uncovering Hidden Risks, Raman Kalyan Talhah Mir consider using HR data to uncover insider risk.

13.  Check out some hoops and ethics in the 2021 Ethics Madness during the first day of March  Information and registration here. 

14.  In a special five-part podcast series, I visited with Pat Harned, President of Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI), about the organization’s 2021 Global Business Ethics Survey. In Episode 1, we review some of the key trends. In Episode 2, we review the key findings. In this Episode 3, we take up the most troubling finding in the GBES; that being the huge uptick in retaliation. In Episode 4, we consider the impact of Covid-19 on compliance. We conclude with Episode 5 on Conclusions and Recommendations. Full series available on iTunes here.

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, the ladies from #GWIC join Tom for a deep dive into written standards. 

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 Texas prepares for a wide open (and mask-free) Spring Break and St. Patty’s Day, Tom and Jay look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA.

 Stories

1. Increase in SEC penalties coming? Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance.
2. Why don’t more employees speak up? Vera Cherepanova in the FCPA Blog.
3. What happens when you have a regulartory sand box? Neil Hodge in Compliance Week. (sub req’d)  
4. First DFS cyber breach resolution. Debevoise lawyers in NYU Compliance and Enforcement Blog.
5. The continuing wreckage of the Solar Winds hack. Mike Volkov in Crime Corruption and Compliance.
6. What is the state of your DEI program. Chai Feldblum and Emily Cuneo DeSmedt in Navex Global’s Risk and Compliance Matters Blog.
7. Are you too old to be in compliance? Dick Cassin the FCPA Blog.
8. DOJ ramps up FCPA enforcement fire power. Dylan Tokar in the WSJ Risk and Complaince Journal.

Podcasts and Events

1. On The Compliance Life, Rob Chesnut joins me for the month of March. In the first episode, In Episode 1, Rob talks about his academic career at UVA and how its Honor Code influenced his thinking about ethics in his professional career and his his career as an AUSA. In Episode 2, Rob moves cross country to join eBay.
2. Microsoft joins the Compliance Podcast Network, with two podcasts, Voice of Data Protection and Uncovering Hidden Risks. In Episode 2 of Voices of Data Protection, Bhavanesh Rengarajan discusses information protection strategies. In Episode 2 of Uncovering Hidden Risks, Raman Kalyan Talhah Mir consider how to determine your next insider risk.
3. Cordery Compliance joins the Compliance Podcast Network with its Cordery Head to Head podcast. In this episode, Jonathan Armstrong visits with Prof. Eric Sinrod as they look ahead at what 2021 might mean for the world of technology. Check it out here.
4. Episode 4 of Integrity Through Compliance.This podcast will focus on the role of an independent monitor. You will hear from two of my AMI colleagues who are experts in corporate compliance and ethics, Senior Vice President, Eric Feldman and Managing Director, Mikhail Reider-Gordon who provide practical advice about the benefits of having an independent monitor. Check it out here.
5. Join K2 Integrity’s financial crimes risk and compliance experts on March 18 as they discuss the impact of ongoing developments in the financial integrity community. Topics will include: Regulatory trends and predictions for 2021 and beyond, Changes in the AML/CFT and ABC landscape, and Implications of evolving OFAC sanctions programs. Information and registration 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. This week on The Compliance Handbook podcast, the ladies from #GWIC join Tom for a deep dive into written standards.

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 March roars in as its traditional lion, Tom and Jay look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA. 

Stories

1. Apple announces a compliance website. Harry Cassin in the FCPA Blog. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance.
2. What are some principles for victim remediation in ABC enforcement action. Sam Hickey in Global Anticorruption Blog.
3. ESG is ‘having a moment’. Dave Lefort in Compliance Week. (sub req’d)  
4. Global trends on ABC enforcement. Stephanie Yonekura and Ann Kim on CCI.
5. Ex-SBM Offshore Executive convicted in UK SFO Bribery Case. Jonathan Armstrong in Cordery Compliance.
6. FCPA themes from 2020. Jonathan Marks in Board and Fraud.
7. Board liability increases around compliance programs. Mike Volkov in Crime Corruption and Compliance.
8. Global trends in corporate governance. In the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Goverance.

Podcasts and Events

1. On The Compliance Life, Rob Chesnut joins me for the month of March. In the first episode, Rob talks about his academic career at UVA and how its Honor Code influenced his thinking about ethics in his professional career and his his career as an AUSA. Check out Episode 1.
2. Microsoft joins the Compliance Podcast Network, with two podcasts, Voice of Data Protection, hosted by Bhavanesh Rengarajan Protection and Uncovering Hidden Risks, hosted by Raman Kalyan Talhah Mir. Episode 1 of Voices of Data Protection is available here. Episode 1 of Uncovering Hidden Risks is available here.
3. Convercent rolls out a new podcast this week on the Compliance Podcast Network, The Ethics & Compliance Library, hosted by Lauren Siegel. Check out Episode 1 where Siegel takes a deep dive into Blind Spots by Ann Tenbrunsel and Max Bazerman.
4. Join K2 Integrity’s financial crimes risk and compliance experts on March 18 as they discuss the impact of ongoing developments in the financial integrity community. Topics will include: Regulatory trends and predictions for 2021 and beyond, Changes in the AML/CFT and ABC landscape, and Implications of evolving OFAC sanctions programs. Registration and Information here.
5. Join K2 Integrity for a webinar, “Libya: New Government—Opportunities for the Construction Industry” on March 11, where Paul Ryan and Sabrine Hassen will be joined by guest speaker John Davie of Altra Capital to discuss the opportunities and risks in post-conflict Libya for the construction industry. 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. This week on The Compliance Handbook podcast, the ladies from #GWIC join Tom for a deep dive into written standards.

Tom Fox is the Compliance Evangelist 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 Ethisphere announces its World’s Most Ethical Company awards for 2021, Tom and Jay look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA.

1. Ethisphere announces 2021 World’s Most Ethical Company awards. In CCI. In Radical Compliance.
2. Data Privacy under Biden. Colin Rahill in Jolt.
3. What the NDAA did regarding the SEC and disgorgement. David Levintow in the FCPA Blog. 
4. SFO wants companies to invest more in compliance. Dylan Tokar in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal. 
5. Board lessons from a crisis. Stephen Davis and Sandra Guerra in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.
6. A Texas transplant reflects on weather and lessons learned. Dick Cassin in the FCPA Blog.
7. Of Citibank and Black Swan events. Tom Explores in a 3-part blog post series on the FCPA Compliance and Ethics blog. Tom and Matt take a deep dive in Compliance into the Weeds.
8. On The Compliance Life, Natalia Shehadeh, CCO at ABB joins me this month. In the first episode, Natalia explained why she choose the compliance profession. Check out the Episode 1 and Episode 2. In Episode 3, Natalia discussed moving into the CCO chair. This week is Episode 4.
9. The Compliance Handbook, a podcast on the nuts and bolts of compliance premiered this month. In Episode 1, Tom is joined by Stephen Martin to talk about how to best think through a comprehensive compliance program. In Episode 2, Tom was joined by Mike Volkov to discuss the Board’s role in Compliance. In Episode 3, Ronnie Feldman and Ricardo Pelleton talked about training and communications from their own very unique perspective. It is also available on the traditional audio formats.
10. A new AMI podcast is out, Integrity Through Compliance. It has AMI’s expert observations and guidance in the fields of ethics, antitrust, healthcare, government contracting, corporate governance, cybersecurity, construction, telecommunications, consumer protection and more. In the Episode 1, AMI founder Vin DiCianni visited with AMI MD Jerry Coyne the future of telehealth & home healthcare during a pandemic and beyond. In Epsiode 2, Brenda Morris and Dionne Lomax visited with Jennifer Newton. In Episode 3, Joseph K. West, Partner & Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Duane Morris joined the podcast to talk about the benefits of D&I.
11. Interested in podcasting? Want to be a part of a Guiness World Record attempt? PodFest Global Summit is a gathering for those who are passionate about sharing their voice and message with the world through audio and video. Join Tom and others at Podfest Global Summit at any time during March 1-5. Best all of listeners to this podcast can attend at no charge. Register here, using promo code CPN.
12. 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 Compliance Evangelist 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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