RiskWatch

Vcheck Global had the opportunity to speak with Simona Weinglass, an investigative journalist for the Times of Israel, earlier this year about her 2016 investigation into Israel’s binary options industry, The Wolves of Tel Aviv, which was awarded an honorable mention in the Trace Prize for Investigative Reporting competition. Notably, Simona’s work resulted in the binary options industry being ban...

The 38th International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is underway, and to highlight the event Vcheck Global’s RiskWatch podcast co-host Seth Harlan interviewed  some of the featured speakers at this year's conference. He asked each speaker about critical risk and compliance issues, including affects from the pandemic, the growing prominence of Environmental, Social, an...

The 38th International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is underway, and to highlight the event Vcheck Global’s RiskWatch podcast co-host Seth Harlan interviewed  some of the featured speakers at this year's conference. He asked each speaker about critical risk and compliance issues, including affects from the pandemic, the growing prominence of Environmental, Social, an...

The 38th International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is underway, and to highlight the event Vcheck Global’s RiskWatch podcast co-host Seth Harlan interviewed  some of the featured speakers at this year's conference. He asked each speaker about critical risk and compliance issues, including affects from the pandemic, the growing prominence of Environmental, Social, an...

The 38th International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is underway, and to highlight the event Vcheck Global’s RiskWatch podcast co-host Seth Harlan interviewed  some of the featured speakers at this year's conference. He asked each speaker about critical risk and compliance issues, including affects from the pandemic, the growing prominence of Environmental, Social, an...

The 38th International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is underway, and to highlight the event Vcheck Global’s RiskWatch podcast co-host Seth Harlan interviewed  some of the featured speakers at this year's conference. He asked each speaker about critical risk and compliance issues, including affects from the pandemic, the growing prominence of Environmental, Social, an...

The 38th International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is underway, and to highlight the event Vcheck Global’s RiskWatch podcast co-host Seth Harlan interviewed  some of the featured speakers at this year's conference. He asked each speaker about critical risk and compliance issues, including affects from the pandemic, the growing prominence of Environmental, Social, an...

The 38th International Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is underway, and to highlight the event Vcheck Global’s RiskWatch podcast co-host Seth Harlan interviewed  some of the featured speakers at this year's conference. He asked each speaker about critical risk and compliance issues, including affects from the pandemic, the growing prominence of Environmental, Social, an...

In the ninth episode of RiskWatch, Chelsea Binns and Bruce Sackman discuss their book, The Art of Investigation . Conversational highlights include the benefits of infusing investigations with creativity and cultural awareness, as well as technology’s impact on the investigative process.

In the eighth edition of RiskWatch, Vcheck Global VP and General Manager of Vcheck Intelligence Rahul Ravi speaks with Roger Jones, Director, Corporate Partnerships for the Cleveland Browns. The Cleveland natives tackle topics including partnership vetting, player endorsements, and community collaboration. This conversation covers: Introduction to Roger 0:50 How the Browns and NFL vet partners 03:...

Vcheck Global’s podcast RiskWatch is back with brand-new episodes!  In the seventh episode of RiskWatch, Vcheck Global Senior Associate Seth Harlan speaks with Shanti Salas, VP, North America, for OpenCorporates and Rahul Ravi, VP and General Manager of Vcheck Intelligence, for Vcheck Global.  Both Shanti and Rahul have been practitioners in the reputational due diligence space where their work co...

In this episode of the podcast, Vcheck Global Directors Alex Sorin and Rahul Ravi speak with Mike Blankenship who is a Partner in the Houston office of Winston & Strawn and focuses his practice on corporate finance and securities law. We discussed why SPACs continue to gain investor attention and the role of investigative due diligence in mitigating potential risks on the operational company a...

In this episode of the podcast, we spoke with an investigator at The Sentry about the May 2020 report: Making a Killing – South Sudanese Military Leaders’ Wealth, Explained. The investigative report examines how officials in the top echelons of military and armed opposition leadership of South Sudan have engaged in business activities indicative of money laundering and corruption and how these act...

On this episode of RiskWatch, we spoke with Channing Mavrellis who’s a Director of Illicit Trade at Global Financial Integrity in Washington, DC. We discussed a paper she co-authored in 2018 titled Illicit Financial Flows and the Illegal Trade in Great Apes and we dove deep into a number of topics linked to illicit supply chains, global corruption, and its impact both on wildlife and the world. Yo...

In this episode, we spoke with Jessica Noll, who is a Ph. D. candidate at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany. From October 2017 to May 2018, she was a visiting research fellow at the DC think tank the Project on Middle East Democracy and in February 2019 published a research study titled Fighting Corruption or Protecting the Regime? Her study examined the history of anti-corruption driv...

In this episode of the podcast, we spoke with Shawn Hauser who is a partner and chair of the Hemp and Cannabinoids Practice Group at Vicente Sederberg. Shawn helps marijuana and hemp businesses navigate state and federal law, investment, regulatory compliance and intellectual property. We covered a number of items in our talk, including how the legal landscape has changed over the years, how compa...

In this episode of the podcast, we spoke with former US Ambassador Luis C.deBaca who is currently the Senior Fellow in Modern Slavery at Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition. Prior to this, Ambassador C.deBaca coordinated the U.S. government’s activities in the global fight against modern slavery as head of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Com...