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In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:SW Airlines not told of deactivated safety feature on Boeing 737 Max. (Wall Street Journal)Sexual harassment claims hit the energy industry. (I’m shocked) (Wall Street Journal)Welcome to my Tweet-Up, as Musk/SEC settlement twitter imbroglio. (Wall Street Journal)Power, corruption and duplicity in Alabama over a superfund site. (Washington Post) Learn mor...

In this special 5-part podcast series, I am visiting with David Greenberg, Special Advisor at LRN. We take a deep dive into the LRN White Paper entitled, “What’s the Tone at the Very Top: Board and Compliance: The Role of Boards in Overseeing Corporate Ethics & Compliance”. In this podcast series we explore the white paper in depth and provide the Chief Compliance Officer and compliance practition...

In this episode I have back with me, fan favorite James Koukios, partner at Morrison and Foerster.  This is Part 1 of a two-part series where we discuss the firm’s always great Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments newsletter. In this episode, we take a look at some of the key highlights from the January newsletter. Next week we conclude with some of the key developments from the Febru...

In this special 5-part podcast series, I visit with David Greenberg, Special Advisor at LRN. We take a deep dive into the LRN White Paper entitled, “What’s the Tone at the Very Top: Board and Compliance: The Role of Boards in Overseeing Corporate Ethics & Compliance”. In this podcast series we explore the white paper in depth and provide the Chief Compliance Officer and compliance practitioner wit...

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: ·      What was behind “Our Man in Havana? (Financial Times)·      Why Ovid is still an inspiration. (New York Times)·       Life of John Hersy. (Wall Street Journal)·      The Best Five. Allison Lurie on heroines over 50. (Wall Street Journal) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Lummis and I are back and today we head in a different direction. We consider the final Bernie Gunther novel by Philip Kerr Metropolis. It is the final Gunther novel as Kerr died earlier this year. The novel is a prequel to the entire series, taking place in 1928, near the end of the Weimar Republic. Some of the highlights were:The city of Berlin as a character in the novel;Bernie Gunther...

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: ·      What hath Zion wrought? (NY Post)·      Petrobras revisiting its ill treatment of whistleblowers. (Reuters.com)·       Glencore under CFTC investigation for FCPA violations.(Bloomberg)·       Who owns Huawei? (The company says it’s the workers.)(New York Times) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:DOJ wants Goldman Sachs to plead guilty over 1MDB. (Financial Times)How did Wirecard generate its profits? (Financial Times)UK agrees to use Huawei to build out its 5G network. What will be the US response? (Financial Times)Be part of the $300MM pool of money—see Endgame this weekend. (Wall Street Journal) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

Is the US utilizing FCPA enforcement for world domination? Recovering screenwriter Jay Rosen and frustrated novelist Tom Fox consider this while they also take a look at some of this week’s top compliance and ethics stories which caught their collective eyes this week.  1.    Does the statute of limitations run while Trump is in office? Sara Kropf opines. 2.    What is the compliance response to t...

Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. Today, in Episode 45 we celebrate our newest addition to the Everything Compliance gang; Sarah Hadden. Sarah is the Publisher at Corporate Compliance Insights, taking the helm from founder Maurice Gilbert earlier this year. She is a journalist by profession and has been working in the compliance space, largely at CCI for the past six years. She...

Compliance into the Weeds is the only weekly podcast which takes a deep dive into a compliance related topic, literally going into the weeds to more fully explore a subject. In this episode, Matt Kelly (the coolest guy in compliance) and I take a deep dive into continued ethical, reputational and business imbroglio which Boeing finds itself in around the 737 MAX airliner, as the company finds itse...

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: ·      Opioid distributor faces criminal charges. (New York Times)·      NCAA scandal; little fish=big charges. (New York Times)·       Walmart investigates Flipkart’s compliance lapses and bribe paid to govt officials. (EnTracker)·       How does the rest of the world see FCPA enforcement? (AsiaTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: ·      Should shareholder authorize payments to corrupt execs to tell what they know about corruption. (Bloomberg)·      Google employees claim retaliation. (New York Times)·       CTFT charges company in $47MM Ponzi scheme. (MarketWatch)·       GSK non-prosecution costs SFO £7.5MM. (The Times) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

In this five-part podcast series, sponsored by Assent Compliance, I have explored supply chain data management. I have visited with several members of the Assent Compliance team to introduce the topic, consider the synergies between several different types of compliance disciplines, the impact on organizations of compliance failures in this area and what are some of the drivers for continued legis...

In this five-part podcast series, sponsored by Assent Compliance, I explore supply chain data management. In this series, I visit with several members of the Assent Compliance team to introduce the topic, consider the synergies between several different types of compliance disciplines, the impact on organizations of compliance failures in this area and what are some of the drivers for continued le...

In this five-part podcast series, sponsored by Assent Compliance, I explore supply chain data management. In this series, I visit with several members of the Assent Compliance team to introduce the topic, consider the synergies between several different types of compliance disciplines, the impact on organizations of compliance failures in this area and what are some of the drivers for continued le...

In this five-part podcast series, sponsored by Assent Compliance, I explore supply chain data management. In this series, I visit with several members of the Assent Compliance team to introduce the topic, consider the synergies between several different types of compliance disciplines, the impact on organizations of compliance failures in this area and what are some of the drivers for continued le...

In this five-part podcast series, sponsored by Assent Compliance, I explore supply chain data management. In this series, I visit with several members of the Assent Compliance team to introduce the topic, consider the synergies between several different types of compliance disciplines, the impact on organizations of compliance failures in this area and what are some of the drivers for continued le...

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: ·      McKesson employee compares asking for compliance resources to ‘asking for a Ferrari’. (New York Times)·      Odebrecht scandal shows no sign of waning. (BBC)·       Is Knicks’ owner James Dolan the worst owner in sports? (New York Times)·       Brian Lamp signs off. (Wall Street Journal) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: ·      McKesson employee compares asking for compliance resources to ‘asking for a Ferrari’. (New York Times)·      Odebrecht scandal shows no sign of waning. (BBC)·       Is Knicks’ owner James Dolan the worst owner in sports? (New York Times)·       Brian Lamp signs off. (Wall Street Journal) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

In this episode I take things in a bit of a different direction as I am interviewed by Sean Freidlin, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Compliance at Hanzo, on a project commissioned by Hanzo which became a part of the Hanzo Q1 2019 Compliance, Risk, and Regulations Research Roundup. Sean explains what the resulting white paper provides and then queries me on some of the deep dives I took into sev...

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:When safety has a training issue, what is the answer? (Wall Street Journal)Where will Fyre bankruptcy lead? (Wall Street Journal)More focus on Peru after former President’s suicide. (Wall Street Journal)Want a job, Japan wants you. (Wall Street Journal) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this weekend, we have the dual celebrations of Easter and Passover. As Tom enjoys the Astros 11-0 run and sweeps of the Yankees and Mariners; Jay mourns his Red Sox going into the doghouse, they also take a look at some of this week’s top compliance and ethics stories which caught their collective eyes this week.  1.    Corporations behaving badly are looming large in the news this week. What d...

In this episode, I visit with Jonathan Armstrong to consider the recent regulatory fine leveled against London Borough of Newham £145,000 for a data breach involving the data of more than 200 people. It presents a situation where a data breach was literally a matter of life and death. Some of the issues and highlights are: What was the data and why was it so sensitive? How was the data leaked? How...

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: ·      Pension fund demands GE can KPMG. (Accounting Today)·      What will be the role for compliance when it ‘grows up’? (Wall Street Journal)·       Former Peru President commits suicide when facing arrest. (Washington Post)·       New U.S. Policy on Cuba Sanctions Threatens EU Ties. (Wall Street Journal) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...