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Creativity and Compliance

Happy 4th Anniversary to Learnings and Entertainment


Where does creativity fit into compliance? In more places than you think. Problem-solving, accountability, communication, and connection – they all take creativity. Join Tom Fox and Ronnie Feldman on Creativity and Compliance, part of the Compliance Podcast Network. In this show, we take a personal journey with Ronnie Feldman as he celebrates the 4th Anniversary for Learnings & Entertainment and reflects back on his journey.
Some of the highlights include:

  • What has Ronnie learned in his journey through compliance?
  • Why does compliance need a bunch of comedians?
  • What are the lessons for the compliance professional?
  • How has the compliance community evolved over the past 4 years?
  • Where is it going?
  • What does Ronnie see for Learning & Entertainment?

Resources:
Ronnie Feldman (LinkedIn)
Learnings & Entertainments (LinkedIn)
Ronnie Feldman (Twitter)
Learnings & Entertainments (Website)
60-Second Communication & Awareness Shorts – A variety of short, customizable, quick-hitter “commercials” including songs & jingles, video shorts, newsletter graphics & Gifs, and more. Promote integrity, compliance, the Code, the helpline and the E&C team as helpful advisors and coaches.
Workplace Tonight Show! Micro-learning – a library of 1-10-minute trainings and communications wrapped in the style of a late-night variety show, that explains corporate risk topics and why employees should care.
Custom Live & Digital Programing – We’ll develop programming that fits your culture and balances the seriousness of the subject matter with a more engaging delivery.

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Compliance and Coronavirus

Laura Petrolino on the Power of Storytelling to Get Your Message Out

Welcome to the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network, Compliance and Coronavirus. In this episode, In this episode, I visit with Laura Petrolino, Chief Marketing Officer at Spin Sucks. Petrolino  recently wrote a blog post, entitled “Four Elements of Successful Brand Storytelling to Use Today”. I wanted to visit with Petrolino on why ‘storytelling’ is so powerful, particularly in the corporate setting during the era of Coronavirus. She details the four elements of storytelling and how you can incorporate those elements into your compliance messaging.

For more information on Laura Petrolino and Spin Sucks, click here.

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Life with GDPR

Schrems III-Impact on the Transatlantic Digital Trade


In this episode, I am joined by Jed Gardner of Linedata to discuss some of the practical aspects the Schrems III case, where the Court invalidated Privacy Shield.  Some of the highlights are:

  • Why was this and what are the wider impacts to transatlantic digital trade?
  • When does this come into effect? Is there any grace period?
  • Let’s look at a transatlantic organization (Investment Firm). What risks are they now dealing with?
  • What should businesses be doing with their technology to address the ruling and ensure they can meet the EU GDPR data privacy regulations?

Check out the Linedata on their homepage here.

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Everything Compliance

Episode 64, the Dog Days of Summer edition


Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. Today, we have the full quintet of Jonathan Armstrong, Jay Rosen, Matt Kelly, Jonathan Marks and Mike Volkov for a potpourri of discussions and ending with a veritable mélange of rants and shouts outs.

  1. Jonathan Armstrong critiques the recent SFO conviction of two former Unaoil employees and the controversary the SFO and its Director, Lisa Osofsky now find themselves in regarding their conduct. Armstrong shouts out to the West Indies cricket team for traveling to the UK to play at Lord’s.
  2. Jay Rosen considers telemedicine in the time of Covid-19. What does it mean for the practice of medicine? What are the compliance issues involved? Jay rants about the Trump Administration targeting surveillance on journalist in Portland and across the country.
  3. Matt Kelly looks at two recent US domestic corruption cases; one in Illinois involving ComEd and one in Ohio involving the Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives. Matt shouts out to Rebecca Jones the former Florida state employee who left the government to start her own public record of Covid-19 in Florida when the state quit reporting on it.
  4. Mike Volkov looks at two recent OFAC enforcement actions. One involved Amazon and defective tracing software. The second Essentra, doing business with North Korea and shell companies. He draws out the lessons learned from both cases. He shouts out to podcasters and the podcasting community for getting their messages out.
  5. Jonathan Marks considers parallels he has observed in the development of the compliance profession from those he lived through in the Internal Audit world after Enron and WorldCom. He shouts out to the IIA for beginning the discussion to reconfigure its 3 Lines of Defense but chides them for not going far enough.
  6. Tom Fox rants about those attacking fellow Buffalo Wing addicts. 

The members of the Everything Compliance are:

  • Jay Rosen– Jay is Vice President, Business Development Corporate Monitoring at Affiliated Monitors. Rosen can be reached at JRosen@affiliatedmonitors.com
  • Mike Volkov – One of the top FCPA commentators and practitioners around and the Chief Executive Officer of The Volkov Law Group, LLC. Volkov can be reached at mvolkov@volkovlawgroup.com
  • Matt Kelly – Founder and CEO of Radical Compliance. Kelly can be reached at mkelly@radicalcompliance.com
  • Jonathan Armstrong –is our UK colleague, who is an experienced data privacy/data protection lawyer with Cordery in London. Armstrong can be reached at armstrong@corderycompliance.com
  • Jonathan Marks is Partner, Firm Practice Leader – Global Forensic, Compliance & Integrity Services at Baker Tilly. Marks can be reached at marks@bakertilly.com

The host and producer (and sometime panelist) of Everything Compliance is Tom Fox the Compliance Evangelist. Everything Compliance is a part of the Compliance Podcast Network. He can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com

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Daily Compliance News

August 6, 2020-the Blacklisted edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • NY investigation of Trump much wider than reported. (NYT)
  • Insurers just say no to Covid-19 related claims. (NYT)
  • State AGs blast Facebook on Civil Rights. (WaPo)
  • Zimbabwean businessman blacklisted for corruption. (WSJ)