CONVERGE is in its 5th year of bringing together the world’s leading companies for 2 days of dynamic speakers, thought-provoking breakout sessions, and opportunities to connect with like-minded professionals. This year the conference has gone virtual. You will leave the conference with new resources and best practices allowing you to continue the hard work of driving ethics to the center of your business. In today’s episode I visit with Andy Hinton. We visit about his panel at Converge20 on Whistleblower Protection: The Dawn of the Next Era.
Hinton is well known in the compliance community, having recently retired as the CCO at Google. He is now assisting a whistleblower reporting start up NotMe, which has a tool for misconduct reporting solution for ALL. It is the solution to bridge the gap between employers and employees. The goal is to change workplace culture and make workplaces safe for all. For more registration and information on Converge20, click here.
Day: September 23, 2020
En este episodio de ¡(H)Ola Compliance!, Matt y Alejandra continúan su análisis de la Encuesta Sobre Corrupción en América Latina 2020 enfocándose en los avances y desafíos en la implementación de programas de cumplimiento. Desde políticas y procedimientos, capacitaciones, monitoreo de terceros, y líneas de alertas e investigaciones los programas de cumplimiento en la región están evolucionando. Pero no sin sus retos. ¿Cómo se compara tu programa de cumplimiento? ¡Únete a nuestra discusión para medirlo!
Preguntas? Contáctenos en podcasts@milchev.com.
¡(H)Ola Compliance! no tiene la intención y no se puede considerar como asesoramiento legal; el contenido solo refleja los pensamientos y opiniones de sus anfitriones.
¡(H)Ola Compliance! explora la ola de cumplimiento de anticorrupción que ha surgido por Latinoamérica. Inmerso en su cariño para la región, Matteson Ellis y Alejandra Montenegro Almonte (Socios de Miller & Chevalier), navegan las aguas de regulaciones de cumplimiento corporativo desde sus oficinas en Washington, DC y trazan las normas de anticorrupción que afectan a la región. A la vez destacan los desafíos y oportunidades que enfrentan las empresas comprometidas a la ética. ¿Te sientes que estás nadando contra la corriente? ¡Entonces tome la ola de cumplimiento en ¡(H)Ola Compliance!
In the Episode, I am joined by Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Managing Director of Institutional Ethics & Integrity at Affiliated Monitors. Mikhail’s areas of expertise include technology, privacy, cybersecurity, IP and accountability in artificial intelligence; the global anti-corruption and anti-money laundering regimes; media & entertainment; biotech and the life sciences; the public sector and international law. She is accustomed to working on extremely sensitive and high-profile matters, both nationally and internationally. In this episode, we are back from a summer hiatus and wrap up what has been happening on the Wirecard front over the past few weeks.
Some of the highlights include:
- BaFin Unapologetic
- Reporters and Short Sellers – Free to Be, You & Me?
- Political Fallout?
- Another German DAX-listed Company Scandal?
- Impact on EU – Rethinking Germany Frankfurt and Bonn for Financial Services Capitols post-Brexit?
- What is happening within Wirecard now – is the company still going?
- Deutsche is Not Buying
- Has the fullness of the scandal been revealed, or is more coming to light?
- What is, or what was, Project Panther?
- Enron had significant impact on then Big-5; is Wirecard going to impact Big-4 in the same way?
The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What are some of the skills a CCO needs to success navigate the compliance waters in any company? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this new podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, my guest is DeAnna Nwankwo who served as Corporate Compliance Officer for Core Laboratories from 2003 May 2020. In that capacity, she led Core Laboratories ethics and compliance activities.
As CCO, DeAnna reported to the general counsel and secretary and to the audit committee of the board of directors. She was responsible for formulating and implementing Core Lab’s ethics policies and procedures, including its Code of Ethics and Corporate Responsibility and making sure they were communicated and trained upon across the company. DeAnna managed the company’s employee Helpline resources and served as a final internal resource which concerned parties could communicate after other formal channels and resources were exhausted. As Corporate Compliance Officer, she was authorized to implement all necessary actions to ensure achievement of the objectives of an effective compliance program. In her role, she collaborated with other functional departments (Internal Audit, Human Resources, Information Security, etc.) to receive and direct compliance issues to appropriate resources for investigation and resolution.
In this third episode, we consider the importance of a CCO building trust, being honest and having high ethical standards. DeAnna discusses how managing the helpline is not only so critical but also an important resource of information for every CCO. She discusses the importance of reporting facts, and not your opinion in fraud and ethics investigations. She also notes that in every investigation, there are teachable moments. Finally, although DeAnna has a QA professional background, she cautions to never forget the human factors in every investigation.
As the Voice of Compliance, I wanted to start a podcast which will help to bring both clarity and sanity to the compliance practitioner and compliance profession during this worldwide health and healthcare crisis. In this episode, I visit with Ariel Weindling, founder of #NotMe Solutions and Andy Hinton, Strategic Advisor to the firm. We discuss the increased need for employee reporting during the Coronavirus health crisis.
Some of the topics include:
- Why is reporting so much more critical now, in the time of Coronavirus?
- What are the top questions you are getting from employers?
- Where do you see reporting, employment law and Covid-19 issues going over the next year?
For more information on #NotMe Solutions, click here.
Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.
Today’s guest is Alejandra Montenegro Almonte, a member of the law firm Miller Chevalier, who has built a practice where she has an international practice focusing on design and implementation of risk-based internal compliance programs and is also a monitor on behalf of a regulatory agency in Massachusetts.
Alejandra has returned to private practice after spending time at gategroup as the General Counsel for North American and LATAM. She talks about her experience of going from law firm to in-house, and she has had a unique experience in that she went back to a law firm.
Alejandra was born in Nicaragua and moved to New Orleans at age 4. She talks about how coming to the US at such a young age has influenced her career decision, her view on practicing law and the importance of hearing from diverse voices in all aspects of advising risk and compliance risks. She has had experience being the only woman in the room in LATAM, and all over the world and has insight into that as well.
We are so excited to have Alejandra as a guest during Latino Heritage Month.
Join the Great Women in Compliance community on LinkedIn here.
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 and Tom go into the weeds to look at the recent initiative of the Department of Education to go after Princeton University for diversity training which Trump says is “Anti-American propaganda” and the release of the FinCen papers. Some of the issues we consider are:
- What is the Trump Administration up to?
- Will white nationalism be the order of the day if Trump wins?
- Why does impact compliance professionals?
- What are the FinCen papers?
- Why was their release so devastating to the Administration?
Resources
See Matt’s blog posts on Radical Compliance
Boom: The FinCen Files are Here
Trump Administration Targets Princeton for Diversity
