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Fraud Eats Strategy

Why We Need Compliance Officers More Than Ever

In today’s episode, we discuss why we need compliance officers now more than ever. The workforce that emerges from the combination of stay at home orders and the financial crisis will be very different than ever before. Each of us is dealing with unprecedented levels of stress, anxiety, and uncertainty. These external stressors can cause people in positions of trust to suspend good judgment. They can put themselves and their organizations at risk in the process. Decision-making under stress and unreasonable times pressure can be a perfect storm during which business ethics may be given short shrift. Joining us today is Richard Bistrong. Richard is the CEO of Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC through which he conducts corporate workshops and keynotes to sales teams, leadership groups (including boards and c-suite executives), and compliance teams (including internal audit, finance, and HR).

Join us each week as we take a deep dive into the various forms of fraud across the world and discuss crime families, penny stock boiler rooms, international money launderers, narco-traffickers, oligarchs, dictators, war lords, kleptocrats and more.

Scott Moritz is a leading authority on white-collar crime, anti-corruption, and in the evaluation, design, remediation, implementation, and administration of corporate compliance programs, codes of conduct. He is also considered an authority in the establishment, training, and oversight of the investigative protocols carried out by financial intelligence, corporate security, and internal audit units.
 

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Compliance and Coronavirus

Mike Lindsey on Cyber Risks from the Legal Perspective in the Era of Covid-19


Welcome to the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network, Compliance and Coronavirus. In this episode, I am joined by Mike Lindsey, a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Steinbrecher and Span. Lindsey specializes in cyber risk issues and he join me to discuss those issues during the second half of this first year of Covid-19.
Some of the highlights include:

  • What is the nature of Lindsey’s practice?
  • Has the Coronavirus crisis increased cyber risks?
  • What are some of the top pieces of advice you are giving clients at this point in the crisis?
  • Has it changed since March?
  • Where do you see us, 12 to 18 months out in terms of cyber risks?
  • Are Board of Directors moving quickly enough to oversee cyber risks?

Resources
LinkedIn page for Mike Lindsey

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Great Women in Compliance

Dr. Mary Gentile, Giving Voice to Values-Part 2


Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In Part 2 of the 2-part series with Dr. Mary Gentile, the founder of Giving Voice to Values, Lisa talks with Dr. Gentile about how ethics and compliance professionals can use GVV to help build an organization’s culture and help with ethical decision-making. In particular, we discuss how E&C professionals can start with 3 questions underpinning GVV: What if I were going to act on my values? What would I say and do? How could I be most effective?  This starting point can empower people to make good choices, leading to better decision-making and ultimately a stronger organization. Dr. Gentile provides real-life examples of how GVV has been applied in different contexts, some very practical advice and a lot of resources that can be used to help improve decision-making.
Have you heard that Lisa and Mary have published a book?  Yes, you can get your very own copy of “Sending the Elevator Back Down: What We’ve Learned From Great Women in Compliance” (CCI Press, 2020) on Amazon right now!  Enjoyed your copy?  Don’t forget to leave a review!
Join the Great Women in Compliance community on LinkedIn here.

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Great Women in Compliance

Dr. Mary Gentile, Giving Voice to Values-Part 2

 
Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.In Part 2 of the 2-part series with Dr. Mary Gentile, the founder of Giving Voice to Values, Lisa talks with Dr. Gentile about how ethics and compliance professionals can use GVV to help build an organization’s culture and help with ethical decision-making. In particular, we discuss how E&C professionals can start with 3 questions underpinning GVV: What if I were going to act on my values? What would I say and do? How could I be most effective?  This starting point can empower people to make good choices, leading to better decision-making and ultimately a stronger organization. Dr. Gentile provides real-life examples of how GVV has been applied in different contexts, some very practical advice and a lot of resources that can be used to help improve decision-making.
Have you heard that Lisa and Mary have published a book?  Yes, you can get your very own copy of “Sending the Elevator Back Down: What We’ve Learned From Great Women in Compliance” (CCI Press, 2020) on Amazon right now!  Enjoyed your copy?  Don’t forget to leave a review!
Join the Great Women in Compliance community on LinkedIn here.

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Compliance Into the Weeds

The SEC Tenure of Jay Clayton


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 SEC Chairmanship of Jay Clayton who announced he was stepping down at the end of the year. Some of the issues we consider are:

  • Tom call it a mixed bag and Matt had mixed views?
  • His first 12 to 18 had a series of crisis including a cyber breach at the SEC itself, the PCAOB scandal with KPMG and Crypto-currency issues.
  • Matt felt Clayton did a good job of listening.
  • He worked to open non-capital markets for investment.
  • In the SEC enforcement action, he basically said Elon Musk was too important to Tesla to punish.
  • His abortive move to head the SDNY was reputational disaster.
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Daily Compliance News

November 18, 2020-How to Win Friends edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Deutsche Bank proposes tax on those WFH. (Axios)
  • Senate blocks Shelton nomination to the Fed. (WaPo)
  • OCED praises US anti-corruption efforts. (WSJ)
  • Don’t fear change (compliance included). (NYT)
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The Wirecard Saga

The Wirecard Saga – The Duality Of It All and Binary Options


In special podcast series, 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 how Wirecard used binary options to facilitate its massive fraud.

Some of the highlights include:
·       Weekly news wrap-up on Wirecard
·       Austrian BVT and the largest intelligence scandal for Austria since WWII.
·       Was Jan Marsalek a BBT agent, asset or fellow traveler?
·       What is the IMS Capital connection?
·       Enter a Russia/Turkey connection.
·       BaFin’s right hand cannot find its left hand.
·       Never buy a binary option in a dark alley.

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The Wirecard Saga

The Wirecard Saga – Shell Companies and On the Beach


In special podcast series, 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 explore shell companies in our On the Beach episode .

Some of the highlights include:
·       Weekly news wrap-up on Wirecard
·       What is the Bundestag investigating? Are they doing anything?
·       Were 250 Wirecard employees assigned to the money-laundering team?
·       Is a Bundestag inquiry in the works by the EU?
·       KPMG enters the story.
·       Shell Companies Shell Companies Shell Companies
·       Why it might be time for a walk on the beach (and to read On The Beach)

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The Wirecard Saga

The Wirecard Saga – Running to Fraud with Hermes


In this special series, 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. In this episode, we explore the money laundering Wirecard engaged in via the project dubbed ‘Hermes’.

Some of the highlights include:
·       Weekly news wrap-up on Wirecard.
·       What has this done to the German political scene?
·       Any talk about BaFin reforms?
·       How do losses reach €20bn?
·       How was the investigation “unrelated to the mandate”?
·       Money laundering through Hermes.

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The Wirecard Saga

The Wirecard Saga-Bring Lawyers Guns and Money


In this special podcast series, 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. In this episode, we explore those other professional service providers who enabled Wirecard in our Bring Lawyers Guns and Money episode.

Some of the highlights include:
·       Weekly news wrap-up on Wirecard
·       Is EY at its Arthur Anderson moment?
·       Who has potential lawsuits against EY?
·       Is a Bundestag inquiry in the works?
·       Will there be an EU-level inquiry into the German government response?
·       Who were the Enablers?
·       Why is now the time for lawyers to take a stand for the Rule of Law?