Welcome to The Ethics Movement, special podcast series highlighting Converge21 The Workshop Edition. This podcast series will feature some of the speakers at the event. You can find out more information about the event and register here. In this podcast, I visit with Phil Knight, Senior Product Manager at Convercent who will help lead the discussion on the Workshop, Disclosure Automation is a Mindset. It Starts with Repeatable, Scalable Processes. In this podcast, we will lay the foundation for scaling your E&C program by building a repeatable process for conflict of interest management and why this is so important for the compliance professional.
Day: April 30, 2021
Beginning in November 2012 with the publication of A Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (commonly referred to as the FCPA Resource Guide), the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities Exchange Commission have regularly been publishing useful and informative guidance on the elements of effective compliance programs and the Department and the Commission’s expectations. Following the publication of the FCPA Resource Guide, the DOJ Fraud Section published another important document in February 2017 entitled “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs”. It has been updated twice since then in 2019 and again in 2020. The FCPA Resource Guide was also updated in 2020. These two documents are the primary desk references used by federal prosecutors to examine whether a company they are investigating has an “effective compliance program”. Because of that, it is incumbent upon board members and C-suite executives to be familiar with these documents, understand what is expected of them and to hold themselves and others accountable ensuring that the company has properly considered the risks of their unique business operations and has tailored a robust compliance program based upon a nuanced understanding of that risk.
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, warlords, 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.
Rarely do we hear or read about the names of third-party bribe payers or the names of their companies. Global companies, particularly those who ship products internationally or rely on third-parties in other ways to bring their products and services to market, are heavily reliant on virtual armies of third-party intermediaries to operate internationally. They are a necessary evil who can act on an organization’s behalf, represent them in the marketplace and potentially trigger significant liability under the FCPA, sanctions or anti-money laundering laws.
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, warlords, 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.
Jay is moving this week so he is 000. Tom takes a solo look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught his interest on This Week in FCPA. He is joined by special guests Dave Lefort to talk about the upcoming Compliance Week 2021 and Matt Kelly on Alex Oh.
Stories
- Alex Oh resigns. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance.
- What are 3 top BOD priorities? Maria Motes in CCI.
- Why compliance must understand business process. Mike Volkov in Corruption Crime and Compliance.
- Post pandemic business resiliance. Jim Deloach in CCI.
- What is location risk? Atul Vashistha in CCI.
- Investor due diligence on modern slavery. Subodh Mishra in the Havard Law School Forum on Corp Governance.
- ComEd as a wake up call. Vincent Wu in the Global AntiCorruption Blog.
- May is Internal Auditors Month. Navez Global’s Ethics and Compliance Matters Blog.
- German ups its AML game. Risk and Compliance Platform Europe.
- Want insight in WFH procrastion? Dick Cassin says look to writers, in the FCPA Blog.
Podcasts and Events
- Tom and Megan Dougherty are doing a special podcast series around The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, currently streaming on Disney+. Check out Episodes 1&2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5. Episode 6 drops next week.
- This month on The Compliance Life, Tom welcomes Jonathon Kellerman. In Episode 1, Jonathon discusses the path he took to compliance. In Episode 2, he talked about his early professional career in healthcare compliance consulting. In Episode 3, he moves to the CCO Chair. In Episode 4, Jonathon looks down the road for what’s next in compliance.
- Join K2 Integrity on 6 May 2021 for a webinar, presented in Spanish, “Reputational Due Diligence for Companies and Investment Firms.” The team will discuss scenarios and cases in which reputational due diligence helped uncover hidden areas of risk and opportunities for our clients. Learn more and register here.
- Join Tom and Jay at Converge21, the Workshop Edition, click here. Best of all, its free.
- Join Jay and Tom at Compliance Week 2021. For information and registration, click here. Listeners to this podcast can receive a discount of $200 by using the code PODCAST599 at check out.
- CCI releases a new eBook, The FCPA Year in Review by the Compliance Evangelist, Tom Fox. You can obtain a copy here. Best of all its available at no charge.
- Tom announces his latest book, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 and go here. The Compliance Handbook 2ndedition will be available in both print and eBook editions. This week on The Compliance Handbook podcast, Eric Young joins Tom for a deep dive into the role of internal controls in a best practices compliance program.
Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.
