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Compliance Kitchen

Bribery in Defense Industry


A CEO of a major US government defense contractor is charged with bribery. The Kitchen reviews the DOJ release – drop in for more.

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Content Coalition

The Content Coalition Episode 006: Your Brand: The Promise That You Make To Your Audience


 

In this episode of The Content Coalition, we interview Veronique James, founder & CEO of The James Agency.
Veronique and her team at The James Agency collaborate to produce creatively-fueled, results-driven campaigns that help clients achieve their goals and positively impact their bottom line.
The James Agency has worked with notable brands such as Hotel Valley Ho, Mountain Shadows, Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery, Spinato’s Pizzeria, Marriott International, Epoch Residential, Fox Restaurant Concepts, among others.
Under Veronique’s direction, The James Agency has been honored with numerous industry and culture awards, including being named to the Inc. 5000 and Entrepreneur Top Company Cultures lists.
Tune in as we discuss brand persona and its relevance to your marketing initiatives. Veronique also shares a bunch of questions that you can reflect on to come up with your brand persona and how her agency helped Hotel Adeline’s brand to shine.
Get more great The Content Coalition episodes over on Repurpose House, or watch the interview on YouTube!

What You’ll Learn

  • [01:56] How The James Agency works with different clients
  • [04:36] Veronique shares what tools they use in the agency
  • [07:02] The current trends across Veronique’s clients that stands out
  • [10:16] A story where a client doesn’t have a “personality” to resonate to its customers
  • [12:51] 1 actionable thing to implement within the next 48 hours
  • [16:46] The story of how they worked with Hotel Adeline to bring up their brand persona

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Life with GDPR

EU Whistleblower Directive-Part 1

Jonathan Armstrong is on assignment in Cornwall so for this episode Cordery Compliance co-founder Andre Bywater joins Tom Fox to discuss the upcoming EU Whistleblower Directive go live date of December 17. This is Part 1 of a special 2-part episode. Some of the questions we consider include:

1.     Why is the EU tackling whistleblowing & what EU areas fall in scope?

2.     Who can be a whistleblower?

3.     What about anonymity and confidentiality?

4.     Which whistleblowing route should a whistleblower follow?

5.     Are there any record-keeping obligations?

6.     Is retaliation prohibited?

Resources

Check out the Cordery Compliance, client alert on this topic, click here. For more information on Cordery Compliance, go their website here. Also check out the GDPR Navigator, one of the top resources for GDPR Compliance by clicking here.

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Everything Compliance

Episode 88, the CCO Edition


Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. Today, we are joined by our newest panelist Karen Woody join us as a permanent panelist. The entire gang was also thrilled to be honored by W3 as a top talk show in podcasting. In the context of several different stories, the full gang takes a deep dive into the role, status and potential liability of the CCO. We end with a veritable mélange of shouts outs and rants.

  1. Karen Woody talks about a 2018 SEC enforcement action which held a CCO personally liable and its implications going forward. Karen has a shout out WeWork going public via a SPAC.
  2. Jay Rosen discusses how monitors evaluate corporate whistleblowing programs. Rosen has a melancholy rant about shooting victims on movie sets.
  3. Matt Kelly discusses the enforcement action involving Credit Suisse and tuna bonds. Kelly has an extended rant about the ongoing debt crisis.
  4. Jonathan Armstrong looks the recent CMA fine in the UK against Facebook for changing CCOs twice without informing the CMA. He shouts out to the graduating class of 2021 and all they went through during Covid-19 to obtain their degrees.
  5. Jonathan Marks talks about the role of internal audit, the Board and whether the termination of a CCO should be an 8K event. He rants about hotels charging full prices while cutting back on their services.
  6. Tom Fox shouts out to Houston Astros who are in the World Series for the 3rd time in 5 years. 

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
  • Karen Woody – One of the top academic experts on the SEC. Woody can be reached at kwoody@wlu.edu
  • 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, ranter (and sometime panelist) of Everything Compliance is Tom Fox the Voice of Compliance. He can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Everything Compliance is a part of the Compliance Podcast Network.

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Daily Compliance News

October 28, 2021 the Corruption in LA edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • When financial incentives go awry.(WSJ)
  • Facebook under FTC scrutiny. (NYT)
  • Civic corruption in Los Angeles. (LA Times)
  • Should McKinsey consult green only? (NYT)