Day: December 1, 2021

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The Wirecard Saga

Season 2-Episode 1, Knotweed in the Edelweiss


Welcome to Season 2 of Lies, Spies & Corporate Crimes: The Wirecard Saga. The Wirecard Saga, has become of the world’s leading sources on all things Wirecard. In Lies, Spies & Corporate Crimes: The Wirecard Saga; Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Managing Director of Institutional Ethics & Integrity at Affiliated Monitors looks at the biggest financial scandal in post-war Germany from a variety of angles.  In this Episode 1 of Season 2, Knotweed in the Edelweiss, she continues her exploration of those persons, entities and governments who have been damaged, some beyond repair, by Wirecard and the nuclear fallout from its scandal.
Some of the highlights include:

  • Still room for the share price to fall
  • Die Skandalrepublik
  • Ambassadorial treason
  • Saved to the phone
  • Ott, the Peterliks, and Weiss
  • Brigadier’s sword droops
  • Swiss Army Knife of consulting
  • Texting donuts
  • Jenewein shares
  • The Schutz eXXPress
  • Maxima-l San Marino
  • AOL IPSP
  • Frederick Wilhelm’s offspring
  • Agency for the Modernization of Ukraine
  • Dark days
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The Ethics Experts

Episode 102 – Byron Earnheart

In this episode of The Ethics Experts, Gio welcomes Byron Earnheart, Programming Director for the Barret School of Banking in Memphis, TN and the host of the “Main Street Banking” podcast…the #1 rated community banking podcast on Apple.

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Compliance Kitchen

More Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Project Sanctions


The State Department announced additional sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project.

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Career Can D0

Marketing as an Author with Alan Burgeois


 
In this episode of Career Can Do, Mary Ann Faremouth chats with Alan Bourgeois, founder and CEO of Authors Marketing International LLC. Alan is also founder and Director of DEAR Texas, Inc. and Texas Authors Institute of History Museum. He is an award-winning indie author and speaker.
 

 
Authors Marketing International is dedicated to helping authors – whether they are beginners or veterans – market and sell their books. In addition to this service, Alan also runs an online bookstore for readers and indie authors, which Mary Ann is a member of. Many authors run to Amazon to sell their books, but they have to set their prices so low that they don’t make their fair share. This is why Alan created B4R.store: so indie authors could get more than the bare minimum.
 
It’s not the journey or the destination, but the people you meet along the way, Mary Ann comments. She talks about being granted the opportunity to network with other authors, marketers, screenwriters, and even people in Hollywood, through Alan’s organization. 
 
Resources
Faremouth.com
 
Alan Bourgeois on LinkedIn | Twitter
B4R.store 
 

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Innovation in Compliance

Gold in the Compliance Hills: Part 3, Compliance and ESG Investments


Welcome to a special five-part podcast series on how to unlock the gold in your program, hosted by Tom Fox with guests Gio and Nick Gallo from ComplianceLine. One of the ongoing issues in compliance is to demonstrate the Return on Investment (ROI) in your compliance program. One way to do so is by demonstrating the extended value of compliance literally across your entire company. When overlaid with an ESG component, you can begin to see the gold in your compliance hills. In addition to showing how you can unlock the gold in your own compliance hills, Gio and Nick walk you through how demonstrate ROI for your internal budgeting process which can provide to you the financial resource to strengthen and improve your compliance program.
Join us for the full 5 episodes and learn to see your compliance program in an entirely new light. In this Part 3, we consider how a CFO and finance department might see ESG investments differently than a CCO and compliance professional.
Some of the highlights of this episode include:

  • A CFO and finance function will more likely see ESG in relations to capital markets, bank financing, index funds and even insurance costs.
  • How can a CCO speak this language about not only the compliance program but in leading the company’s ESG efforts?
  • How to package your data, documentation and reports regarding ESG to appeal to a CFO.
  • Seek input on what investors are looking from your ESG program.

Resources
Gio Gallo on LinkedIn
Nick Gallo on LinkedIn
ComplianceLine

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The Hill Country Podcast

Darrell Beauchamp on the Western Museum of Art, Part 2


Welcome to The Hill Country Podcast. The Texas Hill Country is one of the most beautiful places on earth. In this podcast, recent Hill Country resident Tom Fox visits with the people and organizations that make this the most unique areas of Texas. Join Tom as he explores the people, places and their activities of the Texas Hill Country.  In this Part 2 of a two-part podcast, I  conclude my visit with Darrell Beauchamp, the Director of the Museum of Western Art, located in Kerrville Texas. Some of the highlights include:

  1. Could you tell us about the Museum’s educational programs and outreach?
  1. Who is the Museum’s Artist in Residence?
  2. How has 2021 been for a return to in campus learning for Schreiner University?
  3. The Museum was recently honored with two prestigious awards.
  4. What will be the role of the Museum down the road in 5-10 years.
  5. How can a listener get involved>

For more information on the Museum of Western Art, check out their website, here.

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Design Thinking in Compliance

Tailoring A Design Thinking Project That Fits


Welcome to the latest edition to the Compliance Podcast Network. In this podcast, I am joined by my co-host Carsten Tams, Ethical Business Architect and founder and CEO of Emagence LLC, a boutique consulting firm based in New York City, partners with corporate, academic and NGO clients to develop innovative and evidence-based strategies rooted in behavioral science for solving organizational challenges. Over this podcast series we will explore how Design Thinking can be used to improve your compliance program by increasing employee engagement. In this episode, Carsten and I take up running a design sprint.
Some of the highlights include:
A. What are the 3 critical benefits of Design Thinking?
B. Basic applications of Design Thinking.
C. 6 Basic Questions to ask
D. Getting started
E. What’s holding you back?
Carsten Tams on LinkedIn
Carsten Tams – Tailoring a Design Thinking Project that Fits

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Great Women in Compliance

Alexis Wermuth – The Ideator


As with Lisa’s episode last week, Mary brings a memorable former colleague onto the Great Women in Compliance show, Alexis Wermuth.  Alexis is a Compliance executive at Getinge, a medical device company.
It is an exceptional few in Compliance who are creative or artistic.  Alexis is one of those people and made an invaluable contribution to the internal marketing team at Fresenius Medical Care North America’s Compliance department (see episode with Sarah Hadden for more on this initiative).  After talking about some of the risks in the medical device field, Alexis talks about injecting creativity into her Compliance program and reminisces with Mary about some of their favorite projects when working together with ideas for listeners to implement in their own programs.
After finishing up at Fresenius Medical Care, Alexis moved to New Jersey and discusses the considerations she weighed up when deciding to make the move and a new job opportunity.  She also shares a favorite productivity hack.
Lisa and Mary wish to extend deepest gratitude to listeners and readers who heeded the call to vote for their book “Sending the Elevator Back Down: What We’ve Learned from Great Women in Compliance” (CCI Press, 2020).  The voting closed 1 December, the launch of this episode and the GWIC team eagerly awaits the outcome of the award process.
The Great Women in Compliance Podcast is on the Compliance Podcast Network with a selection of other Compliance related offerings to listen in to.  If you are enjoying this episode, please rate it on your preferred podcast player to help other likeminded Ethics and Compliance professionals find it.  You can also find the GWIC podcast on Corporate Compliance Insights where Lisa and Mary have a landing page with additional information about them and the story of the podcast.  Corporate Compliance Insights is a much appreciated sponsor and supporter of GWIC, including affiliate organization CCI Press publishing the related book; “Sending the Elevator Back Down, What We’ve Learned from Great Women in Compliance” (CCI Press, 2020).

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Compliance Into the Weeds

Red Flags and SPACs


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. Today, Matt and Tom take a deep dive into several issues regarding Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs).
Some of the issues we consider are:

  • What did the Klausner and Olhrogge Research Paper show about conflicts of interest?
  • What did Calcbench analysis show about not only the number of SPAC filings but how they are driving the dramatic increase in M&A activity.
  • What are the corporate governance issues involved in with SPACs?
  • What are the internal controls issues involved with SPACs?
  • What has (or will) the Delaware Supreme Court have to say.
  • What have been the pronouncements from the SEC?

Resources
Matt in Radical Compliance, Paper Raises Red Flags on SPACs Governance

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Daily Compliance News

December 1, 2021 the Low-Level Disgruntled Employee Edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • What will CFIUS do? (Reuters)
  • Facebook ordered to divest Giphy by UK competition regulator. (TechCrunch)
  • Elizabeth Holmes refers to Theranos whistleblower as “a low-level disgruntled employee”. (WSJ)
  • Ex CFPB boss under consideration to oversee Fed. (Bloomberg)