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Daily Compliance News

April 15, 2022 the All Elon Edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Elon bids $43bn for Twitter. Does he have the money? (WSJ)
  • Musk says he wants to protect free speech. (Reuters)
  • Employees worry. (NYT)
  • Board considering a poison pill. (Bloomberg)
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Compliance Kitchen

OFAC Tech Company Sanctions


The Kitchen looks at new levied OFAC sanctions against Russian tech companies.

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The Walden Pond

Insights into the 2022 ACFE Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud with Andi McNeal


 
Andi McNeal is Vice President of Research with the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, a membership association serving more than 90,000 anti-fraud professionals globally. As a CFE, she specializes in fraud prevention, detection and investigation, education and training, research and analysis, corporate culture and leadership, and association management. Andi discusses the ACFE’s 2022 Report to the Nations and its insights on occupational fraud. Download the report here!
 

 
The ACFE’s study focuses on occupational fraud, Andi shares. They were not attempting to get a snapshot of every type of fraud that occurs – only cases perpetrated by employees against the organizations they worked for, specifically between 2020 and 2021. In the 2100 cases they observed, over $3.6 billion was calculated in losses, which is just a small portion of the fraud committed globally. Fraud isn’t an accounting problem, it’s a human problem. 
 
Resources
Andi McNeal on LinkedIn 
To learn more, and contact Vincent Walden, please visit Alvarez and Marsal
 

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Life with GDPR

Tuckers Enforcement Action


Jonathan Armstrong and Tom Fox return for another episode of Life with GDPR. In this episode, we consider the UK Data Protection Authority, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) recent announcement that it had fined a law firm, Tuckers Solicitors LLP for GDPR breaches.  Tuckers was fined £98,000 after being hit by a ransomware attack.

  1. Law firms are not unique.
  2. What about other legal regulations and regulatory bodies?
  3. The background facts.
  4. What did the ICO say?
  5. Lessons learned.

Resources
For more information on the Tuckers enforcement action, 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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Daily Compliance News

April 14, 2022 the Blatter to Face Trial (Finally) Edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:
·      Top CA lawyers prosecuting Activision Blizzard leave. (WSJ)
·      Sepp Blatter, Michael Plantini to face trial (finally). (ESPN)
·      Isle of Jersey seizes $7bn in Abramovich assets.  (NYT)
·      WH and businesses blast Texas Gov. trucker policy.  (WaPo)

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Jamming with Jason

Jamming with Jason – Healthy Laughing is Where Wellness Meets FUN with Sarah Routman


Did you know there are significant health benefits to laughing a few minutes each day?

With all of the scary things going on in our worlds, we often forget to laugh with all of the stress from work. You don’t forget to breathe, and laughing is just as important. Sometimes I have to remind myself that “all work and no play makes Jason a very boring boy,” and YES, sometimes I talk to myself in the third person.

I felt a little of that recently, so I reached out to my friend Sarah Routman to record a #jammingwithjason #podcast episode. We were laughing the whole time we were recording, and you will be laughing the entire time you listen.

A champion of overall wellness, Sarah Routman inspires and motivates individuals and professionals to engage in healthy laughter for a vibrant, uplifting, and transformative shift in all aspects of their lives that leads them towards better health and wellbeing.

She believes life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond. Laughter can help keep everything in perspective, and the more we practice it, the better we get at seeing things in a fresh and light-hearted way.
Learn more and connect with her on her website: https://www.laughhealthy.com/
Subscribe to her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4b3DmYk2F8mJ5ctXcBWUcA
And here are some of the links Sarah mentioned during the episode:
Thought Pops

https://craysthoughtpops.com/

Give Your Stress a Colored Pencil

https://classbento.com/l/qp63-w

Laughter and Chocolate

https://classbento.com/l/vza2-w

Coloring Facebook Page:

www.facebook.com/laughterdoodles

FOR FULL SHOW NOTES AND LINKS, VISIT:

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Compliance Kitchen

Additional EU Russia Sanctions

The Kitchen considers the EU’s 5th package of sanctions against Russia.

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The Hill Country Podcast

Kathleen Hudson on Her Passion for the Written and Spoken Word


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 episode, I visit with Kathleen Hudson, Professor of English at Schreiner University.
Some of the highlights include:
·      Her passion for teaching.
·      Writing about songwriters and their craft.
·      Schreiner University then and now.
·      Schreiner University’s Writers Conference.
·      Why Kathleen moved to The Hill Country.
·      Her love of Jimmie Rogers.
Resources
Kathleen Hudson at Schreiner University
Kathleen Hudson on Facebook
Kathleen Hudson singing Jimmie Rogers’ Waiting on a Train on YouTube
Schreiner University Writers Conference

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Greetings and Felicitations

John Champion and MissionLogPodcast.com, Part 2-The Journey Continues


Welcome to the Greetings and Felicitations, a podcast where I explore topics which might not seem to be directly related to compliance but clearly influence our profession. In this episode, I conclude a two-part series with John Champion, one of the founders of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. John’s original mission was to do a podcast on every episode of Star Trek, beginning with TOS, TAS, the movies, TNG, DS9, Voyager and beyond. It began in 2012 as a 14-year odyssey and has only grown in length. In this Part 2, we take up the Star Trek story at TNG and bring it forward to the present day.  Highlights include:

  1. The uneven start of TNG and how the show found its footing.
  2. The Trek Files and Dr. Trek himself, Larry Nemecek.
  3. A new generation takes over from Gene Roddenberry and the original creative team.
  4. DS9-a town on the frontier.
  5. A new Star Trek in the 21st century.
  6. Picard-Seasons 1 & 2.
  7. Star Trek-a show for its time and for all time.

Resources
MissionLogPodcast.com
Roddenberry Entertainment

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Great Women in Compliance

Nicole Diaz-Kindness and Compliance

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.

In 2021, Snap Inc. released a new code of conduct with a theme of kindness evangelism. Hear Nicole Diaz, Global Head of Integrity & Compliance Legal talk about how the team worked on putting it together and why they considered it important to have a focus on kindness in a company code of conduct.

Nicole also shares some of the compliance considerations when working in a social media/tech company, as well as what’s on the agenda for the Snap Compliance program in 2022. We hear about her commitment to DEI also and how this has impacted Nicole’s approach to ethics and compliance.

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).

You can subscribe to the Great Women in Compliance podcast on any podcast player by searching for it and we welcome new subscribers to our podcast.

Join the Great Women in Compliance community on LinkedIn here.