The Kitchen looks at the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower and the whistleblower award program and recent awards by the Commission.
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Welcome to a new season of Compliance Man. This season is called True or False? In this series, I am joined by Tim Khasanov-Batirov, a compliance practitioner who focuses on compliance at international markets for over 20 years. Based on his work experience at six countries as in house compliance officer Tim now consults senior managers and compliance officers globally on complex ethics and compliance matters as partner and Head of Compliance practice for ETERNA LAW. Tim is a co-founder of Compliance Club, an international community of practitioners. You can learn more about Tim, his Compliance Manillustrated series, a YouTube channel and request advice from him by clicking at Timur Khasanov-Batirov on Linked in. Check out his profile on the ETERNA Law page here.
In each podcast, we will take on a different issue with Tim; a hot, very often a very provocative topic from the corporate’s real life agenda and find out if is it true or false. It will be a tough and very straightforward talks. We invite you to participate in these discussions by commenting each podcast and proposing topics for True or False series. The most active listeners will be invited to join us. Let’s have a sincere conversation!
Today, as promised we invited one of our active listeners to join us to discuss hot topics. We are Alexandra Zaytseva, LLM, EMBA, Compliance Officer at PEWETE Group, an energy company.
Today we will try to find if it is any easier now to investigate harassment cases. Highlights include:
- Why things are very different now regarding harassment cases?
- How has this made investigations bore more straight forward and more difficult?
- Is blackmail a real threat to corporations?
Join us for the next episode of Compliance Man: True or False? episode. If you disagree or wish to share your views on whistleblower topic please comment below. We will be glad to hear from you. Let’s have a sincere global conversation together.
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As Tom celebrates the release of The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition, he and Jay are back to take a look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Trump Organization Indicted edition.
Stories
- The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is released. Learn about it here. Purchase it here.
- Four ways to update you ABC compliance program right now. Ann-Maire Zell in the FCPA Blog.
- John Wood Group DPA with SFO. Tom has a 2-part series on the FCPA Compliance Report. Part 1-deplorable conduct and Part 2-lessons learned.
- Alex Cotoia takes a deep dive into the EU Whistleblower Directive in a 4-part series. On Compliance Crime and Corruption.
- Emerging trends in 3rd Party Risk Management. Jaclyn Jaeger in Compliance Week (sub req’d)
- Mengqi Sun interviews Sherron Watkins in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
- Anti-trust concerns at the Board level. Elizabeth Ising, Stephen Weissman, Cassandra Tillinghast and Chris Wilson in NYU Compliance and Enforcement Blog.
- How to avoid buying a FCPA issue. Valerie Charles, Jamen Tyler and Robert Johnston in CCI.
- Compliance on the inside v. outside. Amy Landry in CCI.
- Compliance officers are disciplinarians (at times). Dick Cassin in the FCPA Blog.
Podcasts and Events
- How does history inform compliance? What are the leadership lessons from ancient Greeks and Romans? Find out in this special 10 part podcast series on famous Greeks and Romans from Plutarch’s Lives this week on 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership, hosted by Richard Lummis and Tom Fox. In Episode 5, they mined Plutarch about the lives of and leadership lessons from the Greek Epaminondas and the Roman Scipio Africanus.
- A new month on The Compliance Life! In July I visit with Asha Palmer, CECO at Convercent. In Episode 1, from Claire Huxable to the DOJ.
- Tom premiers a new podcast, Greetings and Felicitations. In the inaugural episode, CPN fan fav Dr. Ben Locwin is back to discuss the current state of the Covid-19 pandemic and where we might be headed.
- Trekking Through Compliance Returns! Tom reviews all 79 episodes of Star Trek, the Original Series beginning June 1. Each day at 3 PM on the Compliance Podcast Network. This week’s offerings included The Apple, The Doomsday Machine, Catspaw, I, Mudd and Metamorphosis.
- On July 13, join K2 Integrity for its Virtual Compliance Conference on Environment, Social, and Governance Compliance Risks for Financial Institutions. Information and Registration here.
- Join Tom, Asha Palmer and Stephen Martin for a coming out webinar for The Compliance Handbook, 2nd We will focus on 3rd party risk management. Attendees will receive a special article and offer. Best of all, it’s at no charge. Details and registration here.
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.
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WTO Trade Disputes Update
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12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership brings together stories from history, the arts and movies, research and current events to consider leadership lessons. In this episode, Richard Lummis and Tom Fox are in a 10-part summer series on leadership lessons from biographies found in Plutarch’s Lives. Each week we will pair an ancient Greek and Roman to learn about their lives, the comparison and contrast between the two men and what leadership lessons with might draw from their lives. In today’s episode we look at the Greek Epaminondas and the Roman Scipio Africanus. Highlights include:
- Introduction of Plutarch’s Lives as historical work.
- Lives of Epaminondas and Scipio Africanus.
- Comparison in the lives of Epaminondas and Scipio Africanus.
- What leadership lessons can be drawn from the lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus.
Resources
Plutarch’s Lives by Bill Thayer
Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. Today, we have a quartet of Matt Kelly, Jay Rosen, Tom Fox and special guest panelist Lisa Fine for a deep dive into a potpourri of issues and topics for the month of July. We end with a veritable mélange of rants and shouts outs.
- Jay Rosen looks at the latest MLB scandal and compares it to the GOP Congress rejecting an investigation into the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. Rosen shouts out to first responders.
- Tom Fox sits in this week to discuss the US Department of Treasury’s priorities around AML, fraud, corruption and cybercrime. Fox shouts out to the recently indicted Trump Organization for its Document Document Document policy which led to said indictment.
- Lisa Fine sits in as a special guest panelist. Fine considers RTW from the compliance perspective. Fine takes this opportunity to both shout out and rant. She rants about the rampant overuse of the term ‘thought leader’. Fine shouts out to employees and others who speak up, raise valid issues and World Whistleblower Day.
- Matt Kelly considers the Amec Foster Wheeler FCPA enforcement action. Kelly shouts out to proposed legislation in Congress to protect Inspector Generals.
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
- Mike Volkov – One of the top FCPA commentators and practitioners around and the Chief Executive Officer of The Volkov Law Group, LLC. Volkov can be reached at mvolkov@volkovlawgroup.com
- 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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The European Commission issues two Adequacy Decisions for personal data transfers to the UK. The Kitchen reviews the main points that go into a successful data transfer recipe.