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Digging Deeper

Digging Deeper Episode 5: Varsity Blues


The headlines from Operation Varsity Blues dominated the news cycle for months – but what happened in higher education after the news trucks left campus?
 

 
In Episode 5 of Digging Deeper, Chris Morgan Jones speaks with David Holley about an investigation the K2 Integrity team conducted in the wake of the Varsity Blues scandal and the ripple effect of the FBI’s initial findings on the broader higher education system.
Internal investigations have a variety of triggers and the underlying topics include potential fraud, bribery and corruption, data leakage, and anti-competitive behavior, to name a few. The common objective is to determine whether employee misconduct has taken place.
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Digging Deeper, an investigative podcast series by K2 Integrity, helps shine a light on the investigations industry as few can: via the real-world, exceptional practitioners who, day in and day out, conduct this work across sectors and around the globe. Listen in to each episode where guests explore unique cases and share what they uncovered along the way to crack the code for clients. Learn more by clicking here, or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify or Stitcher. 
 

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Uncovering Hidden Risks

Insider Risk Programs Have Come a Long Way


In this podcast we discover the history of the practice of insider threat management; the role of technology, psychology, people, and cross-organizational collaboration to drive an effective insider risk program today; and things to consider as we look ahead and across an ever-changing risk landscape.
Welcome to Uncovering Hidden Risks, a broader set of podcasts focused on identifying the various risks organizations face as they navigate the internal and external requirements they must comply with. We’ll take you through a journey on insider risks to uncover some of the hidden security threats that Microsoft and organizations across the world are facing. We will bring to surface some best-in-class technology and processes to help you protect your organization and employees from risks from trusted insiders. All in an open discussion with topnotch industry experts!
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Everything Compliance

Episode 77, the Spring Break edition


Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. Today, we have a quartet of Tom Fox, Jonathan Marks, Jonathan Armstrong and Jay Rosen for a deep dive into plethora of topics related to Confirmation Hearings. We end with a veritable mélange of rants and shouts outs.

  1. Jonathan Armstrong bring Scotland to Everything Compliance through the imbroglio the Scottish National Party finds itself in regarding current SNP First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and former SNP First Minister Alex Salmon. Armstrong rants about the EU’s waffling on the AstraZeneca vaccine has potentially cost thousands of lives.
  2. Jonathan Marks how continuous auditing can lead to continuous monitoring and continuous improvement. Marks rants about MLB’s decision to do away with affiliations with many minor league teams thereby consigning them to the dustbin of baseball history.
  1. Jay Rosen talks about the ECI 2021 GBES and how retaliation against whistleblowers has skyrocketed. Rosen shouts rants about Captain Jay Baker, spokesperson for the Cherokee County Police Department who said that the Atlanta mass shooting suspect was having a “bad day.”
  1. Tom Fox sits in this week to discuss how the Alamo can inform a compliance regime. He has an epic rant about the sorry state of Texas politicians who have publicly announced they will protect Wall Street profits earned during the failure of Texas power grid and not make any substantive reforms to the state’s power system. 

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 (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

March 25, 2021 the Citgo (again) edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Another former Citgo employees pleads guilty to money laundering. (WSJ)
  • WestPac ordered to review risk management. (WSJ)
  • 5 commandments to a safer digital life. (NYT)
  • Is Wall Street at odds with Biden over China? (WaPo)
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The Wirecard Saga

No Laughing Matter


Welcome to The Wirecard Saga. In this series, I am joined by Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Managing Director of Institutional Ethics & Integrity at Affiliated Monitors.  In this ‘No Laughing Matter’ Episode, we continue our 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:

  • Braun’s Innsbruck Villa Geographically Desirable
  • Deadbeat Friends
  • Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
  • Schutz Auf Wiedersehen
  • Lucrative Consulting Contracts
  • von Erffa: Nothing Out of the Ordinary
  • Mildly Mediocre
  • EY: We’re All Victims Here
  • 2016 Documents Show What EY Really Knew
  • COVID Relief for Wirecard
  • Hessenthaler Shipped Back to Vienna
  • Schellenbacher Pleads Out
  • A Day in English Court
  • An Apology Wouldn’t Go Amiss
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Great Women in Compliance

Melanie Sponholz on Healthcare Compliance: Beyond Borders


Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.
Welcome back to the second episode in a two-part series on Healthcare Compliance, this time with Melanie Sponholz Chief Compliance Officer WCP Healthcare.
We discuss Melanie’s unique story starting out in non-Compliance roles and of course eventually finding her Compliance destiny. Along the way, Mel has lived in a large number of cities and feels comfortable with the idea of re-locating, noting the benefits this can have for one’s career and broadening your mind.
We talk about data privacy in Healthcare Compliance as well as the characteristics that make someone successful in Healthcare Compliance. This episode will therefore likely be of special interest to anyone looking to transition into Healthcare Compliance.
We like to share advice and tips on the podcast via our learned guests but some things don’t have immediate answers, including some aspects of what we’ve canvassed today. If you’d like to share your thoughts on the issues raised, we invite you to connect with us at GWICpod@gmail.com.
The Great Women in Compliance Podcast is proudly featured on the Compliance Podcast Network and sponsored by Corporate Compliance Insights. If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to the podcast and rate it on your podcast player to help other compliance professionals find it. Want to hear more from us? We have a book, “Sending the Elevator Back Down: What We’ve Learned from Great Women in Compliance” (CCI Press, 2020) which is available on Amazon.com and Book Depository.
If you’ve already read the booked and liked it, will you help out other women to make the decision to leverage off the tips and advice given by rating the book and giving it a glowing review on Amazon?
As always, we are so grateful for all of your support and if you have any feedback or suggestions for our 2021 line up or would just like to reach out and say hello, we always welcome hearing from our listeners.
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.
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Cordery

Cordery Head to Head @ Home: Mary Shirley on the Need to Understand Culture in Compliance


In this edition of Cordery Head to Head @ Home Cordery’s Jonathan Armstrong talks to Mary Shirley.  Mary is currently Head of Culture of Integrity and Compliance Education at Fresenius Medical Care.
Mary joins us from Boston.  Mary was born in New Zealand and has worked extensively in Asia and now in the US.
They talk about how Mary became involved in compliance issues after having various government roles in New Zealand.  They talk about the importance of understanding culture as part of a company’s compliance program.  They talk about the challenges of geography for multinational corporations and how the compliance team should adapt.  They also talk about whistleblowing and retaliation.  They also talk about the future of compliance.
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You can find out more about Mary here: https://www.corporatecomplianceinsights.com/author/mary-shirley/.
You can find out more about Jonathan here https://www.corderycompliance.com/our-people/jonathan-armstrong/
You can find out more about Cordery and its work here https://www.corderycompliance.com/.
You can also read about current issues in dealing with the pandemic here https://www.corderycompliance.com/category/covid19/
You can view more Cordery Head to Head interviews here www.bit.ly/corderytv.

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Daily Compliance News

March 24, 2021 the All FT edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Jay Clayton takes over at Blackrock. (FT)
  • Swiss regulator to take helm at BaFin. (FT)
  • MarshMac under spotlight from Greensill collapse. (FT)
  • Of vaccines and export control. (FT)
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Compliance Into the Weeds

CEOs Perception of Risk, Impact on Compliance


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. This week Matt and Tom take a deep dive into the 2021 PwC Global CEO Survey, including its findings about digital transformation of business processes and risk management. Some of the issues we consider are:

  • What are the top risks CEOs are worried about in 2021?
  • How has that list changed since 2020?
  • What is the digital transformation of business process and risk management?
  • How will compliance response to these new risks?
  • What does this mean for compliance officers? 

Resources
Matt’s blog post on Radical Compliance: 
Thoughts from CEOs

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The Compliance Life

Rob Chesnut – Intentional Integrity and Beyond


The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What are some of the skills a CCO needs to success navigate the compliance waters in any company? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this new podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, my guest is Rob Chesnut, whose most recent position was as the Chief Ethics Officer at Airbnb. He is also the author of the best-selling book, ​Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution with St Martin’s Press.
In this fourth and final episode, we chat about what led Rob to write Intentional Integrity. We move to considering the future as Rob discusses where he sees compliance headed in 2025 and beyond? We also take up some of the projects Rob is considering. In a Special Bonus Question, Rob tells us how he is still able play basketball with your teenage son.