Welcome to the latest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network, Leading the Way, a StoneTurn podcast. StoneTurn’s Leading the Way podcast series highlights the top compliance, legal and anti-fraud practitioners who are breaking down siloes and setting new standards for excellence worldwide.
In this episode, StoneTurn Partner Valerie Charles is joined by well-known compliance professional Ellen Hunt. Ellen is known for her generosity in promoting fellow compliance professional and her generous spirit in giving back to the compliance community. It is a fascinating discussion of Ellen’s journey through compliance, some of the changes she has seen, key lessons learned and where compliance is headed down the road.
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Ellen Hunt LinkedIn Profile
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In this episode, Valerie Charles and Tom Fox visit with Philip Winterburn, Chief Strategy Officer at Convercent. They take a dive into the use of data and data analytics in a compliance program. Philip has a mathematics academic background and we discuss how that has helped him see the use of data in a different way in his professional career. Highlights include:
- Professional and academic background of Winterburn.
- How does his academic background help inform how you look at compliance solutions?
- Why he has been one of the most consistent advocates of bring data and more importantly data analytics into the compliance process?
- How do the 2 concepts of behavioral psy and data tie together?
- What led you to co-found Convercent?
- What makes the Convercent approach different?
- How have you worked with clients to take their inputs to continually improve your products?
- How data can be used in a variety of ways by the compliance professional.
- How, if any has the Coronavirus health crisis over this year changed your approach?
- What do companies need to be thinking about into 2025 and beyond using data in compliance programs?
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Philip Winterburn LinkedIn Profile
Convercent
Converge Community
In the Episode, Loren Steffy returns to take a deep dive into the Texas power failure during our recent snow-pocolypse. Steffy, a long-time business journalist who has been covering the Texas business scene for 30 years and the energy industry for 20 years. He talks about the background to the failures, what happened to cause power generation to fail, how the Texas government made the situation worse, the Texas government response and what fixes need to occur. If you are interested in risk management, this is the podcast for you.
Recourses-article on the crisis by Loren Steffy
In the Houston Chronicle, Opinion: 7 smart ways Texas can stop power blackouts – once and for all
In Texas Monthly, Texas’s Independence Didn’t Cause the Power Crisis
In today’s edition of Sunday Book Review:
- 13 Days to Glory by Lon Tinkle
- The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
- A Time to Stand by Walter Lord
Welcome to a special five-part K2 Integrity sponsored podcast, series Business and Financial Fraud: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Over the course of this series I have been joined by Joanne Taylor, a Managing Director at K2 Integrity. She has 20 years of legal, investigations and financial crime compliance experience, working within the financial and legal services industries. I am also joined by Ray Dookhie, a Managing Director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Risk Advisory practice, with more than 25 years of experience in compliance, integrity risk monitoring and management, and investigations. Over the series, we have considered the top fraud trends you might expect to see in 2021, what the regulatory landscape may well look like in 2021, best practices in fraud prevention, how to detect fraud and responding to fraud once it is uncovered. In our concluding episode, Part 5, Ray Dookhie joins me to discuss what a company should do after allegations of fraud arise.
As March roars in as its traditional lion, Tom and Jay look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA.
Stories
- Apple announces a compliance website. Harry Cassin in the FCPA Blog. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance.
- What are some principles for victim remediation in ABC enforcement action. Sam Hickey in Global Anticorruption Blog.
- ESG is ‘having a moment’. Dave Lefort in Compliance Week. (sub req’d)
- Global trends on ABC enforcement. Stephanie Yonekura and Ann Kim on CCI.
- Ex-SBM Offshore Executive convicted in UK SFO Bribery Case. Jonathan Armstrong in Cordery Compliance.
- FCPA themes from 2020. Jonathan Marks in Board and Fraud.
- Board liability increases around compliance programs. Mike Volkov in Crime Corruption and Compliance.
- Global trends in corporate governance. In the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Goverance.
Podcasts and Events
- On The Compliance Life, Rob Chesnut joins me for the month of March. In the first episode, Rob talks about his academic career at UVA and how its Honor Code influenced his thinking about ethics in his professional career and his his career as an AUSA. Check out Episode 1.
- Microsoft joins the Compliance Podcast Network, with two podcasts, Voice of Data Protection, hosted by Bhavanesh Rengarajan Protection and Uncovering Hidden Risks, hosted by Raman Kalyan Talhah Mir. Episode 1 of Voices of Data Protection is available here. Episode 1 of Uncovering Hidden Risks is available here.
- Convercent rolls out a new podcast this week on the Compliance Podcast Network, The Ethics & Compliance Library, hosted by Lauren Siegel. Check out Episode 1 where Siegel takes a deep dive into Blind Spots by Ann Tenbrunsel and Max Bazerman.
- Join K2 Integrity’s financial crimes risk and compliance experts on March 18 as they discuss the impact of ongoing developments in the financial integrity community. Topics will include: Regulatory trends and predictions for 2021 and beyond, Changes in the AML/CFT and ABC landscape, and Implications of evolving OFAC sanctions programs. Registration and Information here.
- Join K2 Integrity for a webinar, “Libya: New Government—Opportunities for the Construction Industry” on March 11, where Paul Ryan and Sabrine Hassen will be joined by guest speaker John Davie of Altra Capital to discuss the opportunities and risks in post-conflict Libya for the construction industry. Registration and information here.
- Tom announces his latest book, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 and go here. The Compliance Handbook 2ndedition will be available in both print and eBook editions. This week on The Compliance Handbook podcast, the ladies from #GWIC join Tom for a deep dive into written standards.
Tom Fox is the Compliance Evangelist and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com.
Welcome to a special five-part K2 Integrity sponsored podcast, series Business and Financial Fraud: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. In this series I am joined by Joanne Taylor, a Managing Director at K2 Integrity. She has 20 years of legal, investigations and financial crime compliance experience, working within the financial and legal services industries. I am also joined by Ray Dookhie, a Managing Director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Risk Advisory practice, with more than 25 years of experience in compliance, integrity risk monitoring and management, and investigations. Over this series, we will consider the top fraud trends you might expect to see in 2021, what the regulatory landscape may well look like in 2021, best practices in fraud prevention, how to detect fraud and responding to fraud once it is uncovered. In Part 4, Joanne Taylor joins me to review best practices in fraud detection.
Join us tomorrow for our concluding Part 5 where we look at responding to fraud after it is uncovered. For more information on K2 Integrity, check out their website here.