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This Week in FCPA

Episode 254 – the Shaken Not Stirred edition


As our thoughts turn towards Memorial Day and what it represents, we contemplate James Bond streaming on Amazon. Jay is now podcasting from a disclosed location, as he and Tom take a look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Shaken Not Stirred edition.
 Stories

  1. Big corruption trial and great lawyer gossip going on in London, as ENRC sues former lawyer and SFO. Check out these reports in Rueters, here, here and here.
  2. Revisiting the FCPA Top 10. Harry Cassin in the FCPA Blog.
  3. GDPR turns 3. Neil Hodge reflects in Complinace Week. (sub req’d) Tom and Jonathan Armstrong podcast on Life with GDPR.
  4. More anti-trust troubling the world of chicken prodcuers. Mike Volkov in Corruption, Crime and Compliance.
  5. What is the intersection of ESG and Compliance. Tom explores the role of compliance here and here. Matt Kelly weighs in on the SEC comments in Radical Compliance.
  6. How to lessen extortionware attacks. Rob Shavell in CCI.
  7. DFS fines two companies for data breachs. Paul Weiss lawyers in NYU’s Compliance and Enforcement Blog.
  8. Internal reporting is down. What does it portend? Andrew Burt in Navex Global’s Ethics Matters.
  9. Caremark Developments and the Imperative of Regular Risk Review. William Savittin the Havard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.
  10. What is Bizzaro Malware? Jonathan Rusch explains in Dipping Through Geometries.

Podcasts and Events

  1. In this episode of The Compliance Handbook, Tom has a great discussion with Hui Chen about her thoughts on the evolution of compliance.
  2. Compliance Man Returns with a New Season: True or False? Tom and emerging market compliance special Tim Khasanov-Batirov are back with a new 10-episode season. In Episode 1, they explore how whistleblowers are received in emerging markets. Can’t get out of your Ivory Tower, the check out Compliance Man to learn about compliance in emerging markets. The season’s episodes will post at 7AM over the next few months. Part 1 .
  3. Trekking Through Compliance Returns! Tom reviews all 79 episodes of Star Trek, the Original Series beginning June 1. Each day at 3PM CT on the Compliance Podcast Network.
  4. Join K2 Integrity 9 June 2021 to hear a team of experts discuss the benefits of taking a holistic and programmatic approach to preventing, detecting, responding to, and remediating insider threats. Learn more and register here.
  5. 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.

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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Daily Compliance News

May 28, 2021 the Even More edition

 
In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Google nears settlement in France. (WSJ)
  • Julius Baer Resolves FIFA-Related Probe. (WSJ)
  • LafargeHolcim Nears Cuba Property Settlement. (WSJ)
  • Adam Neumann gets even more out of Softbank. (WSJ)
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Compliance Kitchen

OFAC Amends Narcotics Sanctions Regulations


This episodes looks at OFAC’s amendments to the narcotics and kingpin sanctions regulations.  Next we will look at the DOD’s request for a public comment, the deadline and how to submit.

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Life with GDPR

Happy Birthday GDPR, Part 1

 
In this episode Jonathan Armstrong and Tom Fox are back to discuss issues relating to data privacy, data protection and GDPR. Today we begin a special two-part episode in honor of the 3rd anniversary of the go-live of GDPR. We review five key developments in GDPR review, regulation and enforcement over the past 3 years. In this Part 1, we look at the increased militancy in GDPR enforcement, both from regulators and in private actions and enforcement trends over the past 3 years.
Resources
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

May 27, 2021 the Shaken Not Stirred edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • SFO responds in ENRC suit against former counsel and SFO begins. (Reuters)
  • Dutch court orders Shell to cut carbon emissions. (BBC)
  • Amazon meets James Bond. (NYT)
  • Climate change activists win election to Exxon BOD. (WSJ)
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Compliance Kitchen

US HTS Recommendations and EU Guidance on Myanmar


Staying local, the Kitchen looks at the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule changes that are being recommended by the USITC.  We will then cover EU’s guidance on the new Myanmar sanctions.

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Great Women in Compliance

Boon Kim Fam on Perspectives from a Compliance Practitioner in China


Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.
In this week’s episode we travel to the other side of the world to meet with Boon Kim Fam of PVH Corporation. Kim is a Malaysian national living as an expat in China, one of the most interesting jurisdictions for Compliance developments. Mary and Kim sit down for a lengthy session running the gamut from key risks in the apparel/retail industry, the social credit system in China, observations of local anti-corruption enforcement, the role of the Compliance Officer as a leader in an organization and Kim’s takeaways from “Sending the Elevator Back Down, What We’ve Learned from Great Women in Compliance” 
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Compliance Into the Weeds

Compliance Lessons from the Super League Fiasco


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 fiasco around the formation of the Super League in European Football (soccer), focusing on the role of John Henry, American owner of the Liverpool Football Club and the lessons for the (American) compliance professional.  Some of the issues we consider are:

  • How do you make a cultural change?
  • Why it is mandatory to engage stakeholder in any discussions around cultural change?
  • What makes stakeholder want to follow a corp leader?
  • Why empathy is a mandatory leadership trait for any successful CEO.
  • Why understanding corporate subcultures outside the US is mandatory for the CCO. 

Resources
Read WSJ article Liverpool and the Red Sox Won on His Watch. For Fans, That’s Not Enough by Joshua Robinson

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Daily Compliance News

May 26, 2021 the ENRC edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • ENRC trial against former counsel and SFO begins. (Reuters)
  • Is the Apple app store an ‘essential market’? (WSJ)
  • Former Chadian diplomats charged in corruption case. (WSJ)
  • Climate change activists seek election to Exxon BOD. (NYT)
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The Ethics Movement

Human trafficking: How compliance can lead the fight with Gwen Hassan


How can compliance teams lead the fight against human trafficking? Tom Fox and Philip Winterburn connect with Gwen Hassan, a compliance leader and legal counsel with over 20 years of experience at multinational corporations. Gwen is passionate about fighting human trafficking in our corporate supply chains, and shares her insight and experience on this episode of The Ethics Movement.