As Texas’ Governor-Mr. Personal Responsibility-himself comes down with Covid after refusing to engage in ‘personal responsibility’, Tom and Jay are back to look at some of this week’s top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Personal Responsibility edition. 
Stories

1. Corruption led to the fall of Afghanistan. Dick Cassin in the FCPA Blog.
2. Does HSBC facilitate cybercrime. Elfriede Sixt in Risk and Compliance Journal Europe.
3. The Pearson SEC enforcement action. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance. Tom and Matt on Compliance into the Weeds. Kevin Lacroix in the D&O Diary.
4. Trust and the CCO? Jeff Kaplan in Conflict of Interest
5. Fraud during the pandemic. James Ruotolo in CCI.
6. Inefficiency in AML enforcement. Maria Evstropova in CCI.
7. SEC coming after cryptocurrencies. Aaron Nicodemus in Compliance Week.
8. What Boards need to know before, during and after M&A. Maria Castanon Moats and Leah Malone in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.
9. Who is on your crisis management team? Eden Gillott in com.
10. CFIUS publishes 2020 report. K2 Integrity Client Alert.

 Podcasts and Events

11. On Innovation in Compliance this week I interview Dennis Kucinich about his latest book, The Division of Light and Power. Check out the show here.
12. On The Compliance Life, in August I visit with Kortney Nordrum CCO at Deluxe. In Episode 1, from Red Wing to Israel. In Episode 2, From Freddie Mac to the law.
13. How do the Greek Eumenes and the Roman Sertorius inform compliance leadership today? Find out as Tom and Richard Lummis continue their exploration of Plutarch’s Lives in this episode of 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership.
14. Compliance Week is having an open house this month as they have dropped their firewall. You can check out the entire publication for no charge. Check it out here.
15. Breaking News features The Compliance Handbook, 2^nd edition. Check out the Breaking News feature here. Purchase The Compliance Handbook, 2^nd edition here. Find out more about The Compliance Handbook, 2^nd edition in an upcoming Zoom webinar, on Wednesday, September 1 at 8:30 AM ET; hosted by the Azevedo Sette law firm and Charles River Associates. To RSVP email tcintra@azevedosette.br

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.