Switzerland Imposes Sanctions on Russia.
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Laura Gauer Bermudez is Director of Evidence and Learning at the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery. She is also a psychotherapist at Gold Therapy NYC and Westchester Psychotherapy. With over 15 years of experience in leadership, business operations, and grant-making, Laura is a social impact professional dedicated to making the clinical setting more human. She joins host Gwen Hassan to define and differentiate between human trafficking and modern slavery, and discuss GFEMS’ data-based approach to ending both.
Fundamentally, modern slavery and human trafficking are about people with more power taking advantage of those with less for profit. Often, the victims have a minority status, usually ethnic, religious, or gender-based. Though modern slavery and human trafficking often intersect, they aren’t the same thing. Human trafficking is the recruitment, transfer, transportation, harboring or receipt of persons using force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of exploitation. Modern slavery is an umbrella term that covers multiple forms of exploitation, including human trafficking, forced labor, commercial sexual exploitation, and forced marriage.
Whether the term ‘modern slavery’ is appropriate is a point of contention within the US. The reason it’s up for debate is due to the US’ own history of the transatlantic slave trade; for some, it’s an insult to equate recent forms of exploitation to the purchasing and ownership of African people as property.
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Laura Gauer Bermudez on LinkedIn | Twitter
Global Fund To End Modern Slavery
Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. The entire gang was also recently honored by W3 as a top talk show in podcasting. In this episode, we have the quartet of Jonathan Marks, Karen Woody, Jonathan Armstrong, Tom Fox and Matt Kelly. We dedicate the entire episode to compliance issues arising from the Russia invasion of Ukraine. We conclude with our fan favorite Shout Outs and Rants.
- Karen Woody considers the impact of corruption in both Russia and Ukraine going forward. Karen shouts out to the Ukraine’s U.N. Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya for his impassioned plea for Russia to stop its invasion of his country this week, at the United Nations.
- Matt Kelly looks at the export control issues and sanctions issued by the US and its allies in this arena. Kelly shouts out Jackson Reffitt, who testified against his father in his father’s Capital Insurrection trial.
- Jonathan Marks discusses the sanctions which have been levied by the Biden Administration, how to assess this evolving risk and the role of the Board in managing this risk. Marks rants about Bob Blaffert (again) and shouts out to Sonny Johnson, an autistic basketballer who made the game winning shot that helped his team win its final game of the season.
- Jonathan Armstrong looks at how the shooting war in the Ukraine has spilled over into a cyber war across the globe. Armstrong shouts out to Paddington Bear for giving comfort to refugees across the globe and to the voice of Paddington Bear, Ukrainian President Zelensky.
- Tom Fox shouts out to the Texas GOP for stopping AG Ken Paxton from renomination in the party’s primary and for forcing him into a run-off with George P. Bush.
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
- Karen Woody – One of the top academic experts on the SEC. Woody can be reached at kwoody@wlu.edu
- 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.
In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:
· Matthew Stephenson speaks. (Harvard Law Today)
· Black Panther movie director arrested for ‘banking while black’. (BBC)
· Sunny Balwani trial to begin. (WSJ)
· SEC proposes 4-day notice requirement for cyber breach. (Reuters)
We all love a good hero’s journey story… in fact, the movies and books you love are typically based on this story type, and who doesn’t love a good hero.
You may be afraid to share your authentic story from your heart because you are scared your vulnerability will lead to judgement. But, what if the vulnerability is sexy and the only way to connect with others. You are probably afraid they will step back when they see the real you, but what usually happens is people lean in and love you more.
So much good stuff in this episode where we discuss things like: the board of directors in your head, finding a sense of safety and belonging, sharing both your light and dark, understanding your kryptonite, and how to be your hero.
Tune in at: https://www.jasonmefford.com/jammingwithjason259/
Corey Blake began his storytelling career as an actor. Today, Corey is the founder and CEO of Round Table Companies (RTC), the publisher of Conscious Capitalism Press, and a speaker, artist, and storyteller.
Learn more and connect with Corey at: https://www.roundtablecompanies.com/ and register for his 12-week storytelling course mentioned in this episode.
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Additional Belarus Sanctions
Treasury rolls out additional sanctions on Belarus for facilitating Russian aggression in Ukraine.
In this episode of Career Can Do, Mary Ann Faremouth chats with Diana Galindo, a nutritional therapist with a background in corporate marketing in the oil and gas industry. Diana served 12 years as the Honorary Consul General of Bolivia. Diana is highly motivated to help people improve their mental fitness and protect their brain from neurodegenerative diseases. She talks about healthy eating, and shares insights on what that entails.
Diana started doing research about health and wellness when her father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. She wanted to find ways to slow down the progress of the disease. She gained new insights about food and the brain: that food is connected to mood, our gut health is linked to our brain health, and there are essential nutrients for our brains, are a few such insights.
The impact of COVID-19 on the US has been devastating, and further proves how important it is to eat for your health. Because of the number of chronic diseases that significant percentages of the population suffer from, the country’s general health was already weakened. Diana recommends that listeners take note of how many plant foods they eat in a day, including spices, and that they should have at least three or four colors of food on their plates.
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Faremouth.com
Welcome to The Hill Country Podcast. The Texas Hill Country is one of the most beautiful places on earth. In this podcast, recent Hill Country resident Tom Fox visits with the people and organizations that make this the most unique areas of Texas. Join Tom as he explores the people, places and their activities of the Texas Hill Country. In this episode, I visit with Craig Wolcott, the Hill Country lawyer who talks trying cases in the Hill Country and what it like practicing law outside the big city lights.
Some of the highlights include:
· Background on Craig Wolcott.
· Some of the top cases Craig has tried.
· Why local knowledge is critical in trying a case in small town.
· Laws regarding animal rights.
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Craig Wolcott website
Craig Wolcott on LinkedIn
Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.
Today is the day after International Women’s Day, and we are so pleased to welcome Alison Hinds-Pearl. Alison is the Chief Compliance Officer and Assistant General Counsel at Revlon and previously had senior roles at MasterCard and Bayer. Her career is remarkable in many ways, particularly as she has been in three very different industries, finance, pharma and now beauty and self-care products.
Alison talks about the differences and similarities in these different industries, particularly as finance and pharma are so heavily regulated. Alison also started at Revlon during the pandemic and discusses her experience.
Lisa and Alison discuss the importance of diversity in our organizations, and Alison shares some insight from her experience, as a woman and as a woman of color, including an early experience at the Bronx District Attorney’s Office. This is a great discussion not only for Women’s History Month, but to conclude the winter session of #GWIC.
Great Women in Compliance will be back on March 30 with a special bonus episode hosted by Tom Fox. Lisa and Mary want to say thank you to the #GWIC community, especially during Women’s History Month.
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.
Join the Great Women in Compliance community on LinkedIn here.
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 look at a recent speech by SEC Commissioner Alison Herron Lee where she considered the role of lawyers as gatekeepers under SOX 307. Some of the issues we consider
· Who do lawyers represent?
· What is the difference between lawyers and gatekeepers?
· How can or should lawyers represent multiple interests on SOX issues?
· How does this comport with state bar requirements?
· How, if at all, does SOX 307 impact compliance professionals?
· Was the speech a policy change announcement, trial balloon or something else.
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Matt in Radical Compliance
SOX 307