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Sunday Book Review

May 30, 2021, the June Fiction edition


In today’s edition of Sunday Book Review:

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Daily Compliance News

May 29, 2021 the Burned Out edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • More clients flee EY. (FT)
  • More on Shell court ruling. (FT)
  • Corps learning to listen. (FT)
  • Creating a Rest Ethic. (NYT)
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¡(H)Ola Compliance!

¡(H)Ola Compliance! Episodio 14: Individuos Expuestos bajo la FCPA

En los últimos años se ha observado un aumento en aplicación de la FCPA contra individuos, incluidas personas de América Latina. Matt y Alejandra revisan la aplicabilidad de la FCPA a actores individuales y su amplio alcance jurisdiccional. También revisarán algunas de las acciones de FCPA más recientes contra personas de América Latina.

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¡(H)Ola Compliance! no tiene la intención y no se puede considerar como asesoramiento legal; el contenido solo refleja los pensamientos y opiniones de sus anfitriones.
¡(H)Ola Compliance! explora la ola de cumplimiento de anticorrupción que ha surgido por Latinoamérica. Inmerso en su cariño para la región, Matteson Ellis y Alejandra Montenegro Almonte (Socios de Miller & Chevalier), navegan las aguas de regulaciones de cumplimiento corporativo desde sus oficinas en Washington, DC y trazan las normas de anticorrupción que afectan a la región.  A la vez destacan los desafíos y oportunidades que enfrentan las empresas comprometidas a la ética. ¿Te sientes que estás nadando contra la corriente? ¡Entonces tome la ola de cumplimiento en ¡(H)Ola Compliance!
 

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Compliance Kitchen

OFAC Amendments to TSRA License FAQs


The Kitchen follows OFAC’s amendment to TSRA license FAQs and what modifications to the US HTS did the US ITC put in place.

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Compliance Man Chooses the Target

Compliance Man Returns with a New Season: True or False? Episode 1-Are Whistleblowers Enemies of Corporations?


Welcome to a new season of Compliance Man. This season is called True or False? In this series, I am joined by my colleague Tim Khasanov-Batirov, a compliance practitioner who focuses on compliance at international markets for over 20 years. Based on his work experience at six countries as in house compliance officer Tim now consults senior managers and compliance officers globally on complex ethics and compliance matters. On top of that Tim is a co-founder of Compliance Club, an international community of practitioners. You can learn more about Tim, his Compliance Man illustrated series, a YouTube channel and request advice from him by clicking at Timur Khasanov-Batirov at Linkedin.
In each podcast, we will take on a different issue with Tim; a hot, very often a very provocative topic from the corporate’s real life agenda and find out if is it true or false. It will be a tough and very straightforward talks. We invite you to participate in these discussions by commenting each podcast and proposing topics for True or False series. The most active listeners will be invited to join us. Let’s have a sincere conversation!
Today we talk about whistleblowers.
‘Behind the scenes” corporates are confessing that:

  • They do not like whistleblowers;
  • Whistleblowers bring problems;
  • They do not know how to protect whistleblowers. 

Yet whistleblowers bring many pluses. Some are

  • Whistleblowers can protect company and management from big problems;
  • Whistleblowers signal on unethical and unlawful practices.

Join us for the next episode of Compliance Man: True or False? episodeIf you disagree or wish to share your views on whistleblower topic please comment below. We will be glad to hear from you. Let’s have a sincere global conversation together.

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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, herehere 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 hereThe 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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Fraud Eats Strategy

Fixing Brazil: Operation Lava Jato and How it Has Forever Changed Latin America

In this episode, we’re going to discuss Lava Jato or Operation Car Wash – the largest and most complex corruption investigation in the history of Brazil which to date has spread to 11 countries, mostly in Latin America. When the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development – the OECD – published the Foreign Bribery Report in 2014 examining corruption enforcement across the world, Brazil was credited with zero corruption prosecutions.

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Join us each week as we take a deep dive into the various forms of fraud across the world and discuss crime families, penny stock boiler rooms, international money launderers, narco-traffickers, oligarchs, dictators, warlords, kleptocrats and more.

Scott Moritz is a leading authority on white-collar crime, anti-corruption, and in the evaluation, design, remediation, implementation, and administration of corporate compliance programs, codes of conduct. He is also considered an authority in the establishment, training, and oversight of the investigative protocols carried out by financial intelligence, corporate security, and internal audit units.
 

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EMBARGOED!

EMBARGOED! Episode 30: Waving the White Flag on Nord Stream 2?

Brian and Tim kick off this episode by digging in to the implications of the newly announced U.S. sanctions targeting the Nord Stream 2 project and why they may amount to an admission of defeat. Next, we check in on the seemingly imminent JCPOA 2.0, the latest court challenge to the CCMC List, and a recent report issued pursuant to the Hong Kong Autonomy Act. Finally, in the Lightning Round, we consider OFAC’s ransomware guidance following recent high profile attacks and share our initial thoughts on the possible fallout from the diversion of a Ryanair flight by Belarus to arrest an opposition journalist.

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EMBARGOED! is not intended and cannot be relied on as legal advice; the content only reflects the thoughts and opinions of its hosts.
Timestamps:
0:10 Introduction and Roadmap
The Rundown
4:27 SAP NPA and OFAC Settlement
21:38 MoneyGram OFAC Settlement
28:28 Alliance Steel OFAC Settlement
33:25 Honeywell DDTC Settlement
40:46 Luokung Takes Another Bite Out of the CCMC List
58:00 Lightning Round
58:12 JCPOA 2.0
1:11:26 Signals on Venezuela and Cuba
1:16:43 Belarus GL 2H
1:20:52 Final Thoughts
***Stay sanctions free.***
 

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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.