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This Week in FCPA

Episode 225 – the I Beat Covid edition


As President Trump claims to be ‘Covid-free’ and the (non-cheating) Houston Astros prepare to return to the ALCS, Tom and Jay are back to look at top compliance articles and stories which caught their eye this week.

  1. JPMorgan pays $920 million fine for spooking. Matt Kelly looks at it in Radical Compalince. Tom and Matt take a deep dive in Compliance into the Weeds. Mike Volkov considers on Corruption Crime and Compliance.
  2. What is ‘efficient patent infringement’ (sort of like being ‘just a little bit’ pregnant)? Jon Rusch in Dipping Through Geometries.
  3. Of donut holes and cyber attacks. Jonathan Marks in Board and Fraud.
  4. What is effective discipline? Jeff Kaplan in CEP Magazine.
  5. Is the SEC moving to increase its penalties in light of Lui? Robert Cohen and Stefani Johnson Myrick in NYU’s Compliance and Enforcement Blog.
  6. Mobile devices and internal investigations. David Carns in CCI.
  7. What is a Grand Jury subpoena? Sara Kropf in Grand Jury Target.
  8. The Everything Complaince gang takes a dive into the Herbalife FCPA resolution. Monday-Mike Volkov on what he would have done; Tuesday-Jay Rosen on the lack of a monitorship; Wednesday-Matt Kelly on the role of Internal Audit; Thursday-Jonathan Marks on the role of gatekeepers; Friday-Jonathan Armstrong on the UK perspective.
  9. On the Compliance Podcast Network, on 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program, we continue our exploration of compliance for Business Ventures.  Monday-Dis-linking illegal conduct; Tuesday-JV Risks Under the FCPA; Wednesday– JV Due Diligence; Thursday-Compliance T&C’s in JV agreements; Friday-Auditing JVs .Note 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program now has its own iTunes channel. If you want to binge out and listen to only these episodes, click here.
  10. Join Tom (and Matt Kelly) for Home Stretch 2020, a webinar sponsored by Complaince Line. Check at the agenda and register here.

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.

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Daily Compliance News

October 9, 2020-the Increased Compliance Risks edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Covid has increased compliance risks. (WSJ)
  • Trump NLRB accuses Google contractor of illegal anti-union activity. (NYT)
  • OSHA to workers on Covid-TS baby. (WaPo)
  • Trump ally, who worked for Jho Low, pleads guilty. (WSJ)
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This Week in FCPA

Episode 223 – the FinCen Papers edition


As the ICIJ releases some 2100 SARs from FinCen detailing over $2 trillion in illegal banking activity, the fires in California, Oregon and Washington finally abate. Tom and Jay are back to look at top compliance articles and stories which caught their eye this week.

  1. The FinCen Papers. Banks and SARs. (NYT) HSBC allowed Ponzi scheme. (BBC) Cache of FinCen docs made public. (BBC) Aaron Nicodemus says it puts compliance in a bad light in Compliance Week (Sub Req’d). Martin Woods on the breach of trust in Compliance Week (Sub Req’d). Jaclyn Jaeger says look at the banks, In Compliance Week (Sub req’d). Matt Kelly weighs in on Radical Compliance.
  2. More data analytics tools for compliance. Dylan Tokar in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
  3. What makes a ‘Great Woman in Compliance’. Mary Shirley reports on her journey as co-host of #GWIC in CCI.
  4. What does doing more with less mean for compliance? Matthew McFillin and Amanda Rigby in the FCPA Blog.
  5. What are the 7 sins of ESG Management? FTI in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.
  6. The largest AML case in Hong Kong history. Jon Rausch in Dipping Through Geometries.
  7. Oil trader cops to FCPA violation. Harry Cassin breaks the story on the FCPA Blog
  8. Why the Board needs a separate Compliance Committee. Mike Volkov in Corruption Crime and Compliance.
  9. This month on The Compliance Life, I am joined by DeAnna Nwankwo. In this week’s Part 3, DeAnna talks about building trust as a CCO.
  10. On the Compliance Podcast Network, on 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program, this month focuses on internal controls. This week saw the following offerings: Monday– Objective I; Tuesday– Objective II;Wednesday– Objective III; Thursday– Objective IV; and Friday– Objective 5. Note 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program now has its own iTunes channel. If you want to binge out and listen to only these episodes, click here.
  11. Join Jay and Tom at Converge20. Convercent’s top compliance conference is going virtual this year. Check at the agenda and register here.
  12. Join K2 Intelligence FIN, on September 30 for a webinar with the AIBACP, “Strategies for Surviving an Offsite Regulatory Examination,” featuring Koby Bambilia, K2 FIN Managing Director, and a panel of experts, from banks to regulators. Registration and information here.

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.

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This Week in FCPA

Episode 222 – the Trees Gone Bad edition


As Donald Trump blames the California and Oregon forest fires on ‘trees gone bad’; Tom and Jay continue to brave the surge in Covid cases by staying safe at home. They are back to look at top compliance articles and stories which caught their eye this week.

  1. How does Bluebell apply to cyber claims against a Board of Directors? Paul Ferllio, Bob Zukis and Christophe Veltsos in the Harvard Law School forum on Corp Governance.
  2. VW Monitor closes out monitorship. Jack Ewing in the NYT. Mengqi Sun in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
  3. Tom takes a deep dive into Herbalife. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.
  4. The intersection of anti-human trafficking and ABC compliance. Vanessa Hans in the FCPA Blog.
  5. Does the DOJ have to turn in SEC investigative material in a criminal FCPA trial? Matt Kelly goes legal in Radical Compliance.
  6. The intersection of compliance and internal audit? Mike Volkov in Corruption Crime and Compliance.
  7. Who is a PEP? Dick Cassin considers a plethora of definitions in the FCPA Blog.
  8. Has Covid-19 changed the relationship between senior management and the Board? Dottie Schindlinger and Kira Ciccarelli in CCI.
  9. This month on The Compliance Life, I am joined by DeAnna Nwankwo. In this week’s Part 2, DeAnna talks about some of the skills she needed in the CCO chair.
  10. On the Compliance Podcast Network, on 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program, this month focuses on internal controls. This week saw the following offerings: Monday– Internal controls for 3rd parties; Tuesday– Internal controls for GTE; Wednesday– BOD oversight as an internal control; Thursday– Code of Conduct as an internal control; and Friday– What is the COSO Internal Controls Framework. The month of August is being sponsored by Affiliated Monitors. Note 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program now has its own iTunes channel. If you want to binge out and listen to only these episodes, click here.
  11. Join Jay and Tom at Converge20. Convercent’s top compliance conference is going virtual this year. Check at the agenda and register here.
  12. Join a great upcoming K2 Intelligence FIN webinar. Robin Henry on how investigators can use social media, Thursday, 9-24 at 1600 GMT. Registration and information here.
  13. Join Tom, Charlie Voelker, Legal Compliance Solutions, Skillsoft and Stephen Martin, Partner, StoneTurn for a joint Skillsoft/StoneTurn webinar on evolving your compliance program under the 2020 Update to the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs. Wednesday, September 23, from 12 PM – 1 PM EDT. Information and registration here.

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.

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Innovation in Compliance

Exiger on the Evolution in Supplier Compliance in COVID – Pillars of Good Compliance with Brandon Daniels and Carrie Wibben


Welcome to a special five-part podcast series, sponsored by Exiger, on topics From Third-Party Risk Management to Supply Chain Risk Management: Exiger on the Evolution in Supplier Compliance in COVID. Exiger was founded to fight financial crime, fraud and terrorist financing by introducing technology-enabled solutions to the market’s biggest supply chain, risk, investigation, litigation, and compliance challenges. A global authority on risk and compliance, Exiger serves the world’s largest banks, Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies and regulators. Over the course of the series, we will put a spotlight on Financial Institutions with Tara Loftus and Samar Pratt; focus on corporations with Aaron Narva and George ‘Ren’ McEachern; consider the Federal Government and Supply Chains with Carrie Wibben and Vishnu Anantatmula; review the pillars of good compliance with Brandon Daniels and Carrie Wibben; and end with a review of third-party risk management solutions with Erika Peters and Skyler Chi.
In Part 4, we consider the pillars of good compliance with Brandon Daniels and Carrie Wibben. Wibben is a Senior Vice President, National Security & Intelligence, based in Exiger’s McLean office. As the former Deputy Director of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), Carrie joins Exiger following a distinguished career in homeland defense spanning various government agencies – including the US Department of Defense, the Executive Office of the President, and the Special Security Directorate. Brandon Daniels is the President of Global Markets. A regulatory expert and technology practitioner, Brandon brings more than 15 years in senior management across the financial services, life sciences and energy sectors. He has a reputation for technological innovation in regulatory investigations and compliance management.
Join us tomorrow where we conclude our five-part series by looking at some of the new challenges and new solutions for third party risk management and investigations.
For more information on Exiger, click here.
For more information on Brandon Daniels, click here.
For more information on Carrie Wibben, click here.

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Everything Compliance

Episode 65, the End of Summer edition


Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. Today, we have the full quintet of Jonathan Armstrong, Jay Rosen, Matt Kelly, Jonathan Marks and Mike Volkov for a potpourri of discussions and ending with a veritable mélange of rants and shouts outs.

  1. Jonathan Armstrong critiques the recent Aven decision which every compliance practitioner needs to be cognizant of going forward. Armstrong shouts out Abache Tundy, a Nigerian astronaut stranded on the Moon, who is attempting to Crowd Source a rescue mission home.
  2. Jay Rosen considers recent criminal charges brought by the DOJ and the first Opinion Release in 6 years. Jay rants about the Facebook plan to fight Trump’s fake news posting, which he believes is over 3.5 years too late.
  3. Matt Kelly considers the actions by the Postal Service execs to gut US mail service leading up the election, from the compliance perspective. Matt rants about Curt Schilling and his ill-advised business decisions off the field.
  4. Mike Volkov reviews the Business Roundtable’s Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation at the one-year anniversary of it release. He shouts out to Steve Bannon, who is looking at 51-63 months of jail time for fraud.
  5. Jonathan Marks considers the IIA for beginning the discussion to reconfigure its 3 Lines of Defense but says it does not go far enough. He rants about the unfairness of the criminal justice system, focusing on the Lori Laughlin sentence.
  6. Tom Fox shouts out to the employees of the German regulator BaFin who set up an investment pool for Wirecard, a company they were allegedly regulating. 

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
  • Mike Volkov – One of the top FCPA commentators and practitioners around and the Chief Executive Officer of The Volkov Law Group, LLC. Volkov can be reached at mvolkov@volkovlawgroup.com
  • 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 (and sometime panelist) of Everything Compliance is Tom Fox the Compliance Evangelist. Everything Compliance is a part of the Compliance Podcast Network. He can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com

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This Week in FCPA

Episode 221– the Remembrance edition


On this 19th anniversary of 9/11 Tom and Jay ask you to consider all that has changed for America in the past 19 years. Most importantly, remember there was a time when we were united as a country. We can do so again.
We continue to brave the surge in Covid cases by staying safe at home. We are back to look at top compliance articles and stories which caught their eye this week.

  1. Lebanon, Corruption and a Bomb. NYT reporters: Ben Hubbard, Maria Abi-Habib, Mona El-Naggar, Allison McCann, Anjali Singhvi, James Glanz and Jeremy White.
  2. Are today’s CCO ‘Super Execs’? Dick Cassin explores in the FCPA Blog.
  3. Time for a compliance housecleaning? Dylan Tokar in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
  4. A turning point in AML enforcement? Jack Hagel in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
  5. HerabLife settles long standing FCPA matter. Mike Volkov goes deep in a 3-part series. Part 1, Part 2and Part 3.
  6. Does HerbalLife portend the end of monitors? Robert Anello in com.
  7. DOJ charges former Uber CISO for lying about data breach. Lawyers from Cleary Gottlieb in NYU’s Compliance and Enforcement Blog.
  8. Deutsche Bank fined yet again (twice). Matt Kelly reports in Radical Compliance.
  9. This month on The Compliance Life, I am joined by Deanna Nwankwo. She came to the CCO chair after a stint at QA in NASA. In this week’s Part 1, the message ‘The good news is you’re the new CCO. The bad news is you’re the new CCO.’
  10. On the Compliance Podcast Network, on 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program, this month focuses on internal controls. This week saw the following offerings: Tuesday– Assessing internal controls in international operations; Wednesday-risk assessments and internals controls; Thursday– mapping internal controls; and Friday– Implementing internal controls. The month of September is being sponsored by Affiliated Monitors. Note 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program now has its own iTunes channel. If you want to binge out and listen to only these episodes, click here.
  11. Join Jay and Tom at Converge20. Convercent’s top compliance conference is going virtual this year. Check at the agenda and register here.
  12. Two great K2 Intelligence FIN webinars upcoming. 1. Kevin Mullins and Yomi Peirce on procurement fraud during Covid-19, September 16, 2020; 1:00 PM ET. Registration and information here. 2. Robin Henry on how investigators can use social media, Thursday, 9-24 at 1600 GMT. Registation and information here.

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.

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This Week in FCPA

Episode 220 – the I Like to Watch edition


As we move to our first non-PG podcast and channel our inner Chauncy Gardner with signature line, “I like to watch”, Tom and Jay continue to brave the surge in Covid cases by staying safe at home. They are back to look at top compliance articles and stories which caught their eye this week.

  1. What is monitoring and oversight? Matt Kelly draws compliance inspiration from Jerry Falwell who (allegedly) likes to watch his wife having sex with another man. In Radical Compliance.
  2. What is risk-based due diligence? Financial regulators opine. Mengqi Sun in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
  3. Bank/government partnership to fight financial crime. Dylan Tokar in WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
  4. Why fraud matters, the Steve Bannon indictment. Mike Volkov in Crime Corruption and Compliance.
  5. Why does the Palantir S-1 appear to be like the children of Lake Wobegon — stronger, better-looking, and above average? Francine McKenna explains on The Dig. Lucenda Shen sees a flag-waving, in Term Sheet.
  6. How bad was the sexual harassment on the Washington Football Club? Very Bad. Expose in the Washington Post.
  7. Are we losing the war on AML? Martin Woods says yes. In Compliance Week (sub red’d)
  8. More on McDonald’s suit against its former CEO? Fenwick West lawyers in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corp Governance.
  9. This month on The Compliance Life, I am joined by Louis Sapirman. In Part 1, we looked at Louis personal and professional journey into compliance. In Part 2, we discussed the qualities of a successful CCO. In Part 3, communication as a driver of compliance. In this month’s final episode Part 4, Sapirman takes a look at the CCO role down the road.
  10. On Compliance and Coronavirus we had a week of Exiger. Tuesday had Brandon Daniels on Data Management and Data Security Moving out of Covid-19, Michael Beber on on M&A, IPOs and SPACs During and After Covid-19; and Anna Osborn on managed services and outsourced compliance.
  11. On the Compliance Podcast Network, on 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program, this month focuses on the role of the Board in compliance. This week saw the following offerings: Monday– BOD and succession planning; Tuesday-incorporating compliance strategy into long-term BOD planning; Wednesday-areas of BOD inquiry into compliance; Thursday– special guest Vin DiCianni on 3 specific BOD inquiries on compliance; and Friday-20 questions. The month of August is being sponsored by Affiliated Monitors. Note 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program now has its own iTunes channel. If you want to binge out and listen to only these episodes, click here.  Please join us in September where I take a deep dive into Internal Controls.
  12. Join Jay and Tom at Converge20. Convercent’s top compliance conference is going virtual this year. Check at the agenda and register here.
  13. There’s a place where True Crime meets Compliance, and its name is Fraud Eats Strategy. Check out this new show by Scott Moritz of FTI consulting, and catch all the episodes, notes, resources and more on the Compliance Podcast Network! We’d love to hear what you think of the show, and we’d love it even more if you shared it with a friend, colleague or that one guy you think might be a secret oligarch. Check out this great new podcast series here.
  14. This week on the FCPA Compliance Report, some of the top commentators in compliance have joined Tom to discuss some of the top developments in compliance over the past 10 years. The schedule for this week is as follows:

It is all leading up to the 500th anniversary episode which will run Monday, August 31. 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.

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FCPA Compliance Report

Matt Kelly on Changes Seen by the 4th Estate

The FCPA Compliance Report is the longest running podcast in compliance, premiering on July 31, 2015. This week begins a series of podcasts leading up to the 500th anniversary episode of the FCPA Compliance Report, which will post on Monday, August 31. Over the next five episodes, I will post podcasts of 5 top FCPA and compliance commentators. Over this week, I will be joined by Mike Volkov, Matt Kelly, Jonathan Armstrong, Jay Rosen and Jonathan Marks. Each will speak about the evolution of compliance from their own unique perspective. In this episode, I visit with Matt Kelly, founder of Radical Compliance. Kelly is a business journalist who was one of the first to gravitate to compliance. We take a look back at the evolution compliance over the past 10 years from the perspective of the 4th Estate.
Some of the highlights include:

  • How compliance has moved into the mainstream of business news and the discussions about business.
  • How social media has led to a more robust discussion about corporate ethics and democratized other people’s ability to hold companies accountable to ethical standards.
  • The significance of the COSO 2013 Internal Controls Framework.
  • Kelly sees FCPA enforcement as fundamentally different than corporate scandals which led to SOX and Dodd-Frank.
  • The convergence of compliance & ethics and audit & risk management.
  • The increased use of data in compliance as emphasized in the 2020 Update to the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Program.

Lineup
I hope you will listen in to each episode over this week. The lineup will be:
Monday, August 24-Episode 495-Mike Volkov on changes in FCPA enforcement.
Wednesday 26, August Episode 497-Jonathan Armstrong in changes in data protection/data privacy compliance.
Thursday August 27-, August Episode 498-Jay Rosen in changes in compliance from the business development perspective.
Friday August 28-, August Episode 499-Joanthan Marks on changes compliance mirroring those from internal audit.
Monday, August Episode 500-the Anniversary Episode.

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This Week in FCPA

Episode 219 – the Failure to Prevent edition


As the Trump Administration backtracks from its avowed goal to destroy the USPS, Tom and Jay brave the surge in Covid cases by staying safe at home. They are back to look at top compliance articles and stories which caught their eye this week.

1.     First DOJ Opinion Release in 6 years. What is the significance? Tom explains it all in the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog.

2.     FCPA enforcement action involving international adoptions. Harry Cassin in the FCPA Blog.

3.     Bank/government partnership to fight financial crime.  Dylan Tokar in WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
4.     Once a cheater, always a cheater? Daimler pays $2bn fine. Aaron Nicodemus in Compliance Week(sub req’d)
5.     At the one year anniversary of the Business Roundtable’s Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation, Mike Volkov reviews Board performance in a 4-part series on Corruption, Crime and Compliance. Part 1, Accountability. Part 2, diversity. Part 3, challenges for Board decision-making.  Part 4, steps to advance corp governance.
6.     Is ‘Failure to Prevent’ the next big crime in the UK? Cordery Compliance alert.
7.     When can you use a corruption defense in litigation?  VE lawyers in the State Bar of Texas Int’l Law Journal.
8.     Does the McDonald’s suit against its former CEO implicate D&O coverage? Kevin LaCroix opines in the D&O Diary.
9.     This month on The Compliance Life, I am joined by Louis Sapirman. In Part 1, we looked at Louis personal and professional journey into compliance.  In Part 2, we discussed the qualities of a successful CCO. In this week’s Part 3, communication as a driver of compliance.
10.  On Compliance and Coronavirus we had a week of AMI. Tuesday had Eric Feldman discussing culture and compliance during Covid-19, Vin DiCianni on using compliance ambassadors during Covid; and Deb Waugh on challenges in the health care profession.
11.  On the Compliance Podcast Network, on 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program, this month focuses on the role of the Board in compliance. This week saw the following offerings: Monday-what leads to a successful BOD investigation; Tuesday– Board metrics for compliance;Wednesday-BOD failures with special guest Vin Dicianni; Thursday– BOD & doing business in China; and Friday-the Board’s role in hiring. The month of August is being sponsored by Affiliated Monitors.  Note 31 Days to a More Effective Compliance Program now has its own iTunes channel. If you want to binge out and listen to only these episodes, click here.
12.  Join Jay and Tom at Converge20. Convercent’s top compliance conference is going virtual this year. Check at the agenda and register here.
13.  Join Tom and Vince Walden (host of The Walden Pond) for a webinar on the ROI of Compliance, Tuesday August 25, 10 AM CT. Registration and Information here.
14.  Join Tom and AMI’s Don Stern for a review of the 2020 Update to the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs as a part of Navex Global’s quarterly MasterClass on Thursday, August 27. Information and registration here.
15.  Join K2 Intelligence FIN’s Bernard Factor for a webinar entitled “Examining the Nuances of Correspondent Banking to Address BSA/AML Compliance Risk”. Registation and Information here.
16.  Join Tom next week on the FCPA Compliance Report, as he leads up to the 500th episode. All next week some of the top commentators in compliance will join Tom to discuss some of the top developments in compliance over the past 8 year. It is all leading up to the 500th anniversary episode which will run Monday, August 31.
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.