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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories for the Week Ending January 25, 2025

Welcome to 10 For 10, the podcast that brings you the week’s Top 10 compliance stories in one podcast each week. Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings to you, the compliance professional, the compliance stories you need to be aware of to end your busy week. Sit back, and in 10 minutes hear about the stories every compliance professional should be aware of from the prior week. Every Saturday, 10 For 10 highlights the most important news, insights, and analysis for the compliance professional, all curated by the Voice of Compliance, Tom Fox. Get your weekly filling of compliance stories with 10 for 10, a podcast produced by the Compliance Podcast Network.

  • Great risk for Germany to invest in China. (FT)
  • Vietnam dismantles AML ring. (Aljazeera)
  • Administration ramps up attacks on DEI . (NYT)
  • Ukraine chief psychiatrist arrested on corruption charges. (BBC)
  • Ex-Everton player and China coach jailed for bribery. (ESPN)
  • KPMG under FRC investigation yet again. (Bloomberg)
  • Tariff whiplash coming. (Bloomberg)
  • WFH not ‘real work’. (BBC)
  • More conflict mineral allegations against Apple from DRC. (FT)
  • Trash compliance-it’s a thing. (Gothamist)

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2 Gurus Talk Compliance

2 Gurus Talk Compliance – Episode 44 – The Snow in Texas Edition

What happens when two top compliance commentators get together? They talk compliance, of course. Join Tom Fox and Kristy Grant-Hart in 2 Gurus Talk Compliance as they discuss the latest compliance issues in this week’s episode!

Stories this week include:

  • Former Wells Execs Fined Millions (Radical Compliance)
  • Another Example of Weak Governance (Radical Compliance)
  • Can a Computer Learn to Speak Trader? (WSJ)
  • Florida Chipotle worker installed tracking device on ex-fling’s car in hopes he would ‘run into’ her: complaint (NY Post)
  • Wells Fargo banks on (Not) risky business. (PYMNTS.com)
  • What is forced labor? (BBC)
  • KPMG will open a US law firm in AZ.  (Reuters)
  • Return To Office compliance. (Bloomberg)
  • What is the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, and why is fining Block $80MM?(CSBS)
  • 10 Workplace Trends for 2025: What’s In and What’s Out? (Gensler)

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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: January 22, 2025, The All Bloomberg Edition

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen to the Daily Compliance News—all from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider four stories from the business world: compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional.

Top stories include:

  • What is ‘lawfare’? (Bloomberg)
  • KPMG is under FRC investigation yet again. (Bloomberg)
  • Tariff Whiplash is coming. (Bloomberg)
  • Texas HOA bans Section 8 renters for fear of crime (but it’s not based on race). (Bloomberg)

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10 For 10

10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending – January 18, 2025

Welcome to 10 For 10, the podcast that brings you the week’s Top 10 compliance stories in one podcast each week. Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you the compliance professional and the compliance stories you need to know to end your busy week. Sit back, and in 10 minutes, hear the stories every compliance professional should know from the prior week. Every Saturday, 10 For 10 highlights the most important news, insights, and analysis for the compliance professional, all curated by the Voice of Compliance, Tom Fox. Get your weekly filling of compliance stories with 10 for 10, a podcast produced by the Compliance Podcast Network.

  • BitMEX fined an additional $100MM.  (WSJ)
  • Wells Fargo banks on compliance. (PYMTS.com)
  • China military corruption purge ‘tip of the iceberg’.  (Business Insider)
  • Cognizant defendants want to know government’s trial strategy. (Law360) sub req’d
  • What is forced labor? (BBC)
  • KPMG to open US law firm in AZ.  (Reuters)
  • SEC sues Elon Musk yet again, this time over Twitter purchase. (Bloomberg)
  • UK Minister resigns over corruption investigation in Bangladesh. (Reuters)
  • Has corporate purpose lost its purpose? (FT)
  • Return To Office compliance. (Bloomberg)

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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: January 16, 2025 – The SEC Sues Musk (Again) Edition

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy morning coffee, and listen to the Daily Compliance News. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider four stories from the business world: compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional.

Top stories include:

  • What is forced labor? (BBC)
  • Is China aiming to sell TikTok to Musk? (NYT)
  • KPMG will open a US law firm in AZ. (Reuters)
  • SEC sues Elon Musk yet again, this time over Twitter purchase. (Bloomberg)

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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: November 20, 2024 – The Mr. Non-Compliant Edition

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the Daily Compliance News—all from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider four stories from the business world: compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional.

  • Trafigura heads to trial in Switzerland. (Bloomberg)
  • A layer of crypto corruption. (TheBulwark)
  • Firings as layoffs without benefits. (FT)
  • KPMG rehabbed in the UK.  (FT)

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Everything Compliance - Shout Outs and Rants

Shout Outs and Rants – Episode 133, The Perfect Attendance Edition

Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance as we celebrate our second century of shows.

In this episode, we have a quintet of shoutouts and rantors; Jonathan Marks, Matt Kelly, Jay Rosen, and Karen Woody, all hosted by Tom Fox.

1. Matt Kelly rants about yet another KPMG cheating scandal.

2. Karen Woody shouts out to Caitlin Clark for being the No. 1 pick in the WNBA Draft but rants about her paltry $76K first-year salary.

3. Jonathan Marks shouts out to Kevin Ford for working at Burger King for 27 years without missing a day of work.

4. Jay Rosen has a mild rant about CBS cutting off Billy Joel’s Piano Man encore to cut to local news about the Masters.

5. Host Tom Fox shouts out to Senator Robert Menendez for throwing his wife under the bus by announcing he will claim she is the one who engaged in bribery and corruption, not him.

The members of the Everything Compliance are:

• Jay Rosen – Jay can be reached at Jay.r.rosen@gmail.com

• Karen Woody – Is 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 and an experienced data privacy/data protection lawyer in London. He can be reached at windyridgehouse@gmail.com.

• Jonathan Marks can be reached at jtmarks@gmail.com.

The host, producer, and ranter (and sometimes 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.

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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: April 11, 2024 – The Panama Papers Goes to Trial Edition

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee and listen to the Daily Compliance News. All from the Compliance Podcast Network.

Each day, we consider four stories from the business world: compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional.

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • The Panama Papers trial begins. (BBC)
  • Crypto says it has turned the compliance corner.  (WSJ)
  • KPMG pays $25MM for cheating. (FT)
  • A former PdVSA minister was arrested for corruption. (Reuters)

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10 For 10

10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 22, 2023

Welcome to 10 For 10, the podcast which brings you the week’s Top 10 compliance stories in one podcast each week. Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance brings to you, the compliance professional, the compliance stories you need to be aware of to end your busy week. Sit back, and in 10 minutes hear about the stories every compliance professional should be aware of from the prior week. Every Saturday, 10 For 10 highlights the most important news, insights, and analysis for the compliance professional, all curated by the Voice of Compliance, Tom Fox. Get your weekly filling of compliance stories with 10 for 10, a podcast produced by the Compliance Podcast Network.

  • Head of DOJ Criminal Division, Kenneth Polite to step down. (WSJ)
  • Tesla Directors settle comp suit. (Reuters)
  • KPMG caught cheating for exams again, this time in The Netherlands. (Dutch News)
  • Does Singapore have a corruption problem? (FCPA Blog)
  • Lisa Osofsky issues her final SFO report. (WSJ)
  • Teens take on corruption in Nigeria. (Teen Vogue)
  • US issues new anti-trust guidance. (FT)
  • Panama ex-President sentenced for corruption. (Reuters)
  • Sri Lanka passes ABC bill. (AL Jazeera)
  • Deutsche Bank fined yet again for AML failures. (NYT)

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GalloCast

Gallocast – Episode 10 – The Seven Year Anniversary Edition

Welcome to the GalloCast. You have heard of the Manningcast in football. Now we have the Gallocast in compliance. The two top brothers in compliance, Nick and Gio Gallo, come together for a free-form exploration of compliance topics. It is a great insight on compliance brought to you by the co-CEOs of ComplianceLine. Fun, witty, and insightful with a dash of the two brothers throughout. It’s like listening to the Brothers Gallo talk compliance at the Sunday dinner table. Hosted by Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance.

This podcast episode focuses on the importance of proper oversight and diligence when it comes to CCOs and other corporate leaders. The discussion highlights the implications of the Supreme Court’s ruling on diversity hiring, the need for internal controls implementation, the potential of ESG investment ROI, the consequences of unethical behavior, and the need for Deutsche Bank to address its culture of ethics. This episode emphasizes the need to create a culture of compliance and oversight within organizations in order to protect against fraud and mismanagement.to navigate these challenging issues in the corporate world. Tune in to GalloCast now!

Key Highlights

  • FTX CCO charged
  • Diversity after Supreme Court. Is it still important?
  • At what level should you apply DD to new hires? Executive level or something else
  • ESG-positive or negative for shareholders
  • BOA follows Wells Fargo with a fake accounts scandal.
  • KPMG caught cheating in The Netherlands
  • Deutsche Bank fails to meet DPA requirements.

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