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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: August 30, 2023 – The Matt Levine Explains NFTs 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.

  • Is Shein using forced labor? (Reuters)
  • A convicted agent sues Adidas. (Yahoo Sports)
  • Are NFTs securities? Matt Levin explains it all. (Bloomberg)
  • Start the day like Jamie Dimon. (FT)
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Daily Compliance News

May 5, 2023 – The Corruption is a Cancer 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.

Stories we are following in today’s edition:

  • Doing business in China is getting much riskier. (NYT)
  • Canada passes anti-forced labor law. (WSJ)
  • Guilty verdict in NFT insider trading trial. (WSJ)
  • EU seeks to harmonize ABC laws. (EUObserver)
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Greetings and Felicitations

PodfestExpo 2023 – Seth Silvers on Podcasters Using NFTs for Growth

In this episode of the PodfestExpo 2023 Preview Podcasts series, I visit with Seth Silvers, CEO and founder of the Story On Media & Marketing and the Small Business Storytellers podcast. We discuss his presentation at PodfestExpo on putting structure around your podcast production by creating a killer host and guest media kit. Some of the issues we tackle in this podcast are:

  • How NFTs can facilitate growth for your pod and an additional revenue stream.
  • What can Web3 bring to the B2B space?
  • How relationships and connections can help fuel your podcast growth.

I hope you can join me at PodfestExpo 2023, hosted by Podfest Global. This year’s event will be January 26-29, 2023, at the Renaissance Orlando at Seaworld in Orlando, Florida. The line-up of this year’s event is first-rate, with some of the top names in podcasting.

Podfest Expo is a community of people interested in and passionate about sharing their voice and message with the world through the powerful mediums of audio and video. We’re proud to unite as many people as possible to learn, get inspired, and grow better together.

 PodfestExpo is so much more than just a mere conference. While we pride ourselves on featuring the most engaging speakers, exciting topics, and in-depth content, the thing that sets PodfestExpo event apart from all others is the tight-knit community we’ve been building since 2013. You don’t just attend a Podfest event – you become part of the Podfest family.

 Whether you’re new to podcasting or a veteran podcaster looking to innovate and improve your podcast, our easy-to-understand Conference Topics allow you to customize a daily agenda based on what you’re most interested in learning. No matter your skill level or experience, PodfestExpo 2023 has plenty to offer!

 I hope you can join me at the event. For information on the event, click here. As an extra benefit to listeners of this podcast, PodcastExpo is offering a discount on the registration price. Enter discount code Fox10.

 PodfestExpo 2023 is a production of Podfest Global, which is the sponsor of this podcast series.

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This Week in FCPA

Episode 294 – the Remember the Alamo edition


Jay returns from the assignment with some observations on the ABA White Collar Conference and looks at some of the week’s top compliance and ethics stories in the Remember the Alamo edition.
Stories

  1. Should lawyers represent all stakeholders before the SEC? Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance. Tom and Matt in Compliance into the Weeds. 
  2. Lessons learned from a corrupt Olympics: Andy Spalding and Danny Hales in the FCPA Blog.
  3. How does a corporate culture become corrupt? Tom Bussen and Nitish Singh in CCI.
  4. Corruption in the Russian military. Matthew Stephenson in GAB
  5. MTS agrees to extend monitorship for one year. Dylan Tokar in WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal
  6. Why is data minimization so critical? Debevoise lawyers in Compliance and Enforcement
  7. Elon Musk wants out of his Consent Decree with the SEC. Dean Seal in Law360 (sub req’d)
  8. A stark warning on corporate cooperation. Wachtel Lipton lawyers in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.  
  9. Mike Volkov on the force multiplier of ethics and sustainability. Crime Corruption and Compliance.
  10. NFTs and the SEC. Francine McKenna in The Dig (sub req’d) 

Podcasts and More

  1. In March on The Compliance Life, I visited with Audrey Harris, Managing Director at AMI, formerly CCO at BHP. In Part 1, she discusses her academic background and early professional career. In Episode 2, Audrey moves to the CCO chair at BHP.
  2. Tom and Megan Dougherty are back with 2 more episodes of the MCU series. The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy Part 1.  
  3. David Simon returns for another session of his journey through the Oxford MBA Program on A Yank at Oxford
  4. Tom visits with Hill Country lawyer Craig Wolcott on The Hill Country Podcast.
  5. Highlights from the ABA White Collar Conference. 

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.