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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: December 11, 2023 – The Coach Class Travel 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.

  • The 10th Conference on State Parties on Corruption. (Transparency International)
  • There is no business-class travel for PwC, as it’s not green enough. (FT)
  • Nasdaq settles Iran sanctions violations. (WSJ)
  • Why the GOP doesn’t want diverse law firms. (WaPo)
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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: August 22, 2023 – The More Odebrecht Indictments Edition

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance brings to 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.

·       More Odebrecht indictments coming. (WSJ)

·       Guatemalan ABC President candidate wins in landslide.   (NPR)

·       Austrian PM arranged for internship for his son at PwC. (FT)

·       5th Circuit drops bar for workplace discrimination claims.  (Reuters)

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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: May 15, 2023 – The Like 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:

  • PwC is facing potential criminal actions in Australia. (The Guardian)
  • Binance to UK-regulate us.  (FT)
  • FIFA corruption witness gets no jail time. (Reuters)
  • Who wants to be a CEO. (NYT)
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This Week in FCPA

Episode 279 – the Happy Hanukkah Edition

Hanukkah comes early this year. As the Rosen household begins its annual celebration, Tom and Jay are back to look at some of the week’s top compliance and ethics stories this week in the Happy Hanukkah edition. 

Stories

1.     Preparing for dawn raid in the era of hybrid work? Andrew Reeves and Annie Birch in FCPA Blog.
2.     When you fight corruption, it fights back. Rick Messick in GAB.
3.     Why does Walmart want to keep an exec quiet about its compliance program? Dick Cassin explores in the FCPA Blog.
4.     Board effectiveness survey.  Paul DiNicola and Leah Malone in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.
5.     New OECD ABC suggestions. Nicola Bonucci and Nat Edmonds in the FCPA Blog.
6.     Graybeards and Youngbloods working together. Carrie Root in CCI.
7.     Trust in companies ‘shockingly’ low? Lawrence Heim in PracticalESG.
8.     Are senior level compliance positions becoming harder to find and fill? Matt Kelly explores in Radical Compliance.
9.     Role of PwC in Tesla/JPMorgan dispute. Francine McKenna explores in The Dig (sub req’d).
10.  How will tech change the work landscape in 2022? Check out this pod with Mrs. Monitor (AKA Rebecca Rosen) on Freshbrewed Tech. 

Podcasts and Events

11.  How can you show ROI from your internal investment in compliance? Nick and Gio Gallo join Tom Fox in the most unusual pod series, Mining the Gold in Compliance. Part 1 – ROI on Compliance. Purchase Decisions. Part 2 – Extending Compliance Value Across an Organization. Part 3 – Compliance and ESG Investments. Part 4 – Finance and Investing Models for Compliance. Part 5 – Investment Strategies for the Compliance Professional.
12.  Are you exasperated? Then check, F*ing Argentina. In this podcast series co-hosts Tom Fox and Gregg Greenberg, author of F*ing Argentina explore the current American psyche of being overworked, over leveraged, overtired and overwhelmed. Find out about modern America’s exasperation with well…exasperation. In Episode 11, a birthday party battle through text messages.
13.  In November on The Compliance Life, I visited with Wendy Badger, CCO at Tennant. In Part 1, she detailed her academic career and early professional life. In Part 2, changing ladders to advance your career. In Part 3, Wendy moved into the CCO Chair. In Part 4, Wendy talked about having courage in your career choices and compliance into the future. Next week, we begin the December series with Matt Silverman, Director of Trade Compliance at VIAVI.
14.  The Compliance Podcast Network welcomes Professor Karen Woody and her new podcast, Once Upon a Trading Law: The History of Insider Trading. In this most unique pod, Karen interviews some of her student to tell the history of insider trading. Check out Episode 1, which looks at the beginnings of insider trading.
15.  Join Tom, Mike Volkov, Carrie Penman, Dr. Pat Harned and Skip Lowney (an all-star panel if there ever was one) for the ECI webinar on the intersection of compliance and E&C programs. Wednesday, December 15, from 2-3:30 ET. Registration and information here.
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

June 17, 2021 the Eat More Tacos edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Olympian blames failed drug test on burrito. (WSJ)
  • PwC to add 100K in headcount. (FT)
  • Italien prosecutors of ENI now under investigation. (Reuters)
  • End of cheap money? (NYT)
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Daily Compliance News

January 22, 2020, the Heads Will Roll edition


In today’s edition of the Daily Compliance News:

  • PwC CEO warns ‘heads may roll’ over the firm’s work for Isabel Dos Santos. (The Guardian)
  • Dos Santos banned from her own back. (NYT)
  • Vale ex-CEO charged with homicide over dam collapses. (WSJ)
  • Warren wants DOJ task force to investigate Trump administration corruption. (com)
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Compliance Into the Weeds

PwC Spanked Edition

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. In this episode, Matt Kelly and I go into the weeds to explore the recent SEC enforcement action against PwC and its partner Brandon Sprankle for  violating audit firm independence rules,  including PwC implementing a GRC software system for one of its audit clients.
Some of the highlights include:

  • What was the conduct which led to the $8.9MM fine against PwC?
  • Why do audit firm independence rules exist?
  • Why ethical norms did PwC partner Brandon Sprankle violate?
  • Should an audit partner who engages in material misrepresentations be trusted to perform an audit?
  • What internal controls at PwC were violated by Sprankle’s actions?
  • What does a CCO need to pay attention to audit firm independence rules?

For additional reading see the following:
Matt’s blog post, SEC Dings PwC on GRC Deal, on Radical Compliance.
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