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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending October 14, 2023

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.

  • Staley was banned from the financial services arena.   (FT)
  • More 1MDB trouble for Goldman.  (Reuters)
  • When your ex testifies in your fraud case. (WaPo)
  • CA law requires companies to report carbon emissions.  (BBC)
  • Belgium to unfreeze frozen Russian assets. (WSJ)
  • SFO brings corruption charges.  (FT)
  • Elon Musk’s legal woes. (Reuters)
  • Crypto is having trouble getting CCOs. (WSJ)
  • Roger Ng heads to Malaysia.   (AP)

You can check out the Daily Compliance News for four curated compliance and ethics-related stories each day, here.

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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: October 11, 2023 – The Where Have All the CCOs Gone 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.

Stories we are following in today’s edition:

  • Roger Ng heads to Malaysia.  (AP)
  • When your ex testifies in a fraud case. (Law360)
  • Corruption in Canada? (Bloomberg)
  • Crypto is having trouble getting CCOs. (WSJ)
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2 Gurus Talk Compliance

2 Gurus Talk Compliance – Episode 13 – The FCA Speaks 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! In this episode, Tom and Kristy take on a wide variety of topics, including a visit to Florida Man.

In the world of business, compliance and investigation protocols play a crucial role in ensuring fairness, consistency, and institutional justice. Organizations need to establish robust frameworks to handle incidents effectively and mitigate risks. In this episode of 2 Gurus Talk Compliance, a new investigation by the FCA in the UK, Rubiales resigns (finally), an interesting cyber compliance enforcement action, and Roger Ng. Kristy takes the lead in highlighting a new DOJ Opinion Release. Join them as they delve deeper into this topic on this episode of the 2 Gurus Talk Compliance podcast.

Highlights Include:

1.     Insufficient cyber plan = FCA violation.  (DOJ Press Release)

2.     Roger Ng banned for life.  (YaHooFinance)

3.     FASB adopts crypto accounting rules. (WSJ)

4.     Ken Paxton and slow creep of corruption. (Texas Tribune)

5.     Rubiales resigns. (NYT)

6.   U.K. Financial Regulator to Review Bank Treatment of Politically Exposed Persons (WSJ)

7.   FCPA Opinion Release Provides Guidance on Payment of Travel and Other Expenses for Foreign Government Officials (Volkov)

8. AI in Employment: Privacy Regulation Is Here (PLI Chronicles/Gibson Dunn)

9. Is It Time to Update Your Company’s Dress Code? What ‘Business Casual’ Means Today (Inc.)

10. Florida man banned from the ocean after trying to sail homemade hamster wheel (local news)

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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: September 8, 2023 – The Slow Creep of Corruption 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.

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Daily Compliance News

March 10, 2023 – The Convicted 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 of Daily Compliance News:

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Daily Compliance News

March 8, 2023 – The Corruption is Legal 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 of Daily Compliance News:

  • Householder says corruption is legal under Citizens United. (WSJ)
  • Barcelona FC is to be charged with corruption. (USA Today)
  • DOJ says Roger Ng deserves 15 years in jail. (Bloomberg)
  • Ukraine gets a new anti-corruption chief. (Reuters)
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FCPA Compliance Report

James Koukios on MoFo’s April 2022 Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments

In this episode, I visit with fan-fav James Koukios, partner at Morrison & Foerster on the firm’s always great monthly Top 10 International Developments newsletter for April 2022.

Key areas we discuss on this podcast are:

·      The Stericycle FCPA enforcement action.

·      The Roger Ng conviction.

·      Limits of prosecution on FCPA accounting provisions?

·      A World Bank debarment.

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James Koukios on MoFo.com

MoFo Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for April 2022

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FCPA Compliance Report

James Koukios on the MoFo February Int’l Anti-Corruption Newsletter

In this episode of the FCPA Compliance Report, I am joined by fan favorite James Koukios, partner at Morrison and Foerster. In this episode we consider some of the key ABC issues in the always great MoFo Monthly Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for February 2022. Highlights of this podcast include:

  1. KT FCPA Resolution
  2. Roger Ng convicted at FCPA trial.

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James Koukios on the MoFo website

February International Anti-Corruption Newsletter here

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FCPA Compliance Report

Mike Volkov on DOJ Trial Record


In this episode of the FCPA Compliance Report I visit with Mike Volkov. Mike recently did a three-part blog post series reviewing the DOJ trial strategy, successes and failures and approach of the antitrust division. In this podcast we take a deep dive into FCPA trials, other white collar fraud trials and antitrust trials the DOJ has had over the past few years. We assess the key approaches, discuss some important wins and unfortunate stumbles.
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Mike Volkov on Corruption Crime & Compliance
Part 1 –  A Mixed Bag
Part 2 – Big Victories and Misguided Targets
Part 3 – Antitrust Division Stumbles

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This Week in FCPA

Episode 297 – the Ng Convicted edition


As the NY Mets have the best record in baseball and we prepare for the celebrations of Easter and Passover, Tom and Jay are back to look at some of the week’s top compliance and ethics stories in the Ng Convicted edition.
Stories

    1. Roger Ng was convicted. Tom in the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog.
    2. Lessons from DOJ’s first cyber fraud settlement? Annie Hudgins in the FCPA Blog.
    3. Depression as corporate materiality issue. Dick Cassin in the FCPA Blog
    4. Should CCOs be required to certify compliance programs? Mike Volkov in Corruption Crime and Compliance.
    5. CEO fined by SEC for impeding whistleblower. Aaron Nicodemus in Compliance Week. (sub req’d) Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance.
    6. How much BOD oversight of compliance is enough? Jeff Kaplan in Conflict of Interest Blog
    7. Compliance in recessionary times. Jim DeLoach in CCI.
    8. Water and corruption. Rick Messick in GAB.
    9. Why should an organization disclose diversity information? Antinuke Adrian in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.  
    10. Data governance best practices. Eray Eliaçik in Data Economy

Podcasts and More

  1. Tom visits with Matt Galvin and Dan Kahn over a 2-part podcast series. In Part 1, they talk about dealing with the DOJ during an FCPA investigation and thereafter. 
  2. Into Star Trek, then join Tom and John Champion, who is on a 15-year mission to do a podcast on every episode of Star Trek, television, movie, and animated show on the podcast MissionLogPodcast.com. In Part 1, from TOS up to the start of TNG. In Part 2, from TNG to today. 
  3. This month on the Compliance Life, I visit with Susan Divers, Director of Thought Leadership at LRN. In Part 1, academic life and early professional career. In Part 2, she moves to the corporate world. 
  4. Why should you attend Compliance Week 2022? Find out on this episode of From the Editor’s Desk. Listeners get a $200 discount to CW 2022 with the code Fox200. More here
  5. Join Tom and Jay at ECI Impact 2022. Listeners to this podcast can save 20% off registration
    by entering discount code: TOM20 at checkout.
  6. Welcome back, Sam Rubenfeld.

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.