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Daily Compliance News for May 6, 2023 – The Largest Ever Whistleblower Award 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:

  • The US should stay engaged with Ukraine. (National Review)
  • SEC awards the largest ever whistleblower amount, $279MM. (Reuters)
  • Coinbase says if SEC lets it go public, it can’t be charged with securities law violations. (WSJ)
  • Goldman Sachs is under investigation for SVB work. (NYT)
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Daily Compliance News

November 29, 2022 the Light of Day Edition

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance brings to you four 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. Stories we are following in today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Meta was fined $276MM for data-scraping. (WSJ)
  • Will the Supreme Court gut corruption laws? (Reuters)
  • Auditors nervous edition. (FT)
  • Does the SEC whistleblower program need greater transparency? (Bloomberg)
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Everything Compliance

Episode 104 – the Back to School Edition

Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance as we celebrate our second century of shows. In 2021, Everything Compliance was honored by W3 as a top talk show in podcasting. In this episode, we have the quartet of Jonathan Marks, Jonathan Armstrong, Jay Rosen and Matt Kelly on a variety of topics. We conclude with our fan Shout Outs and Rants section.

1. Jay Rosen looks at a recent report about the number and quality of SEC whistleblower awards.  Rosen shouts out to scientists who are trying to create Oxygen from CO2 so that life can exist on Mars.

2. Matt Kelly discusses the Mudge whistleblower allegations regarding Twitter.  Kelly shouts out to NASA engineers who scrubbed the space shuttle launch due to safety concerns.

3. Jonathan Marks considers the role of internal audit in M&A work specifically and how the Board should utilize internal audit more generally. Marks shouts out the 30the anniversary of the US Sentencing Guidelines.

4. Tom Fox shouts out the American League leading Houston Astros.

5. Jonathan Armstrong looks at the newly released Lloyd’s regulations around denial of coverage for cyber-attacks made by foreign governments and state actors. He shouts out to the British television show “Have I Got News” for skewering Boris Johnson with his own words.

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

•       Karen Woody – 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, who is an experienced data privacy/data protection lawyer with Cordery in London. Armstrong can be reached at jonathan.armstrong@corderycompliance.com

•       Jonathan Marks is Partner, Firm Practice Leader – Global Forensic, Compliance & Integrity Services at Baker Tilly. Marks can be reached at jonathan.marks@bakertilly.com

The host and producer, ranter (and sometime 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.