This is Tom Fox. I want to welcome you to an exciting new podcast series that I’m premiering on the Compliance Podcast Network, The Corruption Files, together with my co-host Thomas Fox and Michael DeBernardis, an artist partner at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. We will be looking at some of the top corruption enforcement actions in the United States and beyond.
In our first five episodes, we’re going to focus on some key industries inside the United States which had important FCPA actions. We’re going to focus on the background of each of the enforcement actions.
What did it mean from the prosecutorial perspective, the Department of Justice, and the Securities and Exchange Commission? And then, what did it mean at the time of the enforcement action? What does it mean today, and what does it continue to mean for the compliance professional in the future?
I know you’ll enjoy this great new series, The Corruption Files.
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In this episode, Tom Fox and Mike Volkov review recent DOJ trial successes and stumbles — Tom and Mike review DOJ trial strategy, successes and failures, and the approach of the antitrust division.
In this episode of the Compliance Week 2022 Preview Podcasts series, I discuss some of my presentation at Compliance Week 2022 “EU Whistleblower Protections and Responses”. Some of the issues we tackle in this podcast are:
- Understand how to comply with both the EU Whistleblower Directive and GDPR requirements around call recordings, interview notes, records, and whistleblower rights to privacy
- Learn how to run a Data Privacy Impact Assessment (DPIA)
- Discover where requirements between the EU Whistleblower Directive and data privacy regulations conflict with each other
In this first full compliance conference in over 2 years, I hope you can join me at Compliance Week 2022. This year’s event will be May 16-18 at the JW Marriott in Washington DC. The line-up of this year’s event is simply first rate with some of the top ethics and compliance practitioners around.
Gain insights and make connections at the industry’s premier cross-industry national compliance event offering knowledge-packed, accredited sessions and take-home advice from the most influential leaders in the compliance community. Back for its 17th year, compliance, ethics, legal, and audit professionals will gather safely face-to-face to benchmark best practices and gain the latest tactics and strategies to enhance their compliance programs. and many others to:
- Network with your peers, including C-suite executives, legal professionals, HR leaders and ethics and compliance visionaries.
- Hear from 75+ respected cross-industry practitioners who are CEOs, CCOs, regulators, federal officials, and practitioners to help inform and shape the strategic direction of your enterprise risk management program.
- Hear directly from the two SEC Commissioners and gain insights into the agency’s areas of enforcement and walk away with guidance on how to remain compliant within emerging areas such as ESG disclosure, third-party risk management, cybersecurity, cryptocurrency and more.
- Bring actionable takeaways back to your program from various session types including ESG, Human Trafficking, Board obligations and many others for you to listen, learn and share.
- The goal of Compliance Week is to arm you with information, strategy and tactics to transform your organization and your career by connecting ethics to business performance through process augmentation and data visualization.
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, Compliance Week is offering a $200 discount off the registration price. Enter discount code discount code TFLAW $200 OFF.
Compliance Week 2022 podcast series is a production of Compliance Week, which is the sponsor of this podcast series.
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Implementing ESG Programs
Tom Fox speaks on important issues to note in designing and implementing ESG programs. He shares an overview on the structure of ESG programs and explains why they should be led by compliance.
ESG Internal Controls
ESG programs must be tailored to fit your company’s risk profile, Tom explains. Companies must be able to identify, measure, and address all risks within ESG. “The ‘E’ is going to be more focused on climate and the environment, but this means understanding your company’s environmental footprint and your risks.” Rather than assigning this to the audit committee, Tom recommends ethics and compliance, as they have a similar responsibility and similar processes. “This tends to show how compliance lends itself to either leading or being a significant part of an overall ESG corporate response,” he adds. From an operational perspective, it makes more sense to then report directly to the board after these operations are put together.
Measuring ESG
ESG operations consist of a cross section of corporate operations, environmental concerns, and social issues. Companies must identify issues falling under the ESG umbrella, tailor an ESG program, and select key measures of performance. “ESG disclosures open up an entire new set of standards, controls, and requirements around setting proper disclosure of ESG relevant information and performance,” Tom tells listeners. DEI is just one; climate change and environmental issues will raise another set of requirements. Companies will have to determine what information shareholders, stakeholders, investors, and others will focus on for the ESG evaluation process.
ESG and Compliance
Both ESG and compliance programs involve risk assessments, policies and procedures, and controls to mitigate risk, to name a few similarities. Tom advocates that compliance is uniquely suited to lead a corporate ESG effort, as this new world “shares many operational principles with an overall ethics and compliance program.” Issue programs must be designed around five basic operational issues:
- Information collection,
- Accuracy and reliability of information,
- Data collection procedures,
- Coordination with the disclosure procedures, and
- Testing, auditing, and monitoring the process to ensure accuracy and effective operation.
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Tom Fox’s email
Implementing ESG Programs: Structure and Responsibilities (Part I of III) – Corruption, Crime & Compliance
Building an ESG Structure and Program (Part II of III) – Corruption, Crime & Compliance
Basic Operational ESG Program Issues (Part III of III) – Corruption, Crime & Compliance
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Operationalizing Compliance
Today’s episode features special guest Tom Fox, founder of the Compliance Podcast Network and Author of The Compliance Handbook: A Guide to Operationalizing Your Compliance Program. Our discussion focuses on the guidance compliance officers can use as a roadmap when architecting their ethics and compliance programs and anti-bribery and corruption compliance programs.
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Join us each week as we take a deep dive into the various forms of fraud across the world and discuss crime families, penny stock boiler rooms, international money launderers, narco-traffickers, oligarchs, dictators, warlords, kleptocrats and more.
Scott Moritz is a leading authority on white-collar crime, anti-corruption, and in the evaluation, design, remediation, implementation, and administration of corporate compliance programs, codes of conduct. He is also considered an authority in the establishment, training, and oversight of the investigative protocols carried out by financial intelligence, corporate security, and internal audit units.
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Episode 069 – Tom Fox
In this episode of The Ethics Experts, Nick and Gio welcome Tom Fox, C-Suite Network Executive Leader, to the show.
Affiliated Monitors, Inc.’s Founder and President Vin DiCianni puts Tom Fox the Compliance Evangelist on the hot seat to discuss how to use stories and pop culture to keep ethics and compliance interesting. Together they trace how Tom became an international authority in the compliance world, and why he finds the field so interesting. Additionally, Vin and Tom note the way the field has changed in the previous decades, and the trends that may be upcoming.
Lastly, they preview Tom’s new book, The Compliance Handbook: Volume II which is now available for preorder through LexisNexis. Use the discount code FOX25for 25% off your purchase.
In this edition of Cordery Head to Head @ Home Cordery’s Jonathan Armstrong talks to Tom Fox.
Tom is one of the US’s leading compliance commentators. Tom joins us from his home in Houston, Texas. Tom has practiced law in Houston for 30 years. He is now an Independent Consultant, assisting companies with anti-corruption and anti-bribery compliance. He was previously General Counsel at Drilling Controls, Inc., a worldwide oilfield manufacturing and service company. Before that he was division counsel with Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. where he supported Halliburton’s software division and its downhole division.
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Tom is the author of the award winning FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog and the international best-selling book “Lessons Learned on Compliance and Ethics”.
Tom talks about the challenges of investigations and how to improve your compliance program. He talks about the specific issues caused by the pandemic and the need to look at how the compliance risks have changed in every organisations. He also speaks about how investigations always have the benefit of hindsight and how regulators may not make allowances for the current pandemic in future investigations. He gives practical tips that you can do now to avoid issues in the future.
You can watch some earlier films with Jonathan and Tom chatting in London here https://www.corderycompliance.com/cordery-head-to-head-tom-fox-on-importance-of-customers-in-compliance/
You can find out more about Tom and listen to his podcasts here http://fcpacompliancereport.com/
You can find out more about Cordery and its work here https://www.corderycompliance.com/.
You can also read about current issues in dealing with the pandemic here https://www.corderycompliance.com/category/covid19/
There is more on Cordery’s work in investigations here https://www.corderycompliance.com/internal-investigations/
Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.
For those of you who do not know the origin of the Great Women in Compliance podcast, put simply, we are not sure if this podcast would have started without the support and guidance of Tom Fox. He is known as the Compliance Evangelist and has been that and more to so many in our field.
We have wanted to include him as a guest on the podcast, and this turned out to be the perfect time as he is about to release an update of the Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition (LexisNexis) which pulls off the trick of being a practical how-to guide while also including nuanced analysis of the law and regulations.
Mary and Lisa are both a part of this special interview, where Tom discusses the handbook as well as his experience in building the Compliance Podcast Network and how he keeps up-to-date with so much going on in our space. He also discusses what advice he would give to new compliance practitioners.
Listeners to this podcast can received PreSale discount of 25% is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 for the presale discount and go here for more information and to order The Compliance Handbook 2nd edition. It will be available in both print and eBook editions. It will be published in April 2021.
You can subscribe to the Great Women in Compliance podcast on any podcast player by searching for it and we welcome new subscribers to our podcast.
Lisa and Mary have extended the Great Women in Compliance brand to the book “Sending the Elevator Back Down: What We’ve Learned from Great Women in Compliance” (CCI Press, 2020) which can be found on Amazon and features valuable wisdom and advice from Great Women in Compliance across the world.
If you’ve already read the booked and liked it, will you help out other women to make the decision to leverage off the tips and advice given by rating the book and giving it a glowing review on Amazon?
As always we are so grateful for all of your support and if you have any feedback or suggestions for our 2021 line up, or would just like to reach out and say hello, we always welcome hearing from our listeners.
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