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FCPA Compliance Report

FCPA Compliance Report: World’s Most Ethical Companies 2026: The 8.2% Ethics Premium

In this episode, Tom Fox welcomes back Erica Salmon Byrne to talk about Ethisphere’s 20th edition of the World’s Most Ethical Companies.

Erica began by noting that there are 19 first-time honorees across 40 industries and 17 countries in the  2026 World’s Most Ethical Companies awards. They discuss the rigorous 250+ question Ethics Quotient and documentation review. They discuss the Ethics Premium using a five-year lookback (Jan 1, 2021–Dec 31, 2025), which showed 8.2% statistically significant outperformance versus a benchmark, based on index-firm analysis with capped company weighting. Beyond outperformance, the data showed a resiliency pattern during volatility: lower drawdowns, less time at the bottom, and faster recovery, framed as a correlation with practices that protect intangible assets. They highlight common honoree program elements, including transparency on investigations and discipline, more interactive “espresso shot” training, and manager toolkits and expectations to drive culture. They preview the 17th Global Ethics Summit in Atlanta and the WME gala.

Key highlights:

  • How the WME Process Works
  • Record 8.2% Outperformance
  • Resilience and Drawdowns
  • Compliance Protects Value
  • Trust Through Transparency
  • Global Ethics Summit Preview

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Great Women in Compliance

Great Women in Compliance: Erica Salmon Byrne – Building a Legacy of Ethical Value

In this episode of Great Women in Compliance, Hemma visits with Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair of Ethisphere. Having long admired Ethisphere for its commitment to advancing business integrity in a meaningful way, Hemma invites Erica to share how her organization backs that up with research, data from industry benchmarking and culture assessments, and the creation of a strong compliance community. Erica shares her ethics and compliance origin story and critical insights on building a legacy of ethical value and business integrity.

Highlights include the compliance value creation story and how not to be merely a cost center, how to stay outcome-driven rather than activity-based, what we can learn from decades of data on measuring culture, the crucial role of managers in ethics and compliance, the meaning of an employee-centered approach and treating employees as tangible assets, and the power of community in compliance.

Erica is the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair for Ethisphere, the global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices that fuel corporate character, marketplace trust, and business success. In this role, Ms. Salmon Byrne oversees product strategy and M&A initiatives for the company while advancing Ethisphere’s founding ethos—that businesses that focus on the long term, commit to doing business with integrity, and invest in their stakeholder communities will outperform their peers.

Erica is also the Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), where she works with the BELA community to advance dialogue, collaboration, and best practices around ethics and governance.

Over her tenure at Ethisphere, Erica has held several roles, including overseeing Ethisphere’s products and solutions, including data-driven program assessments; The Sphere, which offers benchmarking against peers and best practices, along with expertise and related regulatory guidance; ethical culture assessments; and the World’s Most Ethical Companies. To learn more about Ethisphere’s work, visit www.ethisphere.com

A prolific public speaker, Erica is known throughout the ethics and compliance industry as a leader, educator, and advocate for ESG, values-based leadership, and business integrity. In 2022, she was recognized as a Modern Governance 100 Leader by governance firm Diligent. Erica has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Fast Company, Forbes, SXSW, and various ethics and compliance publications and podcasts.

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FCPA Compliance Report

FCPA Compliance Report – Erica Salmon Byrne on 2024 World’s Most Ethical Companies Awards

Welcome to the award-winning FCPA Compliance Report, the longest-running podcast in compliance. In this special Thursday edition of the FCPA Compliance Report, Tom welcomes Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair, at Ethisphere to discuss the announcement of the 2024 World’s Most Ethical Companies Designations and the new Ethics Premium.

Erica Salmon Byrne is a renowned figure in ethical business practices, recognized for her significant role in the annual announcement and recognition of the world’s most ethical companies. Byrne views this list as a crucial acknowledgment of companies globally that are making a positive impact, with representation across 20 countries and 44 industries. Her experiences in leading changes to the program’s methodology, such as introducing a third-party management category and a heightened focus on governance and culture, have shaped her perspective on the continuous evolution and improvement of the evaluation process. She sees the list as a valuable tool for companies to demonstrate their commitment to ethics and compliance and as a source of inspiration for others in the compliance community to strive for ethical excellence.

Key Highlights:

  • Global Recognition for Ethical Business Practices
  • Enhanced Scoring System Emphasizing Governance and Culture
  • Global Representation of Ethical Industry Leaders
  • Ethics Quotient Evaluation for Recognized Companies

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Daily Compliance News

Daily Compliance News: March 5, 2024 – The World’s Most Ethical 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.

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Ethisphere announces the World’s Most Ethical Company Awards. (Press Release)
  • A former Venezuelan officer pleads guilty to $1.7 fraud and corruption.  (Local10)
  • Apple was fined €1.8bn in the EU. (FT)
  • Former Twitter execs sued for severance packages. (WSJ)

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Compliance Tip of the Day: What The Pandemic Changed for Compliance

Welcome to “Compliance Tip of the Day,” the podcast where we bring you daily insights and practical advice on navigating the ever-evolving landscape of compliance and regulatory requirements.

Whether you’re a seasoned compliance professional or just starting your journey, our aim is to provide you with bite-sized, actionable tips to help you stay on top of your compliance game.

Join us as we explore the latest industry trends, share best practices, and demystify complex compliance issues to keep your organization on the right side of the law. Tune in daily for your dose of compliance wisdom, and let’s make compliance a little less daunting, one tip at a time.

In this episode, we consider the ongoing trends that accelerated during the pandemic year of 2022 and how these changes have impacted compliance literally forever.

These changes include:

  1. Compliance Convergence
  2. Public/private partnership in the ABC fight
  3. Data, Data, Data
  4. Compliance as an ethical & business advantage

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FCPA Compliance Report

2023 World’s Most Ethical Companies Applications Open

In this episode of the FCPA Compliance Report, I am joined by Erica Salmon Byrne, President of Ethisphere and Chair of the Ethisphere’s Business Ethics Leadership Alliance. Some of the highlights include:

1.     Ethisphere announces the 2023 World’s Most Ethical application process.

2.     What is the application process?

3.     What is the Ethics Quotient and why is it such a useful measure?

4.     What are the 5 categories of evaluation?

5.     Why is going through the application process itself so useful?

6.     How can a company use it as a benchmarking exercise?

7.     How does the Ethisphere “The Sphere” interact with the application process?

8.     What are the 6 archetypes of value creation?

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FCPA Compliance Report

Erica Salmon Byrne on 2022 World’s Most Ethical Companies


In this episode of the FCPA Compliance Report, I am joined by Erica Salmon Byrne, President of Ethisphere. We discuss the announcement of Ethisphere’s 2022 World Most Ethical Companies awards. This year’s most stunning announcement is a 5-year Ethics Premium of 24.6%. Other highlights in include:

  • A deep dive into the Ethics Premium, including the reasons for the dramatic growth of the past 5 years.
  • 2022 had the highest number of new companies on the list. Who were some of these first-time honorees? The non-US centric number of honorees.
  • The Ethics Quotient-how is it calculated?
  • Why is the Ethics Quotient such a powerful tool for the compliance professional?
  • How to get your company involved in the World’s Most Ethical Companies process.

 
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Daily Compliance News

March 17, 2022 the World’s Most Ethical Companies Edition


In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Ethisphere announces 2022 World’s Most Ethical Companies. (Ethisphere Press Release)
  • Interpol has new center to fight financial crimes.  (OCCRP)
  • SEC Commissioner Lee to step down. (Reuters)
  • Big 4 under regulatory scrutiny. (WSJ)