This Week in FCPA-Episode 108

Before we head to Boston for an event at AMI on Monday, Jay Rosen and myself are back in the saddle again to take a look at some of the top compliance stories from the past week.

1. Inside the Fall of Mossack Fonseca, reviewed by Dick Cassin in the FCPA Blog.
2. Where will your next crisis come from? Today’s news or 10 years ago? Sam Rubenfeld reports on the reputational hit companies which helped separate children from their parents at the border in the Wall Street Journal Risk & Compliance Journal. Ben DiPietro considers the trial in France of the fallout from a 10 year old corporate restructuring, also in the Risk & Compliance Journal.
3. The OECD is looking at anti-corruption enforcement and finds it lacking in Germany and in trouble in Norway. Henry Cutter reports on Germanyand Sam Rubenfeld on Norway, both in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal.
4. Brazil is a model for international enforcement, investigations and cooperation, believes Kees Thompson, writing in the Global Anti-Corruption Blog.
5. How do you classify your third parties? Mike Volkov explains it in the Navex blog, Ethics and Compliance Matters. On his blog Corruption, Crime and ComplianceMike discusses how to build a business case for a third party risk management system.
6. Auditors behaving badly. Tammy Whitehouse reports on a negative report from U.K. Financial Reporting Council in Compliance Week. (sub req’d)Francine McKenna, writing in MarketWatch reports on the continuing KPMG
7. SEC Chief Jay Clayton talks corporate culture. Matt Kelly, writing in Radical Compliance, finds it lacking.
8. How does Sherlock Holmes inform your compliance program? Tom explored in a 5-day series. Part I-Communication; Part II-Institutional Justice; Part III-Criminality; Part IV-Mentoring; and Part V-Imagination.
9. Support your local book sellers! River Oaks Bookstore, 3270 Westheimer, in Houston is now stockingThe Complete Compliance Handbook. Tom will be on hand for a book signing on Thursday, June 28 from 5:30 to 7.
10. Tom’s new book The Complete Compliance Handbookremains a hot seller. It is available oncom. Purchase an autographed copy here. It is reviewed in the FCPA Blog, Radical Complianceand Corruption, Crime and Compliance.
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Before we head to Boston for bagels, coffee and compliance at the offices of AMI, Jay Rosen and I review the week's top ethics and compliance stories on This Week in FCPA.