Info

FCPA Compliance Report

Tom Fox has practiced law in Houston for 30 years and now brings you the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report. Learn the latest in anti-corruption and anti-bribery compliance and international transaction issues, as well as business solutions to compliance problems.
RSS Feed Subscribe in Apple Podcasts
FCPA Compliance Report
2019
May


2018
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January


2017
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January


2016
December
November
October
September
August
March
February


2015
December


Categories

All Episodes
Archives
Categories
Now displaying: Page 1
Sep 14, 2018

As Hurricane Florence has made landfall onto the Carolinas and beyond, Hurricane Issac is hurtling towards the Gulf of Mexico and Storm X is taking aim at Texas, Tom and Jay are back with a look at some of the week’s top compliance and ethics stories.

  1. United Technologies settles a FCPA enforcement action with the SEC. Harry Cassin reports in the FCPA Blog. Tom explains its significance in the context of Brighton Rock on the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog.
  2. A Goldman partner uses the company hotline. What happened next and would any Goldman employee ever use it again? See article by Emily Flitter, Kate Kelly and David Enrich in the NYT.
  3. Les Moonves proves once again that it's the cover up that gets you, not the original crime as the CBS CEO goes down for lying to the CBS Board. James Steward reports in the NYT.
  4. What does GDPR mean for blockchain? Conversely what does Blockchain mean for GDPR? Vera Cherepanova explores in a two piece blog post on the FCPA Blog. Part Iand Part II. For a more positive outlook on blockchain, on this week’s Innovation in Compliance, Tom interviews EY’s Paul Brody and Alex Perry on the power of blockchain.
  5. SFO wins huge document production matter against KBR. Christine Braamskamp and Kelly Hagedorn write about the case in NYU’s Compliance and Enforcement Blog.
  6. Unarmed black man shot and killed in his own home by white Dallas police officer. What was PwC's’s response? Matt Kelly considers in Radical Compliance.
  7. Matthew Stephenson asks if Hoskins was correctly decided and conclude it probably was not. In the Global Anti-Corruption Blog.
  8. Leila Szwarc on why organizations need a global compliance framework. In Corporate Compliance Insights.
  9. Want the top compliance training from the guy who wrote the book on compliance? Tom will put on a Compliance Master Class in Boston, September 25 & 26, hosted by Affiliated Monitors. Registration and information, click here.
  10. Want a 50% discount to one of the top compliance conferences around? Join Tom and AMI’s Eric Feldman at CONVERGE18 in Denver on October 9-11. I hope you can join me at the event. For information on the event, click here. As an extra benefit to fans of This Week in FCPA, CONVERGE18 is offering a 50% discount off the registration. Enter discount code TOMFOXVIP.
  11. In this week’s podcast series I internview Don Stern, Eric Feldman and Rod Grandon on the role if an independent monitor in assessing ethics and compliance in the M&A context. Part 1-the whys, whats and hows; Part 2-the impact of M&A on both parties; Part 3-what’s the plan; Part 4-oversight of merged entities; and Part 5-how the M&A process benefits from an independent monitor.

For more information on how an independent monitor can help improve your company’s ethics and compliance program, visit our sponsor Affiliated Monitors at www.affiliatedmonitors.com.

0 Comments
Adding comments is not available at this time.