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Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 7, 2025

Welcome to 10 For 10, the podcast which brings you the week’s Top 10 compliance stories in one podcast each week. Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance brings to you, the compliance professional, the compliance stories you need to...more

Ankura

Balancing Agility and Speed with Preparation and Stability: Importance of Governance in a Fintech Startup

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In all our work with clients, my evaluation and expectations around compliance readiness come down to one point: Governance. This can mean a variety of things when it comes to a compliance program, but overall, we boil it...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Farewell to the Easy Rider and How to Scandal Proof Your Company: Part 1

Fonda’s life informs today’s blog post as we begin a multi-part series based upon the recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) Spotlight on White Collar Crime. Today, we begin the article by Paul Healy and George Serafeim,...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Cyberattacks, Fraud and Getting to the Root of it All

Just how many counts of fraud attacks occurred in the first quarter of 2018? These results from ThreatMetrix uncovered some alarmingly high numbers, including...more

A&O Shearman

Financial Regulatory Developments Focus - July 2018 #2

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In this week's newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal U.S., European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Nights in White Satin – The Continued Pain at Wells Fargo

The Wells Fargo scandals continue to be one of the starkest lessons about the cost of a corrupt culture and the catastrophic effect it can have on an organization. The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and head of the...more

The Volkov Law Group

Financial Institutions and the Glaring Absence of an Ethical Culture

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Federal prosecutors and regulators have been active in tackling US banks. In the last few weeks, the Federal Reserve took the extraordinary step of blocking Wells Fargo’s ability to grow its business until it improves its...more

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The Long Road Back to Redemption: Wells Fargo’s Path to Remediation (Part II of II)

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Wells Fargo’s ability to grow its business is on hold for a year while it designs and implements a remediation program to address deficiencies in its board governance, risk management and compliance program. ...more

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Federal Reserve Hits Wells Fargo with Unprecedented Enforcement Action (Part I of II)

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In an extraordinary action, with significant ramifications for the financial industry, the Federal Reserve recently announced a series of enforcement actions against Wells Fargo....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

More Compliance Lessons from Wells Fargo-FOREX Trades

At some point, you must ask just how corrupt is an organization? What does the tone from top which says to make your numbers at all cost, translate to in operationalization? Unfortunately, we have seen yet another dramatic...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Compliance Lessons for Executive Leadership from The Wells Fargo Investigation Report

Compliance lessons from truly one of the most damning reports of complete corporate failures around ethics and culture that has recently been seen....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Farewell to J. Geils – Final Compliance Function Lessons from Wells Fargo

You may not recognize the full name, John Warren Geils Jr., but you probably do recognize the name J. Geils, as in the J. Geils Band, who died this week. J. Geils was ubiquitous in the 70s and early 80s with, as noted by an...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Sunshine Superman – When Culture is Not My Problem

Today we honor folk-rocker Donovan and his signature song Sunshine Superman, which was profiled in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) column Anatomy of a Song. The song was a love paean by the singer to “Linda Lawrence, his love...more

The Volkov Law Group

Wells Fargo’s Desperate Need for a Compliance and Business Ethics Function (Part III of III)

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While reading the independent directors’ report on the Wells Fargo sales incentives scandal, you will be overwhelmed by the feeling of frustration. At the same time, what is described in the report is the extent to which...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Hotel California and Wells Fargo-You Can Check Out, But Can You Leave?

Today, we celebrate The Eagles most famous song, Hotel California. It all started with a Don Felder cord progression and according to the Financial Times (FT) column The Life of a Song, it had a “fusion of Hispanic melody and...more

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The Axe Falls on Wells Fargo – A Scathing Independent Report (Part II of III)

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In a scathing report, the independent directors at Wells Fargo released their findings and actions based on a comprehensive internal investigation of Wells Fargo’s sales abuses. Based on its findings, Wells Fargo’s...more

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Who is Responsible for a Company’s Mood in the Middle? – the Wells Fargo Fiasco

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Wells Fargo’s cultural tone is not easily segregated between “top,” “middle” and “bottom.” Despite the recent cross-selling scandal, in which the CFPB led an enforcement action whose fines total a whopping $185 million,...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Wells Fargo Week, Part III-the Bank Knew All Along

You know it is going to be a very bad day when, as a company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), you receive a letter asking the following, “Specifically, the committee should thoroughly examine this issue, including: How it is...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Heightened Enforcement Efforts Focus on Financial Institutions’ ‘Culture of Compliance’

The first of a three-part series on the new landscape of anti-money laundering enforcement - During hearings conducted in 2012 by the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Senator Tom Coburn commented...more

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