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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending August 23, 2025
Data Driven Compliance: The Failure to Prevent Fraud Offense: Insights for US General Counsels with Mike DeBernardis
Culture Crafters: Building a Culture of Accountability in the Face of Disasters
Operationalizing Trust at Scale: Evolving Compliance: Neta Meidav on the Diligent Acquisition and AI Integration
Innovation in Compliance: Gaurav Kapoor on Risk Management and the Role of AI in GRC
FCPA Compliance Report: Accountability in Times of Crisis: A Conversation with Tom Fox and Sam Silverstein
Sunday Book Review: August 17, 2025, The More Books from the Ethicsverse Library Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: How a CFO Views Compliance and Risk
Data Driven Compliance – James Tillen on the Importance of Cross-Functional Collaboration in Complying with the FTPF Offense
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 57 — The Tom on His Highhorse Edition
AI Today in 5: August 15, 2025, The AI as Boss Episode
What to Do When Leadership Doesn’t Take Compliance Seriously
Daily Compliance News: August 14, 2025 The End of Dial Up Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Finance Models for Compliance
Compliance Tip of the Day - Extending Compliance Value Across Your Organization
Daily Compliance News: August 11, 2025, The Boss Doesn’t Work Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Design - Centric Internal Controls
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels - The Valley of Fear, Sherlock Holmes’ Investigative Techniques for Today’s Challenges
FCPA Compliance Report - Episode 770 - Integrating ESG in Global Outsourcing: Insights from Inge Zwick
On May 21, 2025, the European Commission filed a proposal to postpone the implementation of the due diligence obligations in Regulation 2023/1542, concerning batteries and waste batteries (the “EUBR”). The proposal would push...more
The Council of the EU has announced that it has agreed its position on the "stop-the-clock" mechanism to postpone the dates of application of certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements, as well...more
Recent years have seen an ever increasing density of ESG regulation on the national, European and global level. With significant regulations already or about to enter into force, enforcement actions on different levels,...more
In its meeting of March 20, 2025, the European Council expressed its support of the so-called Omnibus Package proposed by the European Commission on February 26, 2025. The Omnibus Package includes significant changes to EU...more
The European Commission’s Omnibus package, published on February 26, 2025 (the Omnibus Package or the Package), proposes to simplify the EU’s sustainability laws. At the same time, it has generated significant uncertainty for...more
On March 26, the European Council announced its support for the stop-the-clock proposal that would push back some compliance dates under the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and Corporate Sustainability Due...more
The keenly awaited details of the EU’s proposed first omnibus package were published on 26 February 2025. The package includes amendments to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) (including revision and...more
The Commission’s proposal seeks to reshape EU Sustainability requirements by amending CSRD, CSDDD, EU Taxonomy, and CBAM. On 26 February 2025, the European Commission (Commission) published its much-anticipated first...more
What is the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive? The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) is a pivotal European Union directive that mandates human rights and environmental due diligence...more
On April 24, 2024, the European Parliament approved the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D). The directive, which must be formally endorsed by the Council of the European Union (EU) before officially...more
On 15 March 2024, the European Council eventually voted to endorse the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CS3D), aiming to impose on certain...more
While the European Parliament and Council negotiators eventually reached a political agreement on 14 December 2023 on the much-awaited proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Corporate...more
Political Agreement Reached on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Rules - On 14 December 2023, the European Council (Council) and European Parliament (Parliament) reached a political agreement on the Corporate...more
The Council of Europe and the European Parliament announced on December 14, 2023, that they reached a political agreement on the text of the upcoming European Union ("EU") Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive...more
On February 22, 2022 the European Commission adopted a proposal for a directive on corporate sustainability due diligence. In this podcast, George Porter, Knowledge and Training Manager at Ground Truth Intelligence reports...more
Enforcement and legal risks relating to sanctions compliance remain high and all firms should continue to exercise care in meeting regulatory expectations. The promulgation of new sanctions relating to Russia has slowed but...more
Three years ago, as part of the EU’s initiative on sustainable governance, the European Commission released a lengthy study on directors’ duties. The study affirmed what many already understood: corporate decision makers face...more
The German Act on Due Diligence in Supply Chains (Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz, "LkSG") came into force on 1 January 2023 and imposes new obligations for supply chain due diligence. In parallel, the European legal...more
The Council’s position includes a number of differences from the European Commission’s original proposal, including in relation to the requirement to diligence the broader value chain. On 30 November 2022, the European...more
ESG – environmental, social and governance factors – has become a major focus for organisations which are under growing pressure to demonstrate they are doing the right thing and executing their commitments to sustainable...more
On January 1, 2023, the so-called Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz) (the “Act”) will go into effect in Germany. Many companies doing business in Germany will need to ready their compliance...more
EU Parliament and Council reach agreement on CSRD - European Parliament and European Council | 21 June 2022 - The European Parliament and European Council reached a provisional political agreement on the terms of the...more
On February 23, the European Commission (the “Commission”) proposed a Directive intended to extend the standards of due diligence performed by large companies with business operations in the European Union (EU) (the...more
In this alert, we provide a round-up of the latest developments in ESG for UK corporates. In this month’s ESG Market Alert, we cover: The EU Commission’s proposal for a directive on ESG-related due diligence obligations for...more
Paving the way to a sustainable business community in the EU. On 23 February 2022, the European Commission (the EC) published the long-awaited proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (the...more