2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 57 — The Tom on His Highhorse Edition
Daily Compliance News: August 6, 2025, The Spanking Banks Edition
FCPA Compliance Report: Navigating Corporate Scandals: Insights on Governance, Compliance, and Recovery with Steve Vincze
FCPA Compliance Report: 10 Core Principles for Effective Internal Investigations with Michelle Peirce
Data Driven Compliance: Understanding the UK’s New Failure to Prevent Fraud Offense with Sam Tate
Daily Compliance News: July 25, 2025, The New Sheriff in Town Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 23, 2025 the Pardon in the Wind? Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 21, 2025, The More Reasons Not to Go to China Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 16, 2025, The Corruption Comes to Cannes’ Edition
All Things Investigation: Due Diligence and Drama: A Deep Dive into Art World with Daniel Weiner
Daily Compliance News: July 10, 2025, The Loyalty Oath Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Lessons from Internal Control Failures
Daily Compliance News: July 7, 2025 the Disaster on the River Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 28, 2025
The Dark Patterns Behind Corporate Scandals
Compliance into the Weeds: Boeing’s New Safety Initiatives and Compliance Reforms
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 21, 2025
Daily Compliance News: June 13, 2025. The All Boeing Edition
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels: The Sign of Four – Applying Sherlock Holmes’ Methods to Modern Corporate Compliance
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 53 – The AI as a Whistleblower Edition
On this episode of Culture & Compliance Chronicles, Amanda Raad and Nitish Upadhyaya from Ropes & Gray’s Insights Lab, and Richard Bistrong of Front-Line Anti-Bribery are joined by Professor Guido Palazzo, co-author of The...more
Welcome to the award-winning FCPA Compliance Report, the longest running podcast in compliance. In this episode I welcome back Steve Vincze back to discuss the recent corporate scandal involving executives from Astronomer. ...more
In remarks to an industry group, Matthew R. Galeotti, head of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division, emphasized that companies may avoid criminal resolutions if they voluntarily self-disclose misconduct, fully...more
The guidance stresses heightened focus on emerging antitrust risks, enhanced support and incentives, and proactive monitoring. On November 12, 2024, the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (the Antitrust...more
Compliance professionals constantly seek to understand how systemic issues within corporate hierarchies can lead to severe consequences. The recent revelations about Bank of America’s (BoA) persistent workplace culture...more
One of the benefits of old(er) age is perspective and experience. (As we age, we have to find the positive reasons to tout). If there is one thing (of many) the compliance profession has demonstrated, it is that compliance...more
Once defined, installed, and surrounded with a consequence management system, a corporate culture is not fixed in stone. To the contrary, as the business adapts through growth, innovation or in response to outside market and...more
Ethikos Volume 36, Number 4. October 2022 - Organizational culture seems to be discussed daily, yet few can define it. For our purpose, we can use a simple definition: the way we do things around here. Edgar Schein’s...more
Corporations depend on strategic objectives and performance metrics. Senior executives declare the objectives and the metrics they’ll use to measure employees’ progress toward those goals, and employees get to work achieving...more
“The truest measure of an effective compliance program is how it responds to misconduct.”— FCPA Guidance (2d. ed 2020) - This straight-forward statement (above) of a company’s commitment to its “effective” compliance...more
Everyone is now on the culture bandwagon. For those of us pushing the issue over the last decade, welcome aboard to everyone. But once you join, the work is only beginning. ...more
A corporate scandal does not occur overnight. (Thank you Bob Dylan). A CEO does not begin the day telling him or herself that today is the day to begin the Ponzi scheme or complex fraud. It is hard to imagine but corporate...more
Compliance & Investigations im Jahr 2025 - „Wirksame Compliance erfordert ganzheitliche Ansätze.“ Was ist für die Themen „Compliance & Investigations“ im Jahr 2025 zu erwarten? Fünf Thesen von Prof. Dr. Thomas Grützner...more
What are some best practices regarding an internal reporting system? The 2012 FCPA Guidance stated, “An effective compliance program should include a mechanism for an organization’s employees and others to report suspected or...more
Delegation is always a key technique in improving productivity. However, you should not simply “shove things off your plate” but use the opportunity to give specific and new challenges to employees to help in their own career...more
In October 2019, the Israel State Attorney published a new guideline on its office’s policy when considering the prosecution of a corporation, as well as on how it should determine its position on the manner of punishing...more
CCO reporting to the Audit/Compliance Committee must be structured carefully to promote ethics and compliance. Here are five best practices to help guide the reporting....more
IMPORTANT BOARD COMPOSITION DEVELOPMENT - The board’s nominating committee will benefit from an overview of The Conference Board’s important new survey on board composition, turnover and refreshment. According to the...more
In the compliance idea marketplace, there has been an increased focus on the importance of maintaining an organization’s speak up culture and the importance of a reliable and efficient internal investigation program....more
People are good at convincing themselves that everything is okay, despite troubling indications. Sometimes it is easier to ignore warning signs than to face the harsh reality....more
Last week, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released its updated guidance on how prosecutors should evaluate corporate compliance programs. The revised guidance reiterates and expands on the hallmarks of successful...more
We are in an exploration of the recently released Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs – Guidance Document (2019 Guidance), which was announced (ECI speech) by Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski at the Ethics...more
This week I have been considering the new developments in the long-running 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal. These developments include a guilty plea by a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Goldman Sachs) banker in...more
Today, I want to consider what is the role of a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) in strengthening the ethical culture of an organization. This blog post is based on, in part in an interview I did with Eric Feldman from...more
The chief compliances officer is the guardian of a company’s most important intangible asset – its culture. Everyone at a company is responsible for a company’s culture; the board of directors, CEO, senior executives play an...more