FCPA Compliance Report: The Impact of Secondary Tariffs on Global Trade with Mike Huneke and Brent Carlson
Daily Compliance News: July 14, 2025, The Secret Business Sauce-Reading Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 11, 2025, The What is a COI Edition
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 73 - Geopolitical Risk: Thai Tensions / Sanctions, Tariffs & FCPA Enforcement in Asia
FCPA Compliance Report: Stay the Course: Ellen Lafferty on Navigating Anti-Corruption Compliance in 2025
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 28, 2025
Upping Your Game: Crowd - Sourcing Risk Management Intelligence with AI
Episode 374 -- Justice Department Resumes FCPA Enforcement with New, Focused Guidance
2 Gurus Talk Compliance – Episode 54 – The FCPA is Back On Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day – New FCPA Enforcement Memo – What Does it Mean?
Compliance Tip of the Day: New FCPA Enforcement Memo - What Does it Say?
FCPA Compliance Report: Recent DOJ Policy Announcements
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 14, 2025
Great Women in Compliance: Culture. Data. Ethics with Hui Chen
Compliance into the Weeds: Changes in FCPA Enforcement
Daily Compliance News for June 11, 2025. The A Bondi Too Far Edition
Upping Your Game: Continuous Monitoring with AI
FCPA Compliance Report: The Role of Culture and Data in Fraud Risk Management - A Conversation with Vincent Walden
On June 10, 2025, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued a memorandum establishing guidelines for enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the “Guidelines” and “FCPA,” respectively). The DOJ issued the Guidelines...more
In the final part of the Compliance Lessons from Venice series, we focus on one of Venice’s earliest tools for addressing misconduct: a reporting system predating modern whistleblower programs. Known as the Lion’s Mouth, this...more
Welcome to a journey through compliance with a Venetian twist. Paired with the podcast series Compliance Lessons from Venice, running this week on the Compliance Podcast Network, we will examine three areas where Venice’s...more
We recently had a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action that reminded me that everything old is new again in anti-corruption compliance. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) FCPA enforcement action...more
While FCPA enforcement against companies has been relatively quiet this year, despite a strong beginning to the year — the SAP case for $220 million; and the Gunvor case for $661 million — DOJ has been pushing a number of...more
In March 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the resolution of a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action involving the Swiss trading firm G Trafigura Beheer B.V. (Trafigura), an international...more
There were recently two significant speeches by Department of Justice (DOJ) officials at the American Bar Association National Institute on White Collar Crime. The first was by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. The second...more
Over the past 15 months the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has made clear through three Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions and speeches, their priorities in...more
The building blocks of any compliance program lay the foundations for a best practices compliance program. For instance, in the life cycle management of third parties, most compliance practitioners understand the need for a...more
What is the value of having a Code of Conduct? In its early days, a Code of Conduct tended to be lawyer-written and lawyer-driven to wave in regulator’s face during an enforcement action as proof of ethical overall behavior....more
While 2023 was a relatively slow year in FCPA enforcement, the DOJ and SEC settlements announced throughout the year set out a list of important ethics and compliance reminders. While these may seem obvious to everyone, I...more
The 2022 Monaco Memo emphasized the basic point that the key to every company is culture. The bottom line is that corporate culture matters and corporate culture that fails to hold individuals accountable, or fails to invest...more
Matt Galvin, Counsel, Compliance & Data Analytics at the DOJ and one of the experts leading the DOJ’s data analytics initiative, highlighted in another talk, the proactive use of data to generate cases related to the FCPA and...more
We continue our review of DOJ initiatives from 2023 and what they may portend for the compliance professional in 2024 and beyond. In October 2023, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced a new policy regarding M&A. It...more
In March 2023 there were two days of speeches from the DOJ which added to the compliance complexity. The speeches were made by Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco (2023 Monaco Speech) and Assistant Attorney General...more
2023 was a very significant year for every compliance practitioner and compliance program. While there was a paucity of corporate enforcement actions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), there were significant...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is increasingly utilizing data analytics for proactive enforcement, signaling a significant shift in their approach to combating white-collar crime. This move reflects the recognition of data...more
Last week, Nicole Argentieri, acting assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division, speaking at the ACI National FCPA reported that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is stepping up its own use of data analytics to...more
While the Department of Justice (DOJ) has initiated at least two new Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions against U.S. companies, it has also announced several decisions not to prosecute—most recently...more
The Tysers and Wood FCPA settlements reflect something old and something new in the FCPA enforcement world. On the old side, at the core of the FCPA violations was the critical role played by the intermediary company....more
The Justice Department has had a slow year in FCPA enforcement (another profound grasp of the obvious). The reasons for this may be a question of timing elements in the pipeline of cases....more
Early in October at the 2023 SCCE Compliance and Ethics Institute, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco delivered a long-anticipated speech expanding and formalizing the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) new Safe Harbor for...more
Let’s move beyond the headline – trade compliance is the new FCPA. We get it. The next step is to do something about it. The Justice Department has repeated this refrain – it is one of its greatest hits. In addition, DOJ,...more
To restate the obvious – DOJ has prioritized prosecution of national security crimes. For the business world, every company touches the international economy. Even a domestic company might sell products or services outside...more
The Justice Department has been pushing its voluntary self-disclosure program and changes to its Corporate Enforcement Policy, in an attempt to increase FCPA enforcement cooperation. The Golden Ring for every company facing...more