Insider Trading, Corruption, Bribery

Daily Compliance News: July 31, 2025. The Forgotten Generation Edition

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 7/31/2025

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the Daily Compliance News....more

White Collar Quarterly Report - August 2024

Benesch on 8/20/2024

In 2023, the number of federal corporate prosecutions remained far below the 25-year average after two consecutive years of increases. ..The DOJ’s Fraud Section secured just $690 million in penalties across eight...more

New Action By The CFTC Means Higher Stakes For Commodity Market Participants

Porter Hedges LLP on 4/1/2021

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) recently announced the settlement of its first enforcement action involving foreign corruption. In December 2020, the CFTC issued a Consent Order, finding that Houston-based...more

Brazilian meatpacking company settles multiple investigations by US authorities

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics... on 1/11/2021

CEP Magazine (January 2021) - Brazil’s J&F Investimentos and JBS SA agreed to pay fines to the United States Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission for bribery and insider trading. J&F, owned by...more

I’m Dreaming of a White (Collar) Christmas: 2019 in Review

WilmerHale on 12/23/2019

The year 2019 has been something of a mixed bag for the UK’s criminal and regulatory authorities. While the Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) and Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) appear to have taken involuntary sabbaticals...more

The South Sea Bubble and Failure of Corruption to Secure Long Term Growth

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 9/24/2019

Spikes in sales in high-risk countries do not translate into sustained growth and without an effective compliance program in place your company may actually lose money....more