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Culture Crafters: Navigating Business Volatility Through Corporate Culture

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 6/13/2025

It is always interesting with the regulators catch up to the business world. That is what has happened around corporate culture. The Department of Justice is now assessing corporate culture for any company under...more

Renewed Focus on SOX 304 Compliance Stresses Need for Culture of Compliance, Executive Accountability

NAVEX on 11/14/2022

The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have signaled in recent months that they have reinvigorated their focus on executive compensation claw backs, urging companies to adopt compensation...more

The ‘G’ in ESG: The Role of Compliance

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 6/2/2021

ESG (Environmental, Sustainability, Governance) continues to be in the news these days. Prong Three – Governance usually does not get as much play as the first two but last week we saw a prime example of governance. It was...more

Great Women in Compliance - Episode 85- Lynn Haaland, Caring and Compliance

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 12/2/2020

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. What’s it like entering a company suddenly in the limelight during a global pandemic? Find out as Mary Shirley speaks with Lynn...more

Financial Daily Dose 2.24.2020 | Top Story: Wells Fargo to Pay $3 Billion to Resolve DOJ and SEC Investigations

Robins Kaplan LLP on 2/24/2020

Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to pay a total of $3 billion to resolve criminal and civil investigations by the DOJ and SEC. Wells Fargo admitted “that it took millions in wrongful fees and interest, misused customer information...more

Financial Daily Dose 2.4.2020 | Top Story: Tesla Stock Hits New Highs on Reports From Battery Partners

Robins Kaplan LLP on 2/4/2020

It’s all coming up Elon these days for Tesla and its stock. “Positive developments” from the electric carmaker’s battery suppliers helped goose shares even higher, ending the day at $780/share—a nearly 20% gain since Friday....more

$1 Billion Ericsson Resolution, Three Jury Verdicts Cap Off Busy Fourth Quarter for US FCPA Enforcement

WilmerHale on 12/31/2019

On December 6, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) agreed to resolve allegations that multinational telecommunications company Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson or...more

Under Armour Under DOJ and SEC Investigation For Revenue Recognition Scheme

The Volkov Law Group on 11/12/2019

The Justice Department and the SEC have launched criminal and civil accounting fraud investigations against Under Armour. The sportswear maker has been suffering a rapid revenue decline over the last few years....more

Fresenius FCPA Enforcement Action

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 5/16/2019

The long-awaited Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA (FMC) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action was recently announced. It involved massive multi-year and multi bribery schemes by the company in multiple...more

Understanding the DOJ’s Updated Guidance on Corporate Compliance Programs

Jones Day on 5/14/2019

The Situation: On April 30, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") released an updated version of its guidance document, "Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs," in an effort to "better harmonize" the document...more

Everything Compliance-Episode 29, the Four of a Kind Edition

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 6/14/2018

Everything Compliance is the only roundtable podcast in compliance, with four of the top compliance practitioners around. This week the gang returns to its four focused topics on its Four of a Kind edition. After the...more

This Week in FCPA-Episode 77, the Home for the Holidays Edition

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 11/17/2017

Jay and I return for a wide-ranging discussion on some of the top compliance and ethics related stories of the week, including: 1. The DOJ/SEC FCPA Guidance turned 5 years old this week. For the compliance practitioner, it...more

Compliance Man Goes Global-Episode 4-Training

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 10/24/2017

Welcome to Episode 4 of Compliance Man Goes Global podcast of FCPA Compliance Report International Edition. In this episode, we will focus on typical myths and mistakes regarding compliance trainings. In each podcast, we take...more

A Chief Compliance Officer's Guide to Investigations

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 8/17/2017

Tom Fox in conversation with Jonathan Marks, who has laid out a concrete way for CCOs and c-level executives to think through how to plan an investigation, staff it properly and meet the inevitable challenges. ...more

Workplace Ethics & Culture: What the Uber Board Report Means for Compliance Officers

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 8/3/2017

A compliance perspective on one of the most unique corporate documents you will ever see....more

This Week in FCPA-Episode 57, the Father’s Day Edition

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 6/16/2017

This week, as their tribute to their Dad, we are guest hosted by Jay’s daughters, Millie and Michela. They lead us through a wide-ranging discussion on some of the week’s top compliance related stories, including: 1. The...more

Compliance Lessons for Executive Leadership from The Wells Fargo Investigation Report

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 5/23/2017

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

A Money Laundering Nightmare: Western Union Ponies Up $770 Million to Settle with DOJ, FTC and FinCEN

The Volkov Law Group on 4/6/2017

Earlier this year, in January 2017, Western Union entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the Justice Department and the FTC, and agreed to pay $586 in forfeiture to settle anti-money laundering and consumer fraud...more

Use of Social Media In a Best Practices Compliance Program

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 3/10/2017

Why should you integrate social media into your compliance program? In a compliance program, a large portion of your consumers/customers are your employees. Social media presents some excellent mechanisms to communicate the...more

Doing Compliance in an Economic Downturn

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 2/6/2017

The city of Houston has seen a multi-year economic downturn from the drop in the price of oil. Every company in the energy space has been required to dramatically cut its work force, including unfortunately, it compliance...more

DOJ Criminal Prosecution of Wells Fargo: What to Expect?

The Volkov Law Group on 10/19/2016

Compliance and enforcement headlines have focused on the Wells Fargo scandal. And for good reason. On September 8, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Comptroller of the Currency and the Los Angeles...more

Preview of NAVEX Global’s 2015 Ethics and Compliance Virtual Conference

NAVEX on 11/4/2015

As 2015 draws to a close (where did the time go?), the 2016 planning season is in full swing. You likely already have an idea of initiatives you’ll want to tackle, but taking your ethics and compliance program to the next...more

Compliance at the Tipping Point, Part V – Protection Afforded From a Compliance Program

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 10/16/2015

Today, I wrap up my series on why I think compliance is at the Tipping Point. However as it is a Friday in October, I continue my tribute to the Man in the Shadows, producer Val Lewton, whose films for RKO had some of the...more

FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 122-with Matt Kelly on Alstom, Avon and Petrobras

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 1/20/2015

In this episode, Compliance Week Editor-in-Chief Matt Kelly and I discuss the Avon and Alstom FCPA enforcement actions and then take a look at the ongoing Petrobras corruption scandal and what it means for Brazil. ...more

The Alstom Case: Realities and Lessons Learned

The Volkov Law Group on 1/12/2015

The old expression goes – “Do not break your arm patting yourself on the back” – but maybe I might just extend my arm a little with the Alstom settlement. Last year I predicted that the Alstom case would eclipse Siemens as...more

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