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FCPA Compliance Report: Navigating Corporate Scandals: Insights on Governance, Compliance, and Recovery with Steve Vincze

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 8/4/2025

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

Top ten challenges for white-collar crime and investigations lawyers in 2022

A&O Shearman on 1/17/2022

We asked our global white collar crime team for their views on key challenges in 2022 for in house investigations teams and white collar crime lawyers, and how to manage the associated risks. Here are the top ten....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

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

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

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

Effective Ethics and Compliance Training

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 2/14/2017

In a recent Slate article, entitled “Ethics Trainings Are Even Dumber Than You Think”, author L.V. Anderson railed against what she termed box-checking training where companies put on training not to actually train employees...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

[Webinar] 2016 Ethics & Compliance Virtual Conference - Harnessing the Business Value of an Ethical Culture - November 15th,...

NAVEX on 10/17/2016

Join professionals in ethics and compliance, human resources, legal, audit and training for the annual 2016 Ethics & Compliance Virtual Conference! Learn strategies to help you build a better governed, more risk-aware, and...more

Wells Fargo Week: Part V – Compliance is the Answer

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 9/23/2016

I want to end this week’s review of the Wells Fargo scandal by considering what is at issue and what is at stake in this imbroglio. Unlike a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violation, Wells Fargo paid the relatively...more

Innovation in Compliance – Part III: Design Thinking

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 7/13/2016

I continue to explore innovation in the compliance function by considering how design thinking can help the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) move forward in an innovative cutting edge manner to make a compliance program not...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

Four Clear Messages from Bristol Meyers Squibb FCPA Enforcement Action

The Volkov Law Group on 10/12/2015

The SEC’s FCPA enforcement action for $14.6 million against Bristol Meyers Squibb (“BMS”) in China provides a textbook example of how things can go wrong in China. For the compliance practitioner (as well as CEO and...more

FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 159-Alison Taylor on the intersection of CSR and the FCPA

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 5/19/2015

In this episode I visit with Alison Taylor of BSR about the organizational behavior issues around bribery and corruption and the intersection of Corporate Social Responsibility and the FCPA. ...more

FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 140-Leona Lewis

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 3/11/2015

In this episode I visit with Leona Lewis who recently left the compliance function at Best Buy to found her own compliance entity, ComplyEthic. Leona brings some very interesting insights from her days in consumer retailing...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

FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 108-Supply Chain Under the FCPA

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 11/20/2014

In this episode I discuss several different risk based models to evaluate your supply chain under the FCPA or UK Bribery Act. ...more

FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 87, what are internal controls, Part II

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 9/12/2014

In this Part II of What Are Internal Controls? I continue my discussion with noted expert Henry Mixon on the basics of internal controls in a best practices FCPA compliance program....more

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