Hill Country Authors – Exploring the Challenges of a Green Transition with Tom Ortiz
Compliance Tip of the Day: Key M&A Enforcement Actions
AI Today in 5: August 5, 2025, The AI at the SEC Episode
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 18, 2025, The Don’t Alter Docs Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 16, 2025, The Corruption Comes to Cannes’ Edition
Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
Compliance Tip of the Day: New FCPA Enforcement Memo - What Does it Say?
Compliance into the Weeds: Changes in FCPA Enforcement
The LathamTECH Podcast — Where Digital Assets Slot Into a Shifting Fintech Regulatory Landscape: Insights From the US, UK, and EU
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 17, 2025
Daily Compliance News: May 13, 2025, The Leaving on a Jet Plane Edition
Everything Compliance: Episode 153, The CW 25 Edition
Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Daily Compliance News: April 22, 2025, The Upping Your Game Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 9, 2025, The Corruption at the DOJ Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending April 5, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 4, 2025, The Tariffs on Penguins Edition
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In this episode of Great Women in Compliance, Hemma hosts Jennifer Lee, a partner at Jenner & Block LLP and former Assistant Director at the SEC. The discussion covers Jennifer’s work in SEC investigations, the importance of...more
I had many ideas for an article that would expand on recent developments in the compliance and ethics space. My working title was the creatively light “Recent Developments.” But after meeting with SCCE & HCCA’s editorial...more
In 2023 the US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted rules “requiring registrants to disclose material cybersecurity incidents they experience and to disclose on an annual basis material information regarding their...more
Stay on top of ever-evolving ESG requirements and emerging trends - With the SEC’s newly issued rules surrounding ESG disclosures and the continued growth of regulations rolling out in the EU, Canada, Asia and elsewhere...more
Last month, I wrote a blog post on the tone at the top, exemplified in Star Trek’s Original Series episode, Devil in the Dark. Based on the response, some passionate Star Trek fans are out there. I decided to write a series...more
In this program, we will focus on SEC developments affecting, and practical aspects of preparing for, public companies’ annual meetings and annual reports, including compensation, shareholder proposals and corporate...more
A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a district court’s class certification in the decade-long Arkansas Teacher Retirement System v. Goldman Sachs Group litigation regarding...more
The DOJ has signaled that CEO and CCO certifications will become a staple of all corporate settlement agreements. Critics worry CEOs and CCOs face undue personal liability and argue it will dissuade CCOs from accepting the...more
Discover how to set and accomplish your ESG goals - Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) is no longer an isolated function within a company, nor is it an issue only for publicly traded companies. It’s front and...more
Looking for compliance training and networking in your area? SCCE’s Regional Compliance & Ethics Conferences offer practitioners convenient, local compliance training, including updates on the latest news in regulatory...more
Ethics and compliance professionals believe in their mission – if they did not, they would not be in the field. E&C professionals believe in the power of positive thinking, ethical conduct, and in the overall ability of an...more
In the age of Coronavirus, it could well be time to assess your internal controls beyond a gap analysis. Consider what COSO says about assessing compliance internal controls. In its Illustrative Guide, COSO laid out its views...more
What are the obligations of a Board member regarding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)? Are the obligations of the Compliance Committee under the FCPA at odds with a director’s “prudent discharge of duties to...more
What is the value of having a Code of Conduct? I have heard many business folks ask that question over the years. In its early days, a Code of Conduct tended to be a lawyer-written and lawyer-driven document to wave in...more
On November 7, 2019, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a risk alert outlining its top compliance observations from examinations of nearly 300 registered funds conducted over a two-year...more
Compliance Convergence. In 2019 there were three significant releases of information by the federal government which directly impacted compliance professionals. Two came from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and one came from...more
On November 7, 2019, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) published a Risk Alert highlighting the most often cited deficiencies and weaknesses observed in recent examinations of registered...more
The United States has been the global leader in the enforcement of anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws for several decades. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) was enacted in the United States in 1977 in order to...more
The joint Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 2012 FCPA Guidance came out five years ago this month. As a commentator focusing on the doing of compliance, we should pause to once again...more
Recently the chief compliance officer of a global company asked me: does a company need a telephone-based whistleblower hotline anymore? In our all-technology, all-the-time world, could a company phase out telephone hotlines...more
The SEC recently released its findings relating to exams of investment advisers. In particular, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) found weak compliance programs; insufficient or late...more
Tennessee has joined other states in formally approving lawyers’ cloud-storage of client-confidential data. The Board of Professional Responsibility (“BOPR”) held that lawyers ethically may use cloud storage for...more
Consider this posting a warning to everyone in the corporate governance field. I am not known for being a chicken little and screaming “the sky is falling, the sky is falling.” I tend to be a realist when it comes to politics...more