Episode 30 - Inaugural Episode with Ian Sherr: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from June to July 2025
Compliance Tip of the Day: Internal Controls for Third Parties
Upping Your Game: Harnessing AI to Revolutionize Third-Party Risk Management
Compliance Tip of the Day: Terminating Third Parties
FCPA Compliance Report: Upping Your Game in Compliance
Episode 368 — LRN Issues New Report Highlighting Growing Gap in Compliance Program Performance
FCPA Compliance Report: From Compliance to Commercial Value: Removing Friction with AI
Episode 364 -- Five Strategies to Mitigate a New Risk Environment
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 12: Compliance Is Good Business: Getting Beyond Fines with Tom Fox of Compliance Podcast Network
Third-Party Risk The competitive world of banking struggles to keep up with technological advances, particularly in a regulatory environment.
Episode 360 -- Natalie Druckman from Certa on AI-Enhanced Third-Party Risk Management
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 223: Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks with Healthcare Vendors with Brandon Robinson of Maynard Nexsen
Compliance Tip of the Day: Board Questions and Metrics for 3rd Party Risk Management
Why Privacy is Your Secret Weapon Against Third-Party Risk
A Third Party's Perspective on Third Party Risk
Privacy Issues from Third-Party Website Tags
Episode 329 -- Bryn Sedlacek from Aravo on TPRM Holistic Risks and Unified Visibility
Corruption, Crime and Compliance: Third-Party Risks and Sanctions Compliance
Compliance into the Weeds: Sustainability and Managing 3rd Party Risk
Episode 304 -- Nathalie Druckmann, VP at Certa, on Artificial Intelligence Third-Party Risk Management
Approximately 90% of U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement cases from its inception in 1978 have involved third-party intermediaries engaging in bribery schemes. The reduced level of control or oversight...more
Criminals can be creative — that is a true statement but essentially FCPA criminals have to embrace a variety of well-established techniques to accomplish a straight-forward goal — steal money from the company to funnel...more
Deja Vu all over again — Yogi Berra Yogi Berra said it best — we have seen this scenario before, with similar parties — corrupt foreign officials from Eskom (and Transnet), local partner requirements resulting in engagement...more
We continue our week-long look at the use of AI in compliance. Today, we consider third parties. Third-party relationships remain one of the most significant areas of risk for corporate compliance programs....more
We are all familiar with — over and over — third-party risks and FCPA risks. It is drilled in our collective heads — third-party risks and bribery. Legal and compliance professionals have to learn and understand the ins...more
Survey: Tech gaps, third parties pose biggest ABAC threats - Compliance professionals surveyed regarding their anti-bribery and corruption efforts (ABAC) indicated resource support deficiencies in areas including staffing...more
Even though the size of the KT Corp. SEC enforcement action is relatively small, the underlying misconduct provides a number of important lessons learned. ...more
We have heard it over and over, again and again – third-parties pose significant risks of bribery for all global businesses. Almost every FCPA enforcement action includes some form of third-party misconduct. The current...more
The SEC’s FCPA enforcement action against WPP presents a number of important lessons learned, ranging from third-party risk management, properly responding to employee complaints and red flags, and failure to integrate...more
We all know and hear about third-party risks – over and over again. Despite this recurring theme, organizations continue to pay the price for failing to address third-party issues. It does not take a rocket scientist to...more
C5's 15th International Conference on Anti-Corruption London will take place November 2 – 3, 2021 in Millennium Hotel London Knightsbridge, London. Join your peers for the IN-PERSON reunion of the legal and compliance...more
FCPA settlement actions often underscore specific compliance risks for legal and compliance professionals. If there ever was a case where third-party risks were bungled, and even intentionally embraced, the Foster Wheeler...more
We all know it when we see it – a recurring fact pattern in which a company enlists a corrupt third party intermediary for one purpose (and one purpose only) – to pay a bribe. Let me give you a few examples....more
In late January 2020, Airbus agreed to pay nearly $4 billion and to take a number of remedial measures in order to resolve alleged corruption violations with the French National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF), the United...more
La Ley de Prácticas Corruptas en el Extranjero (“Foreign Corrupt Practices Act – FCPA”) prohíbe el pago de sobornos a funcionarios extranjeros para ayudar a obtener o retener negocios. Exige que las empresas cuyos valores se...more
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) prohibits payment of bribes to foreign officials to assist with obtaining or retaining business. It requires companies whose securities are listed in the US to maintain books and...more
Last week the Justice Department (DOJ) announced a resolution of the long standing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action involving Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson), a multinational networking and...more
Ericsson’s FCPA settlement is in the books (not the books and records). But it casts a significant shadow across the FCPA landscape. A pervasive and systemic culture of bribery is defined to reflect senior executive...more
Companies will often rely on a network of distributors to help sell their products in emerging markets. From a business economics standpoint, engaging a distributor is often more cost efficient than investing in a sales...more
The Microsoft FCPA settlement, while not significant in the total penalty of approximately $25 million, provides some important instructions concerning distributor and re-seller risks and mitigation strategies. ...more
Microsoft’s bribery and controls violations reflect significant risks facing companies that rely on distributor and reseller networks to sell their products. Companies often enter and operate in emerging markets through...more
This is a tough posting – frankly, there are so many lessons learned from the Walmart case that they could fill a book, or an e-book at least. I will focus on some of the big issues....more
We are at the end of my exploration of the long-awaited Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA (FMC) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action. ...more