Moving Beyond the Usual Helpline Data
Podcast - Bring Out the Bad Stuff
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels - The Valley of Fear, Introduction and Compliance Lessons Learned
Episode 381 -- NAVEX's 2025 Annual Hotline Report
Compliance Tip of the Day: AI, Whistleblowing and a Culture of Speak Up
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 56 – The Grasshopper Edition
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
Episode 379 -- Update on False Claims Act and Customs Evasion Liability
Everything Compliance: Episode 157, The Q2 2025 Great Women in Compliance Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 55 – The From Worse to Worser Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 18, 2025, The Don’t Alter Docs Edition
Blowing the Whistle: What Employers Should Know About DEI & the False Claims Act
When DEI Meets the FCA: What Employers Need to Know About the DOJ’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative
FCPA Compliance Report: Stay the Course: Ellen Lafferty on Navigating Anti-Corruption Compliance in 2025
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles, Introduction and Compliance Lessons Learned
Compliance into the Weeds: Boeing’s New Safety Initiatives and Compliance Reforms
Upping Your Game: Crowd - Sourcing Risk Management Intelligence with AI
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 21, 2025
False Claims Act Insights - Will Recent Leadership Changes Lead to FCA Enforcement Policy Changes?
In this new season of Adventures in Compliance, host Tom Fox takes a deep dive into the Sherlock Holmes novels. Throughout this season, Tom will delve into each novel in a four-part series. The four novels we will consider...more
On September 23, 2024, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri (PDAAG), speaking at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute, announced three key updates to...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently unveiled the Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (CWA) to bolster corporate enforcement efforts. Although the program has only been operational for a few weeks, it has already...more
The more things change, the more things stay the same. For years, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) leadership has used the ABA National Institute on White Collar Crime and other major conferences to highlight enforcement...more
In a recent ECI podcast series , I had the opportunity to visit with Pat Harned, President of ECI. We took a deep dive into the 2023 Global Business Ethics Survey (GBES) revealed concerning trends in workplace ethics. The...more
I recently concluded a podcast series with Case IQ. Over this series, I visited with Sharlyn Lauby, Jakub Ficner, Kenneth McCarthy, and Meric Bloch on the different facets of a great speak-up regime and how each of those...more
We are on a run of some great, informative and incredibly useful books by some super star compliance professionals. A couple of weeks ago Mary Shirley released Level Up. In her book, Mary shared forward-thinking hacks and...more
NAVEX Global produces a number of important compliance program reports. NAVEX Global always has played an important thought-leadership role in the ethics and compliance field....more
Investigations & White Collar Defense - Amendment to Whistleblower Protection Act - On June 8, 2020, the Japanese Diet passed a bill to amend the Whistleblower Protection Act ("Act"). The bill was introduced amid a...more
Dan Dunne, in a Compliance and Ethics Professional article, entitled “Foxes and henhouses: The importance of independent counsel”, said a critical element in any investigation is “fair and objective evaluation by the...more
Culture and Why It Matters - For anyone who was paying attention to the Astros, it has long been clear that the team had a very insular and toxic culture. The Astros culture was broken, toxic and this culture lead directly...more
I am nearing the end of a multi-part exploration of the Major League Baseball (MLB) investigation into allegations that the Houston Astros engaged in a multi-year scheme to steal signs and signals from opposing teams. ...more
Corporate leaders often talk to the talk when it comes to a Speak Up culture. In theory, many business leaders can articulate their commitment to a Speak Up culture by emphasizing the importance of employees raising...more
On April 23, Kramer Levin reported on the European Parliament’s approved proposal for the adoption of a whistleblower protection directive. On Oct. 7, the Directive on protection of persons reporting breaches of Union law...more
The twist and turns of our political world amid the ongoing controversy surrounding whistleblower reporting has focused attention on an important issue – encouraging whistleblowers as part of a speak up culture and...more
Sometimes you have to wonder if companies ever have figured out that they need to comply with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by putting in place a compliance program that actually works. ...more
Employee hotlines are – sorry about this – a “hot” topic these days in compliance. NAVEX Global’s recent study confirmed the importance of an effective hotline system. Companies that implement robust and widely-used...more
Today I begin a five-part podcast series on ethics, compliance and independent integrity monitoring with Affiliated Monitors, Inc., (AMI) who is the sponsor of the series. ...more
I have long articulated that companies that have robust compliance programs are more efficient, better run and more profitable organizations. ...more
Corporate commitment to speak up cultures is suffering. The Ethics and Compliance Initiative’s recent Global National Business Ethics Survey contained a critical finding – corporate instances of retaliation against employee...more
As parents we all have been through the following scenario – we encourage our children to communicate and voice their concerns and to learn to articulate, reason and understand perspectives. So, our kids start to speak up...more
The Ethics and Compliance Institute recently released the results of its global business ethics survey. The last survey was conducted in 2013 and ECI’s survey provides important and valuable insights into corporate metrics...more
The 2017 SCCE Compliance and Ethics Institute (CEI) is now in the books. Once again, the organization had record setting attendance with over 1,800 attendees from some 41 different countries. During the event, I had the...more
We are fascinated by corporate scandals. Since the 1980s, the US public has enjoyed unraveling corporate scandals, and vilifying corporate leaders caught in the web of deceit and misconduct. I am sure there are historical...more