Data Driven Compliance: The Failure to Prevent Fraud Offense: Insights for US General Counsels with Mike DeBernardis
Daily Compliance News: August 21, 2025, The Fabricated Evidence Edition
Daily Compliance News: August 18, 2025, The All Corruption Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending August 16, 2025
LathamTECH in Focus: Move Fast, Stay Compliant
Daily Compliance News: August 5, 2025, The Staying Focused Edition
FCPA Compliance Report: 10 Core Principles for Effective Internal Investigations with Michelle Peirce
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 26, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 24, 2025, The In Phone Hell Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 23, 2025 the Pardon in the Wind? Edition
Fox on Podcasting: Harnessing the Power of Niche
Daily Compliance News: July 17, 2025, The COSO Yanked Edition
All Things Investigation: Due Diligence and Drama: A Deep Dive into Art World with Daniel Weiner
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 12, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 9, 2025, The TACO Don Caves Again Edition
RICO Section 1962(b): Acquisition or Maintenance of Control Over Legitimate Enterprises — RICO Report Podcast
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles, Introduction and Compliance Lessons Learned
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 28, 2025
The Dark Patterns Behind Corporate Scandals
FCPA Compliance Report: Fraud Risk Management - Insights and Experiences with Peter Schablik
Canada’s financial sector is facing unprecedented scrutiny, rising enforcement, and evolving compliance risks – are you ready? Join top regulators and industry leaders at CI's 24th Annual Canadian Forum on Anti-Money...more
OFAC means what it says — in more ways than one. In a precedent setting case, OFAC brought its first enforcement action against an individual for violating the Global Magnitsky Sanctions Regulations....more
On April 25, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced a $508 million settlement with one of the world’s largest tobacco companies to resolve potential civil liabilities stemming from...more
In May 2019, OFAC released its Framework for a Sanctions Compliance Program. OFAC announced that it intended to increase the prosecution of individuals for sanctions violations. OFAC has brought two cases against...more
Mashreqbank, based in Dubai, agreed to pay $100 million to the New York Department of Financial Services, the Federal Reserve, and the Office of Foreign Asset Control for violation of the now-repealed Sudan Sanctions...more
PT Bukit Muria Jaya (BMJ), a global supplier of cigarette paper based in Indonesia, agreed to pay $1,561,570 for conspiracy to commit bank fraud as part of a scheme to deceive various banks in order to collect payments for...more
OFAC reported two new enforcement actions in the week between Christmas and New Year’s. The two new enforcement actions are interesting examples of sanctions enforcement, one of which involved the first against a digital...more
The CFTC recently joined the host of other federal and state regulators who enforce anti-money laundering laws, by bringing three cases finding violations of CFTC Regulation 42.2. Regulation 42.2 requires futures commission...more
DOJ’s Cyber Digital Task Force’s report, “Cryptocurrency: An Enforcement Framework,” provides a comprehensive on the growing partnerships between DOJ and other offices within the executive branch....more
Deutsche Bank continues to have its problems – legal, compliance and reputational. Now, we can add OFAC sanctions compliance to the list of Deutsche Bank’s troubles....more
In a surprise indictment, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced that Steve Bannon, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea were indicted for defrauding hundreds of thousands of...more
I. Background - Sweden’s financial supervisory authority (“SFSA”) recently fined Swedbank AB a record 4 billion Swedish kronor (approximately $386 million) for deficiencies in its anti-money laundering (“AML”) processes...more
A Hong Kong court has granted an injunction freezing the assets of a French cryptocurrency trader in a dispute over what happened to bitcoins held in an insolvent trading platform. In Nico Constantijn Antonius Samara v Stive...more
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is not known for its aggressive enforcement record. But that may be changing. FINRA recently fined BNP Paribas for $15 million for anti-money laundering deficiencies in the...more
Indictment Alleges that Bank and its Officers Used Front Companies to Evade Prohibitions on Iran’s Access to the U.S. Financial System - The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has charged Turkish state-owned...more
The European Union (“EU”) recently has grappled with a series of massive money laundering scandals and strategized about how to more effectively combat international money laundering and corruption. Generally, the EU has...more
Danske Bank is likely to again become the target of a formal investigation in France. A Paris court began investigating Danske Bank in October 2017 in relation to transactions of its Estonian branch, between 2008 and 2011,...more
Earlier this month, Danske Bank A/S – Denmark's largest bank – announced that the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") has initiated a criminal investigation relating to the bank's Estonian branch....more
On August 29, the Wall Street Journal reported (paywall) a story that other news outlets later have picked up: the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) is investigating whether Jho Low, a Malaysian businessman at the center of the...more