10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending August 23, 2025
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
The strength of your supply chain isn’t just in the partners you choose – it’s in the records, oversight, and accountability that prove your program works. This webinar explores how effective documentation and visibility...more
As global supply chains continue to realign in response to shifting geopolitical dynamics, tariffs and trade policies, compliance and risk professionals are facing unprecedented challenges. The evolving trade landscape is...more
It may seem like a Herculean task — but it can be done. I regularly opine that mitigating sanctions risks for your third-party population is an easier task than doing so for your anti-corruption risks. One big reason —...more
Sorry to start a four-part series with a reference to music from our long-ago past. The Four Tops sang the “Same Old Song, with a Different Meaning” (released in 1965). So, how does that relate to third-party risks? Well,...more
The building blocks of any compliance program lay the foundations for a best practices compliance program. For instance, in the life cycle management of third parties, most compliance practitioners understand the need for a...more
Nathalie Druckmann, Vice President at Certa, joins Michael Volkov to discuss third-party risk management and the use of advanced artificial intelligence to implement effective risk mitigation strategies. Nathalie sets the...more
Hosted by American Conference Institute, the 11th Annual Advanced Forum on False Claims and Qui Tam Enforcement returns for another exciting year for lively discussions on FCA enforcement including the ramifications of two...more
Compliance professionals are always looking for ways to collaborate and support internal business partners. Through the years, compliance professionals have devoted significant energy to building partnerships with the...more
Facing the myriad third-party sanctions risks can be daunting. Many global organizations rely on a network of third-party intermediaries that pose a variety of risks. To mitigate those risks, companies have to implement...more
If there is one issue that is repeated over and over (and over), it is third-party risks. Over the last ten years, we have witnessed an explosion in anti-corruption enforcement around the world. And with this enforcement...more
Third-party risk management is a favorite topic for compliance professionals. And for good reason. Third parties create significant risks. To state the obvious, companies have less control over third parties than...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
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
On June 1, 2020, the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released updates to its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance (Guidance), last revised in April 2019. ...more
DOJ’s revised Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Program Guidance (“DOJ Guidance”) is yet another reminder on how far compliance has evolved and the path forward. Compliance programs have to incorporate real-time monitoring,...more
We are finally reaching the end of the road on the beneficial ownership path. In this last posting on the issue (for now), let’s start with a third-party population (third parties, vendors, suppliers) which have been...more
At the outset, if you have a headache after reading my first two posts on the beneficial ownership issue, I apologize. The issues twist and turn depending on whether the situation involves OFAC sanctions or corruption risks,...more
As companies move forward on third-party risk management programs, and as automated third-party risk solutions are being implemented, compliance professionals have to re-examine and re-balance the allocation of resources and...more
Compliance officers face almost an infinite number of risks – not to be trite, but CCOs can drive themselves crazy identifying every plausible legal and compliance risk a company faces. I am exaggerating a little bit to make...more
Internal controls are a key tool to operationalize your third-party risk management program. The basic internal controls, that should be a part of any financial controls system. There were four significant controls the...more
By using risk-based monitoring, you can begin to see things in “almost real-time, time-based trends of real data that you can then jump on and try to make adjustments before things get really wacky.” The implications to the...more
I recently had the chance to visit with Travis Miller, General Counsel (GC), and I discuss how the regulatory requirements of the Federal Acquisitions Regulations (FARs) impact access to markets and supply chain compliance....more
We are in an exploration of the recently released Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs – Guidance Document(2019 Guidance), which was announced(ECI speech) by Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski at the Ethics...more
If you are stuck doing it in the middle of a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation, there may well be some tension to do so and do so quickly. If you have not thought through this issue and created a process to...more
Sometimes it takes a large enforcement action to underscore basic and important anti-corruption compliance principles. The Société Générale enforcement action demonstrated two important principles – the dangers of a weak...more