This Week in FCPA-Episode 159, week ending June 21, 2019 – the KPMG Trainwreck and Walmart Settles

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With KPMG in the news for one of the biggest ethical trainwrecks in recent memory (or since the last biggest ethical trainwreck-Walmart) Tom and Jay return to discuss both events some of this week’s top compliance and ethics stories which caught their collective eyes.

1. Wal-Mart settles. Harry Cassin breaks the story for the compliance community in the FCPA Blog.

2. The KPMG ethical trainwreck catapults off the tracks with a SEC enforcement action. Francine McKenna with the most See more +

With KPMG in the news for one of the biggest ethical trainwrecks in recent memory (or since the last biggest ethical trainwreck-Walmart) Tom and Jay return to discuss both events some of this week’s top compliance and ethics stories which caught their collective eyes.

1. Wal-Mart settles. Harry Cassin breaks the story for the compliance community in the FCPA Blog.

2. The KPMG ethical trainwreck catapults off the tracks with a SEC enforcement action. Francine McKenna with the most comprehensive reporting. Tom and Matt Kelly explore in separate blog posts.

3. What is the role of the WTO in global anti-corruption enforcement? Luciana Silveira explores.

4. Banks behaving badly (Part 1,304,555). Swedebank suspends execs from its Estonia branch. Dominic Chopping reports in WSJ. Deutsche Bank under criminal investigation for AML violation. David Enrich, Ben Protess and William K. Rashbaum report.

5. NAVEX Global published a first-of-its-kind ethics and compliance benchmark report. Jaclyn Jaeger reviews.

6. What are the data security/data privacy issues from using Slack? Jim Murphy explains.

7. Designing an ethical company is easy. So says Jeff Kaplan.

8. Why are negligence and willfulness different standards? Greg Morvillo and Christine Handley explore.

9. Dylan Tokar joins the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal. See his twitter notification. You can reach him at dylan.tokar@wsj.com.

10. Why does one size not fit all? Jay continues his series on working with monitors.

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