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The Volkov Law Group

DOJ Outlines Aggressive White Collar Enforcement Measures and New Compliance Expectations (Part I of II)

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The Justice Department continues to push on white collar corporate enforcement, and the intersection of national security sanctions and export controls with corporate criminal enforcement.  Last week, Lisa Monaco, DOJ’s...more

Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto LLP

Congress Needs to Enact an Effective Ethics Agenda

Congress needs to implement an effective ethics agenda.  Important anti-corruption legislation has been sitting in various Senate and House committees awaiting action....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

A Cheater is a Cheater and a Stinker is a Stinker

Something is very rotten in both Denmark around its banks regarding AML and the Houston Astros and their leadership. Before and during the World Series, Astros management engaged in either some of the most boneheaded conduct...more

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Financial Institutions and the Glaring Absence of an Ethical Culture

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Federal prosecutors and regulators have been active in tackling US banks. In the last few weeks, the Federal Reserve took the extraordinary step of blocking Wells Fargo’s ability to grow its business until it improves its...more

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MoneyGram CCO Pays Civil Penalty

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Like any other profession, the compliance profession is not immune to bad apples. Lawyers know the law but have been criminally prosecuted for breaking the law. The same goes for compliance professionals....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Will Blockchain Transform Compliance?

I recently read an article in the MIT Sloan Management Review, entitled “How Blockchain Will Change Organizations”, where authors Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott speculate that the transformations which blockchain may...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Good-Bye to Arnold Palmer and Revolutionizing Compliance

The golfing world and the world of beverages lost one of their giants earlier this week. I, of course, refer to golfing and beverage legend Arnold Palmer. The legend around the beverage is that at dinner one evening Palmer...more

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The Two Ps of Compliance: Promote and Protect

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I often complain about compliance messaging. Compliance officers have to be careful to avoid becoming viewed as “nattering nabobs of negativism,” as former Vice President Spiro Agnew famously stated about the liberal media....more

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Commerzbank’s Compliance Catastrophe — Flouting Sanctions and BSA/AML Laws (Part II of III)

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Sometimes a picture is very clear but legal words and concepts are proffered in an attempt to disguise and even deceive. As set forth in the factual statements outlined by the government, and agreed to by Commerzbank, it is...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Heightened Enforcement Efforts Focus on Financial Institutions’ ‘Culture of Compliance’

The first of a three-part series on the new landscape of anti-money laundering enforcement - During hearings conducted in 2012 by the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Senator Tom Coburn commented...more

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