As Hurricane Florence has made landfall onto the Carolinas and beyond, Hurricane Issac is hurtling towards the Gulf of Mexico and Storm X is taking aim at Texas, Tom and Jay are back with a look at some of the week’s top compliance and ethics stories.
1. United Technologies settles a FCPA enforcement action with the SEC. Harry Cassin reports in the FCPA Blog. Tom explains its significance in the context of Brighton Rock on the FCPA See more +
As Hurricane Florence has made landfall onto the Carolinas and beyond, Hurricane Issac is hurtling towards the Gulf of Mexico and Storm X is taking aim at Texas, Tom and Jay are back with a look at some of the week’s top compliance and ethics stories.
1. United Technologies settles a FCPA enforcement action with the SEC. Harry Cassin reports in the FCPA Blog. Tom explains its significance in the context of Brighton Rock on the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog.
2. A Goldman partner uses the company hotline. What happened next and would any Goldman employee ever use it again?
3. Les Moonves proves once again that it's the cover up that gets you, not the original crime as the CBS CEO goes down for lying to the CBS Board.
4. What does GDPR mean for blockchain? Conversely what does Blockchain mean for GDPR? Vera Cherepanova explores in a two piece blog post on the FCPA Blog.For a more positive outlook on blockchain, on this week’s Innovation in Compliance, Tom interviews EY’s Paul Brody and Alex Perry on the power of blockchain.
5. SFO wins huge document production matter against KBR. Christine Braamskamp and Kelly Hagedorn writes about the case.
6. Unarmed black man shot and killed in his own home by white Dallas police officer. What was PwC’s response?
7. Matthew Stephenson asks if Hoskins was correctly decided and conclude it probably was not.
8. Leila Szwarc on why organizations need a global compliance framework.
9. Want the top compliance training from the guy who wrote the book on compliance? Tom will put on a Compliance Master Class in Boston, September 25 & 26, hosted by Affiliated Monitors.
10. Want a 50% discount to one of the top compliance conferences around? Join Tom and AMI’s Eric Feldman at CONVERGE18 in Denver on October 9-11. I hope you can join me at the event.
11. In this week’s podcast series I internview Don Stern, Eric Feldman and Rod Grandon on the role if an independent monitor in assessing ethics and compliance in the M&A context. Part 1-the whys, whats and hows; Part 2-the impact of M&A on both parties; Part 3-what’s the plan; Part 4-oversight of merged entities; and Part 5-how the M&A process benefits from an independent monitor.
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