In the midst of this true madness in the NCAA tournament this year, Jay Rosen and myself take a look at some of the top compliance stories over the past week.
1. Cambridge Analytica is in a world of trouble after stealing data from Facebook and advising clients to engage in bribery and corruption.
2. Facebook is not far behind for its tepid response. See more +
In the midst of this true madness in the NCAA tournament this year, Jay Rosen and myself take a look at some of the top compliance stories over the past week.
1. Cambridge Analytica is in a world of trouble after stealing data from Facebook and advising clients to engage in bribery and corruption.
2. Facebook is not far behind for its tepid response.
3. In largest whistleblower awards ever, the SEC doles out $83MM to 3 anonymous persons for fraudulent conduct at Merrill-Lynch.
4. Catching up on news from the UK: the first test of Bribery Act’s Adequate Procedures defense, from the WSJ Risk and Compliance Report-(1) the UK may end Scottish shell companies, (2) the SFO claws back bribe payment to Chad government official, (3) the Financial Conduct Authority seeks more transparency.
5. In an unsurprising yet disturbing development, whistleblower retaliation is up.
6. Uber Brings in Holder Report Co-Author as Deputy GC, Angela Padilla Out.
7. Check out the top new podcast in the compliance field Innovation in Compliance.
8. Tom announces presales of his next book, the Complete Compliance Handbook, which will be published by Compliance Week in April 2018.
9. Jonathan Armstrong will be in Houston on April 10 to put on a half-day GDPR workshop. You can find out more and register at the Greater Houston Business and Ethics Roundtable website, GHBER.org.
10. Tom will be leading Convercent Roundtables on using data to drive ethics to the center of business in Miami (April 4), Houston (April 17) and Dallas (April 18).
11. Tom and Everything Compliance panelist Mike Volkov and Matt Kelly named as top contributors in compliance in annual JDSupra Readers 2017-8 Poll. Will Jay take his game up?
12. Jay details the upcoming presentations by his Affiliated Monitors’ colleagues at the SCCE European Ethics and Compliance Institute and with Convercent.
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