Daily Compliance News: May 19, 2025, The Definition of Corruption Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 10, 2025
Compliance into the Weeds: USRA Declination Case Study - Self-Disclosure Best Practices
Daily Compliance News: April 8, 2025, The End of Monitors Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending April 5, 2025
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 48 – The March Madness Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending, March 22, 2025
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 65 – The Trump Administration’s Decision to Halt FCPA Enforcement – The Implications for Asia and the World with Tom Fox, Malcolm Nance, and Philip Rohlik
Daily Compliance News: March 19, 2025, The Why CISOs Quit Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending March 15, 2025
Episode 356 -- Trump Administration Hits Pause on FCPA Enforcement
Episode 351 -- Deep Dive into the AAR FCPA Settlement
Episode 350 -- Deep Dive into McKinsey FCPA Case
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: BIT Mining Resolves FCPA Case for $10 Million and CEO Pan Indicted
Episode 349 -- Review of the BIT Mining FCPA Settlement
Episode 345 -- Raytheon Pays $950 Million to Resolve Fraud, FCPA, ITAR and False Claims Act Violations
Episode 344 -- SEC Settles FCPA Case with Moog for $1.7 Million
Episode 339: Four Sanctions Cases Everyone Should Know
Episode 338 -- Deep Dive into the Deere SEC FCPA Case
Wicked Coin: The "Fat Leonard" Scandal
I had many ideas for an article that would expand on recent developments in the compliance and ethics space. My working title was the creatively light “Recent Developments.” But after meeting with SCCE & HCCA’s editorial...more
Recently, the Supreme Court delivered several rulings that have caught the attention of compliance professionals. In this blog post, we’ll dissect these rulings and explore their implications for corporate compliance. Matt...more
Since December 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have levied almost $3.0 billion in penalties for longstanding failures by 39 broker-dealers, swap dealers,...more
This week, SAP SE (SAP), the German-based software company, agreed to pay over $200 million to resolve investigations by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into violations of...more
Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving campaign finance, lobbying compliance,...more
Discover how to set and accomplish your ESG goals - Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) is no longer an isolated function within a company, nor is it an issue only for publicly traded companies. It’s front and...more
DOJ and the SEC each had a great year in FCPA enforcement. But it is important to acknowledge that the blockbuster case, Goldman Sachs, was the driver of this successful year. ...more
In a record year, there are bound to be numerous interesting enforcement actions and principles. I picked out a few to highlight....more
The long-awaited Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA (FMC) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action was recently announced. It involved massive multi-year and multi bribery schemes by the company in multiple...more
Last week I interviewed Susan Divers, Senior Advisor at LRN Corporation, on the company’s 2016 Ethics and Compliance Program Effectiveness Report (Report). The Report was a fascinating review of the evolution of compliance...more
My good friend and colleague, Tom Fox, has written an interesting post on the SEC’s recent United Airlines settlement for $2.4 million for domestic bribery. As Tom has noted, the interesting aspect of the SEC’s enforcement...more
In a remarkable affirmation of the value of robust compliance and due-diligence programs, the Securities and Exchange Commission last month announced that it would not prosecute a U.S. company for potential violations of the...more
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
Say what you will – the SEC is making its mark this year in FCPA enforcement. So far, the SEC has brought nine separate enforcement actions, the latest with Bristol-Myers Squibb. I am sure we will see more before the end of...more
When DOJ acts, they like to make a splash. While the FCPA Paparazzi have been lamenting the “slow down” in FCPA enforcement actions and the increase in case closings, DOJ still makes its mark when it acts, and I expect more...more
On this day in 1959, occurred one of the more iconic events of the Cold War, that being the Kitchen Debate between US Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. It was called ‘The Kitchen Debate’...more
Ed. Note-today we have a guest post from two noted compliance practitioners from Ukraine, Timur Khasanov-Batirov and Andriy Selepey who discuss the dangers of a paper compliance program. Corruption is the main problem...more
In this episode, Compliance Week Editor-in-Chief Matt Kelly and I discuss the Avon and Alstom FCPA enforcement actions and then take a look at the ongoing Petrobras corruption scandal and what it means for Brazil. ...more
While ethics and compliance scandals that implicate brand name companies tend to grab the headlines, smaller organizations have always borne the brunt of regulatory enforcement. Over the years, U.S. Sentencing Commission data...more
In this episode I review the two Opinion Releases, Esquenazi court decision, DOJ communications via speeches on FCPA enforcement. I end with a look at 2015. ...more
The symbol of Venice is the Lion of St. Mark. The use of this symbol led to the maxim ‘straight from the lion’s mouth’. This adage came about because the Republic of Venice had its own hotline system where citizens could...more
This past week I chaired the Beacon Events Corruption and Compliance – Asia Congress 2013 conference....more