Episode 331- NAVEX State of Risk and Compliance Programs
FCPA Compliance Report: Erica Salmon Byrne on Closing The Speak Up Gap
Compliance Lessons from Dating in Your 50s
What's the Tea in L&E? "Passive" Harassment: When Does Workplace Decor Contribute to a Hostile Environment?
Episode 327 -- Another Look at the Importance of Corporate Culture
In Brief: Election Law & Government Ethics Unpacked: National Convention Guidance
Compliance into the Weeds: Scathing Report on Culture at The FDIC
Culture Crafters - Turning Around a Toxic Culture: Part 5 - Ongoing Monitoring and Continuous Improvement of Culture
FCPA Compliance Report: How Boeing Can Make a Cultural Comeback
Episode 318 -- LRN's Recent Study Underscores Importance of Ethical Culture and Values-Based Leadership
Navigating Employment and Separation Agreements: Lessons From Al Pacino's Serpico — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Overcoming Internal Barriers to Compliance Success
Episode 297 -- Susan Divers on LRN's 2023 Program Effectiveness Report
DE Talk | From Human “Doing” to Human “Being”: Transforming to Own Your 50
Branding Your Compliance Program
Hear Lisa Monaco's Announcement of M&A Leniency Policy
Compliance Programs Part 1: What is a Compliance Program and Why do Businesses Need One?
Episode 285 -- The Importance of a Consequence Management System
ESG, DEI and Compliance
Succcessful Compliance and Ethics Ambassadors Programs
The 2022 Monaco Memo emphasized the basic point that the key to every company is culture. The bottom line is that corporate culture matters and corporate culture that fails to hold individuals accountable, or fails to invest...more
To build a robust ethical culture, ethics and compliance professionals need effective culture assessments to pinpoint vulnerabilities and proactively address them. The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) update to the...more
Compliance professionals constantly seek to understand how systemic issues within corporate hierarchies can lead to severe consequences. The recent revelations about Bank of America’s (BoA) persistent workplace culture...more
In her remarks to the American Bar Association’s National Institute on White Collar Crime, Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco outlined the forthcoming whistleblower program that seeks to fill in the gaps of existing...more
In a recent episode of the FCPA Compliance Podcast, we discussed the 2024 Ethisphere Ethical Culture Report, “Closing the Speak Up Gap,” with Erica Salmon Byrne. As an expert in ethical culture and a familiar voice to our...more
Boeing is not the first company to find itself amid a massive scandal. You can think of Siemens’ bribery and corruption scandal, the VW emissions-testing scandal, the Wells Fargo fraudulent accounts scandal, or any other...more
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the creation of a new U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ or Department) Whistleblower Rewards Program at the 39th Annual ABA White Collar National Institute in San Francisco...more
At last week’s ABA National White Collar Crime Institute, the leadership of the Department of Justice (the DOJ or the Department), including Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, made clear...more
In March 2023 there were two days of speeches from the DOJ which added to the compliance complexity. The speeches were made by Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco (2023 Monaco Speech) and Assistant Attorney General...more
On October 4, 2023, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco announced a new "safe harbor" policy for voluntary self-disclosures in the context of mergers and acquisitions, whereby the Department of Justice will decline to...more
One of the benefits of old(er) age is perspective and experience. (As we age, we have to find the positive reasons to tout). If there is one thing (of many) the compliance profession has demonstrated, it is that compliance...more
The Global Business Ethics Survey (GBES) conducted by the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI) provides valuable insights into workplace ethics and compliance from the perspective of employees. I recently had the opportunity...more
It has been a summer of revelations leaving the financial services sector facing uncertainty and increased scrutiny on how allegations of behavioral misconduct might be managed going forward. This came after multiple...more
I recently concluded a podcast series with Case IQ. Over this series, I visited with Sharlyn Lauby, Jakub Ficner, Kenneth McCarthy, and Meric Bloch on the different facets of a great speak-up regime and how each of those...more
Once defined, installed, and surrounded with a consequence management system, a corporate culture is not fixed in stone. To the contrary, as the business adapts through growth, innovation or in response to outside market and...more
As a company’s most valuable intangible asset, we have witnessed the wreckage of companies that have fallen victim to reputational damage, scandal and ultimately the wasteland of a rotten corporate culture. In these...more
Key Points - On March 30, 2023, OFAC announced a settlement agreement with Wells Fargo for 124 apparent violations of three different sanctions programs (Iran, Syria and Sudan), all related to a legacy Wachovia Bank...more
Not that I am a glutton for punishment, but I always find enforcement actions to supply a number of valuable lessons learned. There are always instructive nuggets of information, opportunities missed, and root causes that...more
If there ever is an example of a rotten corporate culture, Wells Fargo sits at the head of the class. Since Wells Fargo’s sales pressure scandal, Wells Fargo has continued to suffer from a string of scandals and misconduct. ...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced several new policies and programs aimed at incentivizing corporate compliance. These programs underscore the need for companies to investigate, mitigate and resolve...more
Monaco’s and Polite’s remarks, and the DOJ’s new policies and guidance, come amid the Department’s increasingly tough on corporate crime approach and emphasis on rewarding companies that have effective compliance programs...more
Self-Reporting Remains a Major Focus - Few executives expect to interact with the Department of Justice (DOJ) during their careers, but the current DOJ has given companies some homework, and the assignment applies to...more
Even at companies with separate legal and compliance departments, Department of Justice-enforced compliance is a key concern for in-house counsel. Those pressures only will increase in the near future and are rapidly...more