Daily Compliance News: May 1, 2025, The 100 Days of Corruption Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending April 26, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 21, 2025, The Tribute to Pope Francis Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 15, 2025, The Redefining Corruption Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 14, 2025, The Cascade of Corruption Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending April 12, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 10, 2025, The Dark Money Corruption Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 9, 2025, The Corruption at the DOJ Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 8, 2025, The End of Monitors Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 7, 2025, The Whistleblowers Awarded Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 2, 2025, The All WSJ Edition
Daily Compliance News: March 26, 2025, The Missile Strike on Boeing Edition
Daily Compliance News: March 24, 2025, The ABC Task Force Edition
Episode 360 -- Natalie Druckman from Certa on AI-Enhanced Third-Party Risk Management
Daily Compliance News: February 26, 2025, The Corrupt World Edition
Episode 357 -- Updating Your Risks Under the New Trump Administration
False Claims Act Insights - Some FCA Whistles Are Louder Than Others
Episode 356 -- Trump Administration Hits Pause on FCPA Enforcement
Episode 354 -- The New Era of Compliance: Generative AI, Data and Innovation
Episode 350 -- Deep Dive into McKinsey FCPA Case
On 24 April 2025, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) launched new guidance for corporates on self-reporting, cooperation and deferred prosecution agreements (“DPAs”). Among other things, the new guidance states that, if a...more
On August 1, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued final guidance on its Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (Program), offering financial incentives to qualifying individuals who report certain criminal...more
Last week at the American Bar Association’s annual National Institute on White Collar Crime in Miami, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite highlighted several new facets of the...more
The guidelines provide useful insights into the mechanism of settlement agreements in criminal cases, and supersede previous guidelines published on June 26, 2019. Article 22 of Law No. 2016-1691 of December 9, 2016...more
On January 13, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an alert advising financial institutions on how to detect and report suspicious financial activity that may be related to human smuggling along the...more
Today, we continue our exploration of the Monaco Memo by considering the section entitled “Timely Disclosures and Prioritization of Individual Investigations”. This portion of the Monaco Memo re-emphasized the reinstitution...more
On October 1, 2020, the new Instruction on the Investigation and Prosecution of Foreign Corruption for the Dutch Public Prosecution Service ("DPPS") entered into force, indicating certain factors that play a role in...more
The French National Financial Prosecutor and the French Anticorruption Agency have released guidelines on the French deferred prosecution agreement, that offers a few welcome clarifications. After years of debate on the...more
On April 30, the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice released an update to the Fraud Section’s February 2017 guidance document titled “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs.” ...more
On April 30, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released updated guidance detailing how prosecutors will evaluate corporate compliance programs in charging and resolving criminal cases....more
On May 1, 2019, the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released updated guidance for prosecutors to utilize in assessing whether an organization had in place “an adequate and effective corporate...more
We conclude our exploration of the recently released Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs – Guidance Document(2019 Guidance), which was announced(ECI speech) by Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski at the...more
On April 30, 2019, Brian A. Benczkowski, the assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice, announced the release of an updated version of the Criminal Division’s guidance for...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued an update to the “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” released by the Fraud Section in 2017. ...more
On the heels of the Justice Department’s announcement of its new compliance guidance, on May 2, 2019, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (“OFAC”) issued its promised guidance for sanctions compliance...more
The Justice Department’s new Corporate Compliance Guidance is keyed to the concept of a “well-designed compliance program.” Under this concept, we first examined risk assessments and policies and procedures. ...more
Hard to imagine that any financial news could come close to making headlines on Thursday, and yet, the SEC and Elon Musk came close. Specifically, the SEC filed suit against Musk, accusing him of “making false public...more
ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS – SBM Offshore N.V. Agrees to Pay $238 Million to Resolve DOJ FCPA Enforcement Action - On November 29, 2017, SBM Offshore N.V. (SBM), a Netherlands based company specializing in the...more