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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Tone At The Top

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Tone at The Top Week: Part 2 – Ten Things A CEO Can Do

In corporate compliance, a guiding principle is the foundation for success or failure: Tone at the Top. This phrase encapsulates the role of senior executives—particularly the CEO—in setting the ethical standards, cultural...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Tone at the Top Week: Part 1 - The Mandate

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

Oberheiden P.C.

A CEO's Guide to FCPA Compliance

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- A tone-at-the-top business culture with CEO leadership is a critical component of effective anti-corruption and anti-bribery policy implementation. - CEO leadership helps set an example for lower management and company...more

The Volkov Law Group

Turning a Turbulent Social and Political Environment into Positive Ethical Culture Strategies

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Corporate cultures do not operate in a silo or free from external influences.  Yet again, another profound grasp of the obvious.  Employees, managers and senior leadership all bring their own experiences, perspectives,...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Preventing White Collar Crime

I conclude my short exploration of the recent set of articles in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) White Collar crime special section. Today, I want to look at an article by Mary Jo white, entitled “What I’ve Learned About...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

What is Innovation in Compliance and Why is it so Hard? Part I

One of the topics I enjoy exploring the most is all things around innovation in compliance. In fact, I dedicate an entire podcast to just that topic, which is aptly named Innovation in Compliance....more

The Volkov Law Group

Criminal Enforcement Against Senior Executives: The Fish Rots from the Head

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The compliance community is well aware of the risks in the C-Suite. As you move up the corporate ladder, the level of risk from executive misconduct increases. A rotten executive can quickly bring down a company, destroy...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

How to Communicate the ‘Vision Thing’

Think about the task facing new Uber Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dara Khosrowshahi. He is working to overhaul a toxic corporate culture, while dealing with regulators literally across the globe. ...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Astros Garner First World Series Win – Execution of Compliance in the Middle

In compliance you often times need to be a superior utility player who is good at every job. There are multiple lessons. First and foremost is the problem of siloing in corporate America. This concern of siloing even...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Day 22 of One Month to Better Compliance Through HR-10 Questions to Better Operationalize Compliance

I conclude this month’s series inspired by an article in the Harvard Business Review, entitled “Does Management Really Work?” by Nicholas Brown, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen. I found the article very useful because it...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Will Culture Change at Uber Before It’s Too Late?

What happens when a company delivers a superior product or service which is enthusiastically embraced by the consuming public, has a contented, if not equally enthusiastic, public facing work force and the business itself...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Great Expectations - DOJ holds anti-corruption compliance programs to a high standard in evaluating their credibility

On February 8, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a list of important topics and sample questions that the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section has frequently found relevant in evaluating the adequacy of a...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Wells Fargo Week: Part V – Compliance is the Answer

I want to end this week’s review of the Wells Fargo scandal by considering what is at issue and what is at stake in this imbroglio. Unlike a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violation, Wells Fargo paid the relatively...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Hallmark 1 – Commitment from Senior Management and a Clearly Articulated Policy Against Corruption

Over the next two weeks I will be revisiting the Ten Hallmarks of an Effective Compliance program, as laid out in the 2012 A Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ( FCPA Guidance) authored by the Criminal...more

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