Episode 256 – the Biden Statement on Corruption edition

This Week in FCPA

With Jay moving this week, Tom is joined by Complinace Kristy (Kristy Grant-Hart) as special guest host. They take a look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Biden Statement on Corruption edition.

Stories

1. President Biden’s Statement and Memorandum on corrption. Tom takes a deep dive in four blog posts on the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance. Alexandra Wrage on the FCPA Blog. Rick Messick in GAB. Jessica Tillipman in the FCPA Blog.
2. Don’t get caught up in endless internal investigations. Lloydette Bai-Marrow in the FCPA Blog.
3. Biden Dumps PCAOB Board. Aaron Nicodemus and Kyle Brasseur in Complinace Week. (sub req’d)
4. More on Caremark. Jeff Kaplan in the Conflict of Ethics Blog.
5. What is conflict due diligence? Lawarence Heim in PracticalESG Blog.
6. Can you measure a ‘speak-up’ culture by the number of complaints? Martin Lønstrup in the FCPA Blog.
7. Two former Chadean diplomats indicted for corruption. Mike Volkov in Corruption, Crime and Compliance.
8. Are there smoking guns in your Board minutes? Terry Quimby in the Compliance Cosmos.
9. Do you need a People Committee on your BOD? Reshmi Paul and Jeff McLean in Compensation In Context.

Podcasts and Events

1. How does history inform compliance? What are the leadership lessons from ancient Greeks and Romans? Find out in this special 10 part podcast series on famous Greeks and Romans from Plutarch’s Lives this week on 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership, hosted by Richard Lummis and Tom Fox. In Episode 1, they mine Plutarch about the lives of and leadership lessons from Themistocles and Camillus.
2. Trekking Through Compliance Returns! Tom reviews all 79 episodes of Star Trek, the Original Series beginning June 1. Each day at 3 PM on the Compliance Podcast Network. This week included Mudd’s Women, What are Little Girls Made Of?, Miri, Dagger of the Mind and The Corbomite Maneuver.
3. AB InBev invites you to the Compliance Open House on June 15 at 10AM EST on the topic “Collaboration Framework for Democratizing Compliance Analytics – where are we and what is next." Registration and information here.
4. On July 1, join K2 Integrity’s Snezana Gebauer and Darren Matthews will present a webinar on asset tracing at the IBA Global Influencer Forum. Learn more and register: https://www.k2integrity.com/en/events/k2-integrity-webinar-at-iba-global-influencer-forum-fraud-debt-and-judgements-how-to-maximize-asset
5. What is the role of compliance in managing Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives? Join this Convercent Global Forum to learn what’s ahead for ESG and what you should start thinking about now, to be prepared before regulations go into effect. On June 16, 11 AM ET. Registration and information here.
6. Tom announces his latest book, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 and go here. The Compliance Handbook 2ndedition will be available in both print and eBook editions.

Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at [e-mail]. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at [e-mail].

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