Episode 249 – the Whistleblower edition

This Week in FCPA

Big news in whistleblower information and an award this week. Tom and Jay are back to look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA. We are joined by special guest Asha Palmer to talk about the upcoming Converge21 Workshop Edition.

Stories

1. SEC whistleblower program big award and news. Mengqi Sun in WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance. How did compliance manage reporting during Covid-19. Jaclyn Jaeger in Compliance Week. (sub req’d)
2. Human capital management. Paul Washington and Rebecca Ray in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.
3. NYDFS cybersecurity enforcement action against National Securities. In NYU Compliance and Enforcement Blog.
4. Post pandemic business resiliance. Jim Deloach in CCI.
5. The cost of unethical requests. Isaac H. Smith, Maryam Kouchaki, and Justin Wareham in the MIT Sloan Management Review. (sub req’d)
6. To Russia with Love. Mike Volkov on the US ramping up sanctions on Russia. For a deeper dive check out this week’s episode of Embargoed! On the Compliance Podcast Network.
7. ComEd as a wake up call. Vincent Wu in the Global AntiCorruption Blog.
8. Making your values stick. Brett Beasley in Center for Ethical Leadership.
9. The role of complexity in compliance. Risk and Compliance Platform Europe.
10. Can the government make us more ethical? Jeff Kaplan explores in the Conflict of Interest Blog.

Podcasts and Events

1. Tom and Megan Dougherty are doing a special podcast series around The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, currently streaming on Disney+. Check out Episodes 1&2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5.
2. Affiliated Monitors, Inc.’s Donald Sternand Eric Feldman CFE, CIG, CCEP-I host special guest Rod J. Rosenstein, former Deputy Attorney General and currently a partner at King & Spalding, for part two of an engaging discussion on "The Past, Present and Future of Monitoring”. Rod and Eric conclude with key takeaways at the end of this podcast.
3. This month on The Compliance Life, Tom welcomes Jonathon Kellerman. In Episode 1, Jonathon discusses the path he took to compliance. In Episode 2, he talked about his early professional career in healthcare compliance consulting. In Episode 3, he moves to the CCO Chair.
4. For more information on the Converge21, the Workshop Edition, click here.
5. CCI releases a new eBook, The FCPA Year in Review by the Compliance Evangelist, Tom Fox. You can obtain a copy here. Best of all its available at no charge.
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. This week on The Compliance Handbook podcast, Eric Young joins Tom for a deep dive into the role of internal controls in a best practices compliance program.

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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