Harry Cassin
Publisher and Editor
Andy Spalding
Senior Editor
Jessica Tillipman
Senior Editor
Bill Steinman
Senior Editor
Richard L. Cassin
Editor at Large
Elizabeth K. Spahn
Editor Emeritus
Cody Worthington
Contributing Editor
Julie DiMauro
Contributing Editor
Thomas Fox
Contributing Editor
Marc Alain Bohn
Contributing Editor
Bill Waite
Contributing Editor
Shruti J. Shah
Contributing Editor
Russell A. Stamets
Contributing Editor
Richard Bistrong
Contributing Editor
Eric Carlson
Contributing Editor
Earlier this year, we (at the FCPA Blog) started a journey to supercharge our internal research involving SEC filings. We needed a user-friendly way to create searches and monitor alerts from EDGAR.… Continue Reading
A report from ProPublica in October crushed the fiction that revenue management software in the residential housing market doesn’t hurt renters. The troubling ProPublica report and its aftermath raise questions for all compliance officers, not just those in the real estate space: Is algorithmic pricing legal?… Continue Reading
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled last week that public access to registries showing personal details about companies’ beneficial owners infringes fundamental individual rights otherwise protected by the EU.… Continue Reading
One of the shared features of the FTX, Theranos, and Madoff disasters — through which a combined $50 billion or so of investors’ money disappeared — is the presence of ultra-sophisticated investors whose due diligence apparently failed to reveal ridiculously visible red flags.… Continue Reading
The biggest FCPA resolutions yearly show enormous variation and no predictable pattern. Although four of the biggest cases for each of the past ten years settled for more than $1 billion, with an overall average settlement size for the ten cases of about $996 million, a couple of years were laggards.… Continue Reading
The World Bank debarred a Spanish consultant in the oil and gas industry and his affiliated companies Wednesday for three years for a corrupt practice connected to a project in Guyana.… Continue Reading
Let me bring you up to speed if you missed the news. There is a Pompeii-grade meltdown happening in the cryptocurrency world.… Continue Reading
Netflix recently released a new docuseries on the FIFA corruption scandal. The four-part series delves into the history and mechanics of how the organization was corrupted.… Continue Reading
Along with work-from-anywhere and quiet quitting, the pandemic gave us “bring your whole self to work.” But what does being real at work look like? And is workplace authenticity a good idea for compliance?… Continue Reading
At the gatehouse, the security guard passed me a Novartis visitor’s badge, and I turned to walk down Fabrikstrasse – the campus’ central boulevard. Two thoughts popped into my head: I think I’m too early (I was) and I hope these people are friendly (they were).… Continue Reading
The UK subsidiary of Swiss mining giant Glencore was ordered to pay £281 million ($314 million) in the United Kingdom on Thursday for bribes in Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, and South Sudan.… Continue Reading
Corporate subsidiaries only act on someone else’s say so. The drafters of the FCPA knew that, and that’s why the FCPA prohibits offering to pay, paying, promising to pay, or authorizing the payment of money or anything of value to a foreign official for an improper purpose.… Continue Reading
