Harry Cassin
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Senior Editor
Jessica Tillipman
Senior Editor
Bill Steinman
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Richard L. Cassin
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Elizabeth K. Spahn
Editor Emeritus
Cody Worthington
Contributing Editor
Julie DiMauro
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Thomas Fox
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Marc Alain Bohn
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Bill Waite
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Shruti J. Shah
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Russell A. Stamets
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Richard Bistrong
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Eric Carlson
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When Switzerland-based Glencore paid the DOJ $700 million last week to settle widespread FCPA offenses, it earned a place on our FCPA top ten list, replacing a French bank and leaving Goldman Sachs as the only other bank currently on the list.… Continue Reading
As the recent high-level and healthy debate on the FCPA Blog has shown, there are various ways to gather and analyze corruption-risk data at the country level, all of which have respective pros and cons but nevertheless are indispensable in our era of risk-based compliance decision-making.… Continue Reading
Switzerland-based mining and commodities giant Glencore plc on Tuesday settled corruption investigations in the United States, the UK, and Brazil. In the U.S., subsidiary Glencore International AG pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the FCPA and agreed to pay $700 million in criminal penalties and forfeiture.… Continue Reading
The ethics and compliance training video series, Compliance Corner, which last year won a Silver Telly award for Corporate Training honoring excellence in video and television content across all screens, has recently won two Communicator Awards of Distinction for Corporate-Use Video-Training and the Use of Music for Film.… Continue Reading
The FCPA Blog’s favorite Formula One team in the 2022 season, Aston Martin, was forced to start from the pit lane at the inaugural Miami Grand Prix due to a fuel temperature compliance issue.… Continue Reading
One way to understand the virulence of corruption is to look at what happens to journalists who expose it.… Continue Reading
The new and unique Corruption Risk Forecast at the national level launched by the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and Statebuilding (ERCAS) and CIPE has started to receive feedback from various sources.… Continue Reading
One of the astounding facts to emerge from the crypto crash — aside from $200 billion in losses during one 24-hour period last week and overall losses of more than $1 trillion so far — is that before the crash, investors had more than 15,000 cryptocurrencies to pick from.… Continue Reading
While performing a routine malware scan on my devices, I recently got an unexpected hit: Positive for Pegasus. It appeared that my phone had been compromised by the military-grade spyware wreaking havoc across the globe.… Continue Reading
Last month, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS) released their new Corruption Risk Forecast. The Corruption Risk Forecast aspires to provide a set of “[o]bjective corruption and transparency indicators for over 120 countries to diagnose the present, forecast the future, and set policy targets.”… Continue Reading
Last week we asked the FCPA Blog community what they thought of the DOJ’s new priority of holding individuals who commit white-collar “corporate” crimes accountable over corporations themselves. Here are the results.… Continue Reading
“For everything there is a season,” a wise man once said. So what season are we currently in for compliance? Let’s consider an example from our predecessors to find out. Warning: This post may spark some nostalgia for cargo shorts and rollerblades. … Continue Reading
