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Earlier this month, the FCPA Blog published a post by Billy Jacobson about new Department of Justice (DOJ) policies regarding communications made via messaging apps and devices. He said he believed these policies “could threaten the more important, every day work being done by compliance departments.”… Continue Reading
The cybersecurity landscape in all respects — from the threats posed to the methods used to counter them, plus the regulatory requirements about how to prevent, detect and mitigate cyber incidents – is always changing.… Continue Reading
Data breaches and privacy compromises make everyone look bad: No matter how sophisticated the attacker, the company on the receiving end of such intrusions always looks woefully unprepared, if not worse — even if it could not possibly have controlled for every factor to which it was subjected and had the right talent at hand.… Continue Reading
Most of us feel like we are in Teams and Zoom calls all day long, so it might sound silly if I talk about those times of the day when no one is watching.… Continue Reading
Looking back, I guess you could say any predictions that FCPA prosecutions would go by the wayside over the last four years were incorrect, as the number of cases brought and penalty amounts have been high and the spotlight on the exposure of global corporations to corruption unwavering. … Continue Reading
Remote work isn’t so temporary after all, as businesses think about new work-from-home arrangements amid the Covid-19 pandemic, accelerating an already emerging trend. But rules from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) haven’t always contemplated remote working and meeting practices, at least not explicitly.… Continue Reading
I just watched the new HBO drama Bad Education, and I highly recommend it.… Continue Reading
The new Hogan Lovells’ Steering the Course II report examines the approaches, concerns, and regional differences of multinational corporations across the globe as they tackle anti-bribery and corruption risk by surveying 700 chief compliance officers, heads of legal, or equivalent.… Continue Reading
With the U.S. government encouraging businesses to earn cooperation credit at the penalty phase of enforcement actions through the “naming of names” at the onset of investigations, there might be momentum for more executives being held personally accountable in regulatory enforcements.… Continue Reading
We’ve seen in the past few years more CEOs stepping down for displays of poor conduct, bad judgment, and even a disregard for taking misconduct seriously enough. Travis Kalanick at Uber, Roger Ailes at Fox News, Dov Charney at American Apparel, and Harvey Weinstein at The Weinstein Company are among them.… Continue Reading
Some pioneering economists and psychologists have taken a closer look at how people behave — and the choices they make, such as in the workplace, to create a body of work called behavioral economics.… Continue Reading
In writing and speaking about regulatory compliance, one term that comes up quite a bit is “credible deterrence.” When deterrence is real, institutions and the people in them are able to resist any temptation to skirt legal and regulatory imperatives, if only because of the fear of likely repercussions.… Continue Reading