Richard L. Cassin | Editor at large
Richard L. Cassin founded the FCPA Blog and now serves as editor-at-large.
He was named multiple times by Ethisphere Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics.
Before founding the FCPA Blog, he was a senior partner in a major international law firm and the head of its Singapore office and Asia practice.
Cassin’s articles about corruption and compliance have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Business Times (Singapore), New England Law Review, and other leading publications. His opinions about FCPA enforcement have been cited by the New York Times, Washington Post, Business Week, Variety, Bloomberg’s news wire, Reuters, NPR, Fox News, CNN, and others.
Recent Posts
Why does Walmart want this retiring executive to keep quiet about FCPA matters?
In a November 29 press release that was also part of an SEC filing, Walmart Inc. announced the impending retirement of CFO Brett Biggs. The
Are goals good for people and bad for organizations?
Goal setting. We do it every day. Usually, we have multiple goals running at the same time. Finish a marathon, learn Italian, master the violin.
Is this the most powerful (and unpopular) compliance tool ever?
Compliance officers looking for ways to become even more disliked can try this: Insist on writing down and circulating around the C-suite every major compliance
Supply chain disruptions bring out the worst in everyone
There are bottlenecks everywhere. Chip shortages, missing workers, clogged ports, rising commodity prices, and yes (still), Covid-19. They’re all disrupting or threatening to disrupt supply
Can we really ‘measure’ compliance?
A lot of credit for equating managing with math goes to the late Peter Drucker, pictured left. “What gets measured gets managed,” he said, and
I tried to write a post about FCPA enforcement, and this happened
I collect tidbits about FCPA enforcement. During good weeks, the tidbits come together for a post. Other times, they stubbornly remain random factoids. That’s what
Every compliance officer’s toolbox needs the ‘Ben Franklin effect’
America’s first blogger, Ben Franklin, wrote in his 1791 autobiography that if you want someone to like you more, ask them for a favor.
Why is ‘ancient history’ part of so many FCPA cases?
Have you noticed how many corporate FCPA enforcement actions recount old facts. Really old facts — sometimes from more than a decade ago. Why should
The world’s ‘legal infrastructure’ has been transformed to fight corporate bribery
As Salomé Lemasson’s excellent post earlier this week reported, a new level of corporate accountability for overseas bribery and ESG is breaking out across Europe.
How much compliance training is enough?
We know a lot about what the feds expect from compliance training. For example, from the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs and the FCPA Resource