Richard L. Cassin | Editor at large
Richard L. Cassin is the founder of the FCPA Blog. He serves as editor at large.
He has been named multiple times as one of the 100 Most Influential People In Business Ethics by Ethisphere Magazine. He was named a Trust Across America 2019 Top Thought Leader in Trust.
Cassin’s articles about corruption and compliance have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Business Times (Singapore), New England Law Review, and many other leading publications. His opinions about FCPA enforcement have been cited recently by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Business Week, Variety, Bloomberg’s news wire, Reuters, NPR, Fox News, CNN, and others.
He was a senior partner in a major international law firm and the head of its Asia practice.
Recent Posts
Can your company keep a promise to cooperate?
Why is cooperation in corporate enforcement actions such a big deal? Because from the outside, most companies are a black box. Without help, it’s impossible
Why has corporate FCPA enforcement stopped?
The first four months of 2021 saw only one FCPA enforcement action against a corporate defendant. That’s the slowest start for at least 10 years.
Expert advice to deal with work-from-home procrastination
It occurred to me that work-from-home has always been the norm for writers. So I wondered how seasoned professionals handle all the WFH temptations to
Questions compliance officers should ask themselves before that big promotion
In an SEC filing Tuesday, Zurich-based Credit Suisse Group SA said it wrote down $4.7 billion in bad loans, and chief risk and compliance officer
Compliance Alert: Sometimes companies must break the law
You may have noticed a risk factor in annual reports and SEC registration statements about “conflicting laws and regulations.” Once rare, the warning has become
Should compliance departments be forced to compete with outside providers?
We all know this about corporate life: Support functions are the exclusive responsibility of designated groups. If you need or want compliance help, for example,
Compliance Training: Five reasons why you have an anti-corruption program
Here’s a strange fact. Some corporate anti-bribery policies give no reason for employees not to pay bribes. Or rather, the only reason they give is
Is compliance a young person’s profession?
Although we all celebrate birthdays and keep close track of our age, you can’t do that in the workplace anymore. So there’s no reliable information
Will WFH become a new legal right?
Because of Covid-19, nearly half of all U.S. workers are now working from home, and a majority of those want to continue working from home
Three things (maybe four) I learned in Texas last week
Living through a large-scale catastrophic event can bring on reflective thought and self assessment. Last week’s arctic weather in my home state of Texas did