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
Sanctions don’t work. That’s why we’ll see more of them
If sanctions did what they were supposed to, they’d hit their targets hard, produce intended results, and come to an end. But that’s not happening.
What is driving compliance underground?
Start with this: There were 8,000 public companies listed on U.S. exchanges 25 years ago, and now there are fewer than 4,000. Then ask: Who
Is private equity bad for compliance?
According to some, we should fear private equity because it operates in secret and is therefore more dangerous to society than public money. Does the
What’s happening in these new FCPA investigations?
Here’s a status report about three of the new FCPA-related investigations that companies have disclosed in 2023. The investigations involve Stryker Corporation, Azure Power Global
Why are these companies so much better at compliance?
In an earlier post, I said family-owned and -managed companies (or family businesses for short) have an unusually strong FCPA compliance record. Some readers asked
What does the lull in FCPA enforcement mean for chief compliance officers?
Over the past decade, the DOJ and SEC helped establish the value of compliance programs. Companies had a basis for quantifying enforcement risks because of
Two behavioral science superstars who studied dishonesty are accused of fabricating data
Even if you don’t know Dan Ariely of Duke and Francesca Gino of Harvard, you may know their groundbreaking research. It’s about nudging people to
Is there more (or less) to risk-based compliance than meets the eye?
The DOJ expects the risk-based approach to saturate compliance programs. It calls for risk-based training, risk-based due diligence, risk-tailored resource allocation, and even “risk-based and
Uh-Oh. Another compliance-related term with multiple meanings
I wrote recently about the multiple meanings of “de-risking” and how compliance professionals need to know all those meanings. That post triggered a comment that
‘De-risking’ has multiple meanings. Compliance officers need to know them all
English words sometimes change their meanings. Bad, cool, wicked, sick, awesome, literally, and like have undergone recent semantic shifts. But it happens less often with