In this episode, Matt Kelly and I take a deep dive into the recent Vantage Drilling FCPA enforcement action. It is a highly unusual enforcement action with some very different facts from the standard FCPA case. It provides some new lessons learned for the compliance professional (and some old ones as well). 

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What are some of the top compliance and corruption stories for November 27? Sit back with a cup of joe and Join Tom Fox, the Compliance Evangelist to find out.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I begin a five-part podcast series on compliance lessons I observed from a recent holiday in Venice. I start the series with a look at the manner in which building repairs are done in the city and how this old-fashioned way of construction informs your modern day compliance program.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If there is one thing that is ubiquitous throughout this city it is the Gondolier. In addition to having a stout pairs of lungs, the Gondolier are in very good physical condition. As a CCO, the more you can get out of the office and into the field, the more fit your compliance program will become.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today our compliance insight comes not from the old Venice but from the new and ever-changing Venice, its street vendors. It is about using their ‘invisible hand’ to inform your risk assessments.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As podcast series on compliance lessons from Venice draws to an end, I am reminded how much the western world has to thank the Republic of Venice. From the forms of republican democracy, to helping to establish a world-wide trade and banking system which still reverberates today. But, if you look closer, ancient Venice had many good government techniques which also still inform the modern world. Straight from the lion’s mouth to your company’s internal reporting system is just one of them.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I continue with my Venice themed podcast series by focusing on the Arsenale. This is not a precursor to that famous north London football club, the Arsenal Gunners, but the district in Venice where one of the main commercial enterprises of the city took place, that being ship building and ship repair. But I also picked up some interesting compliance insights in learning more about the Arsenale.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode I have back noted data protection expert Brad Davis. Our topic is data protection and Davis’ advocacy of social engineering as the first line of defense for every corporation from hackers, phisher and all manner of nefarious actors who will endeavor to hack into you corporate site.  

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Jonathan Armstrong and I record our first emergency podcast on Life with GDPR. It relates to documents obtained by the UK Parliamentary Digital, Culture, Media and Sports Committee through its subpoena of an American executive of the US company Six4Three. This exec just happened to be in London with Facebook documents his company had obtained in unrelated litigation between Six4Three and Facebook. We present the Facebook Files.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices