All Episodes

Clippers Salary-Cap Circumvention: Sham Endorsements, Contract Red Flags, and Compliance Lessons

Broken Execution in Day-to-Day Compliance Operations – The BAE Enforcement Action

AI for Compliance: Lessons from Teaching Cohorts⁠

Compliance Implications of DOJ’s New Fraud Division and McDonald Memo

Ted Lasso, Culture and Compliance

FinCEN’s $125MM UBS AML Order: A Culture and Resourcing Failure

Scoular Company FCPA Settlement: Cartel Links, Border Trade Risks, and Compliance Lessons

The Slaughter Ruling, Regulatory Volatility and a Healthcare Compliance Fraud Case

Survey Finds Widespread Retaliation Against Compliance Officers

Bosch and the Foreign Direct Product Rule: Lessons from the Export Controls and NSD Settlement

OFAC’s Warning Shot: FTI Consulting Fined for Indirect Dealings with Sanctioned Bank

Why the Compliance Job Market Feels Frozen

An SEC Rollback and a Tribute to Barney Frank

The DOJ Trainwreck and the Rising Risk Calculus for Compliance and Self-Disclosure

Ohio State and Improper Requests by a President

Navigating DOJ's Evolving Self-Disclosure Strategies

Banking Regulators Cut Model Risk Guidance: Implications for Compliance, Audit, and AML Oversight

Surveying Retaliation Against Compliance Officers

Duty Owed vs. Material Nonpublic Information: Prediction Markets and Compliance

AI-Driven SOC Audits and the Growing Trust Gap

Balt and TradeStation: Lessons for the Compliance Professional

McKinsey’s Lilli AI Hack: What It Signals for AI Governance, Security and Disclosure

Carrots and Sticks in Washington: Antitrust Whistleblowers and an FCPA SOL Extension

SDNY’s New Declination Policy: Crime Categories, Cooperation, and Compliance Implications

FCPA Trial Rarity: Charles Hobson Convicted

Truth Stranger the Fiction: Binance, Iran, Crypto and Compliance

NPAs, Escalation and Ethics in Competing

The Reality of AI Adoption in Corporate Compliance

The Essence of Leadership and Why Donald Trump Is Not a Role Model

Addressing Retaliation Against Compliance Officers: Strategies and Insights

The Department of Retribution

Matt’s Key Compliance Issues and Trends to Watch in 2026

Special Holiday Episode: MGI’s Compliance Triumph in DOJ Tariff Evasion Case

The DOJ's Inconsistent Stance on White Collar Crime and FCPA Enforcement

Live from the Floor of ACI

Understanding SFO Guidance and Compliance Program Assessments

Uncovering FCPA Violations: Millicom's Complex Case Involving Drug Cartel Funds

The Atlanta Hawks Scandal: Lessons in Financial Misconduct

Incentives in Compliance: Structuring Effective Compensation Plans

The NBA Betting Scandal - Lessons for the Compliance Professional

The End of Self-Disclosure? The Criminal Indictment of Smartmatic

Navigating Effective Human Oversight for ADS/ADMT in AI Compliance

Chatbots and Interplay of Multiple Compliance Systems

Amplified Risks: Navigating Corporate Challenges in the Age of Social Media

Navigating H-1B Visa Reforms & Corporate Compliance Challenges

SCCE Compliance and Ethics Institute Report

Checking in on Codes of Conduct

Fracht - The Bonkers Sanctions Case

Examining the Impact of Reducing Middle Management on Corporate Culture

Unpacking the University of Michigan Football Scandal: Compliance and Consequences

The Dark Side of AI in Employee Training

Two Cyber Security Cases for the Compliance Professional

A Deep Dive into Cadence Design Systems' Export Control Violations

Sanctions Compliance Failures: Lessons from Harman International and Interactive Brokers

Agentic Misalignment and AI Ethics: Analyzing AI Behavior Under Pressure

Boeing’s New Safety Initiatives and Compliance Reforms

The COSO Governance Framework

Changes in FCPA Enforcement

Autonomous AI Whistleblowing Misconduct

Boeing, a NPA and the End of Monitors

Of Wal-Mart, Tariffs and Stakeholder Capitalism

Leaving on a (Qatari) Jet Plane

USRA Declination Case Study: Self-Disclosure Best Practices

Settlement of OCC Charges for Wells Fargo Internal Auditors

The Uncertain Future of Compliance Monitors under the Trump Administration

Unsexy Keys to Data Analytics for Compliance Programs

The Role of Compliance Going Forward

Global Anti-Corruption Leadership

A Deep Dive into Employee Leaks and Corporate Culture

More Compliance Challenges in the Trump Era

Compliance – Who Are We?

Exploring Corporate Culture Disconnect

The DOJ in Crisis

End of FCPA and CFPB?

Why Compliance Officers Should Consider Public Office

The IG Friday Night Massacre

The CSBS and State-Level Enforcement Actions in AML

Navigating Return to Office Policies and Corporate Speak Up Culture

5 Top Compliance Stories to Watch in 2025

NRA Governance Reforms: A Compliance Case Study

Potpourri of Compliance Issues

DOGE and Compliance

DOJ Under Trump: FCPA Enforcement and Compliance

Understanding the Telefónica Venezolana FCPA Enforcement Action

Risk-Based Compliance Lessons from a Young Entrepreneur’s Ice Cream Stand

Leadership Lessons from The Washington Post’s Non-Endorsement

Unveiling RTX's Costly Compliance Failures and Corporate Misconduct

Adventures in Squeezing Out Compliance - TD Bank's Flat Cost Paradigm

Exploring Compliance Data Access and Testing Challenges

The 2024 ECCP on Data Access

Argentieri Speech and Updated ECCP – The First Analysis

Everything Old is New Again - The John Deere FCPA Enforcement Action

Pre-taliation Illegality - from Employment Contracts to All Contracts

The BCG Declination – Key Insights for Compliance

Does a CCO Need to be a Lawyer?

Toxic Workplace Culture at Bank of America

Securing Compliance: How CCO’s Can Combat Internal Sabotage

The DOJ Whistleblower Incentive Program

The Boeing Plea Agreement – Questions, Questions, Questions

Major Cybersecurity Incidents and Regulatory Challenges

The Convergence of Cybersecurity and Internal Controls

The Supreme Court and Compliance

Navigating DOJ’s Boeing Dilemma Under DPA Violations

AI Accountability and Explainability

Analyzing The Trump Conviction: Compliance Lessons from an Unprecedented Case

Of Fat Fingers, Internal Controls and Compliance

Sustainability and Managing 3rd Party Risk

Scathing Report on Culture at The FDIC

The WACKO Enforcement Action Involving BF Borgers

What Are Boards Doing About AI (Hint: Not Much)

Digital Transformation in Sports Betting: Preventing Fraudulent Activities

Do We Need More Centralized Compliance?

The Complexity of Risk Assessments

Trafigura FCPA Enforcement Action

AI Washing and Compliance

SEC Climate Change Reporting and a Unified Risk Management Process

Monaco on DOJ Whistleblower Initiative and AI

The Gunvor FCPA Enforcement Action

The ACFE 2024 Anti-Fraud Technology Benchmarking Report

Compliance and Internal Controls in the Trump Organization

Down The Rabbit Hole on SEC Enforcement Waivers

To Monitor or Not to Monitor: What is even the Question?

Oscar Season and Internal Controls

Pre-Taliation is Illegal as to All

The SAP Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement Action

FTC and Rite-Aid: Compliance Issues with AI Facial Recognition

Key Compliance Issues for 2024

Congress Fills a Gap - FEPA

The Importance of Empathy and Moral Clarity in Campus Anti-Discrimination

Data Analytics, BoA and DOJ Pronouncements

Binance Pays $4+ Billion for Criminal Acts

OIG Says CCO Should be Independent

Remediation During an Enforcement Action

SEC Sues Solar Winds and CISO

Szabolcs Fekete and the Consequences of Ethical Breaches

A Deep Dive into Policies and Procedures

New M&A Safe Harbor

DE Shaw Enforcement Action for Pre-taliation

3M OFAC Enforcement Action

MGM Grand Data Breach

Failure to Have Effective Compliance Program

Risk Assessments, Control Environments and Plug Power

3M FCPA Enforcement Action

Messaging App Enforcement and Internal Controls

Responses to PCAOB Proposal On Audits

SEC Rules for Cyber Breach Disclosure

Auditing AI For Compliance

BOA Enforcement Action for Bogus Accounts

Compliance into the Weeds Takes a Eurotrip with Compliance Man

What is Driving Compliance Engagement at the Board?

A Material Weaknesses Catastrophe

PCAOB: Expanding Audit Duties-the Impact and Concerns

Compliance and Middle Managers

A Compliance Response on Messaging Apps

COSO Fraud Risk Management Framework

ComEd 2023 Compliance Report

BAT Sanctions Enforcement Action

Seagate Sanctions Enforcement Action

SOX Compliance, PCAOB Inspections and Audits

Microsoft OFAC Enforcement Action

COSO Framework for Sustainability Controls and Reporting

Blackbaud-Failures in Cyber Breach Disclosures

SVB Failure-Lessons for Compliance

Beneath the Bailout: The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

Updated DOJ Mandate on Clawbacks

Creating a Data Analytics Program

Having a Values Conversation

ChatGPT for the Compliance Professional

Activision Blizzard Settlement with SEC

McDonald’s and Duty of Corporate Officer Oversight

Update to the Corporate Enforcement Policy

Easterbrook, McDonalds Board & Discretionary Firings

DFS Fines Coinbase

Compliance Issues & Events We Are Looking at for 2023

The Danske Bank AML Enforcement Action

OCC ALJ Slams ex-Wells Fargo Execs

ABB FCPA Resolution

Mental Health and Compliance Officers

From $34 Billion to $0 in One Week-FTX and Controls

300th Anniversary Episode - Policies Policies Policies

Thinking about Clawbacks

Lafarge and the Cost of Moral Bankruptcy

External Auditors, Fraud Risks and Compliance

A Hockey Scandal in Canada

The Oracle FCPA Enforcement Action

Monaco Doctrine and Memo

Polite Speech-A Jolt for Compliance

Suicide Prevention Hotline and a Speak Up Culture

Cyber Security Failures Alleged in Mudge Whistleblower Compliant

Mudge and Whistleblower Allegations Against Twitter

HanesBrands Cyber Security Breach Disclosure

CFPB on Data Protection Minimums

What is a ‘Reasonably Designed’ Compliance Program

Internal Controls Lessons from Cyber Failures in Wisconsin

Lessons from the Biotronik Anti-Kickback Enforcement Action

The Wild and Wacky World of Control Failures

DFS Fines Carnival Cruise Lines for Cyber Failures

Dobbs and Compliance

Unintended Consequences of CCO Certifications

Compliance Craziness

Compliance Lessons from the Army

Compliance Lessons from Uvalde

DOJ Expectations for Compliance & CCOs

ComEd Compliance Report

JPMorgan Responds to Whistleblower Claims

Impacts on Compliance of Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Stericycle FCPA Enforcement Action

SEC Proposed Rules on Disclosure of Cyber Breaches

Musk Pulls U-Turn on Twitter Board

Company Size and State of Their Compliance Programs

CCO Certification of Compliance Programs

Proposed SEC Climate Change Risk Disclosure Regulations Released

A Ukrainian Compliance Professional-Tim Khashinov-Batirov

First We Kill All the Lawyers

Compliance Issues from the Russia Invasion of Ukraine

Corrupt Culture and Bags of Cash-the KT Corp. FCPA Enforcement Action

Elon Musk and Tesla Redux

Two Obscure Academic Papers and Compliance

Mike Volkov on Antitrust Issues in Microsoft Acquisition of Activision Blizzard

Log4j-the Merger of Cyber, 3rd Party and Operational Risk

Aspirational Compliance Training and Messaging

Issue and Trends for 2022, Part 2

Issue and Trends for 2022, Part 1

Year End Review, Part 2

Year End Review, Part 1

Compliance into the Weeds: On the Naughty List-JPMorgan $200 Settlement

US Strategy on Countering Corruption

Ransomware Attacks and Internal Controls

Red Flags and SPACs

A Single Source of Truth

Retreat on DoD Cybersecurity for Contractors

More on DAG Monaco Speech-DPAs and NPAs

DAG Announces Changes in Enforcement Priorities

Credit Suisse and Holistic Risk Management

Compliance and AI

Expansive SEC Enforcement in the Wind

Ozy Media and Culture Failure Bingo

The WPP Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement Action

Lax Anti-Vax Policies

Listening is a Conversation

High Calorie Compliance Lessons from Kraft Foods

Delta Airlines Responds to the Delta Variant

Matt Miner Makes 3-Point Pivot into the Walmart CCO Chair

Pearson SEC Enforcement Action

Who Controls Corporate Values?

What Happens When a CCO Goes off the Deep End?

First Energy Corruption Settlement

SEC-SPAC Enforcement Action

FINRA Enforcement Actions involving Robinhood

The Amec Foster Wheeler FCPA Enforcement Action

Disclosures of Cyber Security Disclosure Failures

Financial Crimes Compliance Costs

PCAOB Clean Sweep

Compliance and ESG

Compliance Lessons from the Super League Fiasco

Biden Administration Executive Order on Cybersecurity

Elon Musk, Cryptocurrency and the SEC

SAP Trade Sanctions Enforcement Action

Compliance Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis

What is risk?

Cybersecurity, ERP and Compliance

SPACs and Compliance

Boaty McBoat, Risk and Compliance

CEOs Perception of Risk, Impact on Compliance

A Punch in the Face to SEC Enforcement?

The ECI 2021 Global Business Ethics Survey

The SEC and Climate Disclosures

Compliance Lessons from Citibank’s $900MM Erroneous Wire Transfer

Employee Trust and Compliance

Human Capital Disclosures and Compliance

GameStop and Compliance

WFH, RTW or Something Else

FinCEN Enforcement Action involving Capital One

The Deutsche Bank FCPA Settlement

5 Issues for Compliance Professionals in 2021

Who Should Oversee and Manage the Hotline

Algorithm Failures in Ethics and Equity at Stanford

Leadership Failures at Ft. Hood, with Special Guest Diane St. Ives

NDAA Creates New Whistleblower Law

A Mayor, Covid-19 and Leadership

Insider Trading Compliance and Former Apple CCO Indicted on Bribery Charges

The SEC Tenure of Jay Clayton

Compliance Under the Biden Administration

Turbulence in the Compliance Profession

The Goldman Sachs FCPA Enforcement Action

The J&F FCPA Enforcement Action

Citibank Failures in Risk Management

The JPMorgan Fine and Penalty

What are the compliance issues from WFH collaboration tools?

Compliance into the Weeds: When is Diversity Training Anti-American Propaganda/the FinCen Files?

Herbalife FCPA Enforcement Action

FinCen DD Pronouncements-Did they Hurt More than Help?

DFS First Cyber Case-First American Title

Governance Lessons from the Postal Service

Wells WAC-O Spending

Vindman and Whistleblowers

Compliance Conference Economics 101

CPA In America-the ComEd Bribery Action

Deutsche Bank Fined Over Epstein Accounts

FCPA Resource Guide, 2nd edition

Novartis FCPA Enforcement Action

Supreme Court Upholds Profit Disgorgement

Emergency Weekend Podcast-Barr Tries to Oust Berman

Wynn Monitor Report-3rd Parties

Ham-fisted Leadership

Compliance and Leadership Lessons from the Floyd Protests

Demonstrating Corporate Values in the Time of Economic Downturn

Covid-19 Attestation in Massachusetts

The Compliance Job Market, Frozen Not Wrecked

Rough Waters Ahead for Cruise Line CCOs

Compliance Lessons from Smithfield Foods

Happy Hour FCPA Enforcement Action Involving ENI

Hotline Benchmark Report

Covidiocy

Compliance Officer as Whistleblower

According to Frank...A Tale of Compliance and COVID-19

Flattening the COVID-19 Curve

OCC Guidance on 3rd Party Risk Management

Cardinal Health FCPA Enforcement Action

Barr Sentencing Memo and Trump Pardons

Hogan Lovells Report on Compliance Budgets

Wells Fargo Risk Assurance Execs Under Scrutiny

The 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer

Lessons from the Astros Sign Stealing Scandal

Compliance Issues in 2020, Part 2

Compliance Issues in 2020, Part 1

Continued Missteps and Misadventures in Ethics by Boeing

New DOJ Cooperation Guidance on Trade Sanctions and Export Controls

Ericsson from the Internal Controls Perspective

Episode 149- Operational Resiliency

Procurement Collusion Strike Force

Episode 147-Secondhand Whistleblower Reporting

SOX Compliance-Slow Poking Along

Proposed SEC Whistleblower Reform

Changes at the PCAOB

Mylan and Silos

Quad/Graphics FCPA Enforcement Action

PwC Spanked Edition

Some of My Best Friends Are Lawyers

Sharpies, Leadership and Compliance

Juniper Networks FCPA Enforcement Action

Episode 137- Debating the Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 136- Scoping the Size of Compliance Workforce

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 135-CEOs Modeling Corporate Values

Episode 134-Compliance Responses to El Paso and Dayton

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 133-Facebook Settlement

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 132-Internal Control Palooza

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 131-Compliance Training

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 130- Corrosive Subcultures

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 129-Open Secrets

Compliance into the Weeds: Bonus Episode-Reflections on KPMG with Francine McKenna

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 128- KPMG Scandal

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 127- Robotic Process Automation

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 126-Compliance and Complexity

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 125-It’s Just Paper

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 124-Food Fight

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 123-Whistleblower Protection

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 121-The Role of the CRO in ERM

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 120-On the Ethical Tarmac

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 119-Rule Making Power Grab

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 118-Hotline Metrics

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 117-Wells Fargo Update

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 116-Brexit Risks

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 115-Regulatory Capture and Regulatory Approval at the FAA

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 114-Lessons on Internal Control Overrides

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 113-Corporate Governance Nightmare

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 112-Robert Kraft and Compliance

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 111- What is supply chain risk?

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 110- the Ralph Northam edition

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 109- Does the NFL Even Care?

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 108- Distributors and Compliance

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 107- Management Review Controls

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 106- the Nine for 2019 Edition

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 105- the Polycom FCPA Enforcement Action

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 104- Culture and Compliance Structure Failures at CBS

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 103- Conspiracy or Coincidence?

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 102- a Rumination on Substantial Involvement

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 100- Michigan State University Reorganizes Compliance

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 101- the Vantage Drilling FCPA Enforcement Action

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 98

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 97

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 96

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 95

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 94

Compliance into the Weeds: Quarterly Reporting Discussion

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 90

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 88

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 87

Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 86

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 85

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 84

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 83

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 80

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 78

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 77

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Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 75

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Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 72

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Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 64

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 60

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Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 58

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 56

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Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 52

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Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 49

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Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 37

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Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 35

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 34

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 33

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 32

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 30

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 30

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 29

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 27

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 25

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Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 23

Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 22