The Compliance Week Podcast Archive
Compliance Week regularly chats with executives, lawyers, auditors, regulators, consultants and other people in the know, to hear their thoughts about the latest compliance and corporate governance issues. The archive of those podcasts is available below to Compliance Week subscribers.
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Aug. 13
This week we talk with Lucy Marcus, CEO of Marcus Venture Consulting, about shareholder and director activism, and how corporate executives can work with them more effectively. (Time: 14 min.; file size: 8.5 Mb)
Aug. 6
This week we talk with FCPA compliance consultant Tom Fox about the Justice Department’s recent advisory opinion on “compelled giving” to local charities foreign countries. (Time: 8 min.; file size: 3.7 Mb)
July 30
This week we talk with Nona Footz, managing director of recruitment firm RSR Partners, about the current employment scene for high-level compliance executives. (Time: 8.5 min.; file size: 4 Mb)
July 16
This week we talk with Tanya Forsheit of the Information Law Group about proposed new rules for HIPAA compliance that could expand the reach of the law and impose new burdens for privacy protection. (Time: 15 min.; file size: 6.8 Mb)
July 9
This week we talk with Mark Morrison of the law firm Blake, Cassels and Graydon in Calgary, about Canada’s recent enforcement of its anti-bribery statute and what compliance worries U.S. companies might (or might not) have about it. (Time: 10 min.; file size: 4.5 Mb)
July 2
This week we talk with Karen Camp, CFO of software vendor Dorado Corp., about the regulatory and compliance risks in “cloud computing” and how corporations can work through those concerns with their data storage vendor. (Time: 11.5 min.; file size: 5.4 Mb)
June 25
This week we chat with Robert Amaee, head of the anti-corruption unit of Britain’s Serious Fraud Office, about his agency’s new tools and new priorities when investigating corporate misconduct. (Time: 8 min.; file size: 3.8 Mb)
May 28
This week we chat with Jessica Lochmann of the law firm Foley & Lardner about the SEC’s new rules for disclosing boardroom diversity and what a company considers when it recruits directors. (Time: 11.5 min.; file size: 5.3 Mb)
May 14
This week we chat with Mychal Schulz of the law firm Dinsmore & Shohl, about expanded protections for corporate whistleblowers slipped into law via healthcare reform. (Time: 11 min.; file size: 5.1 Mb)
April 30
This week we chat with Tom Yorton, CEO of Second City Communications, about how to make corporate training programs more effective and more popular with employees. (Time: 9 min.; file size: 4.1 Mb)
April 23
Last week Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposed major reforms to export controls in the United States. We caught up with trade lawyer Doug Jacobson, of the law firm Sandler, Travis and Rosenberg, to ask him how those reforms might happen and how useful they might be to Corporate America. (Time: 10.5 min.; file size: 4.9 Mb)
April 16
Compliance Week chats with internal control guru Timothy Leech about the idea of “commitment controls,’ how they work, and how they can fit into your control environment. (Time: 11.5 min.; file size: 5.4 Mb)
April 9
Compliance Week chats with Bob Engel of Resources Global Professionals about how to size up risks in the supply chain, and what controls can help keep those risks down. (Time: 11 min.; file size: 5.2 Mb)
April 2
Compliance Week chats with Jonathan Marks of the audit firm Crowe Horwath about his “fraud pentagon” model of identifying corruption, and how to use it. (Time: 11 min.; file size: 5.2 Mb)
March 26
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Jeff Delaney, of the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw, about the SEC’s revived interest in enforcing Reg FD. (Time: 8 min.; file size: 3.8 Mb)
March 19
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Ken Daly, CEO of the National Association of Corporate Directors, about reforms to corporate governance recently proposed in Congress. (Time: 8 min.; file size: 3.8 Mb)
March 12
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Russ Berland of the law firm Stinson Morrison and Hecker about how to use new guidance from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development as a blueprint for stronger FCPA compliance programs. (Time: 10 min.; file size: 4.6 Mb)
March 5
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Tom Selling, accounting professor and author of the AccountingOnion.com, about the obstacles to adopting International Financial Reporting Standards in the United States. (Time: 13.5 min.; file size: 6.1 Mb)
Feb. 26
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with James Gellert of Rapid Ratings about ethical problems in the world of credit rating agencies, and how they may be might be reformed. (Time: 11 min.; file size: 5 Mb)
Feb. 19
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with John Carney of the law firm Baker Hostetler about the SEC’s new policies to expedite corporate investigations and encourage witness cooperation. (Time: 10 min.; file size: 4.8 Mb)
Feb. 5
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Scott Landau of the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw about how to craft effective, practical clawback policies for executive compensation agreements. (Time: 11 min.; file size: 5.1 Mb)
Jan. 29
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Eden Rohrer of the law firm Haynes Boone about new guidance from FINRA on social media usage among financial-sector workers. (Time: 9 min.; file size: 4.2 Mb)
Jan. 22
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Tom Fox, an independent lawyer and FCPA consultant, about the lessons companies should learn from the Justice Department’s massive FCPA bust last week. (Time: 10 min.; file size: 4.5 Mb)
Jan. 15
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Satish Kini, a privacy lawyer at the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton, about the latest efforts brewing in Congress to overhaul privacy regulations. (Time: 8.5 min.; file size: 3.8 Mb)
Jan. 8
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Donna Boehme of Compliance Strategists Corp. about a new call from the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development for stronger corporate ethics and compliance programs to fight bribery. (Time: 8 min.; file size: 3.6 Mb)
Dec. 25
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Aiyesha Dey of the University of Chicago about why, contrary to popular opinion, splitting the chairman and CEO roles may not be a wise idea. (Time: 8 min.; file size: 3.2 Mb)
Dec. 18
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Charles Nathan of the law firm Latham and Watkins, about the wisdom (or not) of adopting shareholder access to the proxy statement voluntarily. (Time: 11 min.; file size: 5.7 Mb)
Dec. 11
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly takes a look at the major news coming out of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ annual conference with Chris Wright, managing director at Protiviti. (Time: 9 min.; file size: 4.1 Mb)
Dec. 4
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Jonathan Halpern of the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani about a crackdown in FCPA enforcement hurtling towards the pharmaceutical industry. (Time: 9 min.; file size: 4.1 Mb)
Nov. 27
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with David Barton of UHY Advisors about SAS 70 audits of service providers, and the assurance those audits do—and do not—actually provide. (Time: 11.5 min.; file size: 5.2 Mb)
Nov. 13
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with David Lynn of the law firm Morrison and Foerster about new SEC guidance paving the way for more shareholder resolutions next year. (Time: 14 min.; file size: 6.4 Mb)
Nov. 6
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Cheryl Graziano of Financial Executives International about various financial reporting reforms underway in Congress and what they might mean for Corporate America. (Time: 14 min.; file size: 6.4 Mb)
Oct. 30
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Michael Delikat of the law firm Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe about the flurry of pay cuts and compensation reforms coming out of Washington lately. (Time: 13.5 min.; file size: 12.6 Mb)
Oct. 23
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Craig Moyer of the law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, about the EPA’s new rule requiring companies to start monitoring and reporting their emissions of greenhouse gasses. (Time: 11.5 min.; file size: 10.7 Mb)
Oct. 16
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Thomas Gorman of the law firm Porter Wright about the larger implications of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s messy enforcement action against Bank of America. (Time: 8 min.; file size: 7.5 Mb)
Oct. 9
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Sarah Solum of the law firm Davis Polk about new rules for recognizing revenue from “bundled products” primarily sold in the tech sector. (Time: 9.5 min.; file size: 9 Mb)
Sept. 15
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Jonathan Marks of the auditing firm Crowe Horwath about how internal auditors can approach enterprise risk management. (Time: 9 min.; file size: 8.5 Mb)
Sept. 9
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Michael Jacobson of the Washington Institute about possible reforms to the U.S. export controls regime. (Time: 7.5 min.; file size: 7 Mb)
Sept. 1
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with John Farrell of KPMG about the SEC’s proposals to expand disclosure of risk management practices. (Time: 11.5 min.; file size: 10.5 Mb)
Aug. 25
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Phil Cohen of the law firm Greenberg Traurig about data destruction policies. Also,
click here to read Phil Cohen’s legal bulletin on data destruction. (Time: 10 min.; file size: 9.2 Mb)
Aug. 18
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Hugo Teufel of PricewaterhouseCoopers, about the current state of government cyber-security policy. (Time: 9 min.; file size: 8.2 Mb)
Aug. 4
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with David Lorello, a lawyer with the law firm Steptoe and Johnson, about recent changes to regulatory enforcement in the United Kingdom. (Time: 13 min.; file size: 13 Mb)
July 28
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Vita Zeltser, a corporate governance lawyer at the law firm Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, about the impending compliance deadline for the Federal Trade Commission’s Red Flag Rules. (Time: 9 min.; file size: 8.2 Mb)
July 21
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Alex Lipman, partner at the law firm Stroock, Stroock and Lavan, about the seldom-used forbearance policy in the SEC Enforcement Manual, and how subjects of investigation might ask for forbearance or other cooperation deals. (Time: 9 min.; file size: 8.6 Mb)
July 14
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Thomas Gorman, securities lawyer at the law firm Porter Wright, about policy changes at the SEC Division of Enforcement and how they might affect companies under investigation. (Time: 7 min.; file size: 6.5 Mb)
July 7
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Kurt Underwood, head of the IT control practice at consulting firm Protiviti, about spreadsheets, the threat they pose to internal control, and how to manage that risk. (Time: 5.5 min.; file size: 5 Mb)
June 30
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Doug Cornelius, chief compliance officer of Beacon Capital Partners, about “cloud computing” and how such IT systems can affect compliance. (Time: 8.5 min.; file size: 7.7 Mb)
June 23
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Brink Dickerson, head of the corporate governance practice at law firm Troutman Sanders, about proposals to reform executive pay and the headaches boards of directors are likely to encounter. (Time: 11 min.; file size: 10.5 Mb)
June 16
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Norman Marks, head of governance for SAP Business Objects, about “continuous auditing” and how to implement such a program. (Time: 10 min.; file size: 9.5 Mb)
June 9
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Nell Minow, founder of the Corporate Library, about the SEC’s recent proposal for shareholder access to the proxy statement, and how it might change corporate governance. (Time: 8 min.; file size: 9 Mb)
June 2
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Jonathan Drimmer, partner at the law firm Steptoe & Johnson, about lawsuits against corporations for their complicity in human-rights abuses overseas. (Time: 11 min.; file size: 10 Mb)
May 27
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with James Cox, a securities law professor at Duke University, about the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to hear a lawsuit challenging the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as unconstitutional. (Time: 10 min.; file size: 9.4 Mb)
May 19
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Leslie Overton, partner at the law firm Jones Day, about new antitrust enforcement officials and what might be coming from the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission. (Time: 10 min.; file size: 9.4 Mb)
May 12
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Timothy Shea, associate at the law firm Foley & Lardner, about proposed changes to lease accounting rules and how they might affect contracts and compliance. (Time: 7 min.; file size: 6.3 Mb)
May 5
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Fred Pulzello, treasurer of ARMA International, about the organization's new
Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles
and how to put them into practice. (Time: 9 min.; file size: 8.2 Mb)
April 24
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with John Grugan, a partner in the corporate practice at the law firm Ballard Spahr, about how to give a proper Upjohn warning to corporate executives, and how internal investigations can be derailed if you don't. (Time: 14 min.; file size: 12.8 Mb)
April 17
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Kevin Aisworth, a partner in the corporate practice at the law firm Mintz Levin, about the challenges of setting the proper scope of e-discovery during civil litigation. (Time: 7 min.; file size: 6.2 Mb)
April 10
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with David Sherman, accounting professor at Northeastern University and author of
The FAS 157 Answer Book, about recent revisions to fair-value accounting. The changes are a boon to the banking industry and other companies that carry significant financial assets on their balance sheets. (Time: 9 min.; file size: 8.5 Mb)
April 3
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Hannah Ha, a partner in the Hong Kong office of the law firm Mayer Brown, about China's recent decision to veto a merger between Coca-Cola and the Chinese juice maker Huiyuan. The decision provides useful glimpses into how Chinese regulators are interpreting China's new Anti-Monopoly Law. (Time: 10 min.; file size: 9.1 Mb)
March 27
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Jonathan Halpren, a litigation partner at the law firm of Bracewell & Giuliani, about pending legislation to expand the False Claims Act. If the legislation passes-and it probably will-companies doing business with the government can expect significant new compliance challenges. (Time: 10 min.; file size: 10 Mb)
March 20
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Mark Schreiber, a partner at the law firm of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge and member of the World Law Group, about the challenges of complying with EU data privacy rules while conducting internal or regulatory investigations in the United States. Schreiber discusses the latest data privacy guidance from the EU, and offers suggestions on how U.S. companies should follow it. (Time: 11 min.; file size: 10.1 Mb)
March 13
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Doug Jacobson, a partner at the law firm of Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg and editor of the
International Trade Law News blog, about the evolving state of trade compliance and import-export law. Jacobson gives his views about the Obama Administration's likely enforcement of trade laws, trouble spots around the world that compliance officers should watch closely, and steps companies can take to better integrate the trade compliance function into company operations. (Time: 10 min.; file size: 9.3 Mb)
March 6
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with John Olson, a partner at the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, about proposed amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law. This year's reforms promise to be especially interesting, with proposals that range from shareholder access to the proxy statement, to reimbursement for proxy fights, to emergency removal of directors and more. Kelly and Olson handicap what's likely to come. (Time: 11 min.; file size: 10 Mb)