A San Francisco venture capital firm will pay a $216 million fine to the U.S. Treasury for violating U.S. sanctions by managing investments for a Russian oligarch.
Aaron Nicodemus
Aaron Nicodemus is the Editor-in-Chief of Compliance Week. He previously worked as a reporter for Bloomberg Law and as business editor at the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Mass.
Email: aaron.nicodemus@complianceweek.com
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Posted inAnti-Bribery
Foreign bribery cases tied to U.S. interests take priority under DOJ shift
The Department of Justice has ended its six-month FCPA enforcement pause, closed half its legacy bribery cases, and will now pursue foreign bribery probes aligned with President Donald Trump’s priorities.
Posted inRisk Management
TPRM programs can prove their worth by limiting damage of cyberattacks, data breaches
There are stories we tell ourselves in third-party risk management (TPRM) to make ourselves feel better about the corners we cut.
Posted inEthics & Culture
Inside a Compliance Pro’s Playbook: Systems, Structure, and Strategic Partnerships
Compliance Week’s Aaron Nicodemus sat down with Kim Faulkner, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at Colgate-Palmolive, to discuss the importance of ethics and compliance at the company.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
Supply chain disruptions caused by Republican policies should be managed
If you’re in third-party risk management, handling the latest disruptions brought on by wild gyrations in tariff rates and export control rules by Republican leadership ought to be child’s play.
Posted inAnti-Bribery
CW TPRM Summit: Technology advancements are making export controls more important than ever
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked a war with unusual implications: The U.S. has stepped up sanctions and export controls. But companies are increasingly learning that the most seemingly innocuous products can find themselves in “dual use,” as a product for daily life and a product for war. A gyroscope or a more advanced GPS chip might help improve a smartphone’s capabilities, but they can also help to guide a missile.
Posted inRisk Management
TPRM has become the business continuity plan
Global supply chains are constantly in flux: crucial vendors could suddenly go bankrupt, fail to produce key components without warning, or even lose your firm’s data in a breach. The result has drawn ever more attention to third-party risk management as a critical element of many businesses.
Posted inRisk Management
COSO’s draft corporate governance framework provides roadmap to compliant business practices
Corporate governance is, all too often, handed down from generation to generation. Like a well-worn jacket, it works great—until it doesn’t. Typically, it is a crisis that forces companies to reassess their corporate governance framework, as gaps are filled and poor policies rewritten. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Posted inSurveys & Benchmarking
Inside the Mind of the CCO: Salaries level out in 2024
An overheated demand for compliance officers in the post-Covid era finally cooled off in 2024, according to Compliance Week’s Inside the Mind of the CCO survey.
Posted inSurveys & Benchmarking
Under intense reg scrutiny, compliance teams report implementing off-channel comms policies
Three of four respondents to Compliance Week’s Inside the Mind of the CCO survey said their employers have policies and procedures in place that govern employee use of unauthorized communications on their cell phones.
The survey, conducted in November and December, found that another 11 percent of the 179 practitioners who answered the question were currently drafting new policies under regulatory scrutiny. Fifteen percent reported that they had no off-channel communications policies in place.