A ball-tampering scandal in Australian cricket shows that sometimes the market is the strongest enforcer.
Tom Fox
Thomas Fox has practiced law for over 40 years. Tom writes the daily award-winning blog, the FCPA Compliance and Ethics blog and founded the Compliance Podcast Network. Tom leads the discussion on AI in compliance through his best-selling book Upping Your Game. He has 38 other books on the use of AI in compliance and business ethics, leadership including the seminal work, The Compliance Handbook, with its 7th edition coming out in 2025. He is the founder of the award-winning Compliance Podcast Network.
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Posted inTechnology
One way to bring employees together on social media
How one chief compliance officer uses a social media tool called Chatter to bring employees together in an environment similar to a virual tweetup.
Posted inEthics & Culture
The dangers of unmasking whistleblowers
What kind of message does it send when a CEO tries to identify a whistleblower among the ranks of his employees?
Posted inAnti-Bribery
FIFA and more red flags
The latest FIFA corruption scandal should serve as another lesson in identifying and investigating red flags.
Posted inAnti-Bribery
The BSGR saga continues
The latest chapter of this real-life page-turner was the World Bank’s recent ruling against a mining company in the continuing legal dispute to strip its concession for the Simandou region in Guinea.
Posted inEthics & Culture
Three key compliance messages to communicate to employees
Effective communication with employees is as important to a successful compliance program as the policies themselves.
Posted inBoards & Shareholders
Three steps to fitting compliance into long-term business strategy
Incorporating the compliance function into a long-term business strategy starts with answering three important questions.
Posted inBoards & Shareholders
Boards and their own succession planning
What is the board’s role in succession planning? At a bare minimum, a board should assure there is a pipeline of qualified candidates for its own succession planning.
Posted inUncategorized
What is the tone at Facebook and how far down does it go?
What does tone-at-the-top mean at an organization? Is it win at any (literally any) cost? If that really is the message, how long, then, before it permeates all the way through the organization? asks The Man From FCPA.
Posted inThird Party Risk
Pre-acquisition due diligence is critical in M&A work
Engaging in robust pre-acquisition due diligence can go a long way toward helping a company avoid FCPA liability, says The Man From FCPA.
