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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 inAnti-Bribery
FCPA protects the safety and health of Americans
Some continue to believe that bribery and corruption that occurs outside the United States does not concern the United States, its laws, or is even worth the time of U.S. law enforcement agencies. This myopic view belies both the inter-connectedness of the world’s economy and the facts on the ground.
Posted inTechnology
Compliance in the 21st Century: Welcome to ComTech
Automation and artificial intelligence stand to increase efficiency in compliance by a quantum leap. But human compliance officers still have a role to play … if they prepare for it now.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
Sailing, cycling, and compliance
A lesson from the America’s Cup Emirates Team New Zealand reveals that exploring past methods can improve your future compliance policies and ensure against possible Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
Your business is being sold; what is your compliance response?
Tom Fox takes a closer look at the continuing saga of the 1 MDB scandal involving the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund and the need to have robust corporate compliance around all parties.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
A new chapter in anti-corruption enforcement?
Jorge Luis Arzuaga, a former managing director at the Swiss bank Julius Baer, pled guilty to having arranged the transfers of more than $25 million in bribes for corrupt FIFA officials. This is the first guilty plea in the plethora of service provides who facilitated the massive corruption scandal engaged in by FIFA officials.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
British Airways learns a lesson on controls
The recent power failure at British Airways that stranded more than 75,000 holiday passengers is a reminder to companies of the importance of internal controls.
Posted inAnti-Bribery
Tip of the (compliance) hat to Hui Chen
A look at Hui Chen’s career at the Department of Justice, serving as the compliance counsel and, most importantly, putting the compliance function front and center in the fight against FCPA violations.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
Compliance and risk management as a competitive advantage
The Man From FCPA explores Amazon’s recent foray into banking that effectively demonstrates how the risk management aspect of compliance can be used as a competitive advantage.
Posted inInternal Controls
Should compliance training be humanities- or business-based?
The Man From FCPA explores the question of whether a compliance professional benefits more from a humanities-based education or a business school-based education.