Compliance has taken center stage in investors’ eyes according to Tom Fox. Large institutional investors are beginning to evaluate companies by considering a mix of metrics, such as regulatory warnings, tangential civil lawsuit, and social responsibility. Fox has more.
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
How JPMorgan Chase avoided prosecution over ‘Sons and Daughters’
At one time, it looked like JPMorgan Chase had landed in fairly hot water with its ‘Sons and Daughters’ bribery scandal. But for every misstep, says Tom Fox, there is a path to freedom.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
Did Wells Fargo Give Prudential a Black Eye?
Tom Fox epxlores how the business relationship between Prudential and scandal-ridden Wells Fargo put Prudential in hot water.
Posted inFrom the Archive
The FCPA and ‘Islands of Honesty’
The Man From FCPA Tom Fox explores a recent article that hopes to answer the question: Why are so many governments around the world collapsing amid corruption scandals?”
Posted inAnti-Bribery
Under the FCPA, ‘anything of value’ means precisely that
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision makes it very clear that when it comes to issues of potential bribery, absolutely anything that could be considered as having value is fair game as a potential agent of corruption. Tom Fox reports.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
Who watches the watchers?
The recent enforcement action against Big Four accounting firm Deloitte and its Brazilian arm details what happens when an auditor is willing to lie to the government and alter work papers on behalf of a client. But what might it be willing to do to hide bribery and corruption, asks Tom Fox.
Posted inFrom the Archive
Self-certified due diligence is fraught with danger
Tom Fox looks at further reverberations from the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB scandal concerning one giant red flag: a reference provided by a third party to vouch for that third party.
Posted inEthics & Culture
Ethics training and parking spaces
A parking space is seen as a definite perk for U.S. executives, but perhaps not so in other countries. Tom Fox looks at the recent case of former Daimler President Rainer Gärtner, who—while operating out of the firm’s China-based location—overreacted to improper use of his parking spot.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
Compliance on the VW board
Tom Fox explores the case of Hans Dieter Pötsch, chairman of the VW supervisory board, who could be held responsible if German prosecutors find the board had actual knowledge, but failed to keep shareholders abreast, of the emissions-testing scandal and its potential costs.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
Use of data in a best practices compliance program
Tom Fox discusses how data must be continually managed, tested, and recalibrated within an organization for it to be fully effective.
