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With global economic alliances shifting and new threats emerging, will the U.S. maintain its dominance in an increasingly complex world? From chips to cyberterrorist threats to cryptocurrency, battles for global dominance are no longer only fought on the battlefield—they're playing out in markets, boardrooms, and cyberspace. In this episode, we sit down with Juan Zarate, a key member of the post-9/11 Bush Administration team who architected how we combat terrorist financing and think about modern financial warfare.We explore how the U.S. has used its economic dominance as a powerful weapon—and whether countries like China and Russia are now using the same playbook to push back. Juan shares insights on the weaponization of the dollar, how financial crime networks are evolving in the digital age, and why strategies around cryptocurrency could either threaten or reinforce U.S. economic power.The conversation dives into the intersection of technology, economic, and national security strategy, tackling key issues like cyber threats, semiconductor supply chains, and the growing role of AI in financial security. Juan also introduces his latest venture, Consilient, which is pioneering federated AI to revolutionize the fight against financial crime.If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform. Sign up for our newsletter at techsurgepodcast.com for exclusive insights and information about upcoming TechSurge Live Summits.Links:Check out our video episodes on YouTubeFollow Celesta Capital on LinkedIn and XDiscover how K2 Integrity is shaping the future of financial crime prevention and cybersecurityhttps://www.k2integrity.comRead Juan Zarate's Treasury's War to explore the rise of financial warfare in global securityhttps://www.amazon.com/Treasurys-War-Unleashing-Financial-Warfare/dp/1610391152Explore Consilient's groundbreaking approach to financial crime detection using federated AIhttps://www.consilient.comLearn how Coinbase is driving the future of cryptocurrency and digital financehttps://www.coinbase.com

On FINCast Episode 39, Juan Zarate sits down with K2 Integrity's Katya Hazard and Amir Fadavi to discuss the state of Russia-related sanctions and to explore what has worked and what may require further coordinated efforts to curtail Russia's ambitions and war power. While certain “sanctions fatigue” starts to settle in, it is more important than ever to consider real costs of sanctions circumvention, including the very real risks of a sanctions designation of persons disregarding US, UK, or EU trade restrictions.

With the implosion of FTX and the arrest of its founder, Washington finally woke up to the need for more effective regulation of cryptocurrency. Yet as government agencies and legislators take up the challenge of crypto regulation, the associated national security challenges need to be front and center, too. Relative anonymity or pseudonymity make crypto currency naturally attractive to those seeking to avoid government oversight and intervention — like criminals, terrorists, and the states that sponsor them. From cybercrime, terror finance, and sanctions busting to domestic extremism and drug and human trafficking, Washington needs a plan to tackle the unique challenges posed by crypto. To unpack everything, guest host and FDD Senior Advisor Rich Goldberg is joined by economic and national security experts Alex Levitov and Elaine Dezenski. Alex Levitov Alex is an associate managing director at K2 Integrity where he works with financial institutions, technology firms, and jurisdictional authorities to identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery and corruption, sanctions evasion, and other forms of illicit financial activity. He recently co-authored with Rich an FDD report on the risks of digital assets: The Underside of the Coin. Elaine Dezenski Elaine is the senior director and head of FDD's Center on Economic and Financial Power. She's a powerhouse and leading thinker on geopolitical risk, supply chain security, anti-corruption, and national security. Richard Goldberg Rich is the former Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction at the White House National Security Council. Prior to that, he focused on U.S. foreign assistance, including foreign military financing, international security assistance, development, and economic support funds as a staffer on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State-Foreign Operations. He also worked in the U.S. Senate, where he emerged a leading architect of the toughest sanctions on Iran. He was also the lead Republican negotiator for three rounds of sanctions targeting the Central Bank of Iran, the SWIFT financial messaging service, and entire sectors of the Iranian economy.  

With the implosion of FTX and the arrest of its founder, Washington finally woke up to the need for more effective regulation of cryptocurrency. Yet as government agencies and legislators take up the challenge of crypto regulation, the associated national security challenges need to be front and center, too. Relative anonymity or pseudonymity make crypto currency naturally attractive to those seeking to avoid government oversight and intervention — like criminals, terrorists, and the states that sponsor them. From cybercrime, terror finance, and sanctions busting to domestic extremism and drug and human trafficking, Washington needs a plan to tackle the unique challenges posed by crypto. To unpack everything, guest host and FDD Senior Advisor Rich Goldberg is joined by economic and national security experts Alex Levitov and Elaine Dezenski. Alex Levitov Alex is an associate managing director at K2 Integrity where he works with financial institutions, technology firms, and jurisdictional authorities to identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery and corruption, sanctions evasion, and other forms of illicit financial activity. He recently co-authored with Rich an FDD report on the risks of digital assets: The Underside of the Coin. Elaine Dezenski Elaine is the senior director and head of FDD's Center on Economic and Financial Power. She's a powerhouse and leading thinker on geopolitical risk, supply chain security, anti-corruption, and national security. Richard Goldberg Rich is the former Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction at the White House National Security Council. Prior to that, he focused on U.S. foreign assistance, including foreign military financing, international security assistance, development, and economic support funds as a staffer on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State-Foreign Operations. He also worked in the U.S. Senate, where he emerged a leading architect of the toughest sanctions on Iran. He was also the lead Republican negotiator for three rounds of sanctions targeting the Central Bank of Iran, the SWIFT financial messaging service, and entire sectors of the Iranian economy.  

In this episode of the Legal Marketing 2.0 Podcast, Guy is joined by Paula Zirinsky, co-founder and Chief Strategist of Structura Strategy Group, a professional services marketing advisory. She is known for her expertise in branding, strategy, marketing, content, communications, and digital technology platforms. As a former global CMO, Paula has held leadership positions at professional services firms including K2 Integrity, a preeminent global risk advisory firm, and law firms including Morgan Lewis, Morvillo Abramowitz, Fried Frank, and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft.

On FINCast Episode 35, Juan Zarate interviews K2 Integrity's own Bryan Stirewalt, a renowned, global financial regulator with 35 years of U.S. and international experience. Juan and Bryan discuss the challenges for regulators and the financial system in a quickly evolving digital financial and commercial world. They explore how regulators should be managing the risks inherent in the crypto ecosystem, the complexities of sanctions implementation, and the growing regulatory attention on ESG. As a global regulatory thought leader, Bryan provides reflective insights as the financial system faces a myriad of challenges in a more fractious geopolitical environment.

Hosting the largest number of internet users per capita in the world, Latin America has seen a booming wave of technological advancement in recent years. In just the last two years, we have seen an explosion of interest in digital assets in the region. Just last year, El Salvador became the first country in the world to approve a cryptocurrency as an official legal tender, leading to a global discussion on the risks and opportunities associated with the adoption of cryptocurrencies. We have also recently seen policymakers in Brazil, the region's largest crypto hub, begin the process of developing a regulatory framework for digital assets by passing a bill addressing key definitions, consumer protection, anti-money laundering, fraud and other key issues. Simultaneously, other countries in the region, such as Mexico, are working to define a regulatory framework for crypto clearly. On the other hand, some countries, such as Bolivia, have banned the use of cryptocurrencies entirely. With so much activity, both positive and negative, happening in the crypto space within Latin America, TRM Talks will be delving into the region's regulatory landscape alongside guest speakers from Bitso and K2 Integrity. This podcast is hosted by TRM Labs, a blockchain analytics company. We work with crypto businesses, financial institutions and government agencies to monitor, detect and investigate fraud and financial crime in crypto. Learn more about our mission to build a safer financial system for billions of people here: https://www.trmlabs.com/about

Maheen Asim, an Associate Director of Cyber Risk Management at K2 Integrity, shares insight into the daily risks of cybersecurity.  She provides tips on our usage of bank accounts, phones, e-mail, online passwords, wifi connections, texting, and even cryptocurrency.If you enjoy this podcast, please consider leaving a review so others can find this, subscribe to hear more, and share this podcast with other amazing women.Connect with Julina Ogilvie:Website- principlewealthpartners.com/teamEmail- jogilvie@principlewealthpartners.comFacebook- https://www.facebook.com/principlewealthpartnersLinkedIn- @julinaogilvieThe information provided is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice and it should not be relied on as such. The statements and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the author. PWP cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any statements or data. For current PWP information, please visit the Investment Adviser Public Disclosure website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov by searching with PWP's CRD #290180

On this episode of Reaganism, we are joined by Juan Zarate, Global Co-Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at K2 Integrity. Juan previously served in the George W. Bush Administration as deputy National Security Advisor. Roger and Juan discussed the future of the dollar as the global reserve currency, cryptocurrencies, SWIFT, sanctions, and the war […]

On this episode of Reaganism, we are joined by Juan Zarate, Global Co-Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at K2 Integrity. Juan previously served in the George W. Bush Administration as deputy National Security Advisor. Roger and Juan discussed the future of the dollar as the global reserve currency, cryptocurrencies, SWIFT, sanctions, and the war in Ukraine.

NSI held our inaugural cryptocurrency and blockchain technology event, “Crypto and National Security: How to Validate American Innovation and Verify U.S. National Security.” This event featured a panel of experts discussing critical U.S. national security policy opportunities and challenges related to crypto innovation and adoption.“Crypto and National Security” kicked off NSI's year-long policy programming initiative focused on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology – an emerging and important area of policy and innovation. NSI will host a range of conversations throughout 2022 that bring leading experts together to discuss and analyze issues such as crypto's implications for:U.S. leadership in tech and financial markets;Illicit finance and sanctions policy;Privacy and human rights at home and abroad; andOther key national security objectives.Participants:Jerry Brito, Executive Director, Coin CenterSheila Warren, Chief Executive Officer, Crypto Council for InnovationJuan Zarate, Global Co-Managing Partner & Chief Strategy Officer, K2 Integrity, and NSI Advisory Board MemberModerator: Laura Shin, Author of The Cryptopians and host of Unchained podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Crypto is having, as this week's guest puts it, a "moment of legitimacy". We're joined by Juan Zarate, Global Co-Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at K2 Integrity, Chair of the Center on Economic and Financial Power at FDD, and former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for Combating Terrorism for a deep dive on cryptocurrency.What role does crypto play in Russia's war on Ukraine? Could Russia's increased use of cryptocurrencies pose a threat to financial stability? What can Congress be doing? These questions and more are addressed on this week's episode of Fault Lines.Like this episode? Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe for more.For further reading on crypto, K2 Integrity, where Juan is the Global Co-Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer, recently published a policy alert, found here, on the risk global markets may face as Russian actors use virtual currencies to bypass sanctions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The West has rolled out tough financial sanctions against Moscow with unprecedented speed, magnitude and multilateral co-operation. This move will not stop Russian tanks, but it will squarely impoverish President Vladimir Putin's regime. Danny Glaser, global head of jurisdictional services at K2 Integrity and former assistant secretary at the US Treasury overseeing sanctions, and Christopher Smart, chief global strategist and head of the Barings Institute, as well as former US Treasury/National Security Council special assistant to the president, join OMFIF's US Chair Mark Sobel. They discuss the efficacy, historical context and the economic consequences of the sanctions across the globe. 

In today's episode, Olamide Williams catches up with Professor Chris Brummer of Georgetown Law to discuss fintech regulation, balancing that with innovation, the unique connection between fintech and rap, as well as his top five rap artists of all time. Professor Brummer is the host of the Fintech Beat Podcast, which features the latest trends, movers and shakers, ideas, and policies in fintech. He sits on the boards of Fannie Mae, K2 Integrity, public.com and is the Scholar in Residence at Paradigm, the $2 billion crypto fund. He is also the host and organizer of DC Fintech Week. For more FinTech insights, follow us below: Medium: medium.com/wharton-fintech LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/wharton-fintech-club/ WFT Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech

Co-CEO and Deputy Board Chair of K2 Integrity, Mr. Jeremy Kroll joins co-host Andy Bonillo to discuss how CEO's are re-imagining risk management as we move into the next wave of the ongoing health crisis. They dived into the importance of empowering CEO's and board members to understand Cyber Security in a business context to make sound investments, as well as understanding how the geo-political and policy landscapes impact your business. Mr. Kroll finished up the show with his perspective on the future of cryptocurrencies and how to manage the risks. All this and much, much more on Episode #204 of Task Force 7 Radio!

Co-CEO and Deputy Board Chair of K2 Integrity, Mr. Jeremy Kroll joins co-host Andy Bonillo to discuss how CEO's are re-imagining risk management as we move into the next wave of the ongoing health crisis. They dived into the importance of empowering CEO's and board members to understand Cyber Security in a business context to make sound investments, as well as understanding how the geo-political and policy landscapes impact your business. Mr. Kroll finished up the show with his perspective on the future of cryptocurrencies and how to manage the risks. All this and much, much more on Episode #204 of Task Force 7 Radio!

Welcome to this special podcast series, Integrity Matters sponsored by K2 Integrity. For this series, I visit with Koby Bambilia, Managing Director, and Olivia Allison, Senior Managing Director. Over the series, we look some issues and trends going forward into 2022. In this Part 2, I am joined by Koby Bambilia who looks at trends regarding AML going into 2022. Some of the highlights include: Impact has there been to-date from the  passage of the AML Act of 2020?  What has been on the mind of clients and others in the market? Has COVID and the global crises created shifted just how bad actors take advantage of the financial system?   How are you advising your clients to mitigate these risks and get ahead of the rule making as we head into 2022? Resources Koby Bambilia Profile K2 Integrity

One of the key goals of any compliance program is to train employees in awareness and understanding of the FCPA; your specific company compliance program; and to create and foster a culture of compliance. While it seems axiomatic that compliance training is a mainstay of any best practices compliance program, the conversation around training has evolved over the years. Beginning in the fall of 2016, through the announcement of the FCPA Enforcement Pilot Program, the DOJ began to talk about whether you have determined the effectiveness of your training. This conversation continued with the 2017 Evaluation where it asked, “How has the company measured the effectiveness of the training?” This point has bedeviled many compliance professionals yet is now a key metric for the government in evaluating compliance training. It evolved further in the 2020 Update with the mandate that training must be “truly effective”. Finally, the training must be presented in a language in which the employees understand, which means in a local language, if the training is outside the US or other non-English-speaking countries. The 2017 Evaluation focused into whether your training was “tailored” for the audience. This added two requirements. The first was to assess your employees for risk to determine the type of training you might need to deliver by risk ranking your employees. Obviously, the sales force would be the highest risk but there may be others who are deserving of high-risk training as well. From this risk ranking, you were required to develop tailored training for the risks those employees will face. What are ‘espresso shots' of training to help facilitate effective training? Tina Rampino, Associate Managing Director, at K2 Integrity suggests keeping your compliance training segments concise as “shorter, bite-size learning is a trend in training programs.” This means that instead of offering half-day and full-day sessions, break programs into shorter segments of 20 minutes or less, which are easier for participants to absorb - and schedule. Another example is that short cartoons or animated videos can be excellent quarterly reminders. Done properly, they do not feel like an assessment or certainly not a ‘check-the-box' exercise. The bottom line is that with all training most employees must undergo now and even more so in the continued time of the Covid-19 Omicron Variant, espresso shots give people back a lot of time.  Three key takeaways: How and why have you tailored your compliance training and how do you determine its effectiveness? Try an espresso shot of training. How is your training presented: both in languages and media? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to this special podcast series, Integrity Matters sponsored by K2 Integrity. For this series, I visit with Koby Bambilia, Managing Director, and Olivia Allison, Senior Managing Director. Over the series, we look some issues and trends going forward into 2022. In Part 1, I am joined by Olivia Allison who looks at fraud trends going into 2022. Highlights include: WFH and RTO will continue to present evolving challenges for fraud prevention. Controls must be assessed and enhanced based upon changed working environments. Impact of the Great Resignation and workforce mobility. Multi-vector crisis and fraud prevention. Use of fraud dashboards. For more information, check out K2 Integrity.

This week's guest is Lindsay Sweeney, Senior Manager of Communications at K2 Integrity, a risk, compliance, investigations, and monitoring firm. She graduated with degrees in journalism and history and was convinced that her career would be in either of those industries. However, she started working in a small shop whose clients were mostly associated with fintech; she would eventually join K2 Integrity. She joins Tom Fox to discuss how you can use social media and communications to drive home internal messages and get your message and brand out to your clients, customers, and the compliance community.  At K2 Within her first six months at K2 Integrity, the company expanded their presence in the media with a major financial crimes practice and merged with a financial integrity network in DC. From there, they kicked off a rebrand, which was both challenging and easier to do remotely due to the pandemic. She tells Tom, “It wasn't just a matter of changing our name in certain places,” she shares. “It was a matter of resetting how we think about ourselves and how we talk about ourselves, not just to clients, but also how we position ourselves internally.”  Surprise! Tom asks Lindsay what the biggest surprises she's had were like. “I don't know if [it was] a big surprise or more like little surprises along the way, but I've come to realize one as a communicator there is no such thing as overcommunication,” she responds. “Keeping people in the loop is not just beneficial for making sure that everyone knows where the steps are along the way, but you're going to get a different perspective from someone… that's going to change the way you do things… maybe you'll find a new way to do something that you wouldn't have previously thought of.” The Evolution of Content Marketing Lindsay believes that personalization and targeted information in content marketing is going to become bigger; it was already in the works, but the pandemic has accelerated the process. Additionally, there will be increased focus on bite-sized content to accommodate the attention span of people at home. Resources Lindsay Sweeney on LinkedIn

Welcome to this special podcast series, Integrity Matters: Culture, Training and Compliance, sponsored by K2 Integrity. This week I visit with Koby Bambilia, Managing Director, and Tina Rampino, Associate Managing Director. Over the series we have broken down corporate culture, compliance training and communications. Topics included breaking down the big picture on culture, espresso shots of training, skills development and regulatory changes, tailored and risked based training and operational aspects of training. In this concluding Part 5, I am joined again by Tina Rampino who reviews key operational aspects of training, including budget, delivery and more. We began with a discussion of one of the most critical issues around compliance training, but one I believe does not get nearly enough discussion in the compliance community, that being the issue of budgeting. During times of economic stress compliance training budgets are often tightened. Rampino believes this approach needs to be avoided. The reason is straight forward, “investing in training and professional development for employees can save money in the long-run, both operationally and when it comes to regulatory requirements. An institution's greatest asset is their employees and especially when you're entrusting them to protect your institution from risk.” This means that if you are providing employees with ongoing training to assist them to continuously refine their knowledge and skills; it will also keep them engaged and incentivized to take compliance more seriously. Moreover, as Rampino noted, “developing and retaining employees is beneficial to financial institutions in the long-run and demonstrates sustainability within the compliance program.” Instead of cutting back on training budgets in general, institutions should assess the training needs as they align with the greatest risk and find ways to deliver the most targeted and relevant training across the enterprise. Rampino advocates several different styles of compliance training. These include, having a “balance of online/in-person training; including independent or self-guided training; as well as hands on training with an instructor.” We concluded with Rampino's thoughts on regulatory expectations around compliance training. She believes, “Regulators are more interested than ever in seeing that an institution is investing in a sustainable, scalable, and dynamic training program. They want to know that an institution understands their risks and that it demonstrates that with the training that is provided to their employees. Regulators are expecting more targeted and role-based training offerings and that the content is evolving as the risks evolve.” K2 Integrity has developed an online training platform and resource center, Dedicated Online Financial Integrity Network (DOLFIN), to help clients with their training requirements and provide more diverse options for training content and modalities. Find out more about DOLFIN here. For more information on K2 Integrity click here. Texas Tax rate at 80% of 8.25%

Welcome to this special podcast series, Integrity Matters: Culture, Training and Compliance, sponsored by K2 Integrity. This week I visit with Koby Bambilia, Managing Director, and Tina Rampino, Associate Managing Director. Over this series, we will break down corporate culture, compliance training and communications. Topics include breaking down the big picture on culture, espresso shots of training, skills development and regulatory changes, tailored and risked based training and operational aspects of training. In Part 2, I am joined by Tina Rampino who discusses ‘espresso shots' of training to help facilitate attainable training demands. Texas Tax rate at 80% of 8.25%

Welcome to this special podcast series, Integrity Matters: Culture, Training and Compliance, sponsored by K2 Integrity. This week I visit with Koby Bambilia, Managing Director, and Tina Rampino, Associate Managing Director. Over the series, we break down corporate culture, compliance training and communications. Topics include breaking down the big picture on culture, espresso shots of training, skills development and regulatory changes, tailored and risked based training and operational aspects of training. In Part 4, I am joined by Koby Bambilia to discuss why tailored and risked based training is so critical now. In this episode we went into the weeds of specific tailored and risk-based training. Getting ahead of regulators and ensuring your institution has skills-based trainings is critical. But more than this, regulators now want to see specific risk-based training, tailored to individual needs. This approach is not limited to financial institution regulators but the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), FinCEN, Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) also favor this approach. I asked Bambilia if he could provide some examples from the world of financial institutions and financial services firms. Initially, he noted that an institution cannot have a blanket training without follow-up trainings on specific job functions. Some of the different needs for different employee classifications include bank tellers, who need to know more about cash transactions and regulatory requirements, such as Currency Transaction Report (CTR) and pouch activities. This is obviously different from private wealth managers. Employees in trade finance departments need to know more than others on sanctions and embargoes. Moving on to third party relationships, correspondent banking departments need to know, for example, the red flags for nested accounts. Private bankers, who are covered under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), must be trained on the law so they can be more vigilant and aware for detecting tax evasions. The key is that each group requires its unique training and since every institution has a different set of risks, institutions should understand that one form of training cannot fit all situations. Tailored training is a key element and, as Bambilia noted, “a universal one, regardless of the institution's size, risks, and resources. The example of the examiner saying training is like a burger…demonstrates the need to assure proper and tailored training throughout the institution.” The bottom line is that there is no one training model which will fit all your employees. Bambilia concluded that it “may feel like a heavy lift up front, it can pay its dividends - not just from a compliance perspective but also from an angle of operational efficiencies - you are assuring that your operation and IT staff know what to do going forward. If they know what to do - that will save a lot of pain and effort on their side, but also for you as a compliance officer.” K2 Integrity has developed an online training platform and resource center, Dedicated Online Financial Integrity Network (DOLFIN), to help clients with their training requirements and provide more diverse options for training content and modalities. Find out more about DOLFIN here. For more information on K2 Integrity click here. Texas Tax rate at 80% of 8.25%

Welcome to this special podcast series, Integrity Matters: Culture, Training and Compliance, sponsored by K2 Integrity. This week I visit with Koby Bambilia, Managing Director, and Tina Rampino, Associate Managing Director. Over this series, we are breaking down corporate culture, compliance training and communications by discussing topics such as breaking down the big picture on culture, espresso shots of training, skills development and regulatory changes, tailored and risked based training and operational aspects of training. In Part 3, I am joined by Koby Bambilia to discuss the intersection of meeting compliance skill development and regulatory requirements. Texas Tax rate at 80% of 8.25%

Welcome to this special podcast series, Integrity Matters: Culture, Training and Compliance, sponsored by K2 Integrity. This week I visit with Koby Bambilia, Managing Director, and Tina Rampino, Associate Managing Director. Over this series, we will break down corporate culture, compliance training and communications. Topics include breaking down the big picture on culture, espresso shots of training, skills development and regulatory changes, tailored and risked based training and operational aspects of training. In Part 2, I am joined by Tina Rampino who discusses ‘espresso shots' of training to help facilitate attainable training demands. We began with the status of compliance training after 18 months of Covid-19. Here Rampino noted, “in the early phase of the pandemic, institutions had to quickly change to a fully virtual working environment. They had to find creative solutions to adapt their training programs in response. All planned instructor-led training was cancelled or transitioned to virtual training.” Rampino advised on what she called “an espresso shot” of compliance training which can be both shorter and more concise, but drills down to specific risks relevant to an institution. She went on to relate that she has been involved in creating solutions that can deliver shorter and more tailored training which will result in increased relevance to the employee and have a lighter burden of training hours. Rampino said, “The concept of espresso shot training can assist employees to better manage their workload while keeping up with important issues relevant to their roles. For example, institutions should think creatively on delivery and modality of training content. Not only in an e-learning format: something engaging, cartoons, videos, interactive virtual training.” Some of her suggestions include keeping your compliance training segments concise as “shorter, bite-size learning is a trend in training programs.” This means that instead of offering half-day and full-day sessions, break programs into shorter segments of 20 minutes or less, which are easier for participants to absorb - and schedule. Another example is that short cartoons or animated videos can be excellent quarterly reminders. Done properly, they do not feel like an assessment or certainly not a ‘check-the-box' exercise. The bottom line is that with all training most employees must undergo now and even more so in the continued time of the Covid-19 Delta Variant, espresso shots give people back a lot of time. K2 Integrity has developed an online training platform and resource center, Dedicated Online Financial Integrity Network (DOLFIN), to help clients with their training requirements and provide more diverse options for training content and modalities. Find out more about DOLFIN here. For more information on K2 Integrity click here. Texas Tax rate at 80% of 8.25%

Welcome to this special podcast series, Integrity Matters: Culture, Training and Compliance, sponsored by K2 Integrity. This week I visit with Koby Bambilia, Managing Director, and Tina Rampino, Associate Managing Director. Over the series, we will break down corporate culture, compliance training and communications. Topics include breaking down the big picture on culture, espresso shots of training, skills development and regulatory changes, tailored and risked based training and operational aspects of training. In Part 1, I am joined by Tina Rampino who breaks down the big picture on culture. We began with the basics: that a culture of Compliance is the foundation of an organization's compliance program. Rampino said it is a measure of how well employees feel empowered to identify, mitigate, and escalate risk within their institution. An institution's compliance culture is set by an institution's Board and Executive Leadership team. Their messaging should be continuously reinforced in an institution's risk appetite statement, policies, training and enterprise-wide communications. A strong compliance culture should be evident at all levels of the financial institution and across all three lines of defense. Rampino detailed some key questions to ask, such as “What is the tone that is set from the most senior levels of the organization? Are employees motivated by doing any and all business no matter the risk? Are they empowered to act with integrity and choose the right business that aligns with their compliance culture?” She went on to relate, “Many institutions have built training and communications programs to help employees understand what the “right business means” – reinforcing an institution's risk appetite statement, incorporating policies and procedures, and training on red flags and high-risk issues.” She concluded, “A culture of compliance should empower employees, not just in the second line of defense but in all areas of the institution – to think about the risks being presented through their customers, transactions, and products and services and how they can do their part in mitigating risk to the institution.” An effective compliance training program can help to ensure that an institution is regularly addressing new issues and emerging risks. It also helps to ensure that employees have the right knowledge and skills necessary to perform their roles, so they understand the risks within the institution and their business area as well as the consequences of non-compliance. Rampino detailed some of the areas your organization should focus on with the following questions, “Do our training programs match the risks of our institution, and the variety of functions within it?”; “Do our employees have the right experience and training to do their jobs?” and “Are we regularly addressing new issues and ensuring our programs help our teams deal with emerging risks?” In terms of an effective communications program, institutions should ensure robust and recurring communication. “One and done” is not an effective way to deliver communications or develop an organizational culture. A robust program issues clear messages in a recurring fashion. Rampino concluded with some key takeaways on communications. First, institutions that want to create a culture of compliance should issue policy alerts and remind staff of changes. Second, information should then be easily accessible and readily available for employees. Finally, town halls, quarterly newsletters, and even short video messages explaining changes can be effective ways to ensure that all staff members understand what they must do to support the institution's focus on compliance. For more information, go to K2 Integrity. Texas Tax rate at 80% of 8.25%

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Lisa Silverman is the Senior managing director at K2 Integrity, and she joins Tom Fox on the ESG Report to talk about the evolving boardroom challenges that companies are seeing in the United States and around the world. They touch on the changes in representation in boards, how social issues are becoming more important, and accountability in the public eye. Resources K2 Integrity Lisa Silverman at K2 Integrity

As Tom celebrates the release of The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition, he and Jay are back to take a look at this week's stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Trump Organization Indicted edition. Stories The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is released. Learn about it here. Purchase it here. Four ways to update you ABC compliance program right now. Ann-Maire Zell in the FCPA Blog. John Wood Group DPA with SFO. Tom has a 2-part series on the FCPA Compliance Report. Part 1-deplorable conduct and Part 2-lessons learned. Alex Cotoia takes a deep dive into the EU Whistleblower Directive in a 4-part series. On Compliance Crime and Corruption. Emerging trends in 3rd Party Risk Management. Jaclyn Jaeger in Compliance Week (sub req'd) Mengqi Sun interviews Sherron Watkins in the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal. Anti-trust concerns at the Board level. Elizabeth Ising, Stephen Weissman, Cassandra Tillinghast and Chris Wilson in NYU Compliance and Enforcement Blog. How to avoid buying a FCPA issue. Valerie Charles, Jamen Tyler and Robert Johnston in CCI. Compliance on the inside v. outside. Amy Landry in CCI. Compliance officers are disciplinarians (at times). Dick Cassin in the FCPA Blog. Podcasts and Events How does history inform compliance? What are the leadership lessons from ancient Greeks and Romans? Find out in this special 10 part podcast series on famous Greeks and Romans from Plutarch's Lives this week on 12 O'Clock High, a podcast on business leadership, hosted by Richard Lummis and Tom Fox. In Episode 5, they mined Plutarch about the lives of and leadership lessons from the Greek Epaminondas and the Roman Scipio Africanus. A new month on The Compliance Life! In July I visit with Asha Palmer, CECO at Convercent. In Episode 1, from Claire Huxable to the DOJ. Tom premiers a new podcast, Greetings and Felicitations. In the inaugural episode, CPN fan fav Dr. Ben Locwin is back to discuss the current state of the Covid-19 pandemic and where we might be headed. Trekking Through Compliance Returns! Tom reviews all 79 episodes of Star Trek, the Original Series beginning June 1. Each day at 3 PM on the Compliance Podcast Network. This week's offerings included The Apple, The Doomsday Machine, Catspaw, I, Mudd and Metamorphosis. On July 13, join K2 Integrity for its Virtual Compliance Conference on Environment, Social, and Governance Compliance Risks for Financial Institutions. Information and Registration here. Join Tom, Asha Palmer and Stephen Martin for a coming out webinar for The Compliance Handbook, 2nd We will focus on 3rd party risk management. Attendees will receive a special article and offer. Best of all, it's at no charge. Details and registration here. Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the Trump Organization and its CFO are criminally indicted, Tom and Jay prepare for the 4th of July and are back to take a look at this week's stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Trump Organization Indicted edition.  Stories Trump Organization and CFO indicted on criminal charges. NYT, WSJ, FT, WaPo How whistleblowers protect the bottom line. Bob Conlin in Navex Global's Risk and Compliance Matters. Amec Foster Wheeler, the first FCPA corp enforcement action in 2021. Tom takes a deep dive in a 3-part series on the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. Tom and Matt Kelly take a deep dive in Compliance into the Weeds. Mike Volkov goes deep on Corruption Crime and Compliance. Harry Cassin (as usual) breaks the story on the FCPA Blog. US government AML priorities. FinCen issues report, here. Kyle Brassuer in Compliance Week (sub req'd) Dylan Tokar in WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal. Do lawyers make good gatekeepers? Sung Hui Kim says ‘perhaps'. Keith Bishop says you shouldn't even ask the question. Human-Centered Design: An Engaging Ethics & Compliance Program Serves Users' Needs. Carsten Tams in Part 2 of his five-part series on LinkedIn. Reducing your CCPA risk. Debevoise lawyers on NYU's Compliance and Enforcement blog. Was Amec Foster Wheeler afraid of its agents? Dick Cassin explores in the FCPA Blog. Auditing your climate risk. Mark Texler in a two-part series on PracticalESG. How do you evaluate the value of ethics? Henry Kronk in CCI.  Podcasts and Events How does history inform compliance? What are the leadership lessons from ancient Greeks and Romans? Find out in this special 10 part podcast series on famous Greeks and Romans from Plutarch's Lives this week on 12 O'Clock High, a podcast on business leadership, hosted by Richard Lummis and Tom Fox. In Episode 1, they mined Plutarch about the lives of and leadership lessons from Themistocles and Camillus. In Episode 2, they looked at Solon and Popsicola. In Episode 3, Pericles and Fabius Maximus. In Episode 4, Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Are you a MCU fan? If so check out the special series on the Disney streaming service Loki and Tom Fox and Megan Dougherty who return to review the entire series. They catch up on Episode 1-3 in this edition of Popcorn and Compliance. Trekking Through Compliance Returns! Tom reviews all 79 episodes of Star Trek, the Original Series beginning June 1. Each day at 3 PM on the Compliance Podcast Network. This week's offerings included Operation Annihilate, Amok Time, Who Mourns for Adonias, The Changeling and Mirror Mirror. On this episode of Integrity Through Compliance, join Affiliated Monitor's Rod Grandon, Jenner & Block Partner, David Robbins, and former Engility Holdings, Inc. General Counsel, Tom Miller, for an in-depth discussion focusing on crisis management from the perspectives of a General Counsel, outside legal counsel, and federal acquisition official. On July 13, join K2 Integrity for its Virtual Compliance Conference on Environment, Social, and Governance Compliance Risks for Financial Institutions. Information and Registration here. It is now HERE, the book you have all been waiting for, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for purchase. The Compliance Handbook 2ndedition is available in both print and eBook editions. Available here. Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom and Jay are back to take a look at this week's stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Design Thinking in Compliance edition.  Stories Design Thinking returns to compliance as Carsten Tams begins a 5-part series on LinkedIn. Check out Part 1. Ex-Goldman Sachs banker settles FCPA matter. Dylan Tokar in WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal. Want a refresher in red flags, check out this FBI-produced multipart series, all available on YouTube. Red Flag Fraud Signs, Part 1, Red Flag Fraud Signs, Part 2, Red Flag Fraud Signs, Part 3, Red Flag Fraud Signs, Part 4, Red Flag Fraud Signs, Part 5, Red Flag Fraud Signs, Part 6 Tricky Dicky lives in FCPA enforcement. Dick Cassin explains why in the FCPA Blog. Using captives to provide FCPA D&O Coverage? Daniel Chefitz and Sergio Oehninger in the FCPA Blog.   Do we need to ban high-value currency? Sam Magaram in GAB. Compliance opportunities in and after Covid. Stephen Naughton in Compliance Law Journal. Building an effective AML action plan. Peter Fitzgerald, Scott Zucker and Tristan Souness-Wilson in CCI. SEC settles pre-taliation case with Guggenheim Partners. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance. Will laws requiring Board diversity survive court scrutiny? Kevin LaCroix in the D&O Diary.  Podcasts and Events Microsoft Week on Innovation in Compliance. Alan Gibson on Legal Compliance for the Future, Abbas Kudration Innovation Through Info Security, Joseph Davis on A Progressive and Humble Leadership to Cybersecurity, Erica Toelle on Records Management and Information Governance, Jesus Fernandez on the Digital Transformation of Compliance. How does history inform compliance? What are the leadership lessons from ancient Greeks and Romans? Find out in this special 10 part podcast series on famous Greeks and Romans from Plutarch's Lives this week on 12 O'Clock High, a podcast on business leadership, hosted by Richard Lummis and Tom Fox. In Episode 1, they mined Plutarch about the lives of and leadership lessons from Themistocles and Camillus. In Episode 2, they looked at Solon and Popsicola. In Episode 3, Pericles and Fabius Maximus. Trekking Through Compliance Returns! Tom reviews all 79 episodes of Star Trek, the Original Series beginning June 1. Each day at 3 PM on the Compliance Podcast Network. This week's offerings included Space Seed, Return of the Archons, This Side of Paradise, Devil in the Dark and Errand of Mercy. On July 1, join K2 Integrity's Snezana Gebauer and Darren Matthews will present a webinar on asset tracing at the IBA Global Influencer Forum. Learn more and register here.  On July 13, join K2 Integrity for its Virtual Compliance Conference on Environment, Social, and Governance Compliance Risks for Financial Institutions. Information and Registration here. Compliance Week is looking at 3rd risk management in 2021 in a two-day virtual event on June 29 & 30. For information and registration click here. Use the Code Dave100 for a free ticket. Tom announces his latest book, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 and go here. The Compliance Handbook 2ndedition will be available in both print and eBook editions. Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What are some of the skills a CCO needs to success navigate the compliance waters in any company? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this new podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, my guest is Gabe Hidalgo, Managing Director at K2 Integrity and former CCO.  In is role at K2 Integrity, Hidalgo sees problems and issues for clients through a variety of lenses. His time as a CCO gives him insight and empathy into the challenges of a CCO. His time at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York gives him insight into the regulatory mindset for financial institutions. He continues to emphasize that the buck stops with the CCO. AML compliance will only grow and continue to become more important, not simply for financial institutions but for commercial corporations going forward.   Resources  Gabe Hidalgo LinkedIn Profile Gabe Hidalgo K2 Integrity Profile K2 Integrity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hidalgo moved into CCO chairs at Community Federal Savings Bank and at Noble Bank International. His role in both of these financial institutions was primarily AML  compliance but it included broader compliance roles as well. The biggest lesson was that the ‘buck stops with the CCO'. Ultimately it is your responsibility and you must have accountability of all areas of compliance. As a CCO a key trait is empathy which you must employ in your dealings with other executives and employees. He believes you must connect with your employees.    Episode 4-Beyond the CCO Chair In is role at K2 Integrity, Hidalgo sees problems and issues for clients through a variety of lenses. His time as a CCO gives him insight and empathy into the challenges of a CCO. His time at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York gives him insight into the regulatory mindset for financial institutions. He continues to emphasize that the buck stops with the CCO. AML compliance will only grow and continue to become more important, not simply for financial institutions but for commercial corporations going forward.    Resources  Gabe Hidalgo LinkedIn Profile Gabe Hidalgo K2 Integrity Profile K2 Integrity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What are some of the skills a CCO needs to success navigate the compliance waters in any company? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this new podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, my guest is Gabe Hidalgo, Managing Director at K2 Integrity and former CCO. As a native New Yorker, Hidalgo was deep impacted by 9/11. He wanted to join the fight against terrorism and did so by leaving insurance defense work and moving into AML compliance. From this start, Hidalgo worked at a wide range of financial institutions, consulting firms and eventually the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, all in the AML field. Resources  Gabe Hidalgo LinkedIn Profile Gabe Hidalgo K2 Integrity Profile K2 Integrity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the Astros (nearly) sweep the BoSox (in the Cheater's Bowl), we enter the 6th month of 2021, Jay and Tom take a look at this week's stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Welcome to June edition.  Stories Compliance and goverance for NFTs. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes in XpertsLeague. Compliance risks in post-acquisition integration. Jennifer Fondrevay in the FCPA Blog. A collective response to ransomware attacks is needed. Jaclyn Jaeger reflects in Complinace Week. (sub req'd) Using stories to make your values stick. Brett Beasley in Notre Dame Delloite Center for Ethical Leadership. What is the cost of compliance? Thompson Reuters report, in CCI. Is AI up to AML work? Mayze Teitler explores in the Global Anti-Corruption Blog. Are echos of 2008 in the air? Mark Jensen and in Ian Roffman CCI. More charges still coming down from the Odebrecht case. Mike Volkov in Corruption, Crime and Compliance. Lessons for corp BODs from Exxon. Nell Minow the Havard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. What is the status of your financial crimes compliance program? Frank Staelens in Risk and Compliance Platform Europe.  Podcasts and Events Mikhail Reider-Gordon is back with a special two-part week on The Wirecard Saga. Check out the top podcast on Germany's biggest financial scandal over the past 70 years. Listen to the ‘Know When to Hold ‘Em' edition, Part 1 & Part 2. On the Compliance Podcast Network. Compliance Man Returns with a New Season: True or False? Tom and emerging market compliance special Tim Khasanov-Batirov are back with a new 10-episode season. In Episode 2, they explore how whistleblowers are received in emerging markets. Can't get out of your Ivory Tower, the check out Compliance Man to learn about compliance in emerging markets. The season's episodes will post at 7AM each Friday over the next few months. Part 2 . Trekking Through Compliance Returns! Tom reviews all 79 episodes of Star Trek, the Original Series beginning June 1. Each day at 3 PM on the Compliance Podcast Network. This week included The Man Trap, Charlie X, Where No Man Has Gone Before, and The Naked Time. The Compliance Podcast Network premiers a new podcast, From the Editor's Desk, with Dave Lefort, Editor in Chief of Compliance Week. In this Episode 1, we review some of the top stories from the CW 21 Conference, the top stories from CW in May and a special segment with Aly McDevitt, author of the CW special report on the VW monitorship. From the Editor's Desk will appear on the first and last Friday of each month at 8 AM.  Two great K2 Integrity events. On June 9, join K2 Integrity's Lindsay Di Fede and Olivia Allison to hear about the benefits of taking a holistic and programmatic approach to preventing, detecting, responding to, and remediating insider threats. Learn more and register: https://www.k2integrity.com/en/events/insider-threats---taking-a-proactive-and-preventive-approach. On July 1, join K2 Integrity's Snezana Gebauer and Darren Matthews will present a webinar on asset tracing at the IBA Global Influencer Forum. Learn more and register: https://www.k2integrity.com/en/events/k2-integrity-webinar-at-iba-global-influencer-forum-fraud-debt-and-judgements-how-to-maximize-asset Tom announces his latest book, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 and go here. The Compliance Handbook 2ndedition will be available in both print and eBook editions. Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What are some of the skills a CCO needs to success navigate the compliance waters in any company? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this new podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, my guest is Gabe Hidalgo, Managing Director at K2 Integrity and former CCO. Hidalgo is a native New Yorker and first generation American which form a big part of how and why he eventually found his way into compliance. After law school he worked for in-house for an insurance company and later as an insurance defense lawyer. Both experiences gave him insights into the importance of language in interpreting insurance policy coverage issues and how to marshal arguments to persuade juries at trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special episode of K2's Integrity Matters podcast series, I visit with Gabe Hidalgo. Hidalgo is a Managing Director at K2 Integrity. He has 20 years of legal, regulatory compliance, and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) experience working with wholesale and retail banks, FinTech companies, broker/dealers, and money services business entities. Hidalgo is a recognized subject-matter expert in the cryptocurrency and digital assets market and is able to help clients navigate and mitigate Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) compliance risks. In this podcast, we take a deep dive into the current issues around cryptocurrency regulation and where they may be headed down the road. Some of the highlights include: The Current Landscape Consumer and institutional push into crypto. NFTs are growing in popularity. What is the significance? Heavy institutional hitters buying in of late. Is the little guy now cut out? Current Regulatory Climate Alternative currency has gone from to an asset class being bought and sold for investing. What are the views of Gary Gensler and where might the SEC go in terms of regulation and enforcement? IRS and taxation issues. What are the benefits of a strong regulatory environment for both the financial system as well as the companies in it? Into the Future Inevitability that there will be more regulatory guidance and rules; you have more and more mainstream institutions ready to buy or invest. Whenever you have that much interest, the government has to get involved from a risk mitigation standpoint, and consumer protection standpoint. Who is going to oversee it? Why types of products? Who falls in those product classes? For more on K2 Integrity, check out their website, here. Texas Tax rate at 80% of 8.25%

For decades, policymakers across the globe have increasingly used economic sanctions to disrupt terror networks, limit the spread of weapons of mass destruction, punish human rights violations, deter election interference, and isolate rogue regimes. While the United States, the European Union and the United Nations deploy sanctions differently, all three focus on one common goal - cutting off illicit actors from the traditional financial system to prevent them from moving money and buying goods. However, as we move from the fiat world of hawalas and shell companies to the digital world of programmatic money laundering in cryptocurrencies, what is the impact to economic sanctions? How do cryptocurrencies, with their promise of speed, pseudo-anonymity, and borderless reach, impact nation states' ability to enforce sanctions? How can cryptocurrency businesses and financial institutions build a sanctions compliance response to thwart sanctioned actors and conform with regulatory expectations? TRM Talks Crypto and Sanctions with two people that have the answers - OFAC's Head of Enforcement Lawrence Scheinert and Former Treasury Official and Sanctions expert Eric Lorber of K2 Integrity. This podcast is hosted by TRM Labs, a blockchain analytics company. We work with crypto businesses, financial institutions and government agencies to monitor, detect and investigate fraud and financial crime in crypto. Learn more about our mission to build a safer financial system for billions of people here: https://www.trmlabs.com/about

Bitcoin goes on a wild ride this week with its buddy, Elon Musk. With Jay podcasting from a still undisclosed location, he and Tom take a look at this week’s stories top compliance and ethics stories which caught their interest on This Week in FCPA in the Musk and Bitcoin edition.  Stories 1.     Of Elon Musk, Bitcoin and Uturns. Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance. Tom and Matt in Compliance into the Weeds. Andrew Ross Sorkin in Dealbook. On SNL here. 2.     Benchmark with the Walmart Global ABC policy.  Harry Cassin in the FCPA Blog.  3.     Closing the moral hazard gap. Jeff Kaplan in the FCPA Blog.  4.     Boards and cybersecurity oversight. Wachtell lawyers, John F. Savarese, Sarah K. Eddy, and Sabastian Niles in the NYU Corruption and Enforcement Blog. 5.     You are ready for th EU Whistleblower Directive? Neil Hodge in in Compliance Week (sub req’d) 6.     Are companies serious about Diversity & Inclusion? Henry Kronk in CCI.  7.     Who are a CCOs most important resource (Hint: it’s customers). Steve Chapman in Navex Global’s Ethics and Compliance Matters Blog.  8.     What happens when whistleblowers joust over an award? Matt Kelly in Radical Compliance.   9.     Do you have a mindset of respect? Sam Silverstein in the Accountability Blog. 10.  How does ESG serve investors? Lawrence Heim in PracticalESG.com.   Podcasts and Events 11.  Check out the 5-part podcast series this week sponsored by K2 Integrity. We consider the intersection of Compliance, Diligence and M&A. Part 1-Core Diligence, Part 2-Current state of M&A; Part 3-Avoiding Reputational Issues, Part 4-Global M&A issues, Part 5-Post-acquistion integration.  12.  In the most recent episode of Integrity Through Compliance, Jesse Caplan, Dionne Lomax and Jim Anilot discuss “From Business Opportunities to Compliance Risks: Health Expectations in 2021”. Check it out here.  13.  In a special two-part series, Tom visits with Joey Seeber, CEO of Level Legal. They discuss alternative legal services providers and the Baylor Bears 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Part 1 and Part 2. 14.  CCI releases a new eBook, The FCPA Year in Review by the Compliance Evangelist, Tom Fox. You can obtain a copy here.  Best of all its available at no charge.  15.  Tom announces his latest book, The Compliance Handbook, 2nd edition is available for presale purchase. Use the code FOX25 and go here. The Compliance Handbook 2nd edition will be available in both print and eBook editions. This week on The Compliance Handbook podcast, Eric Young joins Tom for a deep dive into the role of internal controls in a best practices compliance program.  Tom Fox is the Voice of Compliance and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to a special five-part podcast series sponsored by K2 Integrity. In this series, we have considered the intersection of compliance, diligence and mergers & acquisitions (M&A). I have been joined by Hannah Coleman, Managing Director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Risk Advisory practice. She specializes in fast-moving, complex, and specialized research assignments in a variety of areas including investigative due diligence, corporate contests, intellectual property investigations, media transparency assessments, and litigation support. Also joining this series is Tom Pannell, Managing Director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Risk Advisory practice. With a focus on financial investigations, Tom leads multi-disciplinary teams working with corporate clients and their legal advisors responding to crisis events, including multi-jurisdictional white-collar crime, misconduct, financial statement fraud, anti-bribery and corruption incidents, and compliance risk advisory work. In this concluding episode, I visit with Tom about integration issues after deal closure.   I hope you have enjoyed this special K2 Integrity sponsored series on compliance, diligence and M&A. For more on K2 Integrity, check out their website, here.  Texas Tax rate at 80% of 8.25%

Welcome to a special five-part podcast series sponsored by K2 Integrity. This month we consider the intersection of compliance, diligence and mergers & acquisitions (M&A). I am joined by Hannah Coleman, Managing Director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Risk Advisory practice. She specializes in fast-moving, complex, and specialized research assignments in a variety of areas including investigative due diligence, corporate contests, intellectual property investigations, media transparency assessments, and litigation support. Also joining this week’s series is Tom Pannell, Managing Director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Risk Advisory practice. With a focus on financial investigations, Tom leads multi-disciplinary teams working with corporate clients and their legal advisors responding to crisis events, including multi-jurisdictional white-collar crime, misconduct, financial statement fraud, anti-bribery and corruption incidents, and compliance risk advisory work. In this episode, I visit with Tom about deals through a global lens.   Join us tomorrow for our final episode as we consider some post-closing integration issues.  For more on K2 Integrity, check out their website, here.  Texas Tax rate at 80% of 8.25%

Welcome to a special five-part podcast series sponsored by K2 Integrity. This month we consider the intersection of compliance, diligence and mergers & acquisitions (M&A). I am joined by Hannah Coleman, Managing Director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Risk Advisory practice. She specializes in fast-moving, complex, and specialized research assignments in a variety of areas including investigative due diligence, corporate contests, intellectual property investigations, media transparency assessments, and litigation support. Also joining this week’s series is Tom Pannell, Managing Director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Risk Advisory practice. With a focus on financial investigations, Tom leads multi-disciplinary teams working with corporate clients and their legal advisors responding to crisis events, including multi-jurisdictional white-collar crime, misconduct, financial statement fraud, anti-bribery and corruption incidents, and compliance risk advisory work. In this third episode, I visit with Hannah on how to avoid being blinded by familiarity so that potential reputational issues do not surprise you down the road.  Join us tomorrow as we consider deals through a global lens.  For more on K2 Integrity, check out their website, here.  Texas Tax rate at 80% of 8.25%

Welcome to a special five-part podcast series sponsored by K2 Integrity. This month we consider the intersection of compliance, diligence and mergers & acquisitions (M&A). I am joined by Hannah Coleman, Managing Director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Risk Advisory practice. She specializes in fast-moving, complex, and specialized research assignments in a variety of areas including investigative due diligence, corporate contests, intellectual property investigations, media transparency assessments, and litigation support. Also joining this week’s series is Tom Pannell, Managing Director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Risk Advisory practice. With a focus on financial investigations, Tom leads multi-disciplinary teams working with corporate clients and their legal advisors responding to crisis events, including multi-jurisdictional white-collar crime, misconduct, financial statement fraud, anti-bribery and corruption incidents, and compliance risk advisory work. In this second episode, I visit with Tom on concerns in the current deal making scene.  Join us in our next episode where consider avoiding potential reputational issues.  For more on K2 Integrity, check out their website, here.  Texas Tax rate at 80% of 8.25%

Welcome to a special five-part podcast series sponsored by K2 Integrity. This month we consider the intersection of compliance, diligence and mergers & acquisitions (M&A). I am joined by Hannah Coleman, Managing Director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Risk Advisory practice. She specializes in fast-moving, complex, and specialized research assignments in a variety of areas including investigative due diligence, corporate contests, intellectual property investigations, media transparency assessments, and litigation support. Also joining this week’s series is Tom Pannell, Managing Director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Risk Advisory practice. With a focus on financial investigations, Tom leads multi-disciplinary teams working with corporate clients and their legal advisors responding to crisis events, including multi-jurisdictional white-collar crime, misconduct, financial statement fraud, anti-bribery and corruption incidents, and compliance risk advisory work. In this first episode, I visit with Hannah on issues relating to core due diligence issues. Join us in our next episode where consider concerns in today’s deal making scene.  For more on K2 Integrity, check out their website, here.  Texas Tax rate at 80% of 8.25%

Fraud and corruption can permeate any industry – and as Darren Matthews saw early in his career as a grocery clerk all the way to K2 Integrity's regional head of EMEA, it can take varying forms. In Episode 7 of Digging Deeper, Chris Morgan Jones and Darren Matthews explore how fraudsters find new avenues to take advantage of a business, and some cases where investigators cracked the code on bad actors.

The headlines from Operation Varsity Blues dominated the news cycle for months – but what happened in higher education after the news trucks left campus? Chris Morgan Jones speaks with David Holley about an investigation the K2 Integrity team conducted in the wake of the Varsity Blues scandal and the ripple effect of the FBI's initial findings on the broader higher education system.

Who is behind the Con Queen of Hollywood scam? K2 Integrity's Chris Morgan Jones interviews lead investigator on the case, Nicoletta Kotsianas, about the high-profile scam, K2 Integrity's investigation, and where the case is headed. Listen in to our inaugural episode today. www.k2integrity.com