This Week in FCPA-Episode 159– the KPMG Trainwreck and Walmart Settles edition - a podcast by Thomas Fox

With KPMG in the news for one of the biggest ethical trainwrecks in recent memory (or since the last biggest ethical trainwreck-Walmart) Tom and Jay return to discuss both events some of this week’s top compliance and ethics stories which caught their collective eyes. 
1.    Wal-Mart settles. Harry Cassin breaks the story for the compliance community in the FCPA Blog. 2.    The KPMG ethical trainwreck catapults off the tracks with a SEC enforcement action. Francine McKenna with the most comprehensive reporting. Tom and Matt Kelly explore in separate blog posts. 3.    What is the role of the WTO in global anti-corruption enforcement? Luciana Silveira explores. 4.    Banks behaving badly (Part 1,304,555). Swedebank suspends execs from its Estonia branch. Dominic Chopping reports in WSJ. Deutsche Bank under criminal investigation for AML violation. David Enrich, Ben Protess and William K. Rashbaum report.5.     NAVEX Global published a first-of-its-kind ethics and compliance benchmark report. Jaclyn Jaeger reviews.  6.    What are the data security/data privacy issues from using Slack? Jim Murphy explains.7.    Designing an ethical company is easy. So says Jeff Kaplan. 8.    Why are negligence and willfulness different standards? Greg Morvillo and Christine Handley explore. 9.    Dylan Tokar joins the WSJ Risk and Compliance Journal. See his twitternotification. You can reach him at dylan.tokar@wsj.com. 10. Why does one size not fit all? Jay continues his series on working with monitors. 11..  Tom is keynoting next week (June 28) at the University of Miami conference “Compliance Across Borders”. For information and registration click here. In Europe and want to attend a great compliance conference? Tom will be keynoting at Circle of Compliance forum on July 3 and 4 in Paris. For more information and registration, click here.  Tom Fox is the Compliance Evangelist and can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Jay Rosen is Mr. Monitor and can be reached at jrosen@affiliatedmonitors.com. 
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