Category: Compliance Bricks and Mortar

These are some compliance-related stories that recently caught my eye: United Breaks Guitars: Lesson Learned for Companies and Whistleblowers by Tom Fox The authors break their analysis down into two components, which I believe relate to the compliance context. The first is to understand what would drive an employee to go outside the internal reporting process? … Read more »

Is it August already? The summer is flying by (as usual). There are still some interesting compliance-related stories floating by on the interwebz. Don’t know if you’re carrying on business in the UK, or not? What do you do? in The Bribery Act .com The key to its long arm jurisdiction rests in its application … Read more »

These are some compliance-related stories that recently caught my attention. Backyard Hens: A Trend Coming Home to Roost? by James McWilliams in Freakonomics These anecdotes remind us that, when it comes to the safety of chicken eggs, what matters is not so much the setting in which the birds are raised (factory or backyard), but … Read more »

These are some recent compliance-related stories that caught my eye. Lessons of the Financial Crisis: The Dangers of Short-Termism by Sheila C. Bair, Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation [I]n my opinion, the overarching lesson of the crisis is the pervasive short-term … Read more »

These are some compliance-related stories that caught my eye. Okay, so this first one is not about compliance, but about the Tour de France that starts on Saturday morning for its three week race across France. Top 10 Reasons Geeks Should Love the Tour de France in Wired’s GeekDad. Fraud in Commercial Real Estate: Tips … Read more »

These are some recent compliance-related stories that caught my eye: What ‘Inside Job’ got wrong by Ezra Klein in the Washington Post And ultimately, that’s what makes the financial crisis so scary. The complexity of the system far exceeded the capacity of the participants, experts and watchdogs. Even after the crisis happened, it was devilishly … Read more »

These are some  compliance-related stories that caught my attention: Still Writing, Regulators Delay Rules by Louise Story in the New York Times Regulators overseeing financial reform are delaying many of the planned changes in the immense market for complex securities known as derivatives because they are running drastically behind schedule in writing their new rules. … Read more »

Here are some recent compliance-related stories that caught my eye. Investment Advice from George Carlin by Kent Thune in The Big Picture Try not to live in a hypothetical world. “What if there were no hypothetical questions?” ~ George Carlin Regulatory Delay Stokes Unease Over Dodd-Frank by Deborah Solomon and Victoria McGrane in the Wall … Read more »

Here are some recent compliance-related stories that caught my attention: Launching Into Unethical Behavior: Lessons from the Challenger Disaster by Ann E. Tenbrunsel and Max H. Bazerman in Freakonomics On the night before the Challenger was set to launch, a group of NASA engineers and managers met with the shuttle contracting firm Morton Thiokol to … Read more »

Here are some recent compliance related stories that caught my eye. My Attorney Just Shattered My Crowdfunding Dreams by Christopher Hytry Derrington and Charles Hertlein in the Huffington Post In February 2011, I announced on the Huffington Post that my company was going to try to raise investment capital via crowdfunding. Using online social networks, … Read more »