Compliance Bricks and Mortar for May 31

These are some of the compliance-related stories that recently caught my attention. The Troika Laundromat The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Laundromats are complex systems for moving money that allow corrupt politicians, organized crime figures, and wealthy business people to secretly invest their ill-gotten millions, launder money, evade taxes, and fulfill other goals.OCCRP has … Read more »

Compliance Bricks and Mortar for May 17

These are some of the compliance-related stories that recently caught my attention. Reasonableness Pants Commissioner Hester M. Peirce A strong enforcement program requires us—to draw from the admonition a judge recently gave to us in a matter before her—to “put on [our] reasonableness pants.” The SEC ought always to wear reasonableness pants, and I would like to … Read more »