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What FCPA Enforcement is Thinking in 2012
11.19.2012
A year ago, FCPAméricas provided an overview of FCPA enforcement officials’ thinking at the time based on their comments at the 2011 National Conference on the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practice Act, hosted by American Conference Institute (ACI). Last week, ACI held its 2012 national conference. Once again, FCPA enforcement officials shared their current thinking. Here […]
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A “Speak-Up” Culture: Encouraging Employees to Report FCPA Violations Internally First
8.29.2012
Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which establishes SEC whistleblower mechanisms, is now in full effect. The SEC announced last week that it has made its first whistleblower payout. The Chief of the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower said that the office is receiving, on average, eight tips a day. SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro […]
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Five Things You Did Not Know about the SEC Whistleblower Program
6.13.2012
Or at least I did not know . . . until I attended Compliance Week’s 2012 Annual Conference last week. At the conference, the Deputy Chief of the SEC’s Whistleblower Office, Jane Norberg, gave an informative presentation. She qualified her statements by saying they were her own – she was not speaking on behalf of […]
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Como se dice “Whistleblower”? (Part 2: Do Protections Extend to Latin Americans?)
2.14.2012
The Frank-Dodd whistleblower provisions became effective almost exactly six months ago. Then, three months later, the SEC provided initial data on the whistleblower program in an Annual Report to Congress. From this report, we know that 10% of the tips in the first several weeks came from abroad, and that some of those were from […]
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Como se dice “Whistleblower”? (Part 1: Latin Americans Learning about Dodd-Frank)
2.10.2012
The Frank-Dodd whistleblower provisions became effective almost exactly six months ago. Then, three months later, the SEC provided initial data on the whistleblower program in an Annual Report to Congress. From this report, we know that 10% of the tips in the first several weeks came from abroad, and that some of those were from […]