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31 Mar, 2025

Episode 362 — Carlos Villagran Discusses Rebuilding a Corporate Culture After a Corporate Crisis

This week we are pleased to bring you one of our most popular episodes of 2024. Please enjoy, and we will be back next week with more insights from the Corruption, Crime, and Compliance podcast. Carlos Villagrán is the Director of Compliance at CMPC, a 100-year-old Chilean-based holding company, one of the worldwide leading pulp, paper, packaging, personal care, and other forest products manufacturers. With...
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10 Apr, 2025

Five Strategies to Mitigate a New Risk Environment

Legal and compliance officers are used to adjustments and continuous improvement of their compliance programs. Building and maintaining an effective ethics and compliance program never ends — it is a continuous process. To this end, in the environment of rapid change, compliance officers know how to remain steady and focus on emerging risks. The strategies are often similar but the substance differs when new threats...
General

9 Apr, 2025

Keeping Compliance Steady During a Time of Change

For compliance officers, this is a stressful time. How is that for another profound grasp of the obvious? Most compliance officers face a well-known assortment of risks — bribery, trade, False Claims Act, data privacy, cybersecurity and conflicts of interest. Risks would move up or down depending on trends or specific industry operations. Further, with rapid technological change, new risks emerged such as artificial intelligence...
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8 Apr, 2025

Episode 363 — Nicolas Garcia, GC at Orica, on Compliance Trends and Challenges in Latin America

This week we are pleased to bring you one of our most popular episodes of 2024. Please enjoy, and we will be back next week with more insights from the Corruption, Crime, and Compliance podcast. How can companies build trust and drive growth in a region as politically and economically volatile as Latin America? In this episode, Nicolas Garcia – Vice President, Legal, Regional and...
General

2 Apr, 2025

Transforming the Justice Department

The Trump Administration is focused on change in the government’s role, the administrative state, and the political environment. With these changes, you can expect the Trump Administration to aggressively pursue violators — DOJ is being re-organized in a way to decentralize prosecutorial discretion to the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices among the 94 specific judicial districts. DOJ’s supervisory role had been a hinderance in certain areas, and...
Podcasts

31 Mar, 2025

Episode 362 — Carlos Villagran Discusses Rebuilding a Corporate Culture After a Corporate Crisis

This week we are pleased to bring you one of our most popular episodes of 2024. Please enjoy, and we will be back next week with more insights from the Corruption, Crime, and Compliance podcast. Carlos Villagrán is the Director of Compliance at CMPC, a 100-year-old Chilean-based holding company, one of the worldwide leading pulp, paper, packaging, personal care, and other forest products manufacturers. With...
General

10 Apr, 2025

Five Strategies to Mitigate a New Risk Environment

Legal and compliance officers are used to adjustments and continuous improvement of their compliance programs. Building and maintaining an effective ethics and compliance program never ends — it is a continuous process. To this end, in the environment of rapid change, compliance officers know how to remain steady and focus on emerging risks. The strategies are often similar but the substance differs when new threats...

10 Apr, 2025

Five Strategies to Mitigate a New Risk Environment

Legal and compliance officers are used to adjustments and continuous improvement of their compliance programs. Building and maintaining an effective ethics and compliance program never ends — it is a continuous process. To this end, in the environment of rapid change, compliance officers know how to remain steady and focus on emerging risks. The strategies are often similar but the substance differs when new threats...

General

9 Apr, 2025

Keeping Compliance Steady During a Time of Change

For compliance officers, this is a stressful time. How is that for another profound grasp of the obvious? Most compliance officers face a well-known assortment of risks — bribery, trade, False Claims Act, data privacy, cybersecurity and conflicts of interest. Risks would move up or down depending on trends or specific industry operations. Further, with rapid technological change, new risks emerged such as artificial intelligence...

Podcasts

8 Apr, 2025

Episode 363 — Nicolas Garcia, GC at Orica, on Compliance Trends and Challenges in Latin America

This week we are pleased to bring you one of our most popular episodes of 2024. Please enjoy, and we will be back next week with more insights from the Corruption, Crime, and Compliance podcast. How can companies build trust and drive growth in a region as politically and economically volatile as Latin America? In this episode, Nicolas Garcia – Vice President, Legal, Regional and...

General

2 Apr, 2025

Transforming the Justice Department

The Trump Administration is focused on change in the government’s role, the administrative state, and the political environment. With these changes, you can expect the Trump Administration to aggressively pursue violators — DOJ is being re-organized in a way to decentralize prosecutorial discretion to the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices among the 94 specific judicial districts. DOJ’s supervisory role had been a hinderance in certain areas, and...

Podcasts

31 Mar, 2025

Episode 362 — Carlos Villagran Discusses Rebuilding a Corporate Culture After a Corporate Crisis

This week we are pleased to bring you one of our most popular episodes of 2024. Please enjoy, and we will be back next week with more insights from the Corruption, Crime, and Compliance podcast. Carlos Villagrán is the Director of Compliance at CMPC, a 100-year-old Chilean-based holding company, one of the worldwide leading pulp, paper, packaging, personal care, and other forest products manufacturers. With...

General

24 Mar, 2025

Riding the Wave to Navigate Volatile Risks

Chief compliance officers are adjusting a new, risk world, where top risks include export controls, sanctions, and immigration enforcement. At the same time, some risks remain — third-party risks, conflict of interest, fair competition, and yes, even anti-bribery. At the beginning of a new Administration, there is a lag between intentions and actions. It takes time to move the government enforcement and regulatory machinery and...

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23 Mar, 2025

Episode 361: The Boeing Plea Agreement

This week we are pleased to bring you one of our most popular episodes of 2024. Please enjoy, and we will be back next week with more insights from the Corruption, Crime, and Compliance podcast. Have you heard of the recent controversies around Boeing 737 MAX and its safety? Have you wondered what is being done about the concerns around it? In this episode of...

General

19 Mar, 2025

The Brave New World — Due Diligence to Identify Cartels and TCOs

When assessing your third-party risks, it is important to start with one important division — a company’s supply chain and on the flip side, a company’s distribution chain. Sourcing materials and supply chain links present a set of risks. Conversely, a company’s distribution chain, sales channel, presents another set of challenges. In each case, legal and compliance have to understand the legal risks presented by...

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18 Mar, 2025

Trade Policies and Initiatives — A Fresh Examination

Trade compliance officers are scrambling — they knew change was afoot but no one expected the speed and wide scope of upheaval in the trade arena. One day presents potential changes with serious ramifications. In this turbulent era, legal and compliance have to maintain calm, avoid over-reaction and remain close to their corporate values and principles. Legal and compliance have to present a steady confidence. ...

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17 Mar, 2025

Episode 360 — Natalie Druckman from Certa on AI-Enhanced Third-Party Risk Management

How do you manage risk when the vulnerabilities are outside your organization aren’t in your hands? In this episode of Corruption, Crime, and Compliance, we delve into the world of third-party risk management with our guest, Natalie Druckman, from Certa. As we discuss the regulatory landscape in EMEA and the US, Natalie highlights the higher regulatory burden faced by companies in EMEA, and how Certa...