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Ethicast: What Can We Learn from the Trafigura Corruption Case?

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Ethicast: What Can We Learn from the Trafigura Corruption Case?

On December 5, 2023, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland filed federal corruption charges against Trafigura and its former Chief Operating Officer Mike Wainwright, alleging that millions of dollars worth of bribes were paid by Trafigura to Angolan officials to secure $144M in ship chartering and bunkering activities for Trafigura. Wainwright is being indicted for personally helping to funnel the payments, and Trafigura is being indicted for allowing it to happen. It is the first time that Switzerland has filed such charges against a company and against such a senior commodities trading executive.

Ethisphere’s Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair, Erica Salmon Byrne, weighs in on how these charges reflect modern business integrity expectations, even in industries that. are historically unused to them.

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Ethicast: How Will the EU Approach Data Security, Cyber Risk, and AI in 2024?

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Ethicast: How Will the EU Approach Data Security, Cyber Risk, and AI in 2024?

In this Ethicast episode, Alex van der Wolk, Partner & Co-Chair of the Global Privacy & Data Security Practice at Morrison Foerster, lends his insights on what ethics and compliance professionals should look out for in 2024 regarding the EU’s various legal and regulatory developments around data privacy, cybersecurity, and AI. The conversation covered:

Challenges and considerations for life under the NIS-2 directive
Significant developments regarding the Cyber Resilience Act
Major cases in the European Court of Justice
Further developments around the EU AI Act

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Ethicast: How to Develop a Holistic Approach to Supply Chain Risks

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Ethicast: How to Develop a Holistic Approach to Supply Chain Risks

In this exclusive Ethicast recap from the 2023 Asia Pacific Ethics & Compliance Virtual Forum, hear from Marcia Ellis, Global Co-Chair of Private Equity Practice, Morrison Foerster; and Stacey Sprenkel, Co-chair of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Practice, Morrison Foerster, as they discuss:

Global supply chain regulatory trends
Fitting the “S” of ESG into supply chain issues
Private equity’s ESG competitive edge
Gauging the ROI on ESG
First steps to begin your own ESG journey

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Ask the Experts: Challenges in Managing Compliance in a Global Multi-Industry Portfolio

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Ask the Experts: Challenges in Managing Compliance in a Global Multi-Industry Portfolio

Bruce Karpati, Partner and Global Chief Compliance Officer at KKR answers questions during the 2021 Global Ethics Summit on navigating the challenges of managing compliance in a global, multi-industry portfolio.

Questions Asked:

As Global CCO you have responsibility for managing compliance at KKR. KKR funds many portfolio companies. How do you balance these aspects of your job?
Can you describe some of the compliance issues you face at KKR?
What are your biggest challenges in a global, multi-industry portfolio?
What are the top risk topics that you focus on with the portfolio companies? Why those?
From a compliance perspective, how do you view the portfolio company through the investment lifecycle?
You’ve been using Ethisphere to help measure and improve the compliance programs of your portfolio companies for several years. What are the benefits you see?
How do you view ESG in your role?

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Ethicast: Best Practices in Trade Compliance for 2024

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Ethicast: Best Practices in Trade Compliance for 2024

In this Ethicast episode, we talk to Dan Wilson, a partner at Husch Blackwell, about trade compliance trends for 2024, shifting supply chains away from China, what a good trade compliance program looks like, how ethics and trade compliance intersect, and how AI is transforming the trade compliance landscape.

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