July/Aug 2015
Volume 4, Issue 4

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News Items

• Facebook wins latest privacy case but the battle continues
• Uber under threat of ban in France and at home for breach of regulations
• Electrolux $3.3bn bid for GE appliances blocked by US Department of Justice
• German regulator launches Deutsche LIBOR probe
• Drop in dawn raids as FCA focuses elsewhere
• Shortage of Compliance Officers in Asia
• FCA chief resigns

Articles

• Corporate involvement in political activities: risks and rules - Peter van Veen, Transparency International UK
• Many parties, many risks Part 1: Who are your third parties? - Keith Read, LRN
• Big business and modern slavery: what your organisation should be doing - Paul Henty & Simon Holdsworth, Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

May/June 2015
Volume 4, Issue 3

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News Items

• SFO reports guilty plea in multimillion pound corruption case
• EAT says ‘public interest’ requirement for whistleblowing is a low hurdle
• Mishandled PPI complaints cost Clydesdale Bank £20m
• FATCA introduced in Luxembourg
• Corporate manslaughter charge against care home
• Boost for Polish consumer rights protection
• Striving for stricter building standards in Japan
• EU looks at extending wind - down rules beyond banking industry
• EU adopts Fourth Anti-money-laundering Directive
• Europe mounts anti-abuse case against Google

Articles

• Monitoring in the workplace – damned if you do and damned if you don’t! - Robert Bond & Viktoria Protokova, Charles Russell Speechlys LLP
• DOJ and the FCPA: The pursuit of prosecutions of individuals - J. Patrick Rowan, McGuireWoods LLP
• The FCA’s Business Plan 2015/2016 - What can we expect from the regulator in the coming year? - Eimear O’Brien, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
• Social media compliance Part 2: Inward-facing compliance strategy - Laura Scaife, Addleshaw Goddard LLP

March/April 2015
Volume 4, Issue 2

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News Items

• Commerzbank makes $1.45bn money-laundering settlement
• CMA updates theories of harm in investigation of GB energy market
• China anti-trust case costs Qualcomm record $975m
• New public procurement regulations in force
• New oil regulator to have power to impose fines
• Government targets corporates with new tax evasion laws
• Meanwhile in Brussels...
• SSE in list of companies failing to pay minimum wage

Articles

• The impact and content of the new UK Consumer Contracts Regulations - Oliver Price & Christina Fleming, Charles Russell Speechlys LLP
• Social media compliance Part 1: outwardfacing strategies - Laura Scaife, Addleshaw Goddard LLP
• Reducing the risks of failing banks: the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive - Barney Hearnden & Ash Saluja, CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

January/February 2015
Volume 4, Issue 1

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News Items

• Alstom pays $772m to settle US bribery allegations
• Financial Conduct Authority keeps promise on tougher regulation
• FCA fines ex-Banco Espírito Santo
• Asset managers drive for better standards
• US fines Honda $70m for failure to report deaths
• Calls for energy regulator to have powers to force fuel bill cuts
• Lloyds asks for exemption from ring-fencing rule
• ICO issues warning over accident claim calls

Articles

• Looking to the next 12 months: 10 issues for UK Compliance Officers - Rhys Novak, Robert Bond & and Paul Henty, Charles Russell Speechlys LLP
• Whistleblowing: Ireland’s Protected Disclosures Act 2014 – its context and impact - Clare Carroll, McCann FitzGerald
• Book review: 'Handbook of Social Media and the Law' (Author: Laura Scaife from Addleshaw Goddard LLP) - Reviewed by Peter Coe, East Anglian Chambers