Catelas wins 2012 GRC Technology Innovation Award Posted by Michael Rasmussen, Corporate Integrity, LLC
....Catelas wins award for "People Governance" applications that help Legal, Security and Compliance better understand their relationship risks. Employee risk pertains to how companies do business;

The Catelas People Governance Solution uncovers these risk and maps them to specific policies, for example: FCPA, Information theft (GLBA, HIPPA), off-label promotion, insider trading supervision, counterparty & KYC, preservation, litigation scope and production risk etc..

FCPA Predictions for 2012 Posted by Michael Volkov, partner, Mayer Brown LLP
....2. FCPA Enforcement Spreads to Mid-Size and Smaller Public Companies - Most of the FCPA criminal settlements have involved large global companies. They will continue to be the focus in 2012 but more mid-size and smaller companies will fall under the FCPA enforcement axe. Mid-size and small companies have been slower to implement compliance programs. Bribery is a much greater risk in these companies. Reporting of such violations by whistleblowers and disgruntled employees will inevitably lead to more cases against these companies.

Understanding and Using Networks for Law Practice Development Published by American Law Institute | American Bar Association
.......chapter 3: Understanding Relationship Forensics by Robert Levey. The Catelas solution is built on the notion that white collar crime is becoming increasingly sophisticated and that obvious key words (bribes, kickbacks, insider trading) will not be expressly written in email communications. Rather, the approach is behavioral-based, using Relationship Analytics, much the way law enforcement has done for decades. At the outset, Catelas links specific individuals to a crime rather than searching for the smoking gun. Catelas does not analyze the content first, but rather, concentrates on people and relationships first, communications activity second and only searches/reviews content once the relevant people connections have been identified.

internal [FCPA] investigations are on the rise Posted by Samuel Rubenfeld
....The FCPA Blog looks at the latest Halliburton Co. disclosure, and allows Michael Volkov to introduce his new blog. The FCPAProfessor hands over the reins for a day to Bruce Bean. The catelas blog notes that internal investigations are on the rise, according to the 2011 Fulbright & Jaworsky Litigation Trends Survey. Thebriberyact.com provides the latest on consultations over whether to include deferred-prosecution agreements in the U.K. legal repertoire. Howard Sklar starts his series on the Schedule C sections of deferred-prosecution agreements signed by companies and the Justice Department. The FCPA Americas blog started a series on boom times in Brazil. A KYC360 analysis of the Tamimi settlement...........

Catelas refers to managing the “risk gap.” Posted by Barry Murphy
....Catelas believes the risk gap exists “because it’s currently impossible to provide analytical reports on data without collecting it.” The company claims to be able to create rules and reports on the entire communications network of the company (including social media) without collecting data. Catelas uses the analogy of an MRI: “currently the process is all about costly, disruptive collections rather like surgery of old, when you really only had a vague idea of the scope of the issues, whereas today’s operations leverage MRI’s to understand where the issues are before they operate and then use key hole surgery to remediate the issue without disruption and with minimal cost.”.........

To disclose or not to disclose? Posted by Samuel Rubenfeld
....The FCPA Blog has 64 million reasons to comply with the FCPA. The FCPAProfessor blasts the Open Society report that targeted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s efforts to amend the FCPA. Tom Fox looks at the SciClone FCPA settlement. The FCPAmericas blog explains how the new free-trade agreements passed by Congress could be good for compliance. Thebriberyact.com uses an opinion piece to advocate for deferred-prosecution agreements and other U.S. prosecutorial tools to deliver justice. The Bung blog returns. The catelas blog asks: To disclose or not to disclose? ...........

What are the odds in your FCPA compliance investigation? Posted by Thomas Fox
By automatically uncovering who is talking to whom, when they connected and how well they know each other, the Catelas software product identifies both the internal and external people most likely to be involved. This allows a company to review more relevant data and from that point, expand the scope of any FCPA investigation as warranted. The Catelas approach can assist a FCPA compliance investigation in at least three ways.........

....leverage the networks we already have..... Posted by Peter Gray
.....Social Network Analysis tool that can help us leverage the networks we already have built. It graphically shows who knows who and what level of a relationship they have (strong, moderate, or weak). This tool can be “pointed” at social networking sites, CRM software, telephony logs, etc...........