Mr Compliance
@mrcompliance.bsky.social
Canadian, who lives in Asia, and posts on financial services compliance and finance and economics generally. Opinions expressed are entirely my own.
Trigger alert: There will be food pics.
Trigger alert: There will be food pics.
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Mr Compliance
@mrcompliance.bsky.social
· Oct 28
I have always believed that Compliance Officers need to read widely to stimulate our thinking about where there might be vulnerabilities, help explain risks to the business and help with real-life stories for training.
So I’ve started a virtual #ComplianceBookClub here, and on LinkedIn.
So I’ve started a virtual #ComplianceBookClub here, and on LinkedIn.
Okay, I have a throwback edition of #ComplianceBookClub for you this week.
When I got my first compliance job, my boss recommended that I read, “Stung, The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony”, by Gary Stephen Ross.
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When I got my first compliance job, my boss recommended that I read, “Stung, The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony”, by Gary Stephen Ross.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Okay, I have a throwback edition of #ComplianceBookClub for you this week.
When I got my first compliance job, my boss recommended that I read, “Stung, The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony”, by Gary Stephen Ross.
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When I got my first compliance job, my boss recommended that I read, “Stung, The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony”, by Gary Stephen Ross.
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Time for another edition of #ComplianceBookClub.
I always recommend Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s “Billion Dollar Whale” to new compliance officers.
It’s a gripping true story, and there is quite a lot of detail on how the bad guys disguised transactions in order to fool bank compliance teams.
I always recommend Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s “Billion Dollar Whale” to new compliance officers.
It’s a gripping true story, and there is quite a lot of detail on how the bad guys disguised transactions in order to fool bank compliance teams.
October 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Time for another edition of #ComplianceBookClub.
I always recommend Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s “Billion Dollar Whale” to new compliance officers.
It’s a gripping true story, and there is quite a lot of detail on how the bad guys disguised transactions in order to fool bank compliance teams.
I always recommend Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s “Billion Dollar Whale” to new compliance officers.
It’s a gripping true story, and there is quite a lot of detail on how the bad guys disguised transactions in order to fool bank compliance teams.
On the issue of tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions, there is also Nicholas Shaxton’s excellent “Treasure Islands”. #ComplianceBookClub
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
On the issue of tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions, there is also Nicholas Shaxton’s excellent “Treasure Islands”. #ComplianceBookClub
I have always believed that Compliance Officers need to read widely to stimulate our thinking about where there might be vulnerabilities, help explain risks to the business and help with real-life stories for training.
So I’ve started a virtual #ComplianceBookClub here, and on LinkedIn.
So I’ve started a virtual #ComplianceBookClub here, and on LinkedIn.
October 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I have always believed that Compliance Officers need to read widely to stimulate our thinking about where there might be vulnerabilities, help explain risks to the business and help with real-life stories for training.
So I’ve started a virtual #ComplianceBookClub here, and on LinkedIn.
So I’ve started a virtual #ComplianceBookClub here, and on LinkedIn.
Just got around to reading @oliverbullough.bsky.social’s Butler to the World.
Excellent read. Pitched at a UK audience, but a readable and relevant on the topic of tax havens broadly, and his critique of STR/SAR regimes has a ring of truth across jurisdictions.
Excellent read. Pitched at a UK audience, but a readable and relevant on the topic of tax havens broadly, and his critique of STR/SAR regimes has a ring of truth across jurisdictions.
October 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Just got around to reading @oliverbullough.bsky.social’s Butler to the World.
Excellent read. Pitched at a UK audience, but a readable and relevant on the topic of tax havens broadly, and his critique of STR/SAR regimes has a ring of truth across jurisdictions.
Excellent read. Pitched at a UK audience, but a readable and relevant on the topic of tax havens broadly, and his critique of STR/SAR regimes has a ring of truth across jurisdictions.
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Name change reminder: my forthcoming “Philosophical Fragments” is now going to be called “Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Writings.” Translations of #Günderrode's most philosophical works with accessible introductions. Out soon and already available to preorder! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Name change reminder: my forthcoming “Philosophical Fragments” is now going to be called “Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Writings.” Translations of #Günderrode's most philosophical works with accessible introductions. Out soon and already available to preorder! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
My brilliant partner’s next volume of translations and introductory essays is available for pre-order! So proud of her efforts to expand the philosophical cannon to include neglected female philosophers like Karoline von Gunderrode.
Available for pre-order! My next volume of translations of philosophical work by the Romantic writer Karoline von Günderrode: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:45 AM
My brilliant partner’s next volume of translations and introductory essays is available for pre-order! So proud of her efforts to expand the philosophical cannon to include neglected female philosophers like Karoline von Gunderrode.
Last week, $4,000 gold was big news.
This week, $4,000 gold would be a correction.
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This week, $4,000 gold would be a correction.
🤔
October 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Last week, $4,000 gold was big news.
This week, $4,000 gold would be a correction.
🤔
This week, $4,000 gold would be a correction.
🤔
Saw this ad on LinkedIn and it made me smile. Good at spotting compliance issues in a sea of words, apparently.
Typos? Not so much.
Typos? Not so much.
October 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Saw this ad on LinkedIn and it made me smile. Good at spotting compliance issues in a sea of words, apparently.
Typos? Not so much.
Typos? Not so much.
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The copy edits have started coming in for this! Online publication is scheduled for January-March 2026
September 15, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The copy edits have started coming in for this! Online publication is scheduled for January-March 2026
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A new blog post came out yesterday! On Karoline von Günderrode and Ossian, with a translation of Günderrode's Ossian-inspired short story "Timur": acezekiel.com/2025/09/22/k...
Karoline von Günderrode’s “Timur” and the Influence of Ossian
This post explores a strong stylistic and thematic influence on Günderrode’s work: the writings of legendary Scottish bard Ossian. For an English translation of Günderrode’s dramatic fragment “Mora…
acezekiel.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
A new blog post came out yesterday! On Karoline von Günderrode and Ossian, with a translation of Günderrode's Ossian-inspired short story "Timur": acezekiel.com/2025/09/22/k...
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I co-edited this anthology on Kant's conception of hope and its influence on late 18th and 19th century philosophy: www.bloomsbury.com/us/hope-and-...
Hope and the Kantian Legacy
Hope is understood to be a significant part of human experience, including for motivating behaviour, promoting happiness, and justifying a conception of the sel…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I co-edited this anthology on Kant's conception of hope and its influence on late 18th and 19th century philosophy: www.bloomsbury.com/us/hope-and-...
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I’m getting pretty excited about my next book coming out in November 🕺🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼(“Philosophical Fragments”: more translations of #Günderrode with useful little intros). Today the last little copyright thing got sorted out, and we’ve picked an image for the cover!
April 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I’m getting pretty excited about my next book coming out in November 🕺🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼(“Philosophical Fragments”: more translations of #Günderrode with useful little intros). Today the last little copyright thing got sorted out, and we’ve picked an image for the cover!
I travel a lot with work, and sometimes people ask me if I find that difficult.
Yes, sometimes it is.
Then again, sometimes I coincidentally end up in Tokyo just when the cherry blossoms are happening.
Yes, sometimes it is.
Then again, sometimes I coincidentally end up in Tokyo just when the cherry blossoms are happening.
April 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I travel a lot with work, and sometimes people ask me if I find that difficult.
Yes, sometimes it is.
Then again, sometimes I coincidentally end up in Tokyo just when the cherry blossoms are happening.
Yes, sometimes it is.
Then again, sometimes I coincidentally end up in Tokyo just when the cherry blossoms are happening.
Catching up on my Odd Lots podcast backlog. This one is interesting. The guest persuasively argues that SBV was operating more like a hedge fund (taking risk against a particular view of markets) than a bank (managing risk) when making derivatives bets.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/o...
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/o...
How Banks Turned Into Giant Synthetic Hedge Funds
Podcast Episode · Odd Lots · 2025-02-21 · 38m
podcasts.apple.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Catching up on my Odd Lots podcast backlog. This one is interesting. The guest persuasively argues that SBV was operating more like a hedge fund (taking risk against a particular view of markets) than a bank (managing risk) when making derivatives bets.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/o...
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/o...
Bloomberg headline today:
Wall Street Gamblers Get Crushed as Leveraged ETF Losses Hit 40%
I don’t know about you, but bail am personally shocked. SHOCKED. That leveraged single stock ETFs are not working out. 😑
Wall Street Gamblers Get Crushed as Leveraged ETF Losses Hit 40%
I don’t know about you, but bail am personally shocked. SHOCKED. That leveraged single stock ETFs are not working out. 😑
February 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Bloomberg headline today:
Wall Street Gamblers Get Crushed as Leveraged ETF Losses Hit 40%
I don’t know about you, but bail am personally shocked. SHOCKED. That leveraged single stock ETFs are not working out. 😑
Wall Street Gamblers Get Crushed as Leveraged ETF Losses Hit 40%
I don’t know about you, but bail am personally shocked. SHOCKED. That leveraged single stock ETFs are not working out. 😑
Happy anniversary right back at you @annaezekiel.bsky.social ❤️
First kiss with my now spouse, at a rooftop party in Kolkata💕
Happy 25th anniversary @mrcompliance.bsky.social 🥂
Happy 25th anniversary @mrcompliance.bsky.social 🥂
What did you do on New Years Eve 1999?
January 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Happy anniversary right back at you @annaezekiel.bsky.social ❤️
Here’s a Chat GTP attempt at a Compliance-themed holiday greeting ecard.
Have a great holiday everyone out there.
Have a great holiday everyone out there.
December 23, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Here’s a Chat GTP attempt at a Compliance-themed holiday greeting ecard.
Have a great holiday everyone out there.
Have a great holiday everyone out there.
For anyone out there that is interested in continental philosophy, history of philosophy, and women in philosophy, check out my amazing wife and her awesome Bluesky feed and blog.
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Philosophy and Genre
Philosophy has always been practiced in a wide variety of genres, both written and spoken. In philosophy programs in the west, we’re often trained to look for philosophy in specific types of …
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November 22, 2024 at 8:12 AM
For anyone out there that is interested in continental philosophy, history of philosophy, and women in philosophy, check out my amazing wife and her awesome Bluesky feed and blog.
It’s behind a paywall, but Bloomberg’s @matt-levine.bsky.social has an awesome take on the Adani prosecution as essentially a greenwashing prosecution.
news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-...
news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-...
November 22, 2024 at 3:14 AM
It’s behind a paywall, but Bloomberg’s @matt-levine.bsky.social has an awesome take on the Adani prosecution as essentially a greenwashing prosecution.
news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-...
news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-...
This should be interesting to watch, both the prosecution itself, and the impact it has on US-India relations.
According to @bloomberg.com, Adani Group’s market value fell US$30B on the news, and the group cancelled a bond issuance.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
#FCPA #Compliance
According to @bloomberg.com, Adani Group’s market value fell US$30B on the news, and the group cancelled a bond issuance.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
#FCPA #Compliance
Billionaire Chairman of Conglomerate and Seven Other Senior Business Executives Indicted in Connection With Scheme to Pay Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Bribes and Conceal Bribery Scheme From U.S....
A five-count criminal indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Gautam S. Adani, Sagar R. Adani and Vneet S. Jaain, executives of an Indian renewable-energy company, with con...
www.justice.gov
November 21, 2024 at 3:07 PM
This should be interesting to watch, both the prosecution itself, and the impact it has on US-India relations.
According to @bloomberg.com, Adani Group’s market value fell US$30B on the news, and the group cancelled a bond issuance.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
#FCPA #Compliance
According to @bloomberg.com, Adani Group’s market value fell US$30B on the news, and the group cancelled a bond issuance.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
#FCPA #Compliance
So I guess I’ll just sit here and post food pics until I find someone who wants to talk #regulation or #compliance
Dinner in Shanghai, at Din Tai Fung #foodsky
Dinner in Shanghai, at Din Tai Fung #foodsky
November 20, 2024 at 12:08 PM
So I guess I’ll just sit here and post food pics until I find someone who wants to talk #regulation or #compliance
Dinner in Shanghai, at Din Tai Fung #foodsky
Dinner in Shanghai, at Din Tai Fung #foodsky
November 20, 2024 at 6:09 AM
Folks who have been coming to Shanghai longer than I have always mutter that Pudong is boring, it was farmland 30 years ago, blah blah blah.
Don’t care. It always gives me a thrill.
Don’t care. It always gives me a thrill.
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Folks who have been coming to Shanghai longer than I have always mutter that Pudong is boring, it was farmland 30 years ago, blah blah blah.
Don’t care. It always gives me a thrill.
Don’t care. It always gives me a thrill.
Terrific thread on the Mainland Chinese stock market and domestic stock investors.
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Bloomberg: "Critics say such an approach is more akin to spinning a roulette wheel at a casino than a sound investment strategy, and excessive speculation has regularly magnified volatility and led to frequent boom-bust cycles."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @business
Bloomberg: "Critics say such an approach is more akin to spinning a roulette wheel at a casino than a sound investment strategy, and excessive speculation has regularly magnified volatility and led to frequent boom-bust cycles."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @business
China’s Stock Rally Is Feeding a Casino Frenzy Among Amateur Investors
The swelling crowds at Shanghai’s street corner stock salon show rampant speculation is on the rise.
www.bloomberg.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:28 AM
Terrific thread on the Mainland Chinese stock market and domestic stock investors.