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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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.

On the issue of tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions, there is also Nicholas Shaxton’s excellent “Treasure Islands”. #ComplianceBookClub

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.

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.

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.

Here’s a Chat GTP attempt at a Compliance-themed holiday greeting ecard.

Have a great holiday everyone out there.

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

Spicy lunch in Shanghai!

PPE required to protect the work shirt….

#Foodsky

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.

Hello Shanghai!

Enjoying the Beak Capitalism 3-pt series on the chicken industry, part of the Odd Lots podcast. Fascinating how chicken is a window into issues like inflation / price elasticity.

Trigger alert: contains an Egg-regious number of chicken puns.

@weisenthal.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social

Here’s my newest compliance reading. Heard the author on The Economist’s Money Talks podcast, and it looks like a good read.

#ComplianceRead @economist.com.web.brid.gy

Thanks Chat GPT for my background image. And for free no less!

From my home office wall. For me this Edward Gory print epitomises what we do in compliance.