Internal Investigations Are A Poe Substitute For Compliance

Happy Halloween! In honor of the holiday, we are taking our compliance message in a bit of a . .. spooky direction. But our message remains the same: International transactions are inherently high-risk; they require constant attention and oversight for your compliance to be effective; and it is always better to put your resources into compliance than to spend them on investigations.

Speaking of Halloween, here are some interesting facts about Edgar Allan Poe:

• Poe ruined a promising start to an army career at West Point by spending his time writing mocking poems about his instructors rather than finishing his assigned work.
• Poe often wrote only after placing a Siamese cat on his shoulder.