ACI FCPA and Global Anti-Corruption Conference 2026 Speaker Preview Podcast series, Daniel SIbile

So I was thinking back, I think the first time I met you in person was in 2015, maybe even a little bit earlier.

And my observation at that time was the Brazilian compliance community was a few paces behind the United States compliance community.

The next time I saw you was in 2019, and my observation was different.

The U.S. may be 1A, but Brazil is 1B.

And what I just heard you say is there's been a continued evolution of not only your role in compliance to assist the business in making, I think you called informed decisions, but also the changing nature of risk for the Brazilian compliance professionals.

So certainly the cartel.

redesignation by the Trump administration has dramatically changed things both in the United States and Brazil.

Could you say maybe a few words about how the outside, meaning outside Brazil, is really impacting some of the things you have to do, you and your colleagues have to do?

That's a very good question because, you know, I remember pretty well the first time that we met and the compliance was starting in Brazil.

And Brazil, at that time, was taking the lead in Latin America.

And especially after the car wash investigation, what we saw is that the companies invested a lot in their compliance programs.

Companies invested on the professionals.

The professionals started to look for more education And what we saw after a period of more contestation, if you say that during the car wash, we saw a consolidation of the compliance function.

And now with the privacy topics and right after the AML, and now with the implementation of the AI tools, we see that the compliance professionals, especially in Brazil, are able to conduct more deeper analysis.

Now we have our past, that is the recent past, that is the car wash investigation.

We saw everything that happened in the US and the changes in the FCPA guide and how the company in Brazil kept working and investigating and developing data compliance programs.

So I see now a kind of a dissociation between the Brazil and US, what we were not able to see in the past.

And now, with the other emerging risks, as you mentioned, the cartels, we see the need for the compliance officer to be to invest in its education, and also to work closely to other professionals in order to have a more broad understanding and also to take more informed decisions.