Governments don’t only want to prosecute companies for paying bribes. Increasingly, they are looking for companies to join with them to reduce the global challenge of corruption.
To learn more we spoke with Shruti Shah,...more
When we think of third parties we tend to immediately think of the risks. But what if it is a third party that differentiates itself by the rigor of its compliance program?
Such is the case with Swiss-based DKSH, which...more
Corruption is a well-known risk in Latin America, but how great the risk is on a country-by-country basis is less well understood. To fill in those blanks and many more, the law firm Miller & Chevalier just released its 2024...more
Clara Becerra Campos, Senior Compliance Analyst-Europe for TD SYNNEX, and Dr. Tobias Kruis, Head of Corporate Compliance, Giesecke+Devrient, will be addressing the new EU whistleblowing requirements at the 2024 SCCE European...more
Currently there is a patchwork of anticorruption laws across the EU. What has been lacking, though, is a EU-wide approach. That is likely to change soon, reports Vera Cherepanova, founding partner of Studio Etica.
Change is...more
For organizations working to avoid corruption it can be a lonely fight. While a sales or compliance team may know that there are many others out there who would not pay a bribe, when facing a corrupt demand, they tend to be...more
For all the talk of tone at the top, the reality is that few employees report to the top. Virtually all report to a manager somewhere in the middle, and it’s the tone that leader sets that is often most important.
Susan Du...more
The Organizational Sentencing Guidelines have turned thirty, and what began as an experiment is now an established framework for compliance programs in the US and around the globe.
To commemorate the milestone, the United...more
While in most cases the pandemic created nothing but challenges, Lola Adekanye, Senior Program Officer for the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) reports in this podcast that, in some respects, it provided...more
Operation Lava Jato (Carwash) had a profound effect on business in Brazil, with countless companies caught up in one way or another in the corruption scandal.
State oil company Petrobras was no exception, but, as is the case...more
2/17/2022
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Chief Compliance Officers ,
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Crisis Management ,
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Tone At The Top ,
White Collar Crimes
At the 2022 SCCE European Compliance & Ethics Institute Dr. Jan Sprafke, Head of Compliance, Europe and Latin America and Jad Mhanna, Regional Compliance Officer at Ericsson will be leading a session entitled Cultural Divide...more
Third party anti-corruption due diligence didn’t stop during the pandemic, but it was different. And, as the world begins to, hopefully, emerge from the pandemic Ashley Coselli, Senior Ethics and Compliance Counsel, Total...more
The playing field for anticorruption never stops changing, with new laws and new risks constantly arising. To help sort things out, and to gain his insight into other compliance challenges, we sat down with Gary Kalman,...more
4/29/2021
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Anti-Corruption ,
Beneficial Owner ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Compliance ,
Corruption ,
Counterfeiting ,
Extortion ,
Federal Contractors ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Fraud ,
Law Enforcement ,
New Legislation ,
Pirating ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Public Corruption ,
Supply Chain
In 2016 France adopted a new law to help combat corruption. Inspired by legislation in the US, UK and Netherlands, Article 17 of what is known as Sapin II, includes provisions requiring organizations above a certain size to...more
The value of good risk management, both in compliance programs and even our personal lives, has never been more important. These days we find ourselves recalculating everything from the compliance risk of a new business...more
9/10/2020
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Antitrust Violations ,
Business Strategies ,
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Due Diligence ,
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Third-Party Risk
When it comes to battling corruption, different countries in Latin America (and elsewhere for that matter) have different capabilities from an enforcement perspective.
As Geert Aalbers, Partner at Control Risks explains in...more
A good investigation begins well before the first allegation, according to Scott Moritz, Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting. It begins with the creation of a proper framework for how investigations will be...more
Given the risks of third parties, especially in risk areas such as corruption, much emphasis is placed on thorough vetting.
But once the deal is signed and the agent or contractor is hired, the risks don’t stop there. It’s...more
Breaking the rules is breaking the rules no matter where it occurs. And for those of us in compliance there is much to learn from scandals of all sorts.
Chris Rose, the co-host of Intentional Talk on the MLB Network and...more
In a surprising web conference, Brian Lee, Managing Vice President at Gartner, shares some eye-raising insight into what’s going on when it comes to third-party risk management. Recent research there reveals what he reports...more