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"What about those Third Parties"

 

6/30/15: The 2015 Anti-Bribery and Corruption Benchmarking Report offers welcomed insight into the headaches afflicting today’s compliance professionals as they avoid the damages of corruption and bribery. The report, a collaboration of Kroll and Compliance Week, contains some sobering numbers, especially...

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"Declination May Not Be the End"

 

6/16/15: Declinations are usually perceived as the end of an enforcement action but recent actions by US enforcement agencies show otherwise. According to a post by Richard Cassin on the FCPA Blog, the US Securities and Exchange Commission recently notified NET1 UEPS Technologies that it declined to recommend...

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"Using Best Practices for a Cross-Border Investigation"

6/16/15: Tom Fox starts out with Babe Ruth but he quickly moves on to an interview with Mara Senn, a partner at Arnold & Porter LLP, on the topic of best practices for conducting an effective cross-border investigation. Fox’ two-part series posted on his FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog pinpoints 10 best practices...

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"Six Channels for Communication & Compliance"

 

6/16/15: Compliance professionals are challenged on a daily basis with determining how best to communicate their messages for maximum impact throughout the organization.  In a recent post on the Communicating Compliance blog, Lisa DiBenedetto provides a capsule description of that challenge and offers a...

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"FCPA Enforcement as US Foreign Policy"

 

6/16/15: In an essay on the CFO website, former federal and NYS prosecutor Daniel R. Alonso takes an unexpected look at recent US anti-corruption enforcement.  “Increasingly,” he writes, “the U.S. government is wielding the FCPA as a tool to change corrupt cultures in other countries. If the government...

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