Compliance Communications Blog

 

"Taking Conflict of Interest Knowledge to the Board"

 

9/15/15: An article by Jeffrey Kaplan and Rebecca Walker takes on the idea that instruction on conflicts of interest issues primarily moves from the compliance office to the troops. In the article, they make an unassailable case that “Board members have a particular need to understand...

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"Self-Cleaning" Corruption

 

9/15/15: If you commit a crime once, is it inevitable that you’ll continue with the same behavior? In the world of public procurement in the European Union, the answer has been “yes” and the solution has been to ban a company guilty of bribery and corruption from participation in any public contract...

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"Confronting Third-Party Risks in Global Business"

 

9/15/15: A recent report by KPMG gets straight to the point, even in its title, “Anti-Bribery and Corruption: Rising to the Challenge in the Age of Globalization.” Central to dealing with those challenges is managing the risks inherent in the use of third parties. The KPMG report is based on its global...

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"Subject: Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing"

 

9/15/15: That’s the subject line in a recent memo from DOJ to federal prosecutors.  The memo spells out a new policy for aggressively investigating and prosecuting individuals involved in corporate crimes. In a notable shift from DOJ’s traditional focus on prosecuting corporations, the memo sets...

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"Prevent and Detect Violations"

 

9/1/15: The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently settled charges with Citigroup Global Markets saying the company failed to adopt and apply procedures that would prevent and detect transactions signaling the potential misuse of material, nonpublic information. The company also failed to adopt...

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