7/15/15: In July, the law firm Gibson Dunn released its 2015 mid-year update on the US’ enforcement of corruption laws through Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) and Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs). As usual, the in-depth update is worth reading from front to finish but one section of particular interest...
7/15/15: The traditional argument has been that corruption in some markets is so widespread that companies are virtually required to participate in that corruption, particularly when it comes to the small “facilitation payments” that make the wheel of business keep spinning. An article by the staff of Treasury & Risk...
6/30/15: By now, Tanaka has become synonymous with airbags, recalls, and quality failures. But, here’s another ingredient in the increasingly ugly stew: worker safety. That’s right. Worker safety. At least that’s the explanation reported in a New York Times article referenced by Tom Fox reprinted on the JDSupra Business...
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...
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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