8/18/15: A key finding of PWC’s newly released Global Economic Crime Survey states flatly, “… our 14 years of survey data shows that at any given time period, nearly one in three of those surveyed report suffering a significant economic crime event.” Not a pretty picture for global companies, especially since the survey...
8/4/15: Chief Compliance Officers haven’t disappeared completely from the watchful eye of US enforcement agencies but they aren’t the target of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. At least that’s the expressed statement of SEC officials including SEC Chairman Mary Jo White explained at a recent...
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...
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...
6/5/15: Even if the FIFA World Cup doesn’t give you an adrenal boost (only two more years until the 2018 games, after all), the corruption scandal hitting world soccer’s governing body has rattled the cages of national governments and private companies alike. The indictments are likely to grow as...
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