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Due Diligence for Suppliers

7/27/20: Supply chain disruptions are now commonplace for businesses around the world in light of the current pandemic. Even businesses that have developed systems to manage unanticipated changes to their workforces and customer bases face risks from supply chains, whether long-established or necessarily new....

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"Due Diligence Meets The Force"


12/16/15: It’s a month for Yoda, Hans Solo, Luke Skywalker and third-party due diligence.  Tom Fox sucks you right in with Star Wars before leading you through the three steps of due diligence that companies should take in choosing their third-party partners. The article, posted on his FCPA...

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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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"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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"Risk Management Instead of Due Diligence"

 

5/13/2015: “Due diligence screening of existing or new third parties is just an initial step – it is not an end unto itself. Assuming that the third-party passes the due diligence review, there are a number of continuing obligations needed to manage risk.”  That’s the central point of Michael Volkov’s recent post on the...

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