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The CFO Dilemma: Should You Bribe to Survive?
Handing out mooncakes during Chinese New Year to celebrate the festive season is such a common business practice that no one really thinks about it. So last year, a Hong Kong electronics company whose
Read More »Protecting against bribery and corruption when exporting to foreign markets
If you’re going to expand your business and become an exporter, you’d better learn to manage bribery and corruption risk in foreign markets. This expert advice will help you protect your business if the
Read More »Anti-bribery policies need better enforcement
A senior executive from an Australian company operating in several African nations, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea has told Ernst & Young’s managing partner for Oceania in the fraud investigation and dispute services area,
Read More »Bribery: The Ultimate Closing Technique?
If you’re on the brink of closing a sale and the decision-maker stonewalls, what should you do? Lower your price? Add more products or services to the contract? Offer a bribe
Read More »Executive fraud and bribery risks increase during downturn
More than half of UK executives would not rule out unethical activities to survive a downturn despite stricter bribery laws, Ernst & Young’s 2012 Global Fraud Survey has shown. Ernst & Young’s 2012 Global
Read More »High Tech and Corruption Risks
Silicon Valley should take note. They are ripe for aggressive FCPA enforcement. The high-tech industry is a risk industry for bribery violations. Yet some say that the high-tech industry is behind
Read More »Bribery and Corruption – do we need to be worried?
Transparency International released the 2010 Global Corruption Barometer just before Christmas. Included in the report was a statistic that was surprising to many – 4% of the 1291 New Zealand respondents reported paying a
Read More »Transparency International’s Latest Report on Bribery in a Nutshell
Recently published “Deterring and Punishing Corporate Bribery,” and it is worth reading. A meaty 93 pages, the document is full of useful information, from U.K. charging issues to corporate criminal liability principles under
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