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New York: U.S. anti-corruption setbacks seen having little impact on company strategies
The U.S. Justice Department has suffered a string of setbacks in its efforts to enforce the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, including two this week, but it retains sufficient leverage to persuade companies to settle
Read More »Anti-Corruption Risk Assessments for Global Business Organizations
Until recently, many global companies likely felt little need to conduct anti-corruption risk assessments. But that has changed dramatically, due in part, to the OECD’s 2010 good practice anti-corruption standards, which deemed risk assessment
Read More »Issues relating to bribery and corruption in M&A transactions
The anti corruption movement is perhaps the most enduring symbol of the year 2011 in India, and is likely to dominate popular dialogue for the years to come. Although the connection between corruption and
Read More »The ethical dilemma: Saying no to corruption
Normally, financial corruption between the public sector and the private sector is condemned on moral and legal grounds. This is what we said in the first part of this article and then we also
Read More »Fifa corruption intrigue deepens as Brazil’s Ricardo Teixeira resigns
The intrigue enveloping Fifa has deepened with the resignation of Ricardo Teixeira, president of the Brazilian football confederation (CBF) for 22 years and a long-time powerful figure within football's world governing body. Under pressure
Read More »Global Anti-bribery and Corruption Survey 2011
Bribery and corruption exist in all parts of the world in varying degrees. KPMG International commissioned a survey of 214 executives in the U.S. and the UK to identify their most vexing anti-bribery and
Read More »Corruption continues to be the most common ethical issue for business
Siemens, Alstom, Citigroup, Torex Retail, Innospec – just some of the companies who were recently named and shamed by the media for incidences of bribery, corruption and fraud. The Institute of Business Ethics’ latest Briefing,
Read More »FCPA Reform and Corporate Leniency
As the calls for FCPA reform grow louder, I thought it would be timely to examine one of the more significant FCPA reform proposals: Robert W. Tarun and Peter P. Tomczak, Baker & Mckenzie
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