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Risk assess the pros and cons of Self Reporting
The Bribery Act throws up interesting problems. Most corporates will put in place ‘Adequate Procedures’ to prevent bribery. Successful implementation of these procedures will sometimes lead to awareness of a potential bribery
Read More »Corporate Bribery
Corporate bribery; Illegal or a necessity, this seems to be the ethical question many corporations and businesses are asking themselves. When asked if we would ever consider giving a bribe to move a business
Read More »Study: NJ Doing Best on Anti-Corruption Measures
State governments lack transparency and accountability to citizens and remain at high risk for corruption, according to a new study of all 50 statehouses. The state doing the best? New Jersey. Not a single state
Read More »Corruption, Bribery and Your Supply Chain
Despite the giving and receiving of bribes being wholly illegal in the United Kingdom, such practices are considered commonplace in other nations across the world. The received wisdom is that paying bribes and going
Read More »Study: Statehouses at High Risk for Corruption
State governments lack transparency and accountability to citizens, and remain at high risk for corruption, according to a new study of all 50 statehouses. Not a single state received an A in the State Integrity
Read More »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 »Indexing Personal Danger
On the Risk Management Monitor last month from Christine Kane talked about the most dangerous countries for expats to work in. Listed were Iraq, Colombia, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan
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
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