Harry Cassin
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Thomas Fox
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Marc Alain Bohn
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Bill Waite
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Russell A. Stamets
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[…] disclosures in their annual reports. Information about the reporting company’s supply chain is also required. Unilever and Ikea spoke out in favor of the reporting requirements. Lobbying group BusinessEurope argued that corporate social responsibility can only work if its is voluntary. The German trade association BDI said many firms are already supplying corporate social […]
Brazil’s Petrobras has approved settlements with four U.S. investors related to an ongoing corruption investigation.
[…] review. A special internship was created for the applicant recommended by Xiang following vetting by the bank’s compliance department and multiple interviews. JPMorgan “assigned her to a group within the bank’s New York headquarters that is focused on the insurance business. She later landed a full-time job at the bank,” Dealbook said. “JPMorgan said […]
[…] pros Cecilia Fellouse-Guenkel and Andy Spalding said. For the Paris 2024 Olympics, the French compliance association, Le Cercle de la Compliance, launched Compliance 2024 — “a working group of French compliance professionals . . . offer a detailed framework for the components and the monitoring of the Paris 2024 Compliance program.” Prof Spalding is […]
Wal-Mart said in its annual report filed with the SEC Tuesday that because of uncertain outcomes of U.S. and foreign government bribery investigations and civil suits filed by shareholders, it ‘can provide no assurance that these matters will not be material’ to its business in the future.
The government’s primary witness against former ABB manager John O’Shea won’t serve any more jail time for conspiracy to violate the FCPA.
[…] Board of Management duly fulfilled its disclosure obligation under German capital markets law. The proceedings refer to the period during which Hans Dieter Pötsch served as the Group Chief Financial Officer. The Company and Hans Dieter Pötsch will continue to give the inquiries by the public prosecutor’s office their full support. ____ Richard L. […]
The European Court of Justice said last week that communications between management and in-house attorneys aren’t protected from disclosure or discovery in investigations by the European Commission. The appeal to the ECJ was brought by Akzo Nobel Chemicals and a subsidiary. The European Commission was investigating them in 2003 for possible anti-competitive behavior. It found […]
[…] post relates to the author’s employer or its affiliates. _____ Cody Worthington, a Contributing Editor of the FCPA Blog, is a Senior Manager in the Forensic Investigations group at Johnson Controls International plc, based in Glendale, Wisconsin. He’s a Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Internal Auditor, and a Certified Public Accountant. He can be contacted […]
[…] particular, companies with ethics ambassadors seem to place more importance on reporting on their ethical performance — especially internally. Ethics training is also more common in this group. Although ethics ambassadors can be found in very diverse organizations, the IBE survey highlights some features that such companies have in common. Ethics ambassadors tend to […]
