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The lone exception written into the FCPA allows bribes for “routine governmental action . . . which is ordinarily and commonly performed by a foreign official.” That sounds simple, but it’s not.… Continue Reading
Last week, the University of Houston Law Center released the most comprehensive free dataset for compliance benchmarking available. The Fortune 500 Code of Conduct dataset allows anyone to access the University’s website (without the worry of future spam emails that come with a “free” registration) and search through three years of data the Law Center has put together covering over forty different compliance areas including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. … Continue Reading
The U.S.-China Business Council recently released the results of a survey of its membership on Best Practices for Managing Compliance in China. The full report — available here (pdf) — will be a great resource for readers of the FCPA Blog.… Continue Reading
Last week I talked about the infinite scalability of compliance using cloud-based, enterprise solutions, and the basics of relational databases that let you pull out corresponding data.
But making sense of these vast databases is never easy and opens up the Pandora’s Box known as ‘analytics.’… Continue Reading
Both Argentina and Mexico scored 3.0 out of 10.0 on the Corruption Perception Index for 2011. Does this mean each country presents the same corruption risk? To dig behind the CPI, Miller & Chevalier and Matteson Ellis Law joined 12 Latin American law firms in a comprehensive survey of 439 executives spanning 14 countries in the Americas.… Continue Reading
The offer from ethiXbase for a free download of the Anti-Corruption Compliance Benchmarking Survey will end on July 31.
The survey was developed last year by Kaplan & Walker LLC and the FCPA Blog.… Continue Reading
Through the generosity of Jeff Kaplan and Rebecca Walker, ethiXbase is now offering readers of the FCPA Blog a free download of the Anti-Corruption Compliance Benchmarking Survey.
The survey was developed last year by Kaplan & Walker LLC and the FCPA Blog.… Continue Reading
We’ll be in Hong Kong on February 7 and Singapore on February 15 to talk about the top ten FCPA enforcement actions. The focus will be lessons for companies doing business in Asia.… Continue Reading
Jeff Kaplan has launched the Conflict of Interest Blog.
It’s a first-of-its-kind web-based resource, he said, designed, among other things, to help compliance and ethics professionals address conflicts issues.
Kaplan (B.A.… Continue Reading
The latest issue of the Rx Compliance Report included summaries of our posts, a flock of pharmas and why benchmarking matters.
We’re happy to be included. Most of the forty drug companies subscribe to the newsletter, as do the law firms that help them.… Continue Reading
U.S. enforcement officials – including the Attorney General himself – have stressed the importance of self-assessments to achieving anti-corruption compliance program efficacy. Such assessments are also an important part of anti-corruption compliance program standards issued by the UK Ministry of Justice and the OECD anti-bribery working group.… Continue Reading
Answers to yesterday’s quiz based on the Anti-Corruption Compliance Program Benchmarking Survey are:
1 – c
2 – d
3 – b
4 – a
__________
The Anti-Corruption Compliance Program Benchmarking Survey can be ordered here.… Continue Reading