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Petrofac Ltd, a British oilfield services provider, agreed Monday to pay the UK Serious Fraud Office £77 million ($104.6 million) in penalties for Bribery Act offenses in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.… Continue Reading
The world’s largest advertising group, WPP plc, agreed Friday to pay the SEC $19.2 million in penalties and disgorgement to resolve FCPA offenses in India, China, Brazil, and Peru.… Continue Reading
Take the FCPA Blog reader survey to help you and your peers better understand the state of the FCPA compliance industry. All responses are anonymous. … Continue Reading
Know-your-customer is usually associated with anti-money laundering programs. Customers (or clients) with close ties to corrupt leaders, for example, are flagged as an AML risk. But KYC also applies to FCPA risk analysis, but in a very different way.… Continue Reading
Increased regulatory enforcement exposure continues to present directors and officers (D&O) insurance challenges for corporate policyholders. Policies that cover the costly expenses incurred in connection with regulatory investigations, liability payments, and resulting securities litigation are becoming increasingly more difficult and expensive to obtain.… Continue Reading
What stands out on the FCPA Blog’s list of the ten biggest FCPA cases of all time?… Continue Reading
We have seen a rapid increase in dedicated ethics and compliance departments and programs in Nordic companies during the last decade. However, there is no local regulation that explicitly requires formal ethics and compliance work.… Continue Reading
Microsoft has one of the most interesting anti-corruption policies we’ve reviewed and the only one to cover two rarely acknowledged topics: extortion and threats. … Continue Reading
Novartis updated its anti-bribery policy four months after the Swiss pharma paid $346.7 million to resolve FCPA offenses in Greece, Vietnam, and South Korea. Here are some interesting details from the latest version.… Continue Reading
How much has FCPA enforcement and compliance changed over the last decade? Ask anyone who’s been around, and they’ll probably say “a lot” or “completely.” Perhaps the most telling metric quantifying this change is the average size of a corporate FCPA resolution.… Continue Reading
Deutsche Bank AG agreed Friday to pay the DOJ and SEC $122.9 million in penalties and disgorgement to resolve FCPA offenses in China, Italy, Abu Dhabi, and Saudi Arabia.… Continue Reading
In 2020, the DOJ and SEC brought FCPA enforcement actions against 12 companies and imposed financial penalties totaling a record $6.4 billion. For a comparison, in 2019, 14 companies paid a (then) record $2.9 billion to resolve FCPA cases.… Continue Reading
