This article by Matthew Reinhard of Miller & Chevalier will not only assist oil companies in ensuring compliance with anti-corruption laws and policies, but assist the compliance department in adding real business value to transactions.
In order to determine the optimal compliance boundary for your organization, it’s useful to consider the complexities by following the framework outlined herein. There is a direct correlation between the amount of knowledge you have access to and the unknown risk potential you face.
Thomas Fox reviews the steps taken by Alliance One and Universal Corporation during the pendency of their respective FCPA investigations to reduce their fines for FCPA violations.
According to CCI’s Code of Conduct expert Jason Lunday, monitoring – despite being a little understood element of process management – serves as a powerful tool to ensure that ethics and compliance processes continue to work and improve.
Those in the compliance regulatory field serve the role of assisting corporations and organizations in complying with federal and state regulations. As Dr. Billie Blair explains, each corporate entity needs to be well positioned in order to promote the best intentions of regulators.
The first part of this article outlines five action items that CEOs and boards should take to elevate a qualified person to the important new role of Business Integrity Executive. Part II of this article explores the mirror image of this equation: the five necessary qualities of a successful BIE.
There are a number of steps that executives can take to successfully deal with an economic downturn and still achieve a positive, continually improving compliance environment. Here are three tactics from John Avellanet’s Lean Compliance strategy.
Among today’s news links: China becomes world’s largest energy consumer; Managing Governance, Risk, and Compliance; and, Coca-cola accused of using porn to target children.
The marcus evans 5th FCPA & Anti-Corruption Compliance Conference from September 15-16, 2010 in San Francisco, CA will bring together government officials, general counsel and compliance officers from leading organizations operating globally to share best practices on developing, executing, monitoring and auditing a strong and effective anti-corruption compliance program.
If the first part of this post sounds famailiar, you may be experiencing an overload of “corporate speak” and it may be time to take another look at your internal communications.
