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The Ethical Edge--it's the idea that proactive, data-driven compliance programs can not only ensure an ethics-by-design culture, but also create business process efficiencies that can lead to greater profitability. We [...]

Wells Fargo cannot seem to get out of its own way to begin to move forward. Now, the bank is facing a whistleblower lawsuit and investigation by the Consumer Financial [...]

When I began, the Department of Justice had recently released its 2012 FCPA Resource Guide, the single best resource for all things FCPA that set the framework for compliance programs [...]

The change in the Justice Department Antitrust Division's Corporate Leniency Policy that newly appointed Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Claire McCusker Murray presaged in her keynote speech at CW's annual [...]

Your corporate compliance program requires all third parties to be certified through a rigorous five-step process that is renewed every two years. But what happens during the interim period? If [...]

The management of third parties is absolutely critical in any best practices compliance program, as third parties continue to be the highest risk under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). [...]

After holding the record for the largest corruption-related fine, $2.6B paid to three countries, for a short few months, the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht was overtaken by the Brazilian meat [...]

Back in September, our old compliance friend GlaxoSmithKline pic (GSK) settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission for violating various provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, namely for improper [...]

How much do corruption scandals actually hurt a company in the pocketbook, as in drop in profits? That question is often debated in the FCPA world as a stock dip [...]

The circle is now complete. Beginning with the Yates Memo last September to the metrics laid out by Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell in November through to the comments by [...]

The past couple of months has confirmed a trend we have seen for some time in the world of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and greater anti-corruption compliance. It is the [...]

It seems like a great way to increase your salary: You simply award yourself and a couple close friends some $80 million in bonuses, then spread the payments out over [...]

It was a very bad day for English football (soccer, for you American readers) when the manager with the highest winning percentage in the history of the English Football Association [...]

The U.K. Serious Fraud Office received some rare, yet good news when a jury convicted former UBS trader Tom Hayes for criminal conduct for his role in the manipulation of [...]

In what can only be termed a stunning announcement, a 47-count indictment was unsealed in a federal court in Brooklyn in May, charging 14 defendants in connection with their participation [...]

The article presents the author's insights on the aspects of the enforcement action involving Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), a Chilean chemicals and mining firm, under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Topics discussed include violations of the FCPA, the schemes used by the company to hide various payments, and the anti-corruption law in the U.S.

The article focuses on the impact of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement for manufacturing company General Cable Corp. in 2016. Topics include the civil charge by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) agency against former executive Karl Zimmer of General Cable Corp., fines and penalties paid by the company, and style of FCPA enforcement.

The article discusses how financial services firm JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and its subsidiary, JPMorgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Ltd. (JPM-APAC) has avoided prosecution over its Client Referral Program, Sons & Daughters' bribery scandal. JPM resolved its U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation and enforcement through a non-prosection agreement (NPA) from the Justice Department, including a penalty, and a cease-and-desist oder from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The article offers the author's insights on the whistleblower bounty provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act and its impact on the substantive enforcement actions of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Topics discussed include the criticism of SEC in its prosecutions of firms for violating U.S. securities law, and the whistleblower award given to Deutsche Bank employee Eric Ben-Artzi.

The article discusses a case of U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission wherein the agencies ordered penalties on involving the LATAM Airlines Group S.A. (LATAM), as of September 2016. It states that the agencies made the ruling based in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement, and mentions a civil settlement executed by LATAM President Ignacio Cueto in February 2016.

The article explores the global cases of corporate corruption linked to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). These include the alleged bribery of retail company Wal-Mart in Mexico, the Chinese prosecution of British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline for violation of domestic Chinese anti-bribery laws, and the corruption scandal involving Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras. It also notes the U.S. Justice Department Pilot Program for FCPA enforcement.