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A New, Transparent Argentina?
8.22.2016
The following is a guest post from Diego Cano and Gavin Parrish of FTI Consulting. Mr. Cano is a Managing Director in the FTI Consulting Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice and is based in Buenos Aires. Mr. Parrish is a Managing Director at FTI Consulting and is based in Houston, TX. This post is edited […]
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The “TCA”: Colombia’s New Foreign Bribery Law
4.22.2016
This post was also co-authored by Alice Hsieh, an Associate at Miller & Chevalier. On February 2, 2016 Colombia’s President enacted Law 1778, known as the Transnational Corruption Act (“TCA”), the country’s first foreign bribery law. The law helps Colombia meet its commitments under the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. It bolsters the country’s enforcement regime and […]
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Anti-Corruption Reform Moving Forward in Mexico
4.30.2015
Believe it or not, anti-corruption reform is happening in Mexico. This is highly significant. As FCPAméricas noted in the past, for years the country has been criticized by the OECD Working Group for not moving fast enough to implement legal changes necessary to satisfy its commitments under the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. Mexican President Peña Nieto […]
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OECD Survey on Business Integrity and Corporate Governance
3.20.2015
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is conducting a Survey on Business Integrity and Corporate Governance as part of a new initiative called the OECD Trust and Business (TNB) Project. The newly initiated TNB Project is working with governments, business, and civil society to promote a discussion about the effective integration of business […]
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How CCOs Can Use the OECD Foreign Bribery Report
1.09.2015
Last month, the OECD published its first Foreign Bribery Report, measuring transnational corruption based on data from the 427 foreign bribery cases that have been investigated, prosecuted, and concluded since the entry into force of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in 1999. In a panel discussion on December 10th, 2014, hosted by the OECD, International Bar […]