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What Keeps Latin America Compliance Counsel Up at Night
12.27.2011
When I launched my own FCPA law practice, I quickly learned the most important question to ask clients: “What keeps you up at night?” For the General Counsel with whom I speak, more often than not the answer is – “the FCPA.” Compliance officers with responsibility for FCPA issues get more specific. Over the last […]
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Assessing the Assessments: Using the TI Corruption Perceptions Index and other corruption risk metrics
12.06.2011
Guest Blog Post – Today FCPAméricas features author Juanita Riaño, an Integrity Officer at the Inter-American Development Bank and former Manager of the program “Global Tools to Measure Corruption” in the Transparency International-Secretariat. The opinions expressed in this blog post are entirely those of the author and do not reflect the position of the Inter […]
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Going Beyond the TI Index: New tools for assessing integrity risks
12.01.2011
Enforcement officials and “best practice” descriptions stress that adequate anti-corruption compliance programs are based in sound corruption risk assessments. Howard Sklar recently provided an in-depth look at how risk assessments can be used for maximum effect. The question remains, however: how should compliance officers assess the integrity risks presented by particular countries or industries? Historically, […]
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The World Bank Harmonizes Global Anti-Corruption Compliance Standards
10.25.2011
Yesterday I attended a roundtable discussion at The World Bank (the Bank) about the Bank’s sanctions and anti-corruption efforts. The discussion included several high-level Bank staff who, together, are developing and implementing policies to prevent, detect, and respond to fraud and corruption in Bank-financed global development projects. This is important work. In FY 2011 alone, […]
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Is the FCPA Working? Three Dispatches from Latin America
10.03.2011
In his August 12, 2011 article entitled “Recent Disclosures Raise Many FCPA Questions,” the FCPA Professor Mike Koehler asks whether increased FCPA enforcement has done anything to deter future violations. This question is timely, especially given that the FCPA is under fire by major organizations (such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) for the burdens […]