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The Internal Investigations Map (Walking companies through the process)
4.04.2012
FCPAméricas regularly writes about internal corruption investigations. It offered lessons on conducting cost-effective internal investigations. It proposed ten rules for effective internal investigation interviews. Building upon this advice, James McGrath provided additional thoughts on conducting interviews on the Internal Investigations Blog. In celebration of Compliance Week’s 2012 Annual Conference*, to be held in Washington, DC […]
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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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Boom Times in Brazil, Part 2 (Managing corruption risk in a high-opportunity / high-risk environment)
10.31.2011
This blog post is the second of a four-part series. Part 1 outlines corruption issues to look out for when operating in Brazil’s high-opportunity / high-risk environment. Part 2 (below) gives guidance to companies that are expanding operations into Brazil on ways to manage the country’s unique risk. Part 3 gives guidance (in Portuguese) to Brazilian companies […]