Proposed features to be included in the report

• The legal landscape:

  1. United States: FCPA enforcement – which sectors are next?

     Latest trends in enforcement of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Energy companies are already on their guard after a number of investigations and prosecutions of oil services firms. Where will the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission turn next in their war on graft? Lessons for companies at high-risk of regulatory scrutiny.

  2. International: Siemens and international anti-bribery enforcement

     The Siemens case promises to cement already-existing ties between US and European bribery regulators. According to lawyers Shearman and Sterling, the case presents “significant opportunities for the creation of an international standard of business propriety”. We assess its implications for international anti-bribery enforcement.

  3. Europe: when will Europe ban private sector bribery?

     Bribery is still legal in many European countries – such as France, Germany and Spain – for deals made between two private sector companies. European governments have managed to ban the bribery of public officials. But they are yet to summon up the political will to do the same for private enterprise. We ask why, and investigate whether the outlawing of private-to-private bribes will happen any time soon.

  4. Big interview:

     Serious Fraud Office head Robert Wardle
     What the UK can learn from the US when it comes to enforcing bribery laws

  5. International: Convention confusion – whose rules are they anyway?

     An easy, simple-to-use guide of the patchwork of global treaties and conventions to tackle corruption. Their purpose, history and future direction explained. Includes guidelines from: OECD, PACI, International Chamber of Commerce, Transparency International, Global Compact etc.

  6. International: Corruption hotspots: a global guide

     Transparency International managing director Cobus de Swardt explains his group’s latest findings of perceptions of corruption around the world.

• Corporate ethics and compliance best practice:

  7. Setting up a first class compliance programme – and sustaining it

     1200, Lisa Roner
     How to make a risk-based assessment of your company’s potential exposure to corruption. Information on the tools and expertise needed to achieve a comprehensive understanding of how ethical risks could turn into balance-sheet worries. And once the programme is established, how it is rolled out across the business and sustained and improved over a number of years.

     Includes 250-word box looking at the best employee training options and software available for companies wanting to educate staff on ethics codes.

  8. Profile: GE: what a best-in-class corporate compliance system looks like

     GE is widely recognised for its leading ethics and compliance system. As a global giant, the company’s ethics efforts must be internationally applicable yet specific enough to reflect realities in its different businesses and locations around the world. We assess the company’s approach and ask where it can improve.

  9. By Invitation: Facilitating payments – bribes in disguise

     Alexandra Wrage, TRACE International
     Many countries and companies allow employees to make facilitating payments – small amounts of money paid to public officials to speed up bureaucratic procedures (for example, getting clearance for goods through customs). But critics claim such low-level payments serve only to make greasing palms the norm when doing business around the world. Alexandra Wrage, president of TRACE, a corporate member organisation that advises business how to avoid paying bribes, offers her tips for companies.

  10. By Invitation: Gift giving and hospitality

  Carolyn Lindsey, TRACE International
  Tips for companies on how to judge what is and is not a “reasonable” gift for employees to give and receive

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