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News and commentary about white-collar crime, enforcement, and compliance. We set out in 2007 to bring our readers full coverage of all Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement actions - the first to do that in real-time.
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2M ago
My gifted colleagues — the people Harry and I leaned on for support for 17 years — have already written a wonderful history of the FCPA Blog. There’s little more I can say except to fill in a gap they left in the record — their role in what we did ..read more
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Andy Spalding, Senior Editor
I came to the FCPA Blog a nobody, just some guy with just one idea that Dick so generously agreed to post. How could I have known the Wall Street Journal was looking for content ..read more
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2M ago
2024 marks our seventeenth year of publishing. It’s been an incredible journey, and we’re proud of our work.
It was a difficult decision. We’ll continue posting over the next couple of weeks ..read more
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2M ago
It’s wishful thinking that a corporate FCPA resolution with the DOJ puts everything in the rearview mirror. Better to view corporate resolutions as multi-year events, during which the company and its leaders face more scrutiny and potential criminal jeopardy than ever ..read more
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2M ago
In the last quarter-century, since the “Corruption Eruption” of the late 1990s, the world has been lucky enough to see the proliferation of anti-corruption laws, initiatives, ideas, and practices. Now, two decades later, a group of scholars and practitioners has undertaken to distill our learning in a single source ..read more
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3M ago
Although bribery always requires a giver and a receiver, U.S. anti-corruption efforts have traditionally focused almost exclusively on the givers. This is partly the result of a previous gap in the law ..read more
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3M ago
Dawn raids are on the rise: the first three months of the new SFO director’s tenure saw two dawn raids, and the Financial Conduct Authority’s dawn raid activity during 2023 was significantly increased compared with 2022 ..read more
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3M ago
2023 was a mixed bag for the business integrity community. On the one hand, the B20 – the voice of business of the G20 forum of major economies – had no Integrity & Compliance Task Force under the Indian Presidency ..read more
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3M ago
The viral video of two unprepared HR reps from Cloudflare firing Brittany Pietsch from her remote sales job is excruciating. I’m not sure it rises to the level of an indictment of capitalism, as one X user suggested, but it is disgusting and, as the X user said, it shows “they don’t value people ..read more
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3M ago
One of the main talking points in Ukraine in October 2023 was the new law on politically exposed persons, which was introduced in light of the seven reforms required by the country to support its EU candidate status ..read more