New guidelines governing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations and enforcement effectively signal the official end of the proclaimed FCPA enforcement pause announced by President Trump earlier in the year, while...more
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office has a lot going for it right now: a director hellbent on tackling complex fraud, bribery, and corruption, an enhanced budget, new partnerships to tackle international bribery and corruption...more
4/2/2025
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Bribery ,
Case Management ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Corporate Liability ,
Corruption ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Fraud ,
Fraud Prevention ,
Indemnification ,
New Legislation ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK
President Trump’s “America First Trade Policy” is creating new sanctions compliance risk for financial services institutions and companies in an area that historically has not received as much enforcement attention: drug...more
3/27/2025
/ Compliance ,
Cuba ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Financial Institutions ,
Mexico ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Risk Management ,
SDN List ,
Trump Administration ,
Venezuela
U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement activity may be at a temporary standstill, but that should not mean much for the day-to-day operations of global anti-corruption compliance programs. If the Department of...more
2/13/2025
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Bribery ,
Compliance ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Due Diligence ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Executive Orders ,
FEPA ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Money Laundering ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Freeze ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Risk Management ,
Smuggling ,
Supply Chain ,
Trump Administration ,
White Collar Crimes
As U.S. regulators and enforcement authorities alike become increasingly focused on corporate oversight practices of their employees' use of third-party messaging applications, including ephemeral messaging, companies should...more
4/11/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Compliance ,
Compliance Commitees ,
Corporate Governance ,
Data Preservation ,
Data Security ,
Data Storage ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Discovery ,
Document Retention Policies ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronic Communications ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Information Technology ,
Instant Messaging Apps ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Third-Party
In recent years, U.S. enforcement agencies have signaled that a data-analytics driven compliance program is more than a nice to have, it’s a must-have if companies are going to get more adept at demonstrating the...more
In line with the Biden administration’s declaration last year that anticorruption is a “core United States national security interest,” sanctions evasion enforcement rapidly has become a core priority for the Department of...more
7/12/2022
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Best Practices ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Due Diligence ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Financial Institutions ,
FinCEN ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Money Laundering ,
Multinationals ,
National Security ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Russia ,
Sanction Violations ,
Terrorist Financing ,
U.S. Treasury