Corruption, Supply Chain, Trump Administration

Tariffs, Bribery & the Risk of Regress: Why Anti-Bribery Efforts Can't Wait

NAVEX on 6/18/2025

In times of regulatory uncertainty, businesses often focus on speed: speed to market, speed to adapt, and increasingly, speed to reroute supply chains. But speed, when paired with pressure, creates risk. And one of the most...more

Mexican Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations: A New Era of Risk for Global Businesses

Guidepost Solutions LLC on 2/6/2025

On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” This directive instructs the...more

How CCOs Can Play a Role in Supply Chain Risk Management

NAVEX on 12/18/2024

Look around the business landscape today, and supply-chain risks are everywhere – which means that sooner or later, those risks will appear on the compliance function’s radar screen too. They probably already have....more

DOJ Hoarding and Price Gouging Task Force Seizes Critical Medical Supplies and Distributes to New York and New Jersey Hospitals

The Volkov Law Group on 4/3/2020

The Justice Department and the FBI have quickly acted to focus on fraudsters and hoarders seeking to profit from the public panic in response to the pandemic. DOJ issued a memo to U.S. Attorneys prioritizing investigations...more

Financial Daily Dose 12.03.2019 | Top Story: US Threatens Tariffs on French Goods Over New Digital Services Tax

Robins Kaplan LLP on 12/3/2019

Because who wants a nice quiet December, right? Yesterday, the U.S. opened yet another trade war front by proposing retaliatory tariffs of up to 100% on a wide range of French imports after announcing that “it found France’s...more

Financial Daily Dose 7.11.2019 | Top Story: Fed Chair Primes Markets for July Rate Cut

Robins Kaplan LLP on 7/11/2019

The big takeaway from Day 1 of Fed Chair Powell’s Congressional testimony is that a July rate cut is still definitely on the table, despite last week’s strong US jobs numbers. As the Times puts it, “That the Fed is...more