EU, Corruption, Compliance

Daily Compliance News: June 9, 2025, The Repugnant Edition

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 6/9/2025

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the Daily Compliance News....more

Daily Compliance News: May 21, 2025, The I Want You Back Edition

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 5/21/2025

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the Daily Compliance...more

White-collar crime developments in Italy: trends and developments

A&O Shearman on 1/29/2025

There has been an increase in enforcement action and strategies relating to cybercrimes, supply-chain related offenses, VAT fraud, corruption, and money laundering. A significant shift has been prompted by the EU Corporate...more

2024 in Review: Key Anticorruption Developments in the EU and France, with insights for 2025

Foley Hoag LLP - White Collar Law &... on 1/24/2025

This is the second in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...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

EU Revises Restrictive Measure “Best Practices” to Account for Adoption of OFAC 50% Rule Equivalent

The Volkov Law Group on 8/8/2024

On July 3, 2024, the Council of the European Union (“EU Council”) officially promulgated a new set of best practices (“best practices” or “guidance”) for organizations seeking to comply with the latest sanctions regulations...more

The UK Election and Its Implications for Compliance Professionals

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 7/11/2024

Last week saw the greatest wipeout in the recorded history of UK governments, which saw the Tories being swept from power and losing over 400 seats in Parliament. Labor took over with a commanding presence, securing around...more

European Council Officially Adopts New AML/CFT Package

The Volkov Law Group on 6/19/2024

On May 30, 2024, following passage by the European Parliament in late April, the European Council officially adopted a set of rules that modernizes and harmonizes money laundering and terrorist financing (“AML/CFT”)...more

Belgian investigations trends and developments in white collar crime

A&O Shearman on 1/10/2024

We continue to see increased investigation and prosecution of corruption, fraud, modern slavery and workplace misconduct, especially in the construction, transportation and financial sectors. Investigations are boosted by...more

The EU Directive for Combatting Corruption

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics... on 11/9/2023

Currently there is a patchwork of anticorruption laws across the EU. What has been lacking, though, is a EU-wide approach. That is likely to change soon, reports Vera Cherepanova, founding partner of Studio Etica. Change is...more

Top 10 International Anti-Corruption Developments for May 2023

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 6/14/2023

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past...more

[Event] 11th Annual European Compliance & Ethics Institute - March 20th - 22nd, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics... on 10/14/2022

In-person is back! Join us in Amsterdam for the 2023 European Compliance & Ethics Institute! Strengthen your compliance and ethics program by attending our 11th annual European Compliance and Ethics Institute, 20-22 March...more

[Event] Anti-Corruption London - November 2nd - 3rd, London, United Kingdom

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 6/30/2021

C5's 15th International Conference on Anti-Corruption London will take place November 2 – 3, 2021 in Millennium Hotel London Knightsbridge, London. Join your peers for the IN-PERSON reunion of the legal and compliance...more

The Fourth Estate and Wirecard

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 6/24/2020

It is one thing to wake up and find yourself as the lead story on a Sunday morning when the New York Times (NYT) runs a corruption story about your organization above the fold. It is quite another when the world’s top...more

Financial Daily Dose 12.20.2019 | Goldman nearing $2B deal with DOJ to resolve 1MDB scandal claims

Robins Kaplan LLP on 12/20/2019

Goldman Sachs is reportedly in negotiations with federal prosecutors to resolve claims about its role in the Malaysian 1MDB scandal for upwards of $2 billion. A settlement—which “could include a guilty plea from Goldman’s...more

Farewell to a Court Jester and 800 Hours to a No-Deal Brexit

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 2/22/2019

In the bigger than big category there are now approximately 35 days or just over 800 hours left before a no-deal Brexit is set to take effect. To say there is disarray in the British political establishment over this upcoming...more

Dorsey Anti-Corruption Digest - January 2018

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 1/9/2018

Keeping ahead of global anti-corruption trends is critical in today’s business markets. The Dorsey Anti-Corruption Digest, which puts global trends at your fingertips, puts you ahead. The deep experience of the Dorsey...more

Termination of a Third-Party – Planning Can Reduce the Pain

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 4/18/2017

The European concern Airbus has been in the news recently for corruption issues. According to an article in the Financial Times (FT), entitled “Airbus sued by middlemen fired following fraud inquiry”, its annual report lists...more

Global Standardization of Enforcement

The Volkov Law Group on 5/25/2016

Maybe I am a Luddite; maybe I just do not understand the new world and the impact of globalization. New ideas do not scare me, like others we know. New ideas present real opportunities for progress and innovation....more

The Defeat Device: Compliance and Ethics in the Auto Industry

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 9/23/2015

Things are seriously bad when one of the world’s most respected business focused publications, the Financial Times (FT), asks if the auto “industry faces ‘Libor moment’”? Yet that was a headline yesterday in the lead article...more

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 5/12/2014

Council of the EU Adopts Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive - On May 6, the Council of the EU adopted at first reading the text of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD). The BRRD seeks to harmonize...more

The European Commission Unveils its First EU Anti-Corruption Report, Highlighting the Continuing Risk of Corruption in EU Member...

K&L Gates LLP on 2/13/2014

On February 3, 2014, the European Commission published its first Anti-Corruption Report (the “Report”). The Report covers all types of corruption, including political corruption, bribery of public officials, and private or...more

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