Global Anti-Corruption, Compliance & Risk Management

Start your day with an exclusive opportunity to connect with industry leaders. This intimate, invitation-only breakfast roundtable will offer candid, smaller-group discussions on emerging regulatory challenges, best practices, and innovative strategies to strengthen compliance frameworks.

As U.S. enforcement priorities evolve, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officers face a shifting landscape of risk and regulatory expectations. This session will unpack the latest U.S. trends in enforcement strategy, key areas of focus of enforcement, and practical steps for mitigating exposure in a global context. Attendees will gain actionable insights to strengthen compliance programmes and anticipate what’s next, including:

• Current enforcement priorities, including how DOJ and SEC are recalibrating their approaches to corporate misconduct and compliance program evaluations
• The landscape of expanded reach and jurisdiction, including the implications of extraterritorial enforcement and cross-border cooperation on multinational organizations
• Navigating risk management in a dynamic regulatory environment and practical strategies for identifying and mitigating emerging risks tied to the latest enforcement trends
• Preparing for future shifts, and what General Counsel and Compliance Leaders should expect in 2026 and beyond, including policy signals, resource allocation, and the evolution of enforcement tools

Latin America presents unique challenges for compliance and risk management, with rising cartel activity, transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and heightened safety concerns impacting operations and supply chains. This interactive benchmarking session will allow participants to compare approaches, share best practices, and identify strategies to mitigate these risks while meeting evolving due diligence and compliance requirements.

Gain actionable insights to strengthen resilience and protect your organization in a complex and high-risk environment:

• Key trends in cartel activity, TCO influence, and safety threats across Latin America
• Navigating new regulatory expectations and enforcement priorities are shaping corporate obligations, including enhanced due diligence and more robust compliance requirements
• Identifying supply chain vulnerability and strengthening mitigation strategies through practical steps created to safeguard operations and third-party relationships in high-risk regions
• Benchmarking best practices through the comparison of approaches to risk assessment, monitoring, and crisis response among compliance leaders from top organizations

Compare and reconcile key differences between whistleblower protections and reporting obligations across the UK, US, and EU, and explore strategies for building a unified global framework that meets diverse regulatory expectations, including:

• Navigating divergent legal frameworks, including core differences in whistleblower laws, including scope, protections, and reporting channels in the UK, US, and EU
• Managing cross-border reporting challenges and addressing complexities in handling multijurisdictional disclosures while safeguarding confidentiality and compliance
• Aligning incentives and protections through varying approaches to rewards, anonymity, and retaliation prevention
• Building a harmonized global policy, including practical steps to create a unified whistleblower framework that satisfies regional requirements without compromising programme effectiveness

With regulators placing increased emphasis on the effectiveness and timeliness of corporate investigations, organisations must ensure their programmes are robust, agile, and aligned with global standards. This session will explore how to modernise investigations frameworks, leverage technology, and implement best practices to meet heightened expectations. Attendees will gain practical insights on managing complex investigations, ensuring consistency across jurisdictions, and demonstrating programme effectiveness to regulators and enforcement officials.

• Exploring recent enforcement trends and penalties for inadequate corporate investigations programs
• Building a future-ready investigations framework that emphasizes scalability and adaptability to evolving regulations
• Best practices for integrating corporate investigations into enterprise risk management
• Strengthening trust with regulators and stakeholders through transparency and accountability

The Corporate Governance Toolkit equips organisations with practical strategies to strengthen compliance programs by aligning them with business objectives. This session explores how to build a compelling business case for compliance through measurable value creation, robust compliance metrics, and active board engagement.

• Demonstrating how compliance initiatives can drive operational efficiency, protect reputation, and create long-term shareholder value rather than being seen as a cost center
• Identifying KPIs that measure compliance effectiveness, risk reduction, and cultural impact, and showing how these metrics influence decision-making
• Exploring best practices for presenting compliance data to boards, fostering accountability, and positioning compliance as a critical component of corporate governance
• Outlining methods for integrating compliance into enterprise risk management and strategic planning, ensuring continuous improvement and resilience in a dynamic regulatory environment

Explore how compliance leaders are driving global integrity by embedding anti-corruption leadership and accountability into organizational culture, ensuring consistent standards across diverse jurisdictions.

• Establishing ethical leadership and reinforcing anti-corruption values across global operations
• Practical steps to integrate anti-bribery and anti-corruption standards into governance frameworks and business processes
• Aligning global and local compliance cultures by harmonising corporate integrity principles with regional regulatory realities
• Deploying tools and metrics to evaluate cultural transformation and ensuring long-term anti-corruption resilience

Look ahead to the evolving role of legal and compliance functions as organizations prepare for new standards, heightened regulatory expectations, and strategic alignment in 2026 and beyond. It focuses on how these teams can transition from reactive compliance to proactive business enablers, including:

• Examining upcoming trends in compliance and governance frameworks, and how organizations can stay ahead of emerging requirements
• Discussing ways to move beyond risk mitigation toward enabling growth, innovation, and competitive advantage
• Exploring how automation, AI, and analytics will redefine compliance monitoring, reporting, and decision-making
• Outlining strategies for embedding adaptability into compliance programs to thrive amid uncertainty and rapid change

Created for attendees of C5’s London Forum on Global Anti-Corruption, Compliance, & Risk Management, this post-conference virtual workshop will discuss how legal and compliance teams can harness data analytics and AI to enhance corruption and fraud detection, build continuous monitoring capabilities, and modernize investigation workflows.

Building on the in-person conference in London, speakers will revisit key concepts with deeper, more actionable guidance on leveraging advanced models and embedding data‑driven intelligence across the legal and compliance function.

Key topics of discussion will include:

• How compliance teams can leverage data analytics and AI models to detect fraud earlier and with greater precision
• Leveraging advanced data‑driven tools to identify fraud and financial crime risks across the group
• Building scalable, continuous monitoring systems that identify anomalies and risk patterns in real time
• Using AI‑assisted tools to accelerate investigations, automate workflows, and improve the accuracy of findings
• Aligning data‑driven compliance practices with regulatory expectations around governance, documentation, and defensible decision‑making