Essential elements of a Corporate Compliance programme

Source: Presented at C5’s 2nd Forum on Anti-Corruption, West Africa. Full presentation available here.   Essential elements of a Corporate Compliance programme   Organisational leadership & culture •Tone from the Top •Compliance and Controls structure (FTE and non-FTEs) •Incorporating compliance objs into coy-wide objs Standards & Procedures •Internal policies, procedures and SOPs Training & Communications…

Anti-Corruption West Africa – Request your brochure

Simply emails us at [email protected] to receive your free brochure.     Meet them this June, in Ghana – Keynote and Government Speakers: • Olaoulo Adegbite, Director of Operations, EFCC (Nigeria) • Charles Ayamdoo, Director, Anti-Corruption section of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (Ghana) • Abbia Udofia, Deputy Director of Operations, ICPC (Nigeria) Shannon Bullock, Programme Officer, Corruption and Economic Crime Branch, United Nations…

Anti-Corruption West Africa

How to benefit from PPPs to strengthen mutual anti-corruption compliance Complimentary presentation from C5’s 2nd Forum on Anti-Corruption, West Africa Edition    Click here to view the document as a PDF   Highlights of the presentation: Relevance of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in driving Internal and External Compliance The PPP Scorecard – how effective have these…

Export Compliance

US Export Controls have just undergone significant reform and with new challenges posed in 2014 by developments at the EU and Wassenaar Arrangement, this is an essential time to ensure you have all the tools you need to strengthen your export compliance approach.   In an effort to provide you with valuable content, we’ve compiled this list of best available online resources. We hope you find it helpful and share it with your network.

Export Compliance Programme

Download those 100% free presentations now to help you build a robust Export Compliance Programme     ‘Reinforcing and Enhancing your Export Compliance Programme’ Presented by: Beth Ann Johnson – Northrop Grumman  Nick Boland – Amber Road     ‘Complying With EU Sanctions’ Presented by: Clare French, Export Control Manager Hitachi Europe Ltd

Anti-Corruption – Industry News

Turkey learns how to fight against corruption from Singapore, By SERKAN DEMİRTAŞ, Posted on Hurriyet Daily News The number one item on Turkey’s agenda since Dec. 17 are the massive corruption and graft allegations against senior government members, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his family. Four ministers had to resign after prosecutors argued that they had…

D&O Liability Insurance – Industry News

Ex-judge calls for D&O liability reform Former NSW Supreme Court judge Dr Robert Austin set off a recent panel discussion by arguing that lawmakers need to “urgently” revisit the high level of liability on Australian directors. Austin (pictured right), now a senior consultant with Minter Ellison where he was a partner from 1990 to 1998,…

Risk Management Russia – Industry News

Russian Consumers’ Credit Health Stable After Two-Year Decline, According to FICO and NBKI Data, Posted on PR News MOSCOW, Feb. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — FICO (NYSE: FICO), a leading predictive analytics and decision management software company, and the National Bureau of Credit Histories (NBKI),Russia’s leading credit bureau, today announced that Russian borrowers’ credit repayment delinquencies remained stable from October 2013 to January 2014. This was the…

Private Equity Russia – Industry News

iTech Capital invests $10 million in Russian travel search platform Aviasales, By Jacques Coetzee, Poste on Venture Burn With the Winter Olympics underway, Russia’s all about the travel. Whether it be booking flights or hotels, getting to know the good or bad, people need to be able to weigh their options fairly. The Russia-based Private Equity…

Online Gaming – Industry News

Merge Gaming Suspends Online Poker Accounts in NJ and DE, by Dabid, Posted on BetOnline The regulation of online poker in New Jersey and Delaware is being blamed for the Merge Gaming Network suspending players´ accounts in those jurisdictions. This weekend, hundreds of online poker players in New Jersey and Delaware tried to log in…

Sumitomo Chemical reference: When are marketing authorisations valid?

By Dr Beatriz San Martín & Phil Bilney In the recent Sumitomo Chemical preliminary ruling which is of relevance not only to the chemical and agriculture industry but also to the pharmaceutical industry, the CJEU has held that a supplementary protection certificate (“SPC”) for a plant protection product (“PPP”) cannot be sought on the basis of an emergency…