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Time flies. We’re coming up on the seventh anniversary of the introduction of the Affordable Care Act, and few would argue that the dialogue and the legislative happenings around the ACA have been quite the rollercoaster. Regulations have changed and...

The audit preparation process can be long and tedious, as documentation has to be gathered from departments that are unprepared or disinterested in the audit process. Confusion about what is actually required, who needs to provide it and when it...

The cost of FCPA violations can really pile up, from penalties levied by enforcement agencies to reputational damage when wrongdoing is made public to prison time for perpetrators. Companies must remain vigilant to recognize the signs of bribery. Guilty parties...

The details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement have been revealed to the public, and the standards therein are a major step forward for global anti-corruption efforts. Companies doing business in compliance with the FCPA and UK Bribery Act have operated...

If you need a reason to bolster your monitoring efforts, you may find the recent FCPA enforcement action against Vicente Eduardo Garcia to be quite instructive. One noteworthy feature of this investigation was the involvement of the IRS’s Criminal Investigation...

The U.S. Treasury regularly fines businesses for transacting with entities on OFAC sanctions lists. Though evidence shows most corporate financial departments fail to check their buyers and sellers rigorously against these lists, several easy, inexpensive approaches are available for accomplishing...

We in the GRC community inherently see the value of internal controls, but often our peers in the rest of the organization don't share our vision. Strike up a dialogue about controls and you may face resistance or even opposition....

The trickiest part of investing is determining WHERE to invest. And while a company's financial performance is top of mind for potential investors, it by no means should be the only factor considered. Remember, corporations taken down by scandals crash...

SEC enforcement actions have been on the rise for some time, a pattern that's only likely to continue given recent developments. The agency is more willing than ever to take cases to court, and last year saw the single largest...

Where does the board’s role begin and end regarding risk? A company's core objective is to create and increase wealth for its shareholders.

Is the compliance community spending enough time looking at the dark side? Instead of defining and enforcing "normal" behavior, how about identifying the pathologies of bad behavior -- and its warning signs...”

FCPA enforcement has been on the rise of late, and several of the most significant enforcement actions taken in 2014 had connections to countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Wendy Wysong and her associates at Clifford Chance explore the largest and...