Despite an intense focus on mitigating them, corruption risks are only increasing for companies that do business in places like China, Russia, and Mexico.

Vigorous enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by the Justice Department and worsening corruption in several countries are making it increasingly difficult to get corruption risks under control for companies that are expanding globally. 

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...