One of Europe’s largest truck manufacturers prepares to fight a massive fine over allegations surrounding a long-running price-fixing cartel.
Neil Hodge
Neil Hodge is a freelance business journalist and photographer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He writes on insurance and risk management, corporate governance, internal audit, compliance, and legal issues for a wide range of publications in the United Kingdom and United States.
Posted inEurope
Preparing for the U.K. Criminal Finances Act
A new law holds that companies active in the U.K. could be subject to U.K. criminal proceedings if an employee anywhere in the world facilitates tax evasion.
Posted inEurope
U.K. Pensions Regulator prosecutes Chappell over BHS acquisition
All executives need to be held to account for corporate failures—and not just those who can’t afford to buy their way out of trouble.
Posted inEurope
U.K. corporate governance reforms
Neil Hodge explores the government’s corporate governance reform proposals relating to executive pay; strengthening the employee, customer, and supplier voice; and large, privately held businesses.
Posted inAnti-Bribery
Is it impossible to operate cleanly in some countries?
Corruption may be seen as being “endemic” in some regions, but that cuts no ice with prosecutors in the United Kingdom. To them, a bribe is still a bribe.
Posted inUncategorized
FRC consults on strategic report
The FRC has proposed amendments to strategic reporting guidance in the hopes that companies will expand their range of non-financial reporting to give stakeholders a better understand of companies’ decision making and corporate strategies.
Posted inData Privacy
U.K. considering proposals to enforce better cyber-security
As the U.K. tries to get businesses to protect themselves better against cyber-risk, recently proposed rules all have significant compliance implications.
Posted inAnti-Bribery
SFO announces Rio Tinto corruption investigation
Rio Tinto faces large fines if it is found to have engaged in corrupt activity over its massive Simandou iron-mining project in Guinea. Heads have already rolled over it.
Posted inInternal Controls
Keys to a better whistleblower program
Organisations with robust speak-up programs can address compliance problems pre-emptively, but building such programs can be tricky. Here are 12 tips how.
Posted inEurope
Learning from the BHS pensions debacle
If a regulator wants to deflect blame from itself, it had better come up with a set of credible changes and even better—a proper apology.
