Building Regulatory Might in U.K., EU
Data privacy and corporate transparency will be two of the top European issues on the agenda for compliance executives in 2015. And even if we have to wait another year to see a big corporate enforcement action under the U.K. Bribery Act, there are other reasons to fear Britain’s white-collar ...
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