All due diligence articles
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ArticleGerman supply chain draft legislation expected to have far-reaching effect
Companies of a certain size with ties to Germany must soon establish robust due diligence procedures to prevent human rights and environmental abuses both within the course of their own business activities and within their global supply chains.
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Article
Bracing for impact: Supply chain risk management post-Suez Canal blockage
A month has gone by since a 1,300-foot cargo ship ran aground and blocked one of the busiest waterways in the world. For many industries, the ripple effects will continue to batter global supply chains for weeks to come, absent having in place a sound supply chain risk management program. ...
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Webcast
CPE Webcast: Rethinking third-party due diligence to minimize supply chain risk
Businesses are rethinking their strategies to maintain operations, minimize supply chain disruption, and manage heightened exposure to financial, legal, regulatory, or reputational risks.
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Article
Q&A: Clearing up confusion with OFAC’s 50 Percent rule
Compliance Week spoke with Tiffany Archer, regional ethics and compliance officer and corporate counsel at Panasonic Avionics Corporation, on demystifying OFAC’s 50 Percent rule.
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Article
Compliance lessons from Julius Baer’s ‘serious AML failings’
Compliance officers can learn a lot from the anti-money laundering compliance shortcomings at Julius Baer Group, as well as from what the bank is now doing to enhance its risk management and AML compliance controls.
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Article
Unclaimed property filing deadlines loom large
Deadlines are fast approaching for state unclaimed property filings, with roughly 40 states setting filing dates on Oct. 31 or Nov. 1.
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Blog post
Evaluation of third parties
Compliance practitioners at GE Oil & Gas discuss the process by which GE reviews the risks around each of its third parties.
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Blog post
The ‘how’ question in due diligence
A clear lesson to be learned from the Theranos scandal is when conducting merger due diligence, make sure to determine how a new partner conducts itself and its business.
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Phase 2 in third-party risk management: the questionnaire
An essential piece of third-party risk management is “the questionnaire,” which companies should garner on behalf of all their third-party relationships at the start of the union in order to move forward with all the anwers.
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Blog post
What is due diligence?
Due diligence is key to getting your third-party risk management program off the ground.
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Article
Carillion demise brings lessons in compliance
The collapse of U.K. construction firm Carillion points to a need for compliance to step up to the plate and conduct its own due diligence, regardless of where the markets may lead.
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Blog post
Compliance lessons from the HP-Autonomy fiasco
The Man From FCPA discusses the reasons behind one of the greatest corporate disasters in the past few years: the acquisition of Autonomy by Hewlett-Packard.
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Blog post
IHS Markit adds new screening capabilities to vendor due diligence service
IHS Markit, a critical information, analytics and solutions provider, announced that its vendor risk management service, KY3P, added financial crimes screening to its comprehensive due diligence tools.
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Blog post
Arachnys and Fenergo sign strategic partnership agreement
Arachnys, a cloud-based investigation management technology provider, and Fenergo, a provider of Client Lifecycle Management solutions for investment, corporate, and private banks, have announced a joint partnership to leverage their complementary technologies.
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Blog post
Why board oversight matters, in investing and compliance
The case of Outcome Health is a clear lesson for the anti-corruption compliance practitioner: Levels of oversight not only provide a backup to make sure that no mistake should slip through, but also the rigor of financial oversight.
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Blog post
The three levels of due diligence
How to recognize and utilize each level of due diligence to fight corruption.
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Looking to buy? Be sure and complete your due diligence
Tom Fox explores a recent report on wealthy American businessmen attempting to purchase London soccer clubs for a weekend outing and their due diligence duties.
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Blog post
Icertis, Thomson Reuters partnership provides compliance screening
Icertis, a provider of enterprise contract lifecycle management in the cloud, announced a partnership with Thomson Reuters, a provider of intelligent information and solutions for businesses and professionals.
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Blog post
Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca linked to offshore deals in Africa
A new round of investigations on the Panama Papers conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) this week revealed that Panama-headquartered law firm Mossack Fonseca established offshore companies to own, hold, or do business with petroleum, natural gas, and mining operations in 44 of Africa’s 54 countries—many of ...
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Blog post
Customers and corruption risks
What is the cost of corruption? How much due diligence must you perform with those entities that are your customers? Does doing business with companies that have a propensity for corruption put your company at risk? In light of the scandals at Petrobras and Houston-based ENSCO, companies might want to ...
