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CMA holds companies responsible for false claims, fake reviews ‘throughout supply chain’
Companies face large fines if they spread false marketing claims or fake reviews about their products and services—as well as those by suppliers—under a toughened competition regime in the U.K. aimed at enhancing consumer protection.
How to establish an anti-corruption and anti-bribery compliance program
The U.K. unveiled a new Anti-Corruption Strategy in December 2025, just as the EU unveiled its first Anti-Corruption Directive. Both jurisdictions have signalled that they are keen to push back on rising risks of corruption. But many organizations have no formal anti-corruption measures. Where should compliance start?
Gavin Proudley, SVP Risk & Compliance at Dow Jones, on compliance challenges from divergent rules and geopolitics
Diverging global rules, sanctions, and tariffs being “weaponized,” and more have made compliance complex even before the U.S. strikes on Iran. We asked Gavin Proudley, SVP Risk & Compliance at Dow Jones, what this means for compliance managers and how they can stay ahead of shifting geopolitics and tighter ...
Technoethics: The corporate responsibility gap leaders can’t ignore
As AI adoption accelerates, organizations are quietly deprioritizing the very safeguards that keep them compliant — creating governance blind spots, regulatory exposure, and stakeholder trust gaps that compound faster than most leaders realize. Compliance teams don’t have to wait for the consequences to hit: implement the following concrete steps to ...
The dos and don’ts of responding to a World Bank integrity audit
The World Bank Group has updated its “Integrity Compliance Guidelines” for the first time in 15 years, and at a time when sanctions cases are on the rise. These developments combined should prompt companies to reassess their anti-corruption compliance practices.
SEC’s Uyeda: ‘Enforcement is the wrong way’ to handle off-channel communications
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Mark Uyeda told an audience of investment advisers that the SEC will no longer prioritize stand-alone enforcement actions for violations of the SEC’s rules on off-channel communications.
Compliance must focus on corruption as EU and U.K. seek to tackle rising risks
Corruption isn’t something that happens somewhere else, in other countries and committed by other people. Nowhere is corruption-proof, and new rules being introduced in the EU and the U.K. aim to focus compliance officers on the full gamut of risks in all jurisdictions and every sector.
GSA’s draft AI Clause turns governance into a contractual mandate
A sweeping proposed federal procurement clause would push AI oversight out of policy decks and into compliance operations, vendor management, and real-time control testing.