All OECD articles – Page 2

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    OECD: Greece Must Focus More on Foreign Bribery

    2015-03-20T14:00:00Z

    The risk of Greek companies bribing foreign officials is substantial, and yet Greece has not given the same priority to fighting foreign bribery as it has to domestic corruption, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Phase 3bis Report on Greece." The repor examines issues that the Working ...

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    OECD Updates Views on Governance

    2015-01-27T15:00:00Z

    The OECD has received an earful about proposed revisions to its principles of corporate governance, guidelines it encourages countries to adopt much the way they already follow its principles for anti-corruption. Some say the revisions dwell too much on company-level reforms, and not enough at the country-level to allow flexible ...

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    More Cooperation, More Whistleblowing, More Prosecution

    2015-01-06T10:00:00Z

    Image: Title: Berland2015 may be the year when overseas regulators hit their stride in prosecuting companies for misconduct, as tactics get more sophisticated and investigations come to fruition. In the United States, enforcement stemming from whistleblowers will be at full speed and pressure to cooperate with prosecutors will be high. ...

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    OECD: France Still Lags on Anti-Bribery Efforts

    2014-12-24T12:00:00Z

    France still has several more improvements to make when it comes to combating the bribery of foreign public officials involving French companies, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's follow-up report to its Phase 3 recommendations. Of the OECD’s 33 recommendations, the group deemed four to be fully ...

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    OECD Has ‘Grave Concerns’ with Argentina’s Anti-Bribery Efforts

    2014-12-18T09:45:00Z

    A report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Working Group on Bribery says it has "grave concerns" about Argentina’s commitment to fight foreign bribery. Argentina has no law to punish companies for foreign bribery or prosecute individuals who commit the crime abroad, the report says. Delays plague economic ...

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    Study: Many Businesses Struggle With Anti-Corruption Controls

    2014-12-10T11:15:00Z

    Image: Dec. 10—Three years after the U.K. Bribery Act came into force, many businesses are still struggling to implement the procedures necessary to prevent corruption as expected by the Ministry of Justice. More than one-third of almost 3,000 anti-corruption controls assessed by GoodCorporation were graded as inadequate in a recent ...

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    OECD Report: Foreign Bribery Enforcement on the Decline

    2014-12-02T05:15:00Z

    A report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development reveals that the number of sanctions against companies and individuals for the bribery of foreign government officials appears to be declining. According to the report, 42 foreign bribery cases concluded last year, significantly lower than the 78 foreign bribery cases ...

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    Companies Lack Transparency on Foreign Operations, Report Says

    2014-11-11T14:30:00Z

    The world’s largest companies don’t disclose much information about operations outside their home country and are often tight-lipped about anticorruption efforts, says a new report from Transparency International. The lack of granularity, it adds, will leave the largest oil, gas, and mining companies ill-prepared for forthcoming rules from the European ...

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    Brazil Gets Praise and a Push from OECD on Anti-Bribery Efforts

    2014-10-30T11:00:00Z

    Oct. 30—Brazil is getting both a pat on the back and a push forward from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development regarding its anti-bribery efforts. OECD’s Working Group on Bribery said this week that Brazil “must build on the positive momentum” started with its new Corporate Liability Law and ...

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    Few Countries Make Good on OECD Anti-Bribery Pledge

    2014-10-23T14:30:00Z

    Oct. 23—Despite a 15-year-old promise to do so, many of the world’s leading economies are failing to do enough to prevent corruption and bribery. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Anti-Bribery Convention, adopted in 1997, was a pledge by 41 countries to make foreign bribery a crime. Years later, ...