Trump has called for a six-month ban on FCPA enforcement. How should compliance respond?
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Aaron Nicodemus2025-02-13T15:50:00
With a six-month ban on enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), compliance should retreat from fear-based messaging and instead focus on why ethical practices make good business sense, experts say.
President Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to place a six-month pause on enforcement of the FCPA, saying the law has been “stretched beyond proper bounds” and “abused” under Democratic leadership.
In an executive order issued Monday, Trump said that “overexpansive and unpredictable FCPA enforcement” of what he called “routine business practices in other nations”–namely, practices involving bribery–“actively harms American economic competitiveness and, therefore, national security.”
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