2nd Advanced Forum on FCPA Compliance in Emerging Markets

If your company is operating in high risk markets, you will not want to miss the 2011 Advanced Forum on FCPA Compliance in Emerging Markets. The brand new agenda will feature an even greater number of speakers from China, Russia, Brazil, India, Mexico and other key markets. Designed to provide you with country-specific FCPA guidance, you will gain comprehensive knowledge of the anti-bribery landscape in BRIC countries, firsthand insights into how to address bribery risks in these markets, and practical guidance on tailoring your anti-corruption compliance policies to the idiosyncracies of each market.  Senior corporate ethics and compliance executives, FCPA and anti-corruption attorneys and consultants from the US, UK, Brazil, Russia, India, China, Mexico, and the Middle East will share key insights on:

China

* Identify who is a “government official”

* Prevent gifts and hospitality pitfalls

* Weave local law requirements into your global anti-corruption compliance program

Russia

* Set up internal accounting controls to prevent unauthorized payments

* Detect patterns of bribery and non-compliant behavior

* Conduct internal investigations into questionable payments

India

* Vet and control customs brokers, agents and intermediaries

* Deal with requests for bribes when obtaining regulatory approvals

* Promote anti-bribery awareness and train in-country employees and third-parties

Brazil and Mexico

* Minimize bribery risks in customs operations

* Develop appropriate oversight procedures for subsidiaries, branches and offices

via 2nd Advanced Forum on FCPA Compliance in Emerging Markets.

Europe Sets Five-Year Internet Strategy – BusinessWeek

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Half of Europeans subscribing to ultra-high-speed broadband by 2020, bringing an end to the phenomenon of ‘digital virgins’ and the creation of a European cyber-attack rapid response system – these are just some of the ambitious goals contained in the EU’s five-year plan for the online world, unveiled on Wednesday (19 May).

Anxious that the US, Japan and South Korea – still in parts classified as a developing country – are stealing a march on the old continent, where almost a third of people have still never accessed the worldwide web, the European Commission says it is time for a digital revolution.

While today, just one percent of Europeans are signed up to fast fibre-based internet, 12 percent of Japanese have such connections and 15 percent of South Koreans.

“Can you imagine that there are still some 30 percent of Europeans who have never used the internet? Digital virgins, so to say,” Dutch commissioner Neelie Kroes said in announcing the wide-ranging plans. “We want to ensure they all have the opportunity to discover the wonders of the digital world.”

By 2013, Brussels wants all Europeans to have basic broadband and by 2020, for everyone to have access high-speed broadband above 30Mbps, with 50 percent of Europeans able to subscribe to ultra-high-speed rates of above 100Mbps.

via Europe Sets Five-Year Internet Strategy – BusinessWeek.

Video: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on OECD anti-corruption agenda

“The United States fully supports the OECD’s anti-corruption agenda,” said US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in a video message to an OECD event in Paris. “We also are encouraging our major trading partners that have not yet acceded to the convention to join our efforts.”

via Governments agree to step up fight against bribery.