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

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Is Your Compliance Department Real and Alive? | Thomas Fox – JDSupra

Speaking at the IQPC 2010 Internal and Regulatory Investigations in Oil and Gas Conference, Nick Lumley, General Counsel of Centrica Storage, discussed how Centrica is using compliance policies and procedures as a business enabler. As a relatively new corporate entity, Centrica was able to create its own Code of Conduct and compliance culture within the past decade. Lumley emphasized that neither he nor the Company wanted a checklist culture of compliance but one that was vibrant within the Company.

One of the key items stressed by Lumley to make compliance vibrant was not only that a culture of compliance had to be real and alive within a company, but that the Compliance Department itself must also be real and alive. By this he meant that the Compliance Department had to be not only flesh and blood people that the rest of the company could relate to but the department had to be an active part of the company’s business.

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