Brazil: Whistleblowers, rewards and legal certainty Over the past ten years, the incentives for whistleblowers have been increasing in Brazil. This has been...
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The Whistleblower reached ISO Standards
The Whistleblower reached ISO Standards For some time ago, and in relation to the appearance of the figure of the "whistleblower" as a key figure in the...
Internal threats and the challenge of the remote working
Internal threats and the challenge of the remote working Nearly two years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, many employees continue to work remotely. While...
Corruption in Sport: Global Report released by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Corruption in Sport: Global Report released by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime In an increasingly globalized world, it is frequent to see situations...
¡Happy Holidays! – 2021
¡Happy Holidays! - 2021
FATF: Summary of main topics of the 2020-2021 Annual Report
FATF: Summary of main topics of the 2020-2021 Annual Report Last week the FATF unveiled its annual report, covering various topics of interest for all those...
Brazil: Whistleblowers, rewards and legal certainty
Brazil: Whistleblowers, rewards and legal certainty Over the past ten years, the incentives for whistleblowers have been increasing in Brazil. This has been...
Diversity and inclusion in the company: the importance of people
Diversity and inclusion in the company: the importance of people Creating diversity in the workplace can benefit companies, but true diversity can only be...
Compliance in “Non-Traditional” Organizations
Compliance in "Non-Traditional" Organizations Over the past two years, we have seen a great number of courses, trainings and seminars on the importance of...
What does the Compliance Officer (CO) do?
What does the Compliance Officer (CO) do? The CO (literally "Compliance Officer") is a figure that comes out from a classification that belongs to the...
Conflicts of Interest in the company
Conflicts of Interest in the company There are different definitions on the subject, but for the purpose of implementing an Integrity Program, we will use the...
The Risk Matrix, a key tool for the company
The Risk Matrix, a key tool for the company Today, companies, beyond its size and its commitment to the Compliance function, must comply with a series of...
Integrity Policies – Non-Discrimination
Integrity Policies - Non-Discrimination What is discrimination? The dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy defines it with two possible meanings: Separate,...
SCAM: old term, new schemes
SCAM: old term, new schemes The term "scam" (derived from the term scamming) is usually used to refer to the attempts of fraud through the use of a false...
On the OECD Recommendations on Public Integrity
On the OECD Recommendations on Public Integrity The crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the weakness - or insufficiency - of the control...
INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS: 3 keys to bear in mind
INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS: 3 keys to bear in mind When an organization receives a report stating that there has been (or is suspected to have occurred) a...
Covid-19 and disinformation
Covid-19 and disinformation The manipulation by violent non-state actors The virus of disinformation is not new and has been causing problems for several...
Business Continuity Plan (BCP), now more than ever ¡!
Business Continuity Plan (BCP), now more than ever ¡! Back in 2009, a discipline was born in Latin America that had been developing for a couple of years in...
Is there malicious use of Artificial Intelligence?
Is there malicious use of Artificial Intelligence? Artificial Intelligence (AI) already has a leading role in our lives, based on the development of...
INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS ¿Why are they necessary?
INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS ¿Why are they necessary? When a tip is received by an organization, either through the reporting channel or because it was reported to...
Ethics Line
Ethics Line The ethics line or reporting channel is one of the main tools that compose a Compliance Program. Authorities have been able to address many cases...
Odebrecht reconverts and looks to the future
In December 2016, Odebrecht signed a collaboration agreement with the authorities in the U.S., Brazil and Switzerland - having admitted the payment of $3.5...
CCTV – From professional usage to day-to-day use
Some years ago (and not that many), having surveillance cameras in our homes was not usual. However, in the current days, and thanks to the lower costs of...
The Purpose and Corporate Strategy for a Sustainable Economy
How can companies address the climate crisis from a corporate point of view? In November 2020, the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability...
The importance of Compliance Programs. Act # 27.401 (on Corporate Criminal Liability for Legal Entities)
Today's reality presents us with an interconnected world with a multiplicity of means and forms of information. If you keep updated on daily news about local,...
The rise of ethical culture in SMEs
Implementing Compliance policies within a company means generating actions that promote an ethical and risk prevention commitment towards the entire value...
Telework – Is your company’s information properly protected?
When we speak of information protection in the current world, in which in most of the cases we do not have control on the correct company’s information...
International standards on ML, FT and FPWMD
In order to prevent and combat Money Laundering, Financing of Terrorism and Financing of Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (ML/FT/FPADM) the US...
Making internal fraud detection effective: the reward to whistleblowers
When fraud occurs within an organization, we know that: the sooner it is detected, the smaller the damage will be. And we also know that denunciation is one...
Lost privacy, the new normal
Do we know what we are authorizing when we accept the Terms and Conditions of an application or software that we are installing in our mobile devices? We know...
The FinCEN files, the role of banks and a flawless investigation
A huge investigation effort into the FinCEN Files has turned those secret records into valuable information that allows us to see the lack of controls by some...
The lessons learned from the experience in the world’s fight against corruption
The World Bank has recently published a report named “Enhancing Government Effectiveness and Transparency: The Fight Against Corruption” (World Bank 2020,...
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