On Friday, July 17, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it will award more than $3 million to a company insider who helped the SEC “crack a complex fraud.” The SEC’s whistleblower program was adopted under the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010. It rewards high-quality, original information that results in enforcement actions exceeding $1… Continue Reading
In a recent letter, 58 members of Congress asked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to exercise its rule-making authority and ban mandatory arbitration provisions in consumer financial agreements. In support of their request, the authors cite the CFPB’s March 2015 internal study on arbitration, which the CFPB conducted pursuant to Section 1028 of the… Continue Reading
The EU has in a series of votes agreed a draft anti-corruption law to make it illegal for oil, gas and mining companies to give illicit payments to officials in resource-rich nations that lack strong governance...One of the objectives is to help foreign nationals track more easily what happens to monies paid to their own foreign governments, so that they can hold the government ministers accountable for these monies… Continue Reading
Indeed several we at the Bribery Library have spoken to over the past year have no anti-corruption controls in place at all, which is perhaps surprising when you realise that they are entities with turnovers of $billions… Continue Reading
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