Facilitation Payments are often small amounts with substantial complications
Asian business leaders will gather to get guidance on Fraud, anti-Corruption & Investigations at the at the corruption summit in Hong Kong on the 2�4 November 2015. Attend the 3rd annual Fraud, Corruption & Investigations Asia Summit and get ultimate guidance to end facilitation payments and achieve zero tolerance on Bribery, Fraud and Corruption.
From Bribery and anti-corruption visibility to Creation of Values and good conduct
As we approach the fiscal year end, companies must look into the additional disclosures and reports requirements on environmental, social and employee-related issues, concerns regarding respect for human rights, CSR and many other 'soft law' components, can be under the auspices of the United Nations Global Compact, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) or similar.
New French Anti-Bribery Law Expected in 2016
The French parliament will implement a new anti-bribery law, to increase transparency in the business sector. France has long been criticised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and other international oversight authorities for its cynical enforcement of anti-bribery laws.

Financial Regulations Survey
In the past several years, the financial services industry has seen the advent of both far-reaching lawmaking such as the Dodd-Frank Act in the US and Markets in Financial Instrument Directive II (MiFID II) in the European Union, and the provisions later enacted or issued by regulatory agencies, such as the Volcker Rule in the US, global risk tolerance guidelines, anti-money laundering and know-your-customer directives, as well as foreign tax compliance measures for securities holdings, first driven by the US and likely to appear soon in other countries.
Governments willing to offer sweetheart tax deals to reduce the tax burden is illegal?
G20 has pledged to crack down on multinational tax avoidance. The EU commission looks at multiple issues surrounding corporate taxation and order Starbucks, Fiat to repay 30 million euros in back taxes.
The Launching Pad, To Address The Future Compliance Challenges
Use the strategy and infrastructure of Basel 239 (or similar) as a launching pad, to meet the future challenges of aggregating, managing and reporting risk data. The first step would be to assess and organise the GRC data to meet the regulatory requirement of a coherent and measurable risk data aggregation program.

How changes to EU data protection directives could affect businesses in the EU (Part II)
From 2017, the new EU data protection directive is enforceable across EU countries. In IT and data implementation terms, a two-year execution period in reality is just around the corner. Data protection and IT security issues often involve several teams to comply with the new regulation. Therefore IT, marketing, legal and compliance management, business teams will need to join the effort and create a roadmap and framework to implement business change and new IT projects. Therefore, all companies are now preparing for the practical implementation of the forthcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Changes to EU Data Protection directives will affect businesses from 2017
From 2017, the new EU data protection directive is enforceable across EU countries. In IT and data implementation terms, a two-year execution period in reality is just around the corner. Data protection and IT security issues often involve some teams to comply with the new regulation. IT, marketing, legal and compliance, management, and business teams will need the road-map and framework to implement business change and new IT projects. Therefore, all companies are now preparing for the practical implementation of the forthcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation.

The Positive Impact of Good Governance, Risk Management, Compliance and IT-Security (GRC) on Business, Management and Operations
Complex business processes require a structure, so that the significant challenges for the board of directors, executives, and GRC professionals are performed according to their role and responsibilities. Relying on internal controls, spreadsheets, documents, and templates to assess, audit, manage, and monitor internal controls without a particular GRC component often leads to process or management failure.