In this short interview, Susanne Friedrich, Director of the Alliance for Integrity, offers her insights into the current challenges faced by SMEs and how Collective Action can help them emerge stronger on the other side.
In this guest article, Duncan Smith and Dominik Adamski of the European Investment Bank's Fraud Investigations Team explain how risk-based Proactive Integrity Reviews have helped to uncover vulnerabilities and fraud risks in EIB-funded projects. The General Principles are available for anyone to adapt and use.
Integrity risks for businesses trading overseas have shot up due to the pandemic. Anti-corruption and human rights compliance approaches designed to protect companies during “business as usual” can come under strain in these unusual circumstances.
How can companies – especially smaller companies with limited resources – protect themselves from integrity risks in these times of crisis? There are no easy answers, but it’s important to talk about the questions.
Two of the Basel Institute's experts on intelligence and illegal wildlife trade (IWT) will present on how to put an end to wildlife crime as part of the University of Oklahoma's Global Risks & Threats Series.
Among other insights, Dr Timothy Wittig and Dr Patricia Raxter will explain how companies and financial institutions can work together to cut off access to the financial and logistical channels that the traffickers use.
The Business Integrity Program Model document was developed by Mexican government institutions including the Ministry of Public Affairs' Unit for Ethics, Public Integrity and Prevention of Conflicts of Interest. The aim was to contribute to the design and implementation of business integrity policies according to the provisions established in articles 21 and 25 of the General Law on Administrative Responsibilities.
Last updated: 03.06.2020
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AMPEC, the Mexican Association of Ethics and Compliance Professionals, is a non-profit civil organisation that was created with the objective of providing up-to-date resources and learning spaces for ethics and compliance professionals from diverse backgrounds. It is dedicated to issues of ethics, compliance and the fight against corruption in Mexico. The focus is on practice, not just theory. The association encourages dialogue with industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, technology and oil.
Last updated: 03.06.2020
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Mexico's Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (Business Coordinating Council - CCE) has worked with more than 150 member companies and other organisations to draw up 10 principles of the "social dimension of companies". The principles were launched at an event in Mexico City on February 11, 2020.
The list contains 10 principles that companies commit to undertaking along with society, their employees, the environment, and compliance with the law, among other things. The unofficial English translation is as follows:
Last updated: 03.06.2020
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The Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana (COPARMEX) and Global Compact Network Mexico signed an agreement stating that they will comply with the Sustainable Development Goals in Mexico, specifically the 16th goal. The agreement refers to the action and involvement of more than 36,000 partner companies, 17 national work commissions, as well as 65 business centers throughout the country.
Last updated: 03.06.2020
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The City of Victoria, capital of the state of Tamaulipas in Mexico, has been working on an integrity initiative aimed at implementing compliance business practices into the processes and structures of the local government. By partnering with a Spanish city they have been able to participate in a EuropeAID project on governance.
Last updated: 27.04.2021
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From mid-June, the Basel AML Index Expert Edition will highlight countries included on the European’s list of “high-risk third countries” with strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing (AML/CFT) regimes.