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Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Cook & Witten	Legal: The Kickback Effect Pharma tends not to treat relationships with foreign doctors as cautiously as it does those with US physicians. But watch out: Misconduct on the part of your international employees could get kicked back onto your plate.
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 Jack Ewing	Siemens Braces for a Slap from Uncle Sam After paying huge fines in Germany for bribery, Siemens faces even stiffer penalties in the U.S.
National Defense September 2011 McGrath et al.	New Rules Give Incentives to Whistleblowers As more than 1,500 letters to the SEC during the notice and comment period confirm, the Dodd-Frank whistleblower requirements are complex and the program is controversial.
CFO July 15, 2011 Kimberly Blanton	Creating a Culture of Compliance "Tone at the top" is an overused phrase, but if companies want to mitigate fraud senior leaders need to speak up forcefully.
National Defense September 2005 Shaheen & Geren	Penalties Get Tougher For FCPA Violations The government is cracking down on bribes by government contractors to foreign officials.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2007 Cook & Leiken	Legal: Foreign Policy Drug companies doing business abroad face a special risk of running afoul of stepped-up enforcement of anticorruption laws.
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2013 Ben Comer	Compliance in the C-Suite Compliance officers have risen into pharmaceutical management's highest ranks, by choice in some organizations, and by government decree in others. Either way, their importance as a strategic partner can hardly be understated.
CFO February 1, 2012 Sarah Johnson	Don't Trust, Verify With antibribery actions on the rise, companies should monitor their business partners more closely than ever.
CFO June 1, 2007 Lori Calabro	Siemens's Joseph Kaeser Faced with steering the global conglomerate through a major bribery scandal, Kaeser was forced to take unpopular actions.
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CFO June 1, 2007 Janet Kersnar	View from Europe: Global Bribery A series of bribery scandals in Europe becomes a global issue.
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BusinessWeek July 8, 2010 Dexter Roberts	The Higher Costs of Bribery in China The U.S. is policing the activities of big multinationals in China more aggressively, with China's own prosecutors sometimes following suit.
CFO September 1, 2008 Kate O'Sullivan	Gunning for Global Graft The Department of Justice and the SEC turn up the heat on briberies of foreign officials.
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National Defense November 2015 Bradel & Ralph	Justice Memo Calls for Absolute Cooperation The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is a statute aimed at eliminating corporate bribery of foreign government officials. A defense contractor doing work overseas must be familiar with its tenets.
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Financial Planning September 1, 2006 Jane Worthington	Accounting for Compliance Instead of viewing compliance as a necessary evil, financial advisors should see it as a cost of doing business and learn how to quantify that cost.
National Defense August 2006 Shaheen & Bombach	Anti-Bribery Enforcement On the Increase Overseas U.S. government contractors involved in overseas sales recognize the need to comply with the anti-bribery provisions of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
National Defense November 2011 Piazza & Ayers	Regulators Flex Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement Muscles Continuing a trend that started late in the last decade, the Securities and Exchange Commission this year continues to raise the bar on the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977.
National Defense January 2006 Reeder & Hickey	Make Commitment To Corporate Ethics The National Defense Industrial Association puts ethical conduct on par with shareholder profits and believes maintaining the highest ethical standards throughout the defense industry has never been more important to the country.
Wall Street & Technology March 1, 2004	Getting Management on Board With Compliance Compliance and litigation readiness have blasted up the priority list of top management. Leading financial institutions have appointed general counsel into top management roles. Boards of directors are reviewing and approving technology solutions.
National Defense January 2015 Ryan Berry & Guy Filippelli	Compliance Programs Need Data Analytics Without data analytics tools, companies remain dependent on human identification of risks and violations. Their compliance efforts often consist only of training employees to spot misconduct, and in setting aside financial reserves to fund expensive, after-the-fact investigations by outside counsel.
National Defense February 2011 Pappalardo & Bombach	Justice Department Beefs Up Foreign Corruption Act Enforcement Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act gained momentum in 2010.
National Defense January 2012 David Hickey	Cutting Costs Does Not Require Cutting Compliance Lest anyone think the federal government will tolerate less contractor compliance, the current environment indicates that it is much more likely that the government will pursue allegations of non-compliance, fraud, waste and abuse with even greater vigor.
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2012	Compliance: Getting Those Ducks in a Row Pharma must coordinate the efforts of medical, legal, HR, global partners and many other players in the regulatory compliance space to keep itself afloat in choppy seas.
National Defense July 2014 Chris Nagel	Whistleblowers Cash In On False Claims Act A startling trend in defense contracting is the recent rise in payments made by industry to government agencies and whistleblowers under the False Claims Act.
BusinessWeek January 27, 2011 Weiss & Kammel	How Siemens Got Its Mojo Back While jettisoning telecom and electronics businesses, outsider CEO Peter Loscher has taken German icon Siemens "green."
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Maria Santos	Compliance As the Securities and Exchange Commission steps up its efforts to regulate the industry and protect investors, financial institutions must take proactive measures to comply with current and possible future rules before the SEC takes action against them.
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National Defense December 2010 O'Neill et al.	The Long Arm Of the U.K. Bribery Act For U.S. companies, particularly those active in foreign countries or engaged in high-profile markets such as the defense industry, maintaining ethical operations and avoiding corruption is essential.
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2013 Slota et al.	Prescribed Behavior: Operating Under a Consent Decree For senior executives, meeting the requirements of a Consent Decree to the satisfaction of regulators is only half of the job.
CFO December 1, 2004 Kate O'Sullivan	Laying Down the Law By naming compliance officers, companies are putting new focus on regulatory issues -- and giving CFOs a break.
Bank Technology News October 2008 Kyle Duckers	Strategic GRC Yields Clear Payback Can a financial institution's governance, risk and compliance effort be a strategic tool, or is it simply a cost of doing business? Can best practices actually improve shareholder value? These are important questions that some financial services executives continue to ponder.
National Defense July 2009 Latour & Maki	Companies Must Resist Temptations to Cut Corners The defense industry must counter any temptation to cut corners that could result in violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
BusinessWeek January 29, 2007 Jack Ewing	Siemens' Culture Clash Siemens' CEO Kleinfeld is making changes, and enemies - including within the ranks.
National Defense January 2016 Thomas B. McVey	Executives: Be Wary of Export Regulations One of the important legal requirements facing defense contractors is compliance with International Traffic in Arms Regulations and export controls.
CFO September 1, 2003 Alix Nyberg	Sticker Shock When Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, it didn't worry about how much it would cost companies. Today, CFOs are totting up the compliance bill -- and they don't like what they see.
National Defense February 2014 Jay B. Stephens	Companies Need Sound Governance In publicly-traded aerospace and defense companies, strong internal controls in an organization -- especially in business units far from the mother ship -- are essential to transparency and process fidelity.
Insurance & Technology May 28, 2008 Nathan Conz	Insurers Taking More Unified Approach to Compliance Compliance is becoming the key component of core systems -- especially within the insurance industry. It means complying with state-to-state insurance regulations; but it also means establishing an anti-money laundering program.
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National Defense March 2004 Richard J. Bednar	Small Companies Need Ethics Programs Too The Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct (DII)-- focused on defense industry ethics and conduct programs since its inception in 1986--has developed a "tool kit" to help smaller defense contractors plan ethics and conduct program.
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Bio-IT World January 12, 2004	PDMA Compliance in 12 Steps Prescription Drug Marketing Act violations can cost millions. To save that money, follow this program.
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National Defense February 2013 Robert Rose	Corporations Must Cope With More Whistleblowers Whistleblowers in the defense industry have specific protection in 10 U.S.C. 2409. "Contractor" is a broadly defined term. It is a person "awarded a contract with an agency," such as the Defense Department, Army, Air Force, Coast Guard or NASA.