13 Feb 2019 Our Thinking Creating a Compliant Organisation Creating a Resilient Organisation Resolving Critical Issues and Crises Asia Pacific China healthcare compliance is still a 'donations' minefield It has been over five years since the start of the GlaxoSmithKline case that rocked the China healthcare industry. At the time, compliance, audit and legal teams were shocked by the prevalence of integrity and corruption issues that had apparently gone unidentified.
07 Feb 2019 Our Thinking Global Creating a Secure Organisation Resolving Critical Issues and Crises CORE Political Violence and Crime Incident Report, Q4 2018 We are pleased to release our fourth quarter report on political violence and violent organised crime incidents around the world. This report draws upon and highlights the extensive incident mapping data and analysis that is available within CORE.
01 Feb 2019 Our Thinking Creating a Compliant Organisation Global Strengthening Your Compliance Programs in 2019 Rith Kem and Mason Pan recently joined industry analyst, Ari Kaplan, on his podcast, Reinventing Professionals. They discussed how companies can remediate and strengthen their compliance programs in 2019.
10 Jan 2019 Our Thinking Asia Pacific Creating a Resilient Organisation Bangladesh election It was striking on a recent visit to Bangladesh just how much the country’s current GDP growth rate (7.3% in the last fiscal year) was a source of pride for Bangladeshis. Many pointed out with delight how Bangladesh had trumped its more vaunted neighbour, India (which grew at 7.1% year-on-year).
10 Jan 2019 Our Thinking Asia Pacific Creating a Resilient Organisation Vietnam FDI Vietnam has become Asia’s hottest investment destination. Last year the country attracted $17billion in FDI commitments, arguably the largest for an emerging market relative to its GDP of $250billion. In the first quarter of 2018, the country became the fourth largest IPO market in the region, felling larger incumbents such as South Korea, Singapore and Australia.
09 Jan 2019 Our Thinking Africa Creating a Secure Organisation Resolving Critical Issues and Crises Islamist militancy in the Sahel: Four key trends The last few years have seen a significant increase in Islamist militant activities across the Sahel-Sahara region. Islamist militant groups have remained resilient in the face of French and regional military intervention, with fighters consolidating ranks, establishing new cells and gaining new footholds in the region.
02 Jan 2019 Our Thinking Global Creating a Secure Organisation Applying Technology Solutions From geotags to infotainment: Overlooked sources of digital evidence Attorneys, forensic professionals and e-discovery providers have become very comfortable working with traditional types of digital evidence (e.g., email, text messages, spreadsheets, word processing files). There is a lot to be learned there, but technology evolves rapidly. As our world becomes increasingly digitalized...
19 Dec 2018 Our Thinking Latin America Creating a Resilient Organisation Political and Economic Risk Consulting Political change in Mexico and the impact on kidnap and extortive crime Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador became president of Mexico on 1 December, having campaigned on a platform of tackling violence and organised criminal activity.
18 Dec 2018 Our Thinking Africa Creating a Secure Organisation Resolving Critical Issues and Crises Nigeria’s drive for diversification Nigeria is in the process of decreasing its reliance on ‘black gold’, but it will take more than one presidential term, or two, to change the country’s 60-year dependency.
14 Dec 2018 Our Thinking Global Due Diligence Ethics and Compliance Consulting Strategic and Business Intelligence Transaction and M&A Support Creating compliant organizations Several lessons can be drawn from our background and honed expertise in helping clients see around unexpected corners—whether those be geopolitical in nature, compliance related or high-stakes security and risk. Here we summarized six common pitfalls and blind spots related to building and maintaining a compliant organization.
