VANTAGE Insights and Events

Amendments to strengthen Australia’s Combatting Foreign Bribery Bill were passed in the Senate on 29 February 2024. Australian companies should act now to review their compliance programmes, specifically looking at how they address the risk of corruption and bribery.

Global ESG regulations and compliance are complicated by geopolitics in an increasingly multipolar world. Control Risks explores what this means for businesses operating in today’s environment.

Since the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) updated its FCPA guidance on managing corporate compliance programmes in 2020, companies have continued to try and leverage their own compliance programmes as regulatory scrutiny intensifies now more than ever before.

Supply chain transparency has become a pressing concern for business leaders, regulators, and stakeholders alike. Here are five key considerations to enable transparent and compliant supply chains.

Governments are increasingly demanding the use of data analytics in corporate compliance reporting. We discuss how businesses can be prepared for this new reality.

In 2020, the DOJ provided significant updates through their guidance for compliance programs and data analytics. To stay compliant under this guidance, there is an increasing responsibility of, and incentive for, organizations to harness and leverage data analytics.

In this article, we look at key third countries or Middle Power countries that are of crucial importance in the G7 geopolitical sanctions powerplay; the reasons why these countries are important for the G7 sanction regime and their relationships with Russia.

Addressing compliance and sustainability issues along your supply chain isn’t only about keeping regulators happy. It’s also just good business. As organisations race to stay ahead of regulations and elevate their supply chain practices, we ask whether Compliance’s prominent role in managing ESG in supply chains is truly a good idea.

The first complaint under the recently enforced German Supply Chain Act (LkSG) has landed. The way the oversight body responds to the claim could be a good indicator of things to come. 

Control Risks expert, Iona Cheng, looks at the possible outcomes from the recent review of Australia’s Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth), and discusses what companies can do to move beyond a paper-based modern slavery programme and be ready to comply with a strengthened Act.