FRThe Panama Papers have highlighted the need for an international consensus on tax planning. In the May issue of Governance & Compliance we look at the role of offshore financial centres and the increasing use of aggressive tax avoidance. This ill-defined category is widely regarded as both unethical an unacceptable, yet remains legal. We argue…
Yearly Archives: 2016
The UK Bribery Act has driven the development of new ethics and compliance teams in many companies and has greatly increased the scrutiny by many organisations of those third parties that work for them. The new due diligence world has taken off and mountains of paper and electronic files are starting to gather inside organisations…
Robert Barrington, executive director of Transparency International opened our debate on the international anti-corruption landscape with a summary of the global picture. The Changing Landscape o The Tightening net of anti-corruption legislation While much has been done to strengthen anti-corruption legislation around the globe, enforcement remains a problem. Of the 41 signatories to the OECD…
Trust in business goes hand in hand with transparency argues Miranda Ingram in the March issue of the Ethical Performance Journal with contributions from GoodCorporation. The new CSR equation – Ethical Performance March 16
“When you can write a 400-page report about why something is wrong, you’re not dealing with a minor yellow card offence. Sport has tolerated foul play for far too long, so Transparency International is absolutely right to call for real, irreversible change in its Global Corruption Report on Sport. Poor governance, corruption, doping and match-fixing threaten…
The BBC has published in full the report by Dame Janet Smith of her inquiry into culture and practices at the BBC during the Jimmy Saville and Stuart Hall years. Ahead of the Dame Janet Smith Report, GoodCorporation published its review of the BBC’s child protection and whistleblowing policies. Dame Janet Smith accepted the findings of…
As Transparency International (TI) states in its latest global report, corruption in sport is not new. Football, thanks to the conduct of Fifa, may top the corruption league table, but athletics, cycling, cricket, horse racing, motor racing and now tennis would almost certainly find themselves in the top ten. With sport engaging billions of people…
Following revelations regarding mass surveillance operations by the US National Security Agency, the mechanisms through which the personal data of EU citizens is protected when transferred to US organisations have come under considerable scrutiny. In October 2015, the European Court of Justice found one of the existing main mechanisms, the so-called “Safe Harbour” framework, to…
GoodCorporation’s first Business Ethics Debate of 2016 began with the suggestion that sport’s governing bodies are doomed to fail in terms of ethical governance. Shaila-Ann Rao, former CEO of Sportfive International introduced the debate with an outline of the reasons why governance is failing in sport. 1. Sporting ideals of team spirit, fair play and…
