With some of the biggest fines for corporate corruption imposed upon leading multinational defence companies, the latest GoodCorporation debate at the House of Lords asked: Can defence and security companies ever operate ethically? Hosting the debate, Baroness Pauline Neville Jones stressed that we should focus the discussion on how the industry moves forward. Corruption scandals…
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Anti-corruption Due Diligence The first GoodCorporation Business Ethics Debate of 2013 revealed that for many companies, anti-corruption due diligence is proving to be the most challenging aspect of implementing robust adequate procedures to comply with the UK Bribery Act. Despite the lack of prosecutions to date, this presents a real problem for businesses. The behaviour…
As the Financial Services Bill makes its way through parliament in a bid to create a new framework for financial regulation in the UK, the debate over what that regulation should look like rumbles on. Despite the forthcoming reconstruction of the Financial Services Authority, it is still far from clear how this sector will be…