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Free Online Anti-Bribery Training Course Launched

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Wednesday, 18 January 2012

London, UK. January 18, 2012 – Transparency International UK, with the support of FTI Consulting, Inc. and Inmarkets, has launched “Doing Business without Bribery,” a free anti-bribery training toolkit that includes a comprehensive online training module.
           
The course, available to view at www.transparency.org.uk/training, gives organisations free access to best practice training materials.  This will help to prevent and resist bribery more effectively and comply with the UK Bribery Act, which came into force in July 2011.  The training toolkit, from the world’s leading anti-corruption experts, represents the next generation of anti-bribery training by providing employees with a range of in-depth realistic scenarios that require participants to make decisions in familiar situations.
         
Employees who complete the course will gain a better understanding of bribery laws and the consequences of violating them and the know-how to avoid bribes when doing business in high-risk countries.  The training covers difficult areas of anti-corruption laws; e.g., facilitation payments, and aims to offer clear and practical answers to frequently asked questions such as what is a sensible approach to gift giving and how to undertake due diligence on agents.
          
Chandu Krishnan, Executive Director of Transparency International UK, said: “Six months from the Bribery Act’s commencement, now is the time for companies to strengthen their anti-corruption strategies and ensure that employees have sufficient knowledge in this area. We believe this course is the most comprehensive of its kind and will equip employees with a thorough understanding of the new law and help them deal with a wide range of typical scenarios.”
             
Julian Glass, a Managing Director in the Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice at FTI Consulting, said: “FTI Consulting is pleased to support this training module, which provides organisations with a practical tool to help employees in the front line of a business behave in a way that aids corporate compliance.  This is an area of real concern to corporates keen to tackle corruption.”
             
Vivek Dodd, Director, Inmarkets, said: “Unlike awareness-raising programmes, this course uses real-world scenarios to provide in-depth, practical training. The combined input from Transparency International UK, FTI Consulting and Inmarkets has ensured the content is ethically sound, practical, thought provoking and comprehensive while giving learners the flexibility to focus on the issues that are most relevant to the participants.
        
“Inmarkets is delighted to work with Transparency International UK and FTI Consulting to create this second-generation anti-bribery course that represents the benchmark in good practice in terms of content, design and impact."
        
The course has received the endorsement of the business community.  Mike Cherry, Policy Chairman, Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), said: “The FSB sees this as a really helpful free resource for businesses of any size trying to understand their obligations under the Bribery Act.”
       
About the “Doing Business without Bribery” training materials
The toolkit offers free access to best practice resources, including a set of PowerPoint presentation slides, a trainer handbook, available for download, and access to an untracked version of the online course, all available at www.transparency.org.uk/training
       
About Transparency International UK
Transparency International UK is the UK chapter of the world's leading non-governmental anti-corruption organisation, Transparency International (TI). With more than 90 chapters worldwide and an international secretariat in Berlin, TI has unparalleled global understanding and expertise.
         
About FTI Consulting
FTI Consulting, Inc. is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organisations protect and enhance enterprise value in an increasingly complex legal, regulatory and economic environment. With more than 3,800 employees located in 23 countries, FTI Consulting professionals work closely with clients to anticipate, illuminate and overcome complex business challenges in areas such as investigations, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory issues, reputation management, strategic communications and restructuring. The company generated $1.4 billion in revenues during fiscal year 2010.
More information can be found at www.fticonsulting.co.uk 
        
About Inmarkets
Inmarkets is a leading e-learning innovator with a strong focus on helping clients to tackle governance, risk and compliance issues. Dealing with every stage of the process from needs analysis and content development through to delivery and audit, Inmarkets provides best advice on how to maximise impact and reduce costs at every level. More information can be found about Inmarkets at www.inmarkets.com

 

Urgent action needed to address cricket corruption

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Monday, 12 December 2011

International anti-corruption organisation Transparency International (TI) has published the submission it has made to the International Cricket Council's Governance Review.  The deadline for submissions was December 9th.  The TI submission makes 20 recommendations for reform in order to safeguard the game's integrity and reputation.
    
The submission was made jointly by Transparency International Chapters from 12 countries including Australia, Bangladesh, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Trinidad & Tobago and the UK.
   
The report concludes that:
•          Urgent action is needed to understand and address the changing nature of the corruption risks that face the game of cricket in the 21st century;
•          The ICC needs to widen the focus of its response to encompass the larger corruption challenges facing the game such as conflicts of interest and cronyism;
•          This will require the ICC to take more responsibility for standard-setting applicable to the cricket boards of member countries;
•          The ICC itself needs to be more accountable and transparent;
•          The ICC should seek to follow international best practice in the sphere of governance, including transparency and anti-corruption measures.
    
Chandu Krishnan, Executive Director of Transparency International UK, commented:
“The nature of cricket and corruption have both changed in the past decade.  Transparency International welcomes the ICC’s Governance Review, as it is a timely opportunity to review the corruption risks facing the game of cricket, and strengthen the game’s institutional response.  There is no doubt that cricket is facing corruption-related challenges, and we hope that the ICC is able to respond in a way that will safeguard the integrity and reputation of the game.”
     
To download the submission, click here

   

UK must do more to fight corruption warns NGO group

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Friday, 09 December 2011

Much more must be done by the Government to tackle the role that UK banks and companies play in fuelling and facilitating corruption overseas, according to a new report launched on International Anti-Corruption Day (9 Dec) by the Bond Anti-Corruption Group, whose members include leading UK-based international development organisations.
   
Melissa Lawson, Chair of the Bond Anti-Corruption Group and Tearfund policy adviser said: “The failure to act here in the UK when it comes to enforcing bribery laws and tackling dirty money has devastating effects on developing countries, undermining good governance and exacerbating poverty. This report shows why the UK must not remain ambivalent when it comes to addressing the real issues in the fight against corruption.”
  
The report notes improvements in the UK’s compliance with some of its commitments under the UN Convention against Corruption, but identifies a series of weaknesses:
• The Ministry of Justice guidance on the new UK Bribery Act is unclear, creating potential loopholes and confusion for business.
• The Serious Fraud Office has too few resources to ensure the bribery legislation is a real deterrent to stop companies paying huge bribes to foreign governments in return for lucrative contracts.
• According to the Financial Services Authority, 75% of British banks that were surveyed don’t know the source of the funds of their high-risk customers, leaving the UK wide open to corrupt funds.
• The UK fails to exert pressure on secrecy jurisdictions in Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories to publish company registries.
"The laws are there to tackle corruption but there is complacency in the face of growing corruption threats,” says Eric Gutierrez, Senior Governance Adviser at Christian Aid and one of the report’s authors. “The Government’s International Anti-Corruption Champion must instigate an anti-corruption strategy and ensure that there are sufficient resources to tackle this issue."
   
The Bond Anti-Corruption Group welcomed the Bribery Act of 2010, but now calls on the Government to:
• Ensure sufficient resources for enforcing the Bribery Act
• Enforce its own anti-money laundering laws to ensure UK banks do not accept corrupt money and facilitate corruption
• Extend the UN Convention against Corruption and UK Bribery Act to all Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories.
• Produce a transparent cross-government anti-corruption strategy under the responsibility of UK Anti-Corruption Champion, Rt Hon Ken Clarke MP.
   
Welcoming the report, Catherine McKinnell MP, Chair of the newly formed All-Party Parliamentary Group on Anti-Corruption said: “International Anti-Corruption Day provides the UK Government with the perfect opportunity to commit to tackling the obstacles identified if Britain is to play its part in addressing international corruption. We need a coherent, properly-resourced approach to dealing with this issue, which causes suffering to millions of people in the developing world, and threatens to undermine the important investment the UK makes in international development.”
   
Notes to Editors

  
BOND is the UK membership body for over 360 international development organisations. The Bond Anti-Corruption Group is part of the Bond Governance Group, representing 64 UK-based NGOs who, through their work, witness the devastating effects of corruption on developing countries every day. The central members of the Bond Anti-Corruption Group are: CAFOD, Christian Aid, The Cornerhouse, Corruption Watch, Global Witness, Tearfund, Transparency International UK and TIRI.
  
For this report the Bond Anti-Corruption Group coordinated research with Public Concern at Work.

   

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