The TRACE team hosts webinars for our membership community throughout the year, and this time of year is always a favorite of mine.  During the first months of the year, the team works with experts in the field of compliance throughout the world to reflect on the past year's anti-corruption enforcement actions, while predicting what could happen in the year ahead.  Each region brings different areas of focus and different expectations of individuals working for an organ

With the current geopolitical climate, developing a compliance training program is difficult, as compliance topics at the forefront continue to shift and evolve. How do I prepare for the coming year?

A CEO’s words on ethics and integrity matter. The CEO sets the tone, signals the company’s integrity priorities, and determines how employees understand the company’s culture. A CEO’s public speeches, online statements, and inspiring declarations signal leadership’s commitment to integrity. While CEOs are essential, they do not exist in a vacuum, they are one part of an integrity system.

In the Vulnerability to Resilience series, we have explored how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) use their vulnerabilities to create. SMEs possess the agility that enables them to identify risks early and maintain community and business relationships, which SMES can leverage to prioritize integrity and open new markets. Cooperation allows SMEs to raise their ethical standards in the market. In this next segment, we examine another SME advantage: the power to innovate.

For small and medium enterprises (SMEs), compliance feels like a lonely climb up a steep mountain. Costs are high, rules are constantly evolving, and there is pressure to cut corners to keep pace. Standing alone, an ethical SME can lose when competing with actors who ignore the rules.

Surveys are a tool that allows compliance and ethics professionals to understand the effectiveness of an integrity program. They provide insights on how comfortable employees feel speaking up, how they view integrity successes, and identify emerging challenges. They are a way to signal that your company operates with integrity and is less of a risk for potential partners and collaborators. Paired with other monitoring tools, their insights are both powerful and essential...