Conference coverage

Panellists at GIR’s recent sanctions and anti-money laundering conference delved into the challenges presented by various sanctions regimes and discussed how and why companies seem more willing to do business in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion.

24 November 2022

The associate director of compliance and enforcement at the US Treasury Department’s office of foreign assets control said that his office is seeking public input on potential changes to enforcement guidelines from 2009.

22 November 2022

A senior US foreign bribery prosecutor has said the exemplary cooperation with Brazilian anti-corruption authorities provides a model for other countries wishing to collaborate with the Justice Department.

26 October 2022

Featured in In-house

The top lawyer at Brazilian plane maker Embraer described how its compliance controls protected the company after planned sales to a troubled airline fell through.

25 October 2022

Featured in Investigator's Guide to Brazil

A Brazilian federal anti-corruption agency is growing its focus on bribery that occurs outside of the country but involves Brazilian companies or public officials.

20 October 2022

GIR unveils the final shortlist for its eighth annual awards ceremony, to be held in Washington, DC, on 17 November.

11 October 2022

The heads of the UK’s civil sanctions enforcement agency and the Crown Prosecution Service have warned that legislative shortcomings and well-resourced oligarchs are undermining their efforts to enforce Russian sanctions.

11 October 2022

Max Hill KC told a London legal conference that the reports’ emphasis on early engagement with defence counsel during investigations is something his agency needs to keep in mind.

10 October 2022

Featured in Investigator's Guide to New York

“We expect platinum-level compliance from your platinum-level clients”, Daniel Gitner, the criminal chief at the Manhattan US attorney’s office, told an audience at GIR Live New York on Tuesday.

21 September 2022

“What we expect now in 2022, is that companies will have robust and regularly deployed clawback programmes. All too often we see companies scramble to dust off and implement dormant policies once they're in the crosshairs of an investigation,” Marshall Miller told an audience at GIR Live: New York on Tuesday.

20 September 2022