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The World Bank: Confronting Poverty without Corruption
I was recently reading an article about a former UN consultant who was convicted and sentenced for conspiring to inflate prices for a UN...
Richard Bistrong
Oct 4, 2015


Whistleblowing, VW’s Silence, and the Behavioural All Stars
Today’s guest post is by Wendy Addison, Founder and Owner of SpeakOut SpeakUp Ltd. On the 2nd and 3rd of Sept 2015, I attended The...
Richard Bistrong
Sep 27, 2015


Do We Really Need Another Anti-Bribery LinkedIn Group?
A number of months ago, Paul Hamilton, KYC Cube Ltd, asked me if I wanted to be the group moderator on Linkedin of a new subgroup for his...
Richard Bistrong
Sep 24, 2015
A Front-Line Interview With Author Dorie Clark
In the second of my Front Line interviews, I have the pleasure of engaging with author and HBR contributor Dorie Clark, on how our...
Richard Bistrong
Sep 21, 2015
Cartoons, Crime and Compliance
The full animation of “Why We Say Yes,” is now available by clicking on the above image. As a companion guide, here is my interview with...
Richard Bistrong
Sep 14, 2015
Can Anti-Bribery Compliance Be Animated?
Today’s guest blog is from Nicole Rose (nicolerose@createtraining.com.au), the energetic (if I say so myself), creative founder, and CEO...

Richard Bistrong
Sep 8, 2015
Front-Line Interview Episode 1: Alison Taylor, How Organizations Impact Corruption
In the launch of a new video series, Front-Line Interviews, I engage with Alison Taylor, Director of Energy and Extractives at BSR...
Richard Bistrong
Aug 26, 2015


The Looting Machine & The Modernization of Corruption
Today’s Q&A is with Tom Burgis, Investigations Correspondent at Financial Times and author of “The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs,...

Richard Bistrong
Aug 17, 2015


A Summer of Compliance
When I was working in the field of international sales, August was typically a month of ‘down time’ as a combination of end user, third...
Richard Bistrong
Aug 11, 2015


Does Trade Facilitation Matter in the Fight against Corruption?
Today’s guest post comes from Evelyn Suarez, Principal, The Suarez Firm. The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Facilitation...
Richard Bistrong
Aug 3, 2015


One Anti-Corruption Compliance Panel: Multiple Perspectives
On July 23rd, 2015 at the Hotel Kitano in New York City, The Network (www.tnwinc.com) hosted an Anti-Corruption Compliance Panel...
Richard Bistrong
Jul 28, 2015


E-Discovery: If you can’t take the data to the tools, take the tools to the data
Today we welcome Jo Sherman, CEO, EDT Inc. (website), to share some of her thoughts on the challenge of international investigations and...
Richard Bistrong
Jul 20, 2015


The New Canadian Integrity Regime: Compliance Carrots to Join the Sticks
Today we welcome Kristine Robidoux, Partner, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, for an analysis of the new Canadian Integrity Regime. As...
Richard Bistrong
Jul 13, 2015


Benchmarking Bribery & Corruption: Compliance Progress & Frustration
In 2014 I wrote about the Kroll and Compliance Week 2014 Anti-Bribery and Corruption Benchmarking Report, subtitled Untangling the Web of...
Richard Bistrong
Jul 6, 2015


Ethics in Business: How to Avoid the “Road to Ethical Damnation.”
Of the many periodicals I read and review, I always look forward to Business Compliance, and specifically to the Round Table discussions,...
Richard Bistrong
Jun 29, 2015


What Happened In Oslo Shouldn’t Stay In Oslo
* Photo of Helge Kvamme, Selmer Law Firm and Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry, Monica Maeland. Photo (c) Selmer Law. Last week I...
Richard Bistrong
Jun 15, 2015


Two Sides of A Global Corruption Investigation at Anti-Corruption Oslo
This is the second part of my interview with Robert (“Bob”) Appleton, which is timely given our question and answer session at the...
Richard Bistrong
Jun 7, 2015


Robert Appleton: It’s FCPA Compliance or Vegas
Today is the first of a two part interview with Robert “Bob” Appleton and is an edited version of the entire interview which will be...
Richard Bistrong
Jun 1, 2015


New Compliance Surveys: “The Answers Are Not Pretty.”
While there is no shortage of compliance and ethics polls/surveys which populate the newsfeeds, there are two that recently caught my...
Richard Bistrong
May 26, 2015


The Best Compliance Reads Are Not About Compliance
Lately, during a number of webinars and speaking engagements where I frequently cite the work of what I consider to be thought leaders in...
Richard Bistrong
May 14, 2015
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