• $37.7 Million in Contributions to Strengthen Governance and Economic Growth

    World Bank

    The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Transition Fund recently received $37.7 million from Canada, the United Kingdom, and France to support good governance, sustainable growth, and greater employment opportunities for youth.  more[...]

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  • Top 10 Corporate Responsibility Stories of 2012

    Prof. Andrew Crane, Schulich School of Business

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    Prof. Andrew Crane, Schulich School of Business 
     
  • Conflict Minerals

    Resource conflict is one of several destabilizing phenomena commonly cited as defining many of the extractive economies of the global south. Our Tutorial discusses all aspects of the issue with a special focus on US laws, SEC and Dodd-Frank Act regulations.  more[...]

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  • Four reasons why we're so hard on our leaders' ethical lapses

    Prof. Andrew Crane, Schulich School of Business

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    Prof. Andrew Crane, Schulich School of Business 
     
  • Taking Conflict Out of Consumer Gadgets: Company Rankings on Conflict Minerals 2012

    Sasha Lezhnev, Enough Project

    Leading electronics companies are making progress in eliminating conflict minerals from their supply chains, but still cannot label their products as being conflict free. Since Enough’s last corporate rankings report on conflict minerals in December 2010, a majority of leading consumer electronics companies have moved ahead in addressing conflict minerals in their supply chains—spurred by the conflict minerals provision in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and growing consumer activism, particularly on college campuses. Most firms have improved their scores from the 2010 rankings, but some laggards still remain.  more[...]  login_required

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    Sasha Lezhnev, Enough Project 
     
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  • Global Shell Games: Testing money Launderers and Terrorists Financiers Access to Shell Companies

    PEDL

    For criminals moving large sums of dirty money internationally, there is no better device than an untraceable shell company. This paper reports the results of an experiment soliciting offers for these prohibited anonymous shell Corporations. The research team impersonated a variety of low- and high-risk customers, including would-be Money launderers, corrupt officials, and terrorist financiers when requesting the anonymous companies. Evidence is drawn from more than 7,400 email solicitations to more than 3,700 Corporate Service Providers that make and sell shell companies in 182 countries.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Study Shows how Easy it is to Set Up Untraceable Companies

    Dennis Lohmann

    A new study, published by the inter-governmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF), highlights the danger coming from shell companies. These companies without real employees and offices could have legitimate uses but are used although by money launderers, financiers of terrorism, sanctions busters and tax evaders.  more[...]  login_required

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    Dennis Lohmann
     
  • Citizens wield web tools to combat petty bribery

    Citizen website and mobile apps are popping up in Latin America encouraging to report the bribes they pay for healthcare, bureaucracy help or education services. This new source of data can be used as a lobbying tool to get government officials to act.  more[...]  login_required

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  • US ruling on oil, gas and mining companies will make them more accountable

    Chris Sanders, Transparency International

    On 22 August 2012, more than two years after the orignal legislation was passed, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted by a 2-to-1 majority to adopt robust rules implementing section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act. In an effort to curb corruption, this landmark ruling will require oil, gas and mining companies listed on US Stock Exchanges to publish the payments that they make to governments.  more[...]  login_required

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    Prof. Dirk Matten, Hewlett-Packard 
     
  • Financial Services Professionals Feel Unethical Behavior May Be A Necessary Evil

    Labaton Sucharow LLP announced the results of its survey of 500 financial services professionals across the United States and United Kingdom. Conducted by Populus in June, Wall Street, Fleet Street and Main Street: Corporate Integrity at a Crossroads reveals startling data on corporate ethics, the regulatory landscape, and individuals' willingness to blow the whistle on wrongdoing.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Corruption: Shining a light on the world’s biggest companies

    The world’s 105 biggest companies are worth more than US$11 trillion. They touch the lives of people across the globe. But just how much do we know about their impact on daily lives? Too often, citizens experience little benefit from global economic activity while suffering the consequences of unethical corporate activity. Transparency in Corporate Reporting assesses the disclosure of steps these companies have in place to fight corruption. It also looks at companies’ transparency footprint across 177 countries: to what extent are earnings and taxes in specific countries made public.  more[...]

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  • Sustaining Finance and Financing Sustainability in the Middle East

    Arab African International Bank

    Arab African International Bank (AAIB) believes in the significance of conserving the global environment for future generations and realizes the major role it has to play regarding this increasingly important issue. AAIB was the first bank in Egypt and the second in the region to adopt the Equator Principles to appraise projects’ financing while taking into consideration the social, ethical, and environmental hazards.  more[...]

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  • 15th International Anti-Corruption Conference 2012

    International Anti-Corruption Conference Council

    This year’s conference will support and connect people who want to change the rules of the game People are devising new ways to push for greater transparency and accountability, and are standing up to ultimately achieve greater social justice. Yet corruption and impunity have an immense destabilising effect on society. Now more than ever, mutually accountable action is needed to create irreversible change, and to ensure that the power fuelled by corruption harms societies no more. It is people who will create this change.  more[...]  login_required

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