United States: The Disappearing Exception For Facilitating Payments: Agencies Take Narrow View Of This FCPA Defense - Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission jointly issued a 120-page "resource guide" to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in November 2012, which confirms the DOJ's and the SEC's narrow view of several key defenses under the FCPA.
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United States: FCPA Resource Guide Issued - Ford & Harrison LLP
On November 14, 2012, the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") and the Enforcement Division of the United States Security and Exchange Commission ("SEC") issued "A Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act" (the "Guide").
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Worldwide: Guidance On Anti-Corruption Compliance 8364;" US And UK Regulators Recent Actions - De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek N.V.
On 14 November 2012, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued their long-awaited Resource Guide on the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Banking’s Really Bad Day
Four years on from the financial crisis, new banking scandals still seem to break out every few months. But this week has been particularly bad for the industry. There was HSBC’s $1.9 billion settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over laundering money for Latin American drug cartels and helping countries like Iran, Cuba, Sudan, Libya, and Burma avoid sanctions. Standard Chartered, another British bank, got dinged too, and now owes Justice a total of $667 million in fines for similar sanction breaches. Then there were the arrests of three London bankers, including one who had worked at Swiss financial giant UBS, by London police as part of the ongoing investigation into widespread manipulation of “LIBOR,” or the “London Interbank Offering Rate,” which is the interest rate that banks charge one another to lend money. UBS has reportedly put aside an extra $610 million this year to deal with regulatory issues, presumably in expectation of fines along the lines of the $450 ...
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United States: White Collar Roundup - December 2012 - Day Pitney LLP
In a show of solidarity, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a guidance manual for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), aptly titled FCPA: A Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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