On Thursday, February 13th, Hiperos hosted The Executive’s Guide for Anti-Bribery webinar with speakers Tom Fox, Principal of TomFoxLaw and Author and Jon Rydberg, CEO of Orchid Advisors. The webinar was information-packed and included the following recommendations:

• Creating a compliance policy is essential but it is not enough to satisfy a possible anti-bribery investigation.
• Organizations need to prove that they are following those polices by incorporating compliance into the DNA of their company as a good business practice
• “Tone from the top" is important; "tone from the middle" which actively engages directors, managers and lines of business is as, if not more important
• Effective internal controls ensure your program is working the way it's designed to - pay attention to those areas of your business which present the highest risk
  • Third party relationships;
  • Travel gifts and entertainment;
  • Sales agents and distributors/commission rates;
  • Bartering and free promotional products.
• Use appropriate technology as an integrated component of your compliance program – to ensure consistency, objectivity, audit trail and a single book of record of all anti-bribery activity that is essential for an audit.

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