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Labor to block spying law to protect media

Labor will block proposed foreign spying laws unless they are changed to protect journalists from severe jail terms. The Turnbull government last year announced legislation tackling what it said was a growing threat of foreign states trying to influe...

Whistleblowing Is a Key Regulatory Tool

Corporate scandals are often the impetus for greater regulation. The Enron, Worldcom, and Arthur Andersen revelations led to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and the excesses of the financial sector paved the way for the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Cons...

Neues Video-Feature: Compliance-Monitorship – notwendiges Übel oder Chance?

Neu im Feature: Olaf Schneider, Gerneral Counsel und Chief Compliance Officer bei Bilfinger zum Thema Monitorship. In Teil 1 unseres Features erfahren Sie mehr zum Hintergrund des Compliance-Monitorship. Neben Siemens, Daimler und Volkswagen ist der...

Definition Monitorship – Teil 1 unseres Best Practice Interviews

In ersten Teil unseres Feature beantwortet Herr Schneider Fragen zum Hintergrund und Definition des Compliance-Monitorship.

US Prosecutors Expand Probe into Global Sports Corruption

U.S. federal lawyers have issued grand jury subpoenas to request evidence for their wide-ranging probe into global sports corruption with people expected to appear in court as early as this week, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The Justice ...

Atlas der Zivilgesellschaft – Nur zwei Prozent leben völlig frei

Laut dem heute vorgestellten, ersten "Atlas der Zivilgesellschaft" leben nur 148 Millionen Menschen von etwa 7,4 Milliarden in Staaten mit völlig offener Zivilgesellschaft. Für freiheitsliebende Menschen sind diese Zahlen niederschmetternd: Nur zwei ...

Deutsche Bank zahlt Strafe in Millionenhöhe

Betroffen ist auch die Deutsche Bank: Nach Angaben der zuständigen US-Behörde CFTC zahlte das Unternehmen im Rahmen eines Vergleichs eine Geldbuße von umgerechnet 24 Millionen Euro. Grund war eine angebliche Manipulation von Edelmetallpreisen. Ein Sp...

Welcome to the club: Xi takes anti-corruption hunt to all Chinese

In mid-January, a Chinese Communist Party committee decided to revise the nation's constitution. This is to take place in March, when China's parliament meets. It will be the first time in 14 years for the constitution to be revised. Much has been ma...

Tech giants get into data compliance mode

Over the past two months, Google has started letting people around the world choose what data they want to share with its various products, including Gmail and Google Docs. Amazon recently began improving the data encryption on its cloud storage serv...

Ukraine promises to deal with offshore watchlist issue

The Ukrainian minister of finance, Oleksandr Danylyuk, promised Prime Minister Jüri Ratas (Center) in Davos on Thursday that the issue of Estonia having been added to a Ukrainian tax haven watchlist will be resolved quickly. According to Estonian amb...

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