TRACE: The Congo: A Family-Owned Business
Award-winning American journalist Michael Kavanagh splits his time between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Europe. He recently wrote an investigative piece about the Kabila family’s business...
View ArticleCompliance in Trump Era: More Markers Placed
Predictions on the FCPA Front The U.S. government is in a state of flux; with a new President comes a barrage of new appointments. Some systems are being dismantled and the Trump administration has put...
View ArticleTRACE Podcast: The Congo: A Family-Owned Business
Award-winning American journalist Michael Kavanagh splits his time between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Europe. He recently wrote an investigative piece about the Kabila family’s business...
View ArticleCompliance in Trump Era: More Markers Placed
Predictions on the FCPA Front The U.S. government is in a state of flux; with a new President comes a barrage of new appointments. Some systems are being dismantled and the Trump administration has put...
View ArticleCompliance in Trump Era: More Markers Placed
Predictions on the FCPA Front The U.S. government is in a state of flux; with a new President comes a barrage of new appointments. Some systems are being dismantled and the Trump administration has put...
View ArticleCompliance in Trump Era: More Markers Placed
Compliance officers trying to figure out how your job will or won’t change during the Trump Administration, look at two events that happened last week. First, Jeff Sessions was confirmed as Attorney...
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Top 3 Supply Chain Audit Challenges
Audits can play a large role in ensuring supply chain compliance. A common safeguard against compliance risks, they are a key element of third-party due diligence. However, audits tend to compete...
View Article7 Reasons Why Upstream Knowledge is Essential for Conflict Minerals Due...
Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 2010 is an attempt to curtail the financing of armed groups benefiting from the sale of conflict minerals contributing to the...
View ArticleThe Clock is Ticking: Companies Still Rushing to Complete SEC Conflict...
Technology, industrial products, energy/mining and retail and consumer industries stay ahead of the curve and uncover business opportunities. Half of survey respondents desire to be conflict free. NEW...
View ArticleBDO USA Reports Greatest Concerns for Shareholders in 2014
Mergers, spin-offs, cybersecurity, disaster planning and executive pay among top issues at 2014 shareholder meetings, according to BDO USA, LLP As the 2014 annual meeting season begins, shareholders...
View ArticleConflict Minerals – Compliance Update
with contributing author Tom Larned By now, businesses (manufacturing or retail) that are engaged in the global marketplace in areas ranging from telecommunications and industrial equipment to...
View ArticleConflict Minerals: Compliance Considerations and Takeaways
with contributing author Thomas Larned Most of us equate the term “conflict minerals” with blood diamonds mined in a war-ravaged country and used to finance armed conflict and human rights violations....
View ArticleWinning the War Against Conflict Minerals
Leonardo DiCaprio’s 2006 blockbuster, “Blood Diamond,” helped raise awareness for conflict diamonds being mined and sold from African war zones. Conditions in these mines are often deplorable, with...
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Reading the Tea Leaves from the Oral Arguments in the Conflict Minerals Rule...
The legal challenge by several business groups to the Conflict Minerals Rule (“Rule”) may be gaining some traction. During oral argument of their appeal from the district court’s dismissal of their...
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Companies Should Not Delay Compliance With Conflict Minerals Reporting...
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) final rule on conflict minerals (Conflict Minerals Rule) entered into effect on January 1, 2013. The rule directly or indirectly imposes new requirements...
View ArticleConflict Minerals and the Importance of Transparency in Supply Chain Management
In today’s global marketplace, raw materials are increasingly produced or mined in developing countries and shipped to production sites located thousands of miles away. Distribution from far-away...
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First Steps Toward Building a Conflict Minerals Compliance Program
On Aug. 22, 2012, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted rules that are likely to impact the operations of thousands of companies whose securities are traded in the United States....
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Conflict Minerals – Not Your Typical Compliance Rule
Conflict Minerals Rule On August 22, 2012, the SEC issued the Conflict Minerals Rule (see Exchange Act Rule 13p-1), a new disclosure and reporting requirement concerning the use of tantalum, tin,...
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Conflict Minerals: the Conflict Between Ethics and Profits
The recently promulgated Conflict Minerals* due-diligence requirements (Rule “1502”) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act are a unique confluence of what detractors see as political interference...
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Conflict Minerals: Never Heard of Them? Public Companies Better Listen Up
Chances are, you had never heard of conflict minerals less than a year ago. In July, the Securities and Exchange Commission thrust this esoteric phrase into the national conversation when it finalized...
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