Whistleblower Network News

MAY 7, 2024

The AML Act of 2020 broadened the scope of culpable actors, reporting requirements, transactional record keeping, penalties, and international collaboration. These provisions offer monetary awards and anti-retaliation protections to whistleblowers who report money laundering violations.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In instances of active waste, such suboptimal decisions are motivated by personal gain, as exemplified by corruption. These contracts are particularly valuable in complex, long-term collaborations—such as strategic business partnerships or government contracts with service providers—where rigid terms may be impractical.

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ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

In our survey, Heads of Procurement ranked supply chain fair labor practices (68% of respondents) and preventing bribery and corruption (52%) as a high priority in their CSR endeavors. 55% of our respondents cited collaboration with all stakeholders to set improvement goals as top strategy to improve sustainability.

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Government Contracts

MAY 15, 2024

The recent rise in collaboration between the U.S.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Japan is generally perceived as a country with little political corruption. Many leaders may only consider reforming the procurement system if some corruption scandal emerges. In collaboration with them, we conducted study sessions for municipal officials and hearings for executives.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

With a mandate to prevent, investigate, and prosecute corruption, one of the Integrity Commission’s core functions is to oversee public procurement. There was huge enthusiasm in the room for developing a user-friendly tool to detect corruption in contracting.

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Public Contracting Institute

APRIL 1, 2024

By leveraging blockchain’s capabilities, these entities can significantly mitigate corruption risks, streamline operations, and foster a more transparent procurement environment. Integrity Provides an immutable record, reducing fraud and corruption.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Data-powered red flags strengthen efforts to fight corruption. Europe’s upcoming Anti-Corruption Directive, with a new focus on prevention, could be a significant mandate to improve procurement data quality. Expert feedback group: OCP is committed to responding to the call for cross-sector collaboration. Watch this space!

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

And this is relevant because that training is not only for innovation procurement, but for all types of ‘different’ procurement under the Procurement Act 2023 (ie green, social, more robustly anti-corruption, more focused on contract performance, etc). Shifting culture and practice would require a lot more than this.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

Her priorities for this one-year term as President of the APPN include fostering collaboration with international partners such as the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, and Open Contracting PartnershipPartnership, as well as bringing onboard other new regional and global partners.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 9, 2025

As part of the 2025 Paris Arbitration Week (PAW), Latham & Watkins, in collaboration with Columbia Law School, hosted two interactive panels examining key procedural issues in international arbitration from the perspectives of arbitrators, clients, and counsel. Arbitrators and parties should be practical, thoughtful, and flexible.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 6, 2023

For example, Lisbon city’s adviser Gonçalo Negrão Serra emphasized the role of cities in shaping the market through sustainable and socially conscious procurement practices, implementing a strategic plan, and seeking collaboration with other cities. There were many, many more great examples to share.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

For example, with our support, the Dominican Republic’s procurement agency monitors all transactions in the country’s electronic procurement system in real-time using 21 automated corruption red flag risk indicators. They are deeply embedded in their communities, navigating its political economy and present in the policy conversations.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Ivalua will also extend its commitment by aligning its operations and strategies with the UN’s Ten Principles relating to human rights, labor, environmental practises and anti-corruption. .

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 23, 2024

This post further highlights institutional developments, unravelling the threads of growth and collaboration across the continent (Section 4), noteworthy events that occurred physically and virtually on the continent (Section 5), and cases demonstrating a pro-arbitration stance by African courts (Section 6).

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 9, 2024

It serves as both a platform to share knowledge and best practices, and an avenue for collaboration among members and delegates from the region. Issues of corruption, investors coming in with unclean hands, as well as investors putting forward inflated claims are also some of the concerns of host states and other stakeholders.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 14, 2024

It has been a pleasure working with them and I look forward to collaborating again in the future. More from our authors: Dealing with Bribery and Corruption in International Commercial Arbitration: To Probe or Not to Probe by Emmanuel Obiora Igbokwe 190 Arbitration in Egypt: A Practitioner's Guide by Ibrahim Shehata 190

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 25, 2024

All too often I’m told that public procurement is boring, technical and abstract, too removed from people’s lives, and that some money will inevitably be “lost” to corruption or poor financial management, like it is an inevitability we have to accept. But I disagree.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Collaborations with established sporting bodies, the hosting of major tournaments have produced valuable opportunities to showcase the KSA’s culture, tradition, and progress on a global platform. In the KSA, over the past few years, the country is becoming a major player in the global sports economy.

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ivalua

MAY 9, 2019

Meeting expectations is the foundation for strategic partnership and collaboration. Direct suppliers often become strategic partners because the company’s collaborative efforts with them have a direct impact on innovative potential. Industry: Manufacturing. We’ve all heard of KYC (know your customer) initiatives in banking for example.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

The team from Uzbekistan wrote an article examining contracts for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit, a major international event held in the ancient city of Samarkand, and sent appeals to the Anti-Corruption Agency and the Antimonopoly Committee to verify the facts they discovered in the course of their research.

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Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 9, 2024

Workshop B ‘Re-imagining the use of expert evidence’, explored innovative approaches to utilising expert evidence, such as establishing a technical framework with representatives from both parties in a collaborative setting.

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ivalua

AUGUST 16, 2021

They are integral partners that require management to reduce supplier risk, improve supplier performance, and foster supplier collaboration across the entire supply chain and throughout the complete supplier lifecycle. . Drive collaboration and leverage suppliers to drive innovation. Assess and mitigate risk across the supply chain.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Other key initiatives included corporate policies that benefit the environment, preventing bribery and corruption, and social justice (see Figure 1). Many applications make up an effective Supplier Value Management platform, helping to streamline collaboration with suppliers to improve their participation in CSR initiatives.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 11, 2024

How do these collaborations strengthen AFSA’s presence locally and globally? The collaboration involves SADC governments, legal bodies, businesses, and arbitration centers. Have they contributed to an increased demand for AFSA’s services? Past interviews are available here.

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ivalua

MARCH 16, 2022

For example, 31% of CEOs believe it should be a top priority to collaborate with supply chain partners to collectively manage risk (see image 3). Managing your supplier risk is crucial to combating bribery, corruption, procurement fraud, and other corporate risks that often occur as the Fraud Survey revealed (see image 4). .

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Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In 2024, we look towards implementation of the resolution and participation at the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Lithuania this summer. Together with the global community, we were able to close out 2023 with a big advocacy win, with the UN’s first ever resolution on public procurement passed in December.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

DREAM development: the power of civic collaboration The idea of DREAM was conceived within the first months of the war, when civil society organizations started thinking about the country’s reconstruction and how to put Ukraine’s open government and open data ecosystem to work. The system will be scaled during 2024.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

However, as the pervasive abuses of direct awards under the emergency conditions generated by the covid pandemic evidenced in virtually all jurisdictions, dispensing with those requirements, checks and balances comes with a very high price tag for taxpayers in terms of corruption, favouritism, and wastage of public funds.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 11, 2024

The two institutions can also collaborate on matters such as the enforcement of arbitral awards and the provision of interim measures. Diana: A prime example of the TIAC’s efforts to cooperate with other institutions for the benefit of arbitration users is our collaboration with the HKIAC to launch cross-institutional arbitration rules.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 25, 2023

After a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the much-anticipated third ICC Kuwait Arbitration Day took place at the heart of Kuwait in the Burj Al Shaya Building on 5 October 2023, organised by the ICC in collaboration with Al Tamimi & Company. After the lunch break, the conference continued with the third panel in English.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Given the great success of the first publication, VIAC is honoured to continue its valuable collaboration with Kluwer Arbitration. It has been a pleasure to collaborate with you. The second set of arbitral awards will be made available online through a special edition of the ITA Arbitration Report and the Kluwer Arbitration database.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In 2021, LACIAC commenced a dialogue with African arbitral centres, which was referred to as African Arbitral Centres’ Collaboration Roundtable Discussions (ACCORD). The objectives of ACCORD were to explore the value proposition and various models for operational collaboration and agree on a strategic plan.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 23, 2023

The panelists went on to discuss how cross-jurisdictional collaboration could help overcome challenges. They noted examples of institutions working together but emphasized that the Rules establish an extensive framework beyond mere collaboration.

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Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 7, 2024

More from our authors: Dealing with Bribery and Corruption in International Commercial Arbitration: To Probe or Not to Probe by Emmanuel Obiora Igbokwe € 190 Arbitration in Egypt: A Practitioner's Guide by Ibrahim Shehata € 190

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In the other arbitration, Aynès’ law firm had raised serious corruption allegations against high-level Iranian officials and was collaborating with Crescent’s lead counsel. Also, Mr. Aynès had himself worked alongside Crescent’s lead counsel in the past. The ICC upheld the challenge.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 9, 2024

This discussion resulted in the Arbitration and Conciliation Act being amended in 2015 to clarify that foreign awards would only be considered contrary to public policy if, for example, the award was affected by fraud or corruption or contravened the fundamental policy of Indian law.

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