Whistleblower Network News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Nature crime and corruption are not crimes of passion; they are crimes of profit, and this is exactly why combatting illicit finance that fuels forest loss is so crucial,” said Erica Hanichak, Director of Government Affairs at the FACT Coalition. It requires proper governance frameworks and guardrails, which don’t sufficiently exist yet.”

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

For years, the benefits of transparency as a policy tool to increase accountability and counter corruption have been lauded. In public procurement, this has given rise to a global movement promoting procurement data transparency, a.k.a. open contracting. But what do these commitments look like in reality?

Public Procurement 40

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

It’s why all city leaders, not just those in finance, must be well-versed in the different types of budgetary concerns and how to navigate them. Promote transparency and accountability: Enhance transparency in budgetary processes and expenditures to increase trust with constituents.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Transparency and accountability are crucial to maintaining public trust and require clear policies on surveillance use and data access.” The firm offers solutions for cities , other governments and corrections.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

MARCH 6, 2020

Improving transparency in public procurement, that is publishing more and better-quality data, supports accountability by enabling greater scrutiny over processes and outcomes as well as helping to achieve greater competition and better value for money. GTI-R/2020:1, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. Full text PDF Adam, I.,

Data 52

Data Procurement E-procurement Transparency 52

Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 9, 2024

This has led to the creation of specialised institutions and rules, such as those for corporate law disputes in Switzerland and the Netherlands, which cater to specific sectors like finance ( P.R.I.M.E. Finance ), art (the Court of Arbitration for Art ), and aviation (the Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation ).

Finance 98

Finance Transparency Demand Sustainability 98

Government Contracts & Global Trade

AUGUST 7, 2024

Stephanie Olivo has joined the firm after 10 years at ELEC, the state’s election transparency watchdog, according to a Tuesday announcement from the firm. “I’d love to get involved in the political process, the civic process, including campaign financing and certain political activities,” Olivo said.

Finance 52

Finance Education Transparency Government Contracts 52

FedScoop

JANUARY 25, 2024

Young, who has previously prodded the IRS on privacy and transparency issues from his time on the Senate Finance and Banking Committee, said in a statement that the bill will go a long way toward reducing the time it takes for the tax agency to process individual returns.

Electronics 82

Electronics Efficiency Finance Transparency 82

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A crucial question is how to translate that finance into more effective projects and investments on the ground and prevent leakages against governance risks. They must be powered by open, transparent, comprehensive real-time data on public contracts – from the spending all the way to the implementation. Now, an estimated 6.5

Sustainability 57

Sustainability Contract Finance Public Procurement 57

ivalua

JUNE 29, 2021

Enabling rapid, cost-effective and transparent supplier payments anywhere in the world. Today’s supplier payments remain complex and crucially lack transparency and efficiency that strain supplier relationships, increase transactional costs and cause frustration for all those involved.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MAY 7, 2024

The Handbook should be read in conjunction with Scottish Procurement Policy Notes , legislation, guidance and other supporting documents, such as the Scottish Public Finance Manual (SPFM).

Procurement 59

Procurement Public Procurement Sustainability Finance 59

Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s an appropriate workplace for the woman spearheading efforts to increase transparency and oversight of public spending in Rwanda, by digitalizing the platform running the country’s public procurement and professionalizing its workforce and processes.

Public Procurement 79

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 79

Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Holistic Integration of Procurement and Public Finance Management Goals To effectively address both active and passive waste, it is crucial for LAC countries to shift towards smarter spending practices.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Procurement Strategic Planning Balance 52

ivalua

MAY 19, 2022

As part of Ivalua’s journey to bridge the gap between Finance and Procurement, Ivalua has partnered with TransferMate to reduce the financial friction within cross-border trade. This allows for part-payments, quality or milestone-based contract terms, even payment on receipt to be visible to the supplier, finance, treasury, and the buyers.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Transparency is critical because the solution you choose will serve as the single source of truth for dozens of other agencies. Increase transparency – Modernizing will illuminate government operations and expenses by providing a single source of truth for citizens and government leaders.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The partnership with TransferMate removes this friction, creating a transparent, rapid and low-cost solution to paying suppliers anywhere in the world. Ivalua Payments enables much needed collaboration, automation, transparency, and speed to an often inefficient and costly process. About Ivalua.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Supplier Finance Transparency 52

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

With little transparency surrounding unexplainable rental price increases, Rice, whose trade group represents more than 170 fair housing organizations throughout the country and its territories, said that increased regulations are needed.

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Price Insurance Finance Transportation 89

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These included ongoing issues such as poor institutional coordination, lack of transparency, high levels of corruption, and murky lines of accountability. And despite the reforms aimed at improving accountability, perceptions of corruption in public procurement remained high.

Public Procurement 69

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 69

ivalua

JUNE 26, 2023

Consumers are demanding more transparency and accountability from businesses when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. Eloise graduated from Providence College with a dual degree in Finance and Political Science.

Procurement 97

Procurement Strategic Sourcing Supply Chain Sustainability 97

American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

As six out of 10 government finance teams still rely on manual reconciliation , the survey findings echo this, in which 46.1% Modernizing payment systems is a crucial step toward building more efficient, responsive and transparent government institutions. depend on these payments for less than 25% of their revenue.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

In India, according to the Ministry of Finance General Financial Rules (2017), all procuring authorities are responsible and accountable for ensuring transparency, fairness, equality, competition, and appeal rights in contracting.

Data 52

Data Procurement Tender Public Procurement 52

Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 7, 2023

This objective implies two major challenges for finance ministries. Spending, taxation, public investment, debt management and financing policies can contribute to transform the behavior of different economic actors. C as possible.

Finance 52

Finance Price Sustainability Capacity 52

GovLoop

JANUARY 24, 2023

“What people are expecting is personalized, online, digital services for those things that can be digitized,” said Charlie Francis, Senior Consultant at Questica, which provides multi-user budgeting, performance measures, transparency and data visualization software for governments. Rules-based software avoids these problems. “By

Budget 52

Budget Collaboration Finance Balance 52

ivalua

JUNE 3, 2020

3rd June, London, UK – Ivalua, a leading provider of global spend management cloud solutions, has announced the findings of a worldwide study of supply chain, procurement, sales and finance business leaders on the current state of collaboration in procurement. Digitisation is essential to enabling payment efficiency, transparency and control.

Supplier 10

Supplier Collaboration Supply Chain Finance 10

ivalua

JUNE 3, 2020

3rd June, London, UK – Ivalua, a leading provider of global spend management cloud solutions, has announced the findings of a worldwide study of supply chain, procurement, sales and finance business leaders on the current state of collaboration in procurement. Digitisation is essential to enabling payment efficiency, transparency and control.

Supplier 52

Supplier Collaboration Supply Chain Finance 52

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 26, 2024

Introduction Government authorities such as tax, unemployment insurance, and other finance agencies across the US and globally are seeking ways to innovate. In this blog post, we will cover why a modern data strategy is important, the key components of a modern data strategy, and practical next steps.

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Data Government Government Insurance 78

Inter-American Development Bank

JULY 7, 2023

One of the reasons for this is the “multiple principals problem,” where no one does the full job of monitoring because they assume others will do it or that the ministry of finance is actually doing the job. Secondly, the GDPE must have qualified and sufficient personnel to monitor existing public enterprises.

Finance 52

Finance IT Evaluation Budget 52

ivalua

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The partnership with Transfermate removes this friction, creating a transparent, rapid and low-cost solution to paying suppliers anywhere in the world. Ivalua Payments enables much needed collaboration, automation, transparency, and speed to an often inefficient and costly process. About Ivalua.

Supply Chain 40

Supply Chain Supplier Finance Transparency 40

FedInsider

OCTOBER 16, 2024

While much attention is being paid to ways to harness the power of AI, equally important are questions of safety and transparency, and the balance of collaboration between government and industry to advance strategic leadership in the global AI race.

Ethics 52

Ethics Participation Finance Leadership 52

FedInsider

OCTOBER 15, 2024

While much attention is being paid to ways to harness the power of AI, equally important are questions of safety and transparency, and the balance of collaboration between government and industry to advance strategic leadership in the global AI race.

Ethics 52

Ethics Participation Finance Leadership 52

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2024

They launched Falcon LLMs , three foundational large language models, to facilitate research in healthcare, finance, education, and more. Responsible AI mitigating the risks Organizations that use generative AI must build responsible AI systems that are fair, explainable, robust, secure, transparent, and safeguard privacy.

Sustainability 78

Sustainability Data Innovation Transparency 78

BLP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Throughout his years of experience, he has led the legal advice to different government institutions in administrative contracting processes and state procurement, transparency and accountability, administrative sanctioning procedure; as well as judicial processes in different matters such as Civil, Contentious Administrative, Labor and Criminal.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Export Procurement Collaboration 52

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

We set up Open Contracting Partnership to be bold: we aren’t after just a bit more transparency of public contracts, we want to transform procurement to meet the urgent needs of our time. This is all the more urgent when we consider the huge scale up that we need in green financing to achieve our net zero goals.

Procurement 88

Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Sustainability 88

ivalua

JUNE 2, 2016

Is that information provided to Supply Chain, Finance, Quality, and Marketing—giving them the ability to see the same data in the way they need to see it so everyone has proper visibility to make good decisions? Most companies we see today have their finance departments bogged down with spreadsheets. Today this rarely exists.

Supply Chain 45

Supply Chain Procurement Supplier Global Sourcing 45

Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While public-facing customer experience applications like artificial intelligence-driven chatbots get a lot of attention, the real gains agencies are seeing from emerging technologies come from automating business processes within human resources, finance and procurement. “At At the end of the day, what should the government be good at?

Procurement 52

Procurement Supply Chain Transparency Finance 52

AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Creating a government that is more transparent, better performing, and capable of responding to the needs of its citizens in real-time is not without its challenges. Transformation requires a complete step-change rethinking of how to deliver services to citizens, how the power of data is used, and how government agencies operate internally.

Innovation 52

Innovation Efficiency Integration Integrity 52

Inter-American Development Bank

MAY 8, 2024

AI can introduce data-driven insights for more evidence-based and transparent budgeting. AI-driven procurement processes can also improve fair competition, transparency, and cost-effectiveness for government acquisition programs.

Transparency 64

Transparency Data Efficiency Capacity 64