UK Bribery Act

“We are not looking at this as a box ticking exercise. The culture needs to be set from the top. Members of the corporate need to know that the corporate is committed to ethical standards of business and that executives at the most senior level are role models for ethical business conduct.”

Richard Alderman, UK Serious Fraud Office

Businesses across the globe spend substantial time and money on compliance activities and sophisticated compliance programmes - rightly so in a world where compliance failures can have devastating consequences. Yet behavioural change often remains elusive, and compliance failures remain common. Business leaders are starting to realise that they are not getting their money’s worth from such investments. The Bribery Act is being seen by many top CEOs as a spring-board opportunity to shift away from rules-based compliance thinking and move towards a values-based culture approach. They recognise that ‘building and doing culture’ generates significantly better immediate and longer-term results for a compliance programme.

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All companies doing business in the UK need to meet the demands of the Bribery Act, effective from 1st July 2011. They must take adequate measures to ensure that employees and others acting on their behalf conduct business ethically and do not succumb to the ever-present demands and temptations to make the easy payment or to look the other way in the interest of a quick short-term win.

The time to start is right now.

Successful CEOs know this. They understand why the UK Bribery Act is important for UK businesses and how a strong corporate culture is not only the key to compliance, but also to achieving business growth, optimising costs, stimulating innovation and building strong customer relationships. Anti-corruption is now not only law; it represents an excellent opportunity for businesses to start on their own journeys to outbehaving and ultimately outperforming their competition.

LRN’s anti-corruption experts include leading European and US legal practitioners specialising in anti-corruption matters, as well as former Chief Ethics & Compliance Officers who have built and enhanced world-class anti-corruption programmes. Many of these experts have worked in key positions with the world’s foremost anti-corruption organisations, including Transparency International and the United Nations Global Compact.

At LRN, we help companies around the world both navigate increasingly complex regulatory environments, and foster high-performing, values-led cultures. We do this by building corporate cultures that stimulate business growth, improve operational performance, encourage product and service innovation and develop customer relationships.

Talk to the LRN Europe Team today and set a time for us to discuss your first step - your UK Bribery Act 2010 Risk Assessment.

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