Fraud Academy

Corporate Codes of Conduct - do they continue to have a role in business?

Over the past twenty years corporate codes of conduct have moved from being emerging good practice to becoming an established norm, with the take-up by FTSE 100 companies increasing from 33% in 1993 to 80% in 2010 (Institute of Business Ethics). This move to formal codification of business ethics has...

A British Standard for anti-bribery: the other 'fair trade' mark?

There have been many different responses to the Bribery Act coming into force in the last year, ranging from local council bans on Christmas gifts to your bin men to increasing market exits from the more notoriously corrupt countries. The development last December of a new British Standard for 'adequate...