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Spotlight on Corruption is today releasing a major new report on the role of UK Export Finance (UKEF) in fighting corruption in the UK’s post-Brexit and post-coronavirus trade drive. UKEF is a government agency that provides taxpayer support to underwrite the majority of financial risk that UK companies face when exporting abroad. UKEF is being called upon to play an enhanced role in the government’s trade drive. In particular, UKEF’s ability to make direct loans to foreign governments and...

A timeline of key developments, announcements, and evaluations relating to open justice in the UK courts during Covid-19.

Today, the UK Anti-Corruption Coalition is releasing a statement urging the UK to uphold vital anti-corruption measures in its response to the COVID-19 crisis.

In the letter, we ask the SFO to look at: whether the regime provides sufficient incentives for companies to self-report whether senior executives are being held to account effectively whether the penalties imposed reflect the full wrongdoing committed whether compensation principles are being effectively applied in DPAs whether there is enough transparency in the DPA regime and whether Article 6 of the OECD Convention is being sufficiently respected particularl with regard to the national...

We made the following statement to the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery
external stakeholders event, urging action by the Group on the following items…