Anti Corruption Due Diligence

Anti corruption due diligence requires innovative tools.

Anti corruption due diligence is a critical priority for your business. Anti corruption regulations are being more aggressively enforced, and more high-profile corruption cases are being brought against global corporations. Consequently, anti corruption due diligence is critical for protecting your organization from the risk of significant fines and even larger remediation costs, and ensuring that you maintain your corporate reputation.

Many companies have anti corruption due diligence policies, but the recent PricewaterhouseCoopers Confronting Corruption report suggests that fewer than a quarter of these organizations have confidence that their programs will be effective. When seeking innovative and cost-effective tools for performing due diligence, more companies today are turning to Dow Jones.

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Dow Jones provides solutions for anti corruption due diligence.

Dow Jones Risk & Compliance is a highly effective due diligence solution to help you proactively guard against corruption and exposure to anti corruption prosecution. This Dow Jones product combines two robust databases-Dow Jones Watchlist and Dow Jones Anti Corruption-with the Dow Jones Factiva news archive to deliver the information you need to react quickly so that you may easily detect and prevent risky activity on the part of your company and employees. Dow Jones anti corruption due diligence tools enable you to:

• Perform cost-effective enhanced due diligence. With Dow Jones Risk and Compliance, you can screen business associates and their organizations for any connections to people, businesses, or states engaged in corrupt business practices. Screen your prospects, partners, contractors, employees, M&A targets-even third party agents-to achieve thorough anti corruption due diligence.
• Substantiate information and identities. Quickly and easily perform due diligence on individuals to verify their information and identities. Identify public officials and former officials, their associates, and relatives, as well as any individuals and entities sanctioned for or convicted of corruption.
• Know your customers and partners. Use Dow Jones Risk & Compliance to determine which individuals, companies, or business relationships require additional oversight in order to ensure compliance with your anti corruption programs.
• Keep accurate records. Ensure the accuracy of your records by reviewing documents and data for potential errors that could hinder anti corruption due diligence.

Simplify due diligence for corporate anti corruption programs.

Dow Jones Risk & Compliance provides all the tools and information you need to verify that your codes of conduct and ethics policies are being actively and properly followed by your employees and agents, including:

• Profiles of entities that may pose a greater risk of exposure to corruption.
• Information on individuals linked to high-profile crimes or convicted of corruption.
• Government sanction lists and other official lists.
• Up-to-date lists of Politically Exposed Persons, their associates, and relatives.
• Easy access to Dow Jones Factiva, a searchable archive of more than 20,000 global business and news sources.

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