With increased exposure to anti-corruption laws and investigations, and defined anti-corruption practices, how does an organization go about using technology to manage anti-corruption compliance?

Compliance needs to be an active part of the organization and culture to prevent and detect corruption, bribery, and fraud. This continuous and ongoing process must be monitored, maintained, and nurtured. The challenge is establishing corruption prevention and detection activities that move the organization from a reactive fire-fighting mode to one that actively manages, monitors, prevents, and detects risk. This requires the organization to implement technology to manage anti-corruption compliance.

Technology can help organizations manage and monitor anti-corruption compliance by enabling and automating:
  • Compliance program management: The organization needs a 360-degree view of compliance activities and reporting. This requires an end-to-end system for managing compliance activities, metrics, and reports. From this system the organization should be able to produce reports and metrics relevant to the board of directors and executives, to assure them they are meeting fiduciary obligations to have a compliance program for anti- corruption in place. All compliance management personnel and employees should be able to access the system and see contextually relevant tasks and items.
  • Regulatory intelligence and change management: The integration of regulatory content feeds and technology enables the compliance program to monitor changes in anti-corruption laws, requirements, and cases to determine how new developments impact the business. The organizations must use technology to take in legal and regulatory feeds and route them to the correct subject matter expert for review and business impact analysis.
  • Compliance risk assessment: Risk assessments are mandatory for compliance initiatives. The organization needs a technology platform to manage risk surveys, assessments, and related risk information and report, analyze and model risk.
  • Policy and procedure management: A core process of a compliance program is the ability to document policies and procedures to maintain a state of compliance. All relevant policies related to anti-corruption should be documented, maintained, communicated, and attested to within a technology platform with a robust audit trail and content management capability. This includes code of conduct, anti-corruption, and other related policies.
  • Training and communication: It is not enough to make written policies available — the organization also needs to train individuals on policies. Organizations are increasingly using the economies of online training to deliver courses on anti-corruption, and to test employee understanding of policies and requirements.
  • Third-party management: Central to an anti-corruption compliance program is the ability to manage the risk of third-party entities you interact and do business with. Technology, and the integration of content feeds, enables the ongoing due diligence effort to monitor and score vendor/third-party risk, communicate policies to vendors, track attestations, and deliver surveys and assessments.
  • Forms processing and automation: A critical component of an anti-corruption program is the ability to process and automate forms related to compliance policies and procedures. Interactions for contributions, gift, entertainment, and facilitated payments should be managed through online forms and workflow for approval or disapproval.
  • Investigations management: Technology enables the organization to manage and monitor issues and incidents, and collaborate and document investigations. This includes the ability to record the range of issues reported from hotlines and other mechanisms, what actions were taken, and the results of the investigation.
This is the second installment on a three part series on Anti-Coruption.  The first article can be found at:

I would love to hear your thoughts on the role of technology in anti-corruption compliance. This series is a collection of pieces from a published paper – the rest of the paper can be found at:

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