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Early 2022 has seen several economies have gradually opening with the shift in their management of the COVID 19 pandemic. ASEAN 5 are on course for continued economic recovery with most reliable regional projections anticipating expanded GDP in 2022. With this ASEAN’s economic outlook remains positive, locking in Southeast Asia’s...

The terrible events in Ukraine over the past three weeks have led to what today’s guest has called “the most significant implementation of sanctions that has ever occurred.”  These sanctions are fast moving, multilateral, and create a complex web of individual overlapping regimes which cut deep into the Russian economy....

PSA’s Corruption Risk Profiles aggregate the best available data on corruption, rule of law, and FCPA enforcement. This is combined PSA’s with on-the-ground insights into information accessibility in key markets to provide a snapshot of local corruption risks and uncertainties impacting risk assessments.

PSA’s Daniel Skeens discusses pre-IPO, pre-M&A and other pre-transaction diligence and answers our questions about best practices in identifying off-balance sheet risks. Daniel describes the value of adopting an investigative approach to due diligence to build a coherent and comprehensive picture of a counterparty prior to finalizing a significant transaction.

PSA’s Corruption Risk Profiles aggregate the best available data on corruption, rule of law, and FCPA enforcement. This is combined PSA’s with on-the-ground insights into information accessibility in key markets to provide a snapshot of local corruption risks and uncertainties impacting risk assessments.

In this episode of the Better Intelligence Podcast, PSA’s Michael Olver speaks with Charles Duross, who spent seven years at the DOJ’s FCPA unit before entering private practice to counsel clients on FCPA matters. Charles, whom the Washington Post has dubbed “Mr. FCPA,” provides Michael and guest co-host Katayune Ehsani...

The Better Intelligence Podcast welcomes Katayune Ehsani for a discussion about day-to-day challenges in corporate investigations and compliance. Katayune shares insights earned from her experiences with corporate investigations as an attorney and investigator working on fraud, corruption, and conflict of interest cases in Middle East, Russia/CIS, Turkey, and Africa.