✓ Are you a compliance professional or manager with responsibility for your company’s anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) programme?

✓ Are you looking for a way to benchmark your programme and test its effectiveness?

✓ Would you like to learn from experts about compliance best practice and see how your peers are handling ABC risks?

Why not join a select group of leading global companies and sign up for TI-UK’s Corporate Anti-Corruption Benchmark?

The Benchmark is an online tool that measures and compares the performance of corporate ABC programmes. The methodology is based on TI’s extensive anti-corruption and private sector expertise and the input of experienced specialist practitioners. As part of the Benchmark, you will have access to quarterly workshops covering key bribery and corruption risk areas. These workshops are an opportunity to discuss challenges and share best practice with your peers. Current Benchmark participants include a number of FTSE 100 and 250 companies, many of them members of our Business Integrity Forum, that have made a public commitment to uphold high standards of business integrity and transparency.

If you are interested in participating, please contact businessintegrity@transparency.org.uk

HOW IT WORKS

• You provide details about your ABC programme via an online questionnaire
• You log-in to an online portal where you can review your programme against an anonymised set of your peers (all data received is treated confidentiality and not shared internally or externally)
• You attend regular workshops which cover key bribery and corruption risk areas. Workshops cover common areas of weakness highlighted by the Benchmark, and give top performers an opportunity to showcase their approach
• Results are updated every year to capture your progress and identify areas of emerging best practice

BENEFITS

• Compare your ABC programme against best practice standards and peer companies, including industry leaders
• Identify the gaps and weaknesses in your programme and other areas for improvement
• Report on the performance of your ABC programme to the Board or senior management in a clear and easy-to-understand format
• Learn from colleagues in other companies and industries on new and different approaches, key issues and emerging practice
• Learn from TI experts on trends in bribery and corruption and anti-corruption best practice as well emerging areas of focus
• Provide input into the development of TI tools and indices
• Support and help develop collective action initiatives

WORKSHOPS

The Benchmark results are supported by regular workshops focused on key risk areas identified through the benchmarking exercise. These workshops provide an opportunity to:

• Compare your ABC approach with peers and industry leaders
• Share best practice
• Learn from TI and other participants
• Plug specific gaps in your ABC programme or associated activities

The agenda for the workshops is shaped by the participants who help to choose the topics covered. Topics covered to date have included:

• Third party due diligence
• Training and e-learning approaches
• Terrorist financing and sanctions
• Political activities
• Incentive structures
• Community investments
• ISO37001