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Tyson Wienker Director of Strategy, Technology & Product Development, LexisNexis Pacific GRC/ACI Conference, Gold Coast, November 18-20, 2012 How can companies improve their due diligence processes?

How can companies improve their due diligence processes?

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Tyson Wienker, Director of Strategy, Technology & Product Development for LexisNexis Pacific discusses the true cost of bribery, how can organisations improve their due diligence processes, emerging technologies & their impact on global risk and compliance at the GRC/ACI Conference, Gold Coast, November 18-20, 2012.

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Tyson WienkerDirector of Strategy, Technology & Product Development, LexisNexis PacificGRC/ACI Conference, Gold Coast, November 18-20, 2012

How can companies improve their due diligence processes?

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Agenda

The True Cost of Bribery

A Global Perspective on Corruption

On the home front: Bribery Down Under

How can organisations improve their due diligence processes?

Emerging technologies & their impact on GRC

A Changing Landscape: Big Data and the future

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The true cost of bribery

“A consensus has now been reached that corruption is universal. It exists in

all countries, both developed and developing, in the public and private sectors, as well as in non-profit and

charitable organisations”

Asia-Pacific Development Journal

$$1.6 trillion

• The World Bank estimates that each year bribery and corruption results in the misdirection of US$1 to US$1.6 trillion globally.

• Corrupt practices costs companies as much as 35% of the cost of doing business in Asia.

BY THE NUMBERS

THE GREATER COST

• Creating uneven competitive environments• Undermining business and consumer confidence• Discourages investment through market instability• Undermining environmental protections• Flow on ‘blind eye’ effect on other criminal activity

Sources: Ernst & Young, Upping the Ante Report, 2010; Transparency International New Zealand

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A global perspective on corruption

70% of countries in regions Australian

organisations trade in pose a serious corruption risk

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Risk & Compliance: Bribery Down Under

• More than 34% of AU & NZ organisations are operating in high risk jurisdictions

• One in five of these organisations have identified an incident of bribery or corruption in the past five years, with around 60% of these incidents occurring in the past 12 months alone.

• Despite this, 80% of organisations with offshore operations either do not regard foreign bribery and corruption as one of the top five risks in the next five years.

Aug Sep Oct106%108%110%112%114%116%118%120%122%

LexisNexis Bribery Awareness Index

Media coverage of bribery incidents has

increased by 10% in past three months

LexisNexis AU/NZ Bribery Awareness Index 2012

Sources: Deloitte Bribery & Corruption Survey, AU & NZ, 2012; LexisNexis Bribery Awareness Index, November 2012

54% indicated that the level of corruption in

Australia had increased in the previous three

years.

Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer

2010/2011

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Reports of suspicious transactions have nearly doubled in

past 5 years

Risk & Compliance: AML/CTF Perspective

Source: AML & CTF regime in Australia, Australian Institute of Criminology Report, 2012

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The challenges of customer risk for businesses

Key verification challenges

• Foreign Governments• Politically Exposed

Persons• Foreign Companies

Source: AML & CTF regime in Australia, Australian Institute of Criminology Report, 2012

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The hard labour of due diligence

Two-thirds of Australian businesses are reliant on manual

due diligence processes

48% of AU & NZ organisations do not

have any formal policy or compliance

program to manage corruption risks.

Source: AML & CTF regime in Australia, Australian Institute of Criminology Report, 2012

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How can companies improve their due diligence processes?

The three elements of effective due diligence processes

IDENTIFY

VERIFY

MONITOR

Identity documents

Sources of wealth & funds

Beneficial ownership

Group structure

Incorporation documents

Sanctions & watchlists

PEPLists

Company structure & ownership

Legal cases

Negative news

monitoring

Sanctions & watchlists

PEPLists

Negative news

monitoring

ONBOARDING ONGOING

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How can companies improve their due diligence processes?

The three elements of effective due diligence processes

IDENTIFYIdentity

documentsSources of

wealth & fundsBeneficial ownership

Group structure

Incorporation documents1

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How can companies improve their due diligence processes?

The three elements of effective due diligence processes

VERIFYSanctions & watchlists

PEPLists

Company structure & ownership

Legal cases

Negative news

monitoring2

IDENTIFYIdentity

documentsSources of

wealth & fundsBeneficial ownership

Group structure

Incorporation documents11

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How can companies improve their due diligence processes?

LexisNexis Diligence assists in cost-effective, authoritative verification and monitoring of critical information sources

MONITOR Sanctions & watchlists

PEPLists

Negative news

monitoring

ONBOARDING ONGOING

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VERIFYSanctions & watchlists

PEPLists

Company structure & ownership

Legal cases

Negative news

monitoring2

IDENTIFYIdentity

documentsSources of

wealth & fundsBeneficial ownership

Group structure

Incorporation documents11