Heightened enforcement surrounding the federal Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Convention on Bribery, as well as the risks associated with an increasingly distributed global business environment, have combined to make competent, consistent due diligence more important than ever before.

Demonstrating proper investigative process and duty of care in vetting third-party intermediaries is critical both to upholding the law and to securing your company’s financial/reputational bottom. STEELE™ is a leader in establishing current investigative best practices in the responsible, cost-effective, efficient execution of due diligence and related business investigations in markets throughout Asia, Latin America, EMEA and North America.

• Maybe you’ve identified which third-party business partners overseas you need to vet, but aren’t clear about at what levels of complexity.
• Or you know the type of due diligence you want to perform, but want to systematize investigative quality and procedural consistency across regions and departments.

We identify red flags under the federal FCPA/OECD Convention, including questionable governmental links, criminal and civil litigation history, personal and financial relationships, business resources and contractual irregularities. STEELE's methodology and solution will stand up to regulatory scrutiny and establish critical baseline business intelligence about your third-party intermediaries, including vendors, resellers, consultants, import-export agents, legal representatives and joint venture and acquisition targets who might be at risk for corruption.

OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH SECURIMATE

STEELE offers a unique solution for those multinational companies with a decentralized compliance model, but who need visibility and control of their third party intermediaries at a corporate level.   STEELE has partnered with Securimate to provide a completely web-based third-party management platform that automates the third party on-boarding process, including distribution of corporate documents, tracking of training and education and a systematic due diligence workflow that includes customizable web-based due diligence questionnaires with integrated risk-weighting.   In addition to secure document retention and a credible audit trail, the Securimate solution is dynamic and easily customizable, providing notifications to key managers and ensuring compliance with your program.