10.08.2010

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Articles

The U.S. has introduced the world to its newest weapon in this anti-bribery fight, namely, the Dodd-Frank Act’s scheme of enhancing law enforcement’s evidence-gathering capacity via substantial "finder’s fees" for successful whistleblowers. In this article, Markus Funk argues that the U.S., in so doing, has once again raised the international anti-corruption enforcement bar. Moreover, considering the U.S.’s leadership position among signatory states to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s (OECD’s) 1997 Anti-Bribery Convention, the Dodd-Frank Act is likely to spawn analogues in other parts of the world.  Read the full article.