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Thursday, January 8, 2026
Iratxe Gurpegui

Beyond the Law: The Corporate Culture That Justified the Great Electrical Cartel

In the late 1950s, one of the largest antitrust scandals in U.S. history revealed not just corporate collusion — but a culture that justified it. The Great Electrical Cartel wasn’t born from greed alone, but from loyalty, conformity, and a society that no longer saw white-collar crime as a crime.

Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Iratxe Gurpegui

OECD Anti-bribery convention

The OECD anti-bribery convention is one of the main international instruments that turned foreign bribery from a “cost of doing business abroad” into a criminal offense that can trigger multi-country investigations.

Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Iratxe Gurpegui

Risk assessment vs management: what's the difference?

In compliance, people often use “risk assessment” and “risk management” as if they were interchangeable.

Thursday, January 1, 2026
Iratxe Gurpegui

Policies compliance: a practical checklist

Policies are where intent becomes behavior. Yet in many mid‑market companies, they sit in shared drives, rarely read and even less measured. Regulators now expect evidence that policies are risk based, understood, embedded in workflows and tested over time.

Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Iratxe Gurpegui

When to hire compliance consultants

If you lead compliance in a company, there will be moments when external help is not a luxury but a risk reducer.