TRAC: The Global Standard for Baseline Due Diligence

TRAC is a new global online due diligence platform for supply and marketing chain compliance that captures, assesses and shares baseline due diligence information on organizations and individuals and issues universal ID numbers to approved applicants. It is designed to streamline compliance, procurement and contracting operations while ensuring that basic due diligence is met. TRAC is entirely free for companies to access – whether or not they are TRACE member companies.

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TRACE International, Inc. is a non-profit membership association that pools resources to provide practical and cost-effective anti-bribery compliance solutions for multinational companies and their commercial intermediaries (sales agents and representatives, consultants, distributors, suppliers, etc.).
TRACE provides several core services and products, including: due diligence reports on commercial intermediaries; model compliance policies; an online Resource Center with foreign local law summaries, including guidelines on gifts and hospitality; in-person and online anti-bribery training; and research on corporate best practices.

For multinational companies, TRACE provides a practical and cost-effective alternative to increasingly expensive and time-consuming corporate compliance. For commercial intermediaries, TRACE offers a marketing advantage by creating a bridge between them and companies doing business internationally.

Companies cannot afford to ignore the realities of doing business in today's increasingly complex compliance environment. Over the past 15 years, an increasing number of countries have enacted anti-bribery laws to implement international anti-corruption conventions criminalizing the bribery of foreign public officials. The new laws typically state that a business will be liable for the corrupt acts and/or the improper payments made by an intermediary if management "knew or should have known" that a particular intermediary was likely to make an inappropriate payment. Thus, companies are required to conduct sufficient due diligence on prospective intermediaries to ensure that they are committed to transparent business practices regardless of business pressure, local law or custom. Anti-bribery laws, however, are deliberately vague on the issue of "sufficient due diligence."

TRACE was founded to achieve economies of scale and set a common standard for two shared elements of anti-bribery compliance: due diligence reviews and anti-bribery training for business intermediaries and company employees based around the world.

TRACE is a 501(c)(6) non-profit membership association, organized under the laws of the District of Columbia and, as such, does not pay tax on its net revenue. TRACE was founded in 2001.