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.
To learn more about TRAC,
view our 90 second video, or visit
www.tracnumber.com.
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.
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