Fannie Mae has their Code of Conduct posted on their website. So? The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Housing Finance Agency has imposed a revised code of conduct aimed at preventing mortgage brokers and lenders from pressuring appraisers to inflate their estimates of home values. Now there is a revised Home Valuation Code [...]
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A History of Codes of Ethics
Robert Baker, currently a professor of Bioethics at Union College and Director of the Bioethics Program, compiled a 1999 Codes of Ethics: Some History.
Writing a Company’s Code of Ethics
W. Michael Hoffman of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College penned a 1999 Writing a Company’s Code of Ethics for Perspectives on the Professions. If employees are not brought into the process in some such way as I have suggested, they will be turned off. The code will seem something “they” have imposed [...]
Resources for Writing a Code of Ethics
The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Instiute of Technology has published a great set of Resources for Writing a Code of Ethics.
2008 Update on Anti-Curruption
The Anti-Corruption Committee of the American Bar Association consisting of Leslie Benton, Michael Kieval, Caroline Lindsey, Kerry Mandernach, Philip Urofsky, and Alexandra Wrage prepared an Anti-Corruption update for the Summer 2008 edition of The International Lawyer.
Top Ranked Codes of Conduct
Ethisphere ranked 50 Codes of Conduct. According to Ethisphere, here are some of the best: Cisco’s Code of Business Conduct “An attractive Code that passes with flying colors. Only areas that could be improved are the non-retaliation and reporting sections, and the 13,000 word length.” Alltel Wireless Ethics Policy “Excellent supportive learning aids and good [...]
Code of Ethics and Whistleblower Programs
A corporate code of ethics is the flip side of the coin of a whistleblower policy: The code of ethics is the principal means of communicating to all staff a strong culture of legal compliance and ethical integrity, while the whistleblower policy is a way to implement such values.
Code of Ethics for Investment Advisers
Rule 204A-1 under the Advisers Act requires investment advisers to adopt a code of ethics. Adoption means establish, maintian and enforcing a written code. At a minimum, the code must include: (1) A standard (or standards) of business conduct that you require of your supervised persons, which standard must reflect your fiduciary obligations and those [...]
Contingent Fee Arrangements in Government Contracts
Section 3.400 of the Federal Acquistion Regulations limit the ability of the federal governmen to enter into contingent fee arrangements. Federal contracts require the insertion of the Covenant Against Contingent Fees: (a) The Contractor warrants that no person or agency has been employed or retained to solicit or obtain this contract upon an agreement or [...]
OCEG Webcast on Code of Conduct
Scott Mitchell, Chairman and of the Open Compliance & Ethics Group, and Brett Curran, Director of GRC and Privacy at Axentis, conducted a webinar on the Code of Conduct. The powerpoint slides are free, but the webinar itself requires a premium membership. These are some metrics they propose for measuring the performance of a Code [...]
