21 Jun 2024

Its was an honor to be invited by the United Nations Global Compact Network Programme to host a three-hour anti-bribery management workshop at the Amari Hotel in Penang last Thursday afternoon, with some 90 attendees representing both multi-national and local business corporations. The U.N programme has been established for a number of years to foster a fair and sustainable business e...

26 Nov 2021

On the 18th November 2021 Key Risk Consulting Asia sponsored a British Malaysia Chamber of Commerce Webinar entitled “Conducting Effective and Professional Internal Investigation”.   Mr Robert Youill, Founder & Executive Director of Key Risk Consulting Asia presented to a wide-ranging audience with subscribers viewing the broadcast from Malaysia, the UK, as well as from other parts o...

01 Sep 2021

On the 1st September 2021 Key Risk Training Solutions is pleased to announce it has entered into a collaborative partnership with BizWhys Company Limited to bring to corporate China a new and refreshing business conference experience. For far too long corporate risk related conferences in China have followed the same mundane subject presentation formulae and content that has rarely chang...

26 Jun 2021

Prologue Counterfeit manufacturers and traders operating in China have been active participants in the past two decades of economic globalization. Standalone local operators of the past have fallen far behind highly-organized syndicates, that are today responsible for driving the burgeoning global trade in counterfeit goods. The amount of sales tax that nations lose out on globally du...

08 Jun 2021

In April 2021 key Risk Consulting Asia was approached by Thompson Reuters to help write and produce for them a guide for use by legal counsel covering the practical aspects of developing an anti-counterfeiting enforcement programme in China. The article was co-written by Robert Youill , Executive Director of Key Risk Consulting Asia and Christina Wang , Senior Partner at Universal Law Of...

07 Jun 2021

On the 14th May 2021 Bob Youill Executive Director Key Risk Consulting Asia gave a key note presentation at the 5th Anti-Corruption and Compliance Conference in Beijing on the subject of ISO 37001 Anti-Bribery Management Systems and how to prepare corporate responses to allegations of corruption within the ISO 37001 framework. The conference was attended by nearly 100 delegates both in p...

06 Apr 2021

After protracted negotiations Key Risk Consulting finally signed a significant cooperation agreement with ABAC Centre of Excellence, a leading supplier of ISO certification with a focus on the ISO 37001 anti-bribery management system qualification. For our part Key Risk Consulting specializes in the implementation of anti-bribery management systems up to ISO standard, so the relationship...

28 Dec 2020

Executive Director of Key Risk Consulting Asia, Robert Youill was honoured to be invited to deliver a Keynote Speech on ‘Fraud and Corruption: The First 48hrs After Discovery’, alongside regional subject matter experts in fraud, corruption and compliance, to delegates of the 2 nd  Anti-Bribery & Anti-Corruption Compliance Summit 2020, conducted on 10 July 2020. Delegates fr...

17 Sep 2019

One thing often overlooked by sole-traders and some small-to-medium business enterprises, is the need to conduct adequate risk assessments. This approach is not only slipshod business practice, but is also inherently risky in itself; after all, your source of income, your family’s well-being, your reputation, public safety, your employees and other people who depend on the smooth uninte...

22 Nov 2018

Presenting investigative methods to different cultural groups in various countries always presents challenges, not just in terms of language, cultural norms and local laws, but also from the way that their working procedures limit them, or allow them, to do things in ways different to what we have been doing throughout our careers. Now, this is not necessarily a bad thing if you don’t ju...