Latin America: The Compliance Challenge

WASHINGTON, DC--Latin America took center stage on April 1 in Washington, D.C., at the annual Dow Jones Global Compliance Symposium, which gathers chief compliance, legal and other senior officers of some of the world’s largest multinational corporations. The topic of the moment was: “Doing Business in Latin America: Steering Clear of Trouble.”

“You want to grow in Latin America?” asked Josie Jardim, General Electric’s General Counsel for Latin America to the conference’s audience.  "It’s a fine market. But you have to have people there. You can’t have compliance people in Atlanta. They need to be on the ground.”   To continue reading, click here.   About GE
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