Ethics and integrity are crucial for every single member of any organization, when it comes to achieve the highest professional standards. But, since they are opened concepts, it is necessary to be deeply ready to have the correct meaning of them in the business context. Therefore, ensuring compliance based on high standards of integrity and corporate ethics in the organazation scope, it is mandatory, therefore, to promote an opened debate about its content in a general way within companies, bringing more transparency and reliable accountability. Ethics is part and basis of our culture and, within companies, depends on the implementation of effective Compliance Management Systems (CMS). The present panel intends to deepen this subject from real experiences accomplished in the Americas.
 

Since the "Mafia das Próteses" was disclosured in Brazil, the health care sector has been facing several compliance challenges. They can result on the necessity to ensure collaborative relationship between medical technology companies and health professionals, always based on high standards of ethics. These standards should be managed with the properly transparency and compliance with laws and regulations. This panel will show the improvements on this sector and many initiatives developed "across the americas", such as the establishment of the Ethical Health Institute.
 

Our emphasis on this panel will be placed on Compliance regulations and standards for the Financial Services Sector. The financial market is hardly regulated and requires that all companies in the industry shall implement effective compliance program. This panel will show the major challenges for the industry and bring forward new perspectives for the sector.
 

Criminal Compliance has focus on the risk prevention with high consequences for business organizations and their officers. However, creating a compliance risk management system focused on crime prevention is not an easy assignment to achieve. Besides, the process of expansion of criminal law, nowadays characteristic, as well as the plea bargain culture on criminal proceedings, the use of agreements to negotiate advantages in exchange for information regarding the practice of illegal, makes this assignment even more complex and technically demanding. This panel will focus on those issues, presenting the main trends, guidelines and new perspectives for criminal compliance.
 

Compliance efforts are no restricted to the private sector and, to be effective, must achieve and be part of democratic institutions, agencies and government organizations, such as Petrobras. In this panel will focus on the most relevant challenges and compliance initiatives in the public sector.
 

Labor compliance in the Americas has faced important challenges in the last decade: slave labor, forced labor, child labor are only three of the main themes of this topic. In this context, labor compliance has a special importance and a fundamental role in the realization of the corporate social responsibility. This panel, will focus in the labor compliance tendencies and perspectives of the Americas.