The highlights of this issue include:

• Review and preview: ICAC's probity endeavour at a glance
• Battling against corruption – a 30-year journey
• New TV drama series showcases ICAC's efforts
• Commissioner leads IAACA to advance international cooperation

The ICAC Post – an electronic newsletter for local and international business communities – aims to keep businessmen posted on the latest development of Hong Kong's anti-corruption work.

Read the 46^th issue of the ICAC Post here.

With an aim to enhance the integrity of construction practitioners and their understanding of anti-corruption laws, the Hong Kong Business Ethics Development Centre (HKBEDC) will organise two integrity training workshops for site supervisory of consultants/contractors. Details as follows:

The workshops are free of charge and seats are limited.  
Interested parties may click here to enroll.

Apart from arranging the workshops, HKBEDC has also producing a series of ethics resources for the construction industry, which include a series of e-learning courses and online feature articles dedicated for construction professionals, as well as a publicity poster and publicity pamphlet with "Don't Bribe for Job" message dedicated for the frontline practitioners.  For enquiries, please contact the HKBEDC at 2826-3288.

The Hong Kong Business Ethics Development Centre (HKBEDC) has been jointly organising thematic seminars with professional bodies and trade organisations to promote good governance and professional ethics in the business sector.  The major seminars scheduled for June include: 

For enquiries, please contact the above co-organisers directly, or call the HKBEDC hotline at 2826-3288.

The Hong Kong Business Ethics Development Centre (HKBEDC) strives to promote professional and business ethics to various sectors in collaboration with the stakeholders. Serving as a supporting organisation of the "FinTech Award" (the Award) under the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2022, HKBEDC encourages organisations to participate in the Award.

The Award, with the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers being appointed as its leading organiser, aims at recognising and promoting outstanding ICT inventions and applications, thereby encouraging innovation and excellence among Hong Kong's ICT talent and enterprises in their constant pursuit of creative and better solutions to meet business and social needs.  

Companies in the banking, insurance, securities trading as well as fund and asset management industries are encouraged to submit an online application for the Award by 12:00 noon of 27 June 2022.  

Don't miss the chance to showcase your innovative inventions and be recognised by the FinTech community through the Award.  Details are available on the event's website.

For enquiry, please contact the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers, at 2153-7892 or 2153-7818, or by email to fintechaward@hkib.org.

In order to enhance professional ethics and integrity culture in the construction industry, HKBEDC rolled out the Ethics Promotion Programme for the Construction Industry in 2021/22.  The following training resources have been produced for construction professionals in collaboration with the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), the Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA) and the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS):

E-learning Courses

An e-learning course is tailored for engineers, architects and surveyors respectively. Each course comprises a Professional Ethics Module and a Legal Compliance and Corruption Prevention module.  Desktop and mobile versions are available for accessing the courses anywhere and anytime.  Participants who complete the e-learning course may claim 1 CPD hour in the respective profession.

Online Feature Articles

The Centre also publishes online feature articles for engineers, architects and surveyors, highlighting legal controls over corruption, common ethical challenges at work, managing staff integrity and handling ethical dilemmas.

You may also visit our webpage for construction industry for the Centre's latest ethical resources.

 Joint Seminars with Professional Bodies (May & June 2022)

The Hong Kong Business Ethics Development Centre (HKBEDC) has been jointly organising thematic seminars with professional bodies and trade organisations to promote good governance and professional ethics in the business sector.  The major seminars scheduled for May and June include: 

For enquiries, please contact the above co-organisers directly, or call the HKBEDC hotline at 2826-3288.

ESG Achievement Awards 2021/2022

The application deadline for the ESG Achievement Awards 2021/2022 has been extended to 20 May 2022.  Serving as a supporting organisation of the Awards, HKBEDC encourages listed companies, private corporations, ETF products, ESG service providers, NGOs/NPOs etc. to submit an online application for the Awards.  Details are available on the event's website.  For enquiry, please contact the Secretariat Office of the Awards at 3159-2900 or secretariat@iesgawards.org.

The Hong Kong Business Ethics Development Centre (HKBEDC) strives to promote professional and business ethics to various sectors in collaboration with the stakeholders. Serving as a supporting organisation of the ESG Achievement Awards 2021/2022 (the Awards), HKBEDC encourages organisations to participate in the Awards.

The Awards is organised by the Institute of ESG & Benchmark (IESGB) with an aim to recognise achievements in Hong Kong in the aspects of ESG practices across different types of organisations.  The theme of this year's Awards is "Pursuit of the ESG E.R.A – Evolution, Resilience, Action".  The Award consists of 5 categories.  Listed companies, private corporations, ETF products, ESG service providers, NGOs/NPOs etc. are encouraged to submit an online application for the Awards by 7 May 2022.  Details are available on the event's website.

For enquiry, please contact the Secretariat Office of the Awards at 3159-2900, or by email to secretariat@iesgawards.org.  

The highlights of this issue include:

• Stand firm against corruption, our mission continues
• ICAC continues to advance its anti-graft international cooperation amid pandemic
• Preventing graft in infrastructure projects – the Hong Kong experience
• HK consistently ranked as one of the world's least corrupt places
• Latest ICAC TV Commercial

The ICAC Post – an electronic newsletter for local and international business communities – aims to keep businessmen posted on the latest development of Hong Kong's anti-corruption work.

Read the 45^th issue of the ICAC Post here.

The Hong Kong Business Ethics Development Centre (HKBEDC) strives to promote professional and business ethics to various sectors in collaboration with the stakeholders. Serving as a supporting organisation of the IFTA FinTech and Innovation Achievement Awards 2021/2022 (the Awards), HKBEDC encourages corporates and individuals in the FinTech community to participate in the Awards.

The Awards, which aims to encourage corporate and professional development and facilitate the sustainable is organised by the Institute of Financial Technologists of Asia (IFTA). The theme of this year is "Two Worlds, One Goal: The Virtualisation of Reality".  Through its corporate and individual award categories, the Awards recognises the achievements of corporations and individuals in FinTech and innovation, as well as, the role they play in their development within the economy.   Awards application deadline is 29 April 2022.  More details are available on the event's website.

For enquiry, please contact the Secretariat Office of the Awards at 3159-2900, or by email to secretariat@iftaawards.org.

Hong Kong, being a leading international financial centre and one of the most active stock markets in the world, has high expectations on listed companies (LCs) in practicing good corporate governance and upholding high standard of business ethics to safeguard the interest of stakeholders.

To help company directors and senior management understand their ethical and governance roles, the common ethical risks in LCs, as well as to comply with HKEX’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Reporting requirement on anti-corruption training, the Hong Kong Business Ethics Development Centre (HKBEDC) is going to organise a Putonghua session of the "Ethics Legacy" – Ethical and Governance Roles of Directors and Senior Management of Publicly Listed Companies webinar through the "BEDC Channel".  Details of the webinar are as follows:

Click here to join this Zoom webinar for FREE now.  For more details, please refer to the "BEDC Channel" webpage.