Progress in the French fight against corruption

Eight years after Sapin II began a new era in anti-corruption compliance, observers have seen a change in the French corporate culture. But just how effective is a regime focused on compliance over enforcement? In a 2016 statement introducing the second piece of legislation to bear his name, French Minister of Finance Michel Sapin promised that the Sapin II law would “make France a great, contemporary, transparent democracy with effective means to counter corruption”, adding that