For anyone reliant on fact-based research to inform good decisions, the arrival of Grokipedia makes the deployment of AI research tools a fraught prospect. If we can’t assume that the “data” available to LLMs is neutral or unadulterated, we need to ask hard questions about how we maintain factual reliability while using technology to accelerate research.

This Hopehead Explainer delves into how and when it makes sense to use source enquiries in your due diligence process and how to avoid some of the major pitfalls.

How do you wade through the business intelligence jargon to ensure that you find a provider who will actually be able to meet your specific needs?  This Hopehead Explainer seeks to demystify some common terms...

This Hopehead Explainer sets out to demystify the process of commissioning investigative due diligence – what to ask, what to expect and how to get the best results.

The manner of a CEO’s departure is a prism through which we can peek – albeit briefly – behind the corporate veil to understand something of the human dynamics that influence corporate success or failure.

With the suspension of FCPA, is the SFO now really likely to proceed against corrupt businesses? And is the UK government likely to grant fu

For those charged with hiring senior C-Suite executives, the real risk of not paying attention to CV inflation is appointing a candidate who

There are undoubted applications for large language models and other forms of artificial intelligence in accelerating the analysis and colla

Failing to spot a senior leadership shortcoming at hiring has the potential to undermine the attractiveness of a portfolio company at exit

The recent allegations involving Santander and Lloyds Bank remind us that sanctions due diligence is a minefield. It also raises important questions about how far financial institutions can reasonably go to insulate themselves from harm.   The Financial Times  and other publications recently reported that two of the UK’s largest banks, Lloyds and Santander, provided banking services to a business ultimately owned by a US-sanctioned Iranian entity.   Last week, Santander issue

Three ways publicly available information could have alerted Fortress Capital’s victims to risk The collapse of Fortress Capital Partners...

The resignation of BP boss Bernard Looney throws the spotlight on what companies can and should find out about senior appointments One of the most interesting questions stirred up by Bernard Looney’s resignation is what information the board sought about his reputation for “romantic endeavours with colleagues”, amid allegations in The Times that Looney had “clearly been given a pass and now it has come back to bite them” . This situation has consequences for the boards of oth

The allegations of creative CV writing that are swirling around the soon-to-be-ennobled Charlotte Owen are intriguing and should provide...

Due diligence professionals have been deploying discreet referencing to understand the background and experience of their clients’...

Financial institutions that did business with Jeffrey Epstein are reportedly braced for a flood of lawsuits from his alleged victims,...

A lot has changed in the space of a few months. It is almost certain that a lot more will change before the end of this year as the...

I hadn't really spotted the link between Jeremy Clarkson and corporate governance risk, but this article makes a good case for why boards...

It’s quite hard at the moment to focus on what the business environment in the UK will look like after B****t. But the Economic Crime...