A 45-minute, CPD-assessed course on bribery as it actually turns up: the offer and the request, agents and intermediaries, facilitation payments, and gifts and hospitality. Rewritten for 2026, built on filmed workplace scenarios, and scheduled, chased and certified for you.
Built around the moment somebody has to decide, not around section numbers and penalties, and covering the receiving side as well as the giving one.
Why the offer and the request are the offence, not the payment. The four offences and which of them could be yours, giving and receiving alike. Why public officials are treated more strictly, what “improperly” actually means, where bribery hides, when the firm itself is in the dock, and the two changes that have landed recently.
The moments that carry the most risk, the red flags worth naming, what to do when you are the one being offered something, and corruption you encounter rather than commit. Includes a filmed scenario.
How firms are actually prosecuted: through the agent, the introducer, the joint venture partner or the consultant somebody recommended. What due diligence on an intermediary is for, public officials and the people close to them, and partners you did not choose.
Why a small payment to make something happen is still a bribe under UK law, working in difficult places, what to do if your safety is at risk, and how to speak up. Includes a filmed scenario.
Five questions that settle almost every gift or hospitality decision, donations, sponsorship and favours, what adequate procedures actually look like, and why the gifts and hospitality register is the first thing an investigator asks for.
What to take away and three things to do this week, followed by the test and the certificate.
The belief that nothing has happened yet is what stops somebody speaking up on the day it would still have been easy. By the end, a learner can:
Two short films, shot for Fundsure with the same cast across the catalogue. In one, a gift arrives with a request attached. In the other, somebody is asked for a small payment to get something moving while the delay is costing the client. After each, the learner chooses what to do, and is told why the tempting answers are wrong: returning the gift quietly so nobody makes anything of it, paying because the sum is small, or asking an intermediary to deal with it so the firm is not the one paying.
The test at the end draws 10 questions from a bank of 30, with a pass mark of 80%, and a pass issues a named, CPD-marked certificate that anyone can check online.
Taught in the course in place of “follow the policy”, which only helps somebody who can already tell which side of the line they are on.
Checked against the Ministry of Justice and SFO guidance and the legislation in force. Last checked Sept 2026.
In force 29-Jun-26. An organisation now commits an offence where a senior manager commits one acting within the scope of their authority, with no reasonable procedures defence on that route. “Senior manager” is judged by what somebody decides or runs, so it reaches well below the board.
In force since 01-Sept-25, alongside failure to prevent bribery. Both change what “we had a policy” is worth.
Updated November 2025 to cover both defences: having controls is not the same as having an effective programme. It has to fit the firm's actual risks and be reviewed.
The SFO's deferred prosecution agreement with Ultra Electronics, approved 01-May-26, turned on bribery through third-party agents and ordinary failures: risk assessment not repeated, agents engaged without real due diligence, training not targeted.
Half the subject is the person who asks or accepts. Staff who think bribery is something done to them by clients do not recognise the moment they are in.
Still bribes under UK law, with no exemption, unlike the US. The course also says plainly that nobody is expected to stand on principle when they are in danger, and what to do afterwards.
A firm is guilty of failing to prevent bribery if somebody acting for it pays a bribe, unless it can show adequate procedures. The Ministry of Justice guidance sets out six principles: proportionate procedures, top-level commitment, risk assessment, due diligence, communication including training, and monitoring and review.
Training only counts if it can be shown. In the Fundsure Portal every sitting, score and certificate is kept, the gifts and hospitality register sits alongside it, and both go into the compliance officer’s report to the board.
How the portal runs trainingAnti-Bribery and Corruption plus AML and CTF, Conduct Rules, sanctions, anti-tax evasion and the rest of the catalogue of 20, with no per-course fees.
The annual anti-money laundering course, the other half of the financial crime set.
See the courseThe corporate offence of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion.
See the courseSanctions as prohibitions: freeze first, then escalate and report.
See the courseIntegrity, conflicts of interest and speaking up under SM&CR.
See the courseWe will send you a link to take the whole course, filmed scenarios and test included, or walk you through the portal with a demonstration firm.
