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According to the Wall Street Journal, Anheuser-Bush InBev SA, the world’s largest brewer, has developed a machine-learning technology that can identify risky business partners and potentially illegal payments.

Questions:

  1. How does the analytics platform, named Brew Right, proactively monitor legal risks and prevent violations?
  2. How do companies typically examine the compliance practices of acquired businesses?
  3. How does BrewRight pull data and manipulate it for learning purposes or investigations?

Source: Tokar, D. (2020). AB InBev Taps Machine Learning to Root Out Corruption. The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 1 (Retrievable at https://www.wsj.com/articles/ab-inbev-taps-machine-learning-to-root-out-corruption-11579257001?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTldSak1USTJNbVF4WXpVMCIsInQiOiJVbk1TMElvZnFQWGZyTmQydnJOWlFlSEJLWWVYa2RkZXZPOTcxTzl1dWNSWjdLSnVOVmxrZVcrc0hWMk44WitWNHhseTZYTVZEd2NkMEVHSHNxa2taXC9QQVVkV2lXWGFKTkNBaUN0bFM3OEVTQ2VWVlFRZldzSHBSOHRyOHU4YzNCZGhHMkFoQTV1Z1hFaDU5M3VzdmNRPT0ifQ%3D%3D)