# ISO 37001: Anti-bribery management systems (ABMS)

> A certifiable framework to prevent, detect and respond to bribery across your organisation and business partners.

URL: https://securei3.com/standards/iso-37001/
Category: Governance, risk & compliance: Certifiable standard
Provider: Secure iQube (independent consultancy; ISO certificates are issued by accredited certification bodies; SOC and ISAE reports by licensed CPA and audit firms, which Secure iQube can arrange through partner firms)

## Edition and transition status (checked 2026-10-28)

- Status: in-transition
- In force: ISO 37001:2025
- New/next edition: ISO 37001:2025 (replaces ISO 37001:2016)
- Published: February 2025
- Old-edition certificates expire: 2027-02-28
- Note: ISO 37001:2016 certificates are no longer valid after 28 February 2027.

Milestones:
- Feb 2025: ISO 37001:2025 published
- 28 Feb 2026: Accreditation transition decisions for certification bodies completed
- 28 Feb 2027: All certified organisations must have transitioned

Key changes:
- Adopts the latest Harmonized Structure for management system standards
- New subclauses on climate change in context and risk
- Greater focus on compliance culture, showing controls work in practice
- Clearer requirements for identifying and managing conflicts of interest
- Clarified role and concept of the anti-bribery compliance function


ISO 37001 (current edition ISO 37001:2025) specifies requirements for an anti-bribery management system: policy, a compliance function, bribery risk assessment, due diligence, financial and non-financial controls, gifts and hospitality rules, raising concerns and investigation.

We tailor controls to your real exposure (tendering, licences, customs, intermediaries) and integrate them with existing compliance and quality systems.

## Who it is for

- Government contractors and infrastructure firms
- Companies operating in high-risk jurisdictions
- Organisations with large agent or distributor networks

## Benefits

- Evidence of adequate procedures under anti-bribery laws
- Due diligence on partners proportionate to risk
- Increasingly requested in public tenders

## How Secure iQube helps

1. **Gap assessment**: We compare what you do today with every requirement and control, then give you a prioritised gap report and a realistic timeline.
2. **Design and documentation**: Scope, policies, procedures, risk methodology and records, written to fit how your teams actually work, not a template binder.
3. **Implementation and training**: We help owners put controls in place, train the people who run them and start collecting evidence.
4. **Internal audit and management review**: An independent internal audit and a structured management review prove the system works before the certification body looks at it.
5. **Certification audit support**: We prepare you for Stage 1 and Stage 2 with your chosen accredited certification body and help close any findings quickly.
6. **Surveillance and continual improvement**: Optional managed support keeps evidence current through annual surveillance audits and the three-year recertification.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is the deadline to move to ISO 37001:2025?

Certificates to ISO 37001:2016 are no longer valid after 28 February 2027. Book your transition audit well before then.

### Does ISO 37001 guarantee no bribery will occur?

No standard can. It demonstrates that you have implemented reasonable, proportionate measures to prevent bribery, which is what regulators and courts look for.

Related: https://securei3.com/standards/iso-37301/, https://securei3.com/standards/iso-31000/

Contact: https://securei3.com/contact/: info@securei3.com