The Compliance Week Podcast Archive

Compliance Week regularly chats with executives, lawyers, auditors, regulators, consultants and other people in the know, to hear their thoughts about the latest compliance and corporate governance issues. The archive of those podcasts is available below to Compliance Week subscribers; simply click on the headline to download the audio file.

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Podcast: Anti-Money Laundering Today

September 18, 2011

Next month brings the 10th anniversary of the Patriot Act—which transformed how financial firms monitor and police against money laundering. In this week's podcast, we look at how anti-money laundering compliance has evolved, how compliance officers have evolved along with it, and what the future may bring next.
 

Humanitarian Crisis and Conflict Mineral Disclosure

August 22, 2011

Compliance officers already know the technical challenges of the SEC's proposed rule for "conflict mineral" disclosure. This week, we chat with former chief compliance officer Marcia Narine—who is going to the Congo to work with victims of the conflict mineral trade directly—about the humanitarian disaster there, and whether the SEC rule will help to ease the crisis.
 

BIS Proposes Export Control Reforms

July 25, 2011

The Bureau of Industry and Security has proposed tweaking export control regulations to shift some military goods from one control list to another. In this week's podcast, we explore how that seemingly bureaucratic change could possibly cause larger licensing headaches for defense contractors.
 

Proper Use of SSAE 16 Audits for Service Providers

July 15, 2011

Public companies now have a new tool to help them investigate the reliability of IT outsourcing firms and other service providers: the SSAE 16 audit of service providers' internal control. In this week's podcast we explore what assurances this new audit does (and does not) provide.
 

Podcast: SOX Whistleblower Decision

July 08, 2011

Good news on the whistleblower protection front: A federal appeals court recently upheld a ruling that yes, companies can fire a corporate whistleblower for other, unrelated reasons, and not run afoul of anti-retaliation language in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In this week's podcast we chat with a lawyer from the firm Seyfarth Shaw to learn more.
 

COBIT Framework for IT Controls

July 01, 2011

The COBIT framework, used by IT departments for years to govern IT controls, has released the exposure draft for its major new upgrade. We called up ISACA, the group that publishes COBIT, to ask what changes are coming and how risk, governance, and audit executives should approach the framework. Hear what ISACA had to say inside.
 

XBRL Compliance Is Upon Us

June 24, 2011

All public companies must now comply with the SEC's mandate to use XBRL technology when filing financial statements. How hard has compliance been? How do you amend a filing when you discover an error? We chatted with Jill Radloff, partner at the law firm Leonard, Street & Deinard, to find out.
 

Podcast: Audit Firm Rotation

June 13, 2011

The PCAOB recently floated the idea of requiring companies to engage a different audit firm every few years. Would that dramatic reform actually help achieve the goal of fewer audit failures? In our weekly news podcast, Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talked with Tom Selling, author of the Accounting Onion blog, to find out.
 

Podcast: e-Discovery Woes, Post-Production

June 06, 2011

Our Compliance Week podcasts return this week, this time considering the e-discovery headaches you might encounter post-production—that is, after you find the data and are ready to hand it over to opposing counsel. CW Editor Matt Kelly chats with Michael Lackey, a partner in the e-discovery practice at law firm Mayer Brown, about what to expect. More inside.
 

Q&A With Jay Hanson of PCAOB

April 25, 2011

This week we talk with Jay Hanson, newly named member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, to hear his thoughts on the PCAOB's role and the more muscular approach it wants to take in the regulatory world.
 
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