Articles | Compliance Week – Page 16
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Brite Payments tabs director of compliance
Sweden-based fintech Brite Payments announced the appointment of Lisa Edström as director of compliance.
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Kettering Health appoints chief compliance officer
Nonprofit medical center network Kettering Health announced the appointment of Audrey Adams Mondock as chief compliance officer and vice president of corporate integrity and ethics.
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CoinSmart names chief compliance officer
Canada-based crypto asset trading platform CoinSmart Financial announced the appointment of Sheereen Khan as chief compliance officer.
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Ryan Specialty adds first chief risk officer
International insurance firm Ryan Specialty Holdings announced the addition of Waleed Husain as its first chief risk officer.
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ArticleFormer EY director to pay $24K for insider trading
Michael Weiss, a former Ernst & Young business development director, agreed to pay $23,900 to settle charges levied by the Securities and Exchange Commission he engaged in insider trading.
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Binance recruits head of compliance from Kraken
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance bolstered its compliance team by adding Kraken’s Steven Christie as senior vice president of compliance, a Binance spokeswoman confirmed.
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Snap recruits chief compliance officer from Peloton
Social media company Snap filled its vacant chief compliance officer post last month by hiring former Peloton Head of Compliance and Risk Lance Lanciault, a Snap spokesperson confirmed.
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ArticleSurvey: Performance incentives drive general counsel compensation rise
Compensation among general counsel at some of the nation’s top corporations increased about 8.1 percent in 2021, compared to 2020 levels, according to the latest annual benchmarking report from Equilar.
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ArticleBoeing fined $200M for material misstatements on fatal plane crashes
Boeing agreed to pay $200 million to settle charges laid by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it misled investors regarding what caused two crashes of 737 MAX airplanes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people.
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Standard Chartered recruits chief risk officer from Societe Generale
U.K. bank Standard Chartered announced the appointment of Sadia Ricke as group chief risk officer, effective Feb. 1, 2023.
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PwC appoints global ESG leader
Big Four audit firm PwC announced the appointment of Will Jackson-Moore as global environmental, social, and governance (ESG) leader.
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JBS names global chief sustainability officer
JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company, announced the appointment of Jason Weller as its first global chief sustainability officer.
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ArticleRaymond James unit fined $500K for supervisory failures
A broker-dealer unit of Raymond James Financial agreed to pay $500,000 as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for alleged supervisory failures that included the input of a misinformed compliance officer.
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ArticleCollateral damage aplenty in NYAG lawsuit against Trump Organization
The New York Attorney General’s lawsuit against former President Donald Trump is solely focused on penalizing his business and cohorts, but firms like Mazars and Deutsche Bank don’t come off well from a due diligence perspective.
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ArticleFocus on professional enablers puts lawyers in spotlight
While the extent of lawyers’ and law firms’ involvement in money laundering remains difficult to quantify, their potential role as professional enablers has become increasingly salient.
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ArticleArcadia fined $90K for custody rule violations; CCO to undergo training
New York-based investment adviser Arcadia Wealth Management will pay $90,000 for violating a Securities and Exchange Commission rule by failing to obtain “surprise” examinations of advisory client assets.
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ArticleToews fined $150K over proxy voting violations
Investment adviser Toews Corp. agreed to pay $150,000 as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over proxy voting rule violations that prompted two commissioners to issue a dissenting statement.
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ArticleIreland interpretations of GDPR criticized again in Instagram case
In fining Instagram a record €405 million (U.S. $405 million) for General Data Protection Regulation violations regarding the safeguarding of teenage users’ data, the Irish Data Protection Commission took some heat of its own.
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Waddell & Reed to pay $775K over wrap fee compliance failures
Investment adviser Waddell & Reed will pay about $775,000 as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for compliance failures and breaching its fiduciary duty.
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Sparkster to pay $35M for selling unregistered crypto securities
Software development company Sparkster and its CEO Sajjad Daya agreed to collectively pay more than $35 million for the offer and sale of unregistered crypto securities.