Articles | Compliance Week – Page 252
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How data and analytics drive Microsoft’s compliance mission
As a leading global enterprise, Microsoft has a pretty full plate of compliance matters to handle. That’s why it relies so much on data, analyftics, and skillful oversight to manage its risk.
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Lactalis baby milk recall a nightmare of its own making
French dairy giant Lactalis is facing a massive baby milk recall both due to salmonella and its failure to disclose the contamination in a timely manner.
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Preventing sexual misconduct at work starts with culture
Allegations of sexual misconduct that have surfaced in recent months underscore how important it is to reevaluate how to address sexual harassment in the workplace.
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ArticleFraud, conspiracy charges pile on audit committee task list
Charges of fraud and conspiracy have rocked the audit profession and raised concerns about the regulatory process, leaving audit committees with more questions to ask auditors.
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Adapting the regulatory landscape for FinTech remains a challenge
As FinTech services proliferate, state and federal regulators are considering how to create a simpler set of rules, but progress has been slow.
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Prudential Financial’s Lee Augsburger and the power of culture
When you’re one of the world’s biggest insurance companies, embracing cultural difference is key to creating a truly global compliance program that delivers results.
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Equal pay fast becoming a U.K. compliance issue
Disputes over discrepancies in compensation are rapidly involving both boardrooms and human resources in ways that compliance will ultimately oversee.
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Argentina passes tough new anti-corruption law
Long criticized for looking the other way on graft, Argentina now requires companies doing business there to build strong anti-corruption programs, and plans to enforce it, as well.
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Eliminating seasonality could be a quantum leap for audit quality
Big Four audit firms currently labor under a self-imposed hardship of an intense peak season that erodes audit quality and strains the workforce. What if there was a better way?
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On the front lines with machine learning and AML battles
An inside look at how one company is helping one of Singapore’s largest banks utilize machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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PCAOB ponders plateau, calls on firms to dig deeper
With PCAOB inspection results hitting a plateau, how can auditors be held accountable for better audit quality? Amid allegations of fraud and conspiracy, is culture a factor?
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ArticleDespite deregulation push, the SEC keeps working on new rules
Even as the Trump Administration trumpets its deregulation efforts, the SEC is working to implement a backlog of stalled rules already on the books.
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ArticleTax law changes could shift executive comp strategies
Massive changes in tax law with respect to executive compensation may give public companies reason to rethink how they pay their top brass.
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For audit, with better tech comes greater expectations
The advent of new technologies such as AI, workflow automation and more are making audit more powerful than before, but auditors must learn how to master such tools.
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Morrisons data breach creates additional cyber-liability
A recent court case sets the precedent that even if you have been hit with a malicious data breach, you may still face vicarious liability for it.
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Preventing corruption in the mining sector
A global study from Transparency International explores what causes corruption in the mining sector and what the compliance function can do to help prevent it.
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Goodbye CFPB; it was fun while it lasted.
Slowly but surely, those critics of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s are close to winning their battle, aided by efforts to dismantle the agency from within.
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The rise of passive investors as a corporate governance force
Investors in index funds are taking a page from their activist counterparts and making demands on companies. The surprise: Those companies are listening.
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Recent findings raise fresh questions over auditors and fraud
Recent findings against PwC illuminate audit failures that the PCAOB has been harping on for years, although its ultimate weight on auditors' duty to find fraud is not yet clear.
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The China conundrum: balancing risk and reward
From White House intervention to tough new cyber-security laws, doing business in China is becoming even more difficult for U.S. companies.