Articles | Compliance Week – Page 272
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Rise of the machines: how artificial intelligence could revolutionize compliance
It may sound futuristic, but “thinking machines” are poised to revolutionize compliance. Artificial intelligence, proponents say, can take care of grunt work, freeing audit and compliance professionals to focus on matters that befit their skills. Advanced automation, however, says Joe Mont, isn’t without concerns and pitfalls.
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ArticleKami Niebank: Rising to the challenge
Kami Niebank is CalPERS’ interim chief compliance officer and guides compliance efforts at the largest public pension fund in the United States. She is also overseeing an ambitious five-year compliance plan that will alternately refine and overhaul the entire compliance regime.
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Second Circuit ruling gives legal backing to Yates Memo
At last, compliance officers have a legal decision to cheer about: A recent court case affirmed the ability of companies to fire executives who refuse to cooperate with internal investigations. This gives compliance departments a serious boost in authority, reports Jaclyn Jaeger.
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Workforce compliance in the gig economy
Today’s organizations are using contingent workers on a greater scale than ever before. Known as a “gig economy,” this task-based approach to work has added benefits, such as being a cost saver, bringing unique skills to the workforce, and more, but it also means additional risk. This edition of the ...
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This is not a game: Scenario planning can help protect your organization’s reputation
With some 4,000 cyber-attacks occurring every day, compliance officers are looking for any solution to help protect their organization from cyber-risk. A method worth considering is wargaming: a simulation that provides a live example of what a cyber-attack might look like and illustrates what can be to better protect the ...
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BAE Systems on what compliance needs to know about cyber risk
As cyber risk continues to increase, companies need to step up their security skills when it comes to procurement, audit, compliance, and legal on a variety of fronts. And that is just the beginning, says Bill Sweeney, financial services evangelist at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, in an exclusive interview with ...
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Inside the quest for better corporate reporting
Laura Phillips is in the trenches trying to help key capital market players understand why so many public companies sense a misalignment between how audits and managers deal with internal controls. Tammy Whitehouse gets the inside track.
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Executives and investors form alliance to drive better governance
In part an after-effect of say-on-pay rules, shareholders are finding corporate executives and their boards increasingly willing to improve upon their once confrontational relationship. Joe Mont reports.
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ArticleChristopher Michaelson: A man of letters
Bill Coffin catches up with Christopher Michaelson, who works as a professor of ethics and business, as well as a practicing business advisor. By keeping a foot in both the academic and practical worlds, Michaelson sees a path forward for ethics and compliance not just as a professional or as ...
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ArticleEU-U.S. Privacy Shield passes: Now what?
For any U.S. company that collects and handles data on EU citizens, the time to review privacy policies, practices and contracts with service providers and customers is now. Jaclyn Jaeger has more.
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Compliance’s increasing role in preventing LGBT discrimination
To prevent potential employee discrimination lawsuits, companies are crafting ever-more inclusive policies regarding sexual and gender identity. But this is a sensitive topic with many unresolved details. David Bogoslaw reports.
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ArticleChinese companies place dead last in corporate transparency report
A recent report by corruption watchdog Transparency International on the corporate disclosure practices of emerging-market multinationals revealed significant deficiencies in the areas of anti-corruption practices, company structures, and country-by-country reporting. Indian companies scored highest overall, while many Chinese companies failed miserably. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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Preparing for the new EU cyber-security directive
The European Parliament has greenlit an EU-wide cyber-security initiative that will impose plenty of new compliance requirements on organizations across the board. But, queries Jaclyn Jaeger, will compliance officers feel these are helping protect their organizations, or just adding another layer of regulatory liability?
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In cyber-security, the real enemy strikes from within
While organizations are trying to understand their cyber-risk and how best to address it, focusing on external threats can overlook an even greater problem, say guest contributors Mark Dorosz and Jennifer Benson: security flaws from internal employees who don’t understand, or don’t care, about upholding the organization’s defenses.
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ArticleRobert Barrington: A world without graft
Jaclyn Jaeger talks with Robert Barrington, an authority on global corruption, corporate bribery, and corruption within the United Kingdom, who heads the U.K.’s branch of Transparency International, the world’s leading anti-corruption organization.
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Despite SEC approval, inline XBRL filings still provide challenges
Is the cure worse than the disease? That’s what some compliance officers are wondering as inline XBRL, a method to help facilitate the harmonization between XBRL and HTML formats for machine-readable financial data, might just be adding one more complication to an already complicated process. Tammy Whitehouse has more.
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When the CCO leaves, do you have a succession plan?
The role of the chief compliance officer has grown in both complexity and importance over the years. A lot of trust and accountability can be invested in whoever holds that post. So, what happens when they leave? Joe Mont looks at how to survive the departure of a compliance program’s ...
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Treasury’s efforts to overturn long-standing tax law creates massive compliance headache
The federal government is trying to close a $40B tax loophole big enough to completely fund NASA twice every single year. But the way it’s doing it is causing some major corporate pushback. Tammy Whitehouse reports.
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New Commerce Department rule harmonizes export controls regime
Export controls can be tricky business, especially regarding the transmission of technical data over the cloud—something becoming ever-more common in modern business, yet currently constrained by tough export controls. New rules from the Commerce Department could change all of that. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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ArticleAlan Halfenger: The true believer
Alan Halfenger stumbled into compliance more than two decades ago, but in the time since then, he has not only come to embrace and embody what it means to be a strong compliance professional, he has made it his mission to spread the word far and wide on what tomorrow’s ...