Articles | Compliance Week – Page 47
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ArticleSFO probing Arena Television collapse
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office announced an ongoing criminal investigation into the business practices of individuals associated with collapsed outside broadcast company Arena Television and its linked entities.
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Qualys names chief accounting officer
Qualys, a provider of cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solutions, has named Arjet Skenduli chief accounting officer.
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Vaxart appoints general counsel
Vaxart, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, appointed Edward Berg as the company’s first in-house general counsel.
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ArticleWhat sanctions on Russia mean for U.S. companies
The first wave of sanctions imposed on Russia and its financial sector aren’t expected to result in any immediate implications for U.S. companies or their global supply chains. With matters escalating, that could quickly change, according to sanctions experts.
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ArticleBaxter to pay $18M for foreign exchange accounting violations
American multinational healthcare product company Baxter International agreed to pay $18 million as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for accounting violations related to the recording of foreign currency transactions.
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Coinme hires chief compliance officer
Coinme, a U.S.-based cryptocurrency cash exchange, announced Brian Reisbeck has joined the company as its new chief compliance officer.
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Marathon Oil promotes internal audit head to chief accounting officer
Marathon Oil announced Vice President of Internal Audit Rob White has been promoted to vice president, controller and chief accounting officer, effective March 1.
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Principal Financial names chief compliance officer
Principal Financial Group has named Noreen Fierro as senior vice president, chief compliance officer.
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Veracyte appoints chief accounting officer
Veracyte, a global diagnostics company, has appointed Jonathan Wygant as chief accounting officer.
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ArticleMy Compliance Library: ‘The Behavioral Code’ explores tension between code and conduct
Benjamin van Rooij and Adam Fine’s book is an exposition on shaping laws and codes to “human and organizational behavior” that lends to the discussion on how behavioral science can inform ethics and compliance programs.
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ArticleCredit Suisse leak alleges corrupt customers, poor compliance practices
Credit Suisse engaged in business dealings with some of the most notorious criminals in the world, according to a consortium of media outlets that spent months parsing through the leaked records of more than 18,000 of the Swiss bank’s accounts.
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ArticleTRUST: A solution to crypto’s Travel Rule dilemma
Jennifer Lee, head of compliance at Anchorage Digital, highlights the launch of the Travel Rule Universal Solution Technology as “the clearest sign yet that digital asset players, as an industry, not as individual companies, truly care about compliance.”
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ArticleReport: Companies overhyping net zero commitments
A study of leading global companies including Amazon, Google, Walmart, and Volkswagen has found many firms are exaggerating or misreporting the progress they are making to meet their own environmental targets.
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Binance.US hires chief compliance officer
The U.S. arm of cryptocurrency exchange Binance has appointed Tammy Weinrib as chief compliance officer.
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Pinterest general counsel to depart
Social media company Pinterest announced in a regulatory filing General Counsel and Secretary Christine Flores plans to leave the company in October.
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First Financial Bankshares tabs chief accounting officer
First Financial Bankshares has promoted J. Kyle McVey to executive vice president, chief accounting officer.
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ArticleKT to pay $6.3M in SEC settlement for FCPA violations
KT Corp., South Korea’s largest telecom operator, will pay $6.3 million in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for violations of the books and records and internal accounting controls provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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DOJ names head of crypto enforcement team
The Department of Justice named veteran prosecutor Eun Young Choi to serve as the first director of its newly created National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team.
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ArticleComerica discloses CFPB investigation
Financial services firm Comerica disclosed in a regulatory filing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is investigating certain of its business practices.
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ArticleRulemaking on CPRA facing delay
The newly formed California Privacy Protection Agency appears behind schedule on rulemaking for the transition to the California Privacy Rights Act, putting the law’s July 2023 enforcement date in question.