SunLink Health Systems, which currently operates six community hospitals and related nursing home and home care businesses in the Southeast and Midwest, has promoted Jesus Ruiz to the position as assistant vice president and chief compliance officer. Ruiz joined SunLink in August 2001 as director of reimbursement, and most recently served as director of reimbursement […]
Jaclyn Jaeger
Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal, enforcement, technology, and more. Prior to joining CW, she spent four years as a legal reporter for Lawyer’s Weekly. Jaclyn attended undergraduate school at St. Joseph’s College of Maine and graduate school at Emerson College, earning degrees in journalism.
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Diebold Appoints Compliance Officer
Diebold, a global provider of integrated self-service delivery and security systems and services, has named Jason Hollander as vice president and chief compliance officer. In this newly created position, Hollander will be responsible for overseeing the implementation, expansion and continual improvement of the company’s ethics and compliance program, and work to ensure the program is […]
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Canada Takes Landmark Anti-Bribery Enforcement Action
Amid mounting international pressure to toughen its anti-corruption efforts, Canadian authorities have rendered their first significant conviction under Canada’s Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act since its passage in 1999, a harbinger of more enforcement activity to come. “It’s been relatively quiet until now,” says John Boscariol of law firm McCarthy Tétrault in Toronto. “I […]
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IRS Limits Scope of Sec. 162(m) Deductions
The Internal Revenue Service has released a proposed rule to clarify what qualifies as performance-based executive compensation deductions under Section 162(m) of the federal tax code. “As these things go, it’s not a significant regulation, but it is important to get it right,” says Ben Wells, a partner with law firm Dinsmore & Shohl. “It’s […]
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BofA Appoints Chief Risk Officer
Bank of America Corporation has hired Terry Laughlin, currently head of Legacy Asset Servicing, as chief risk officer. His transition to that role is expected to occur late in the third quarter. Until Laughlin’s transition, Global Compliance Executive, Paula Dominick, is serving as interim chief risk officer. In other news, as the company announced in […]
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FEI Names 2011-2012 Board of Directors
Financial Executives International, an association representing the views of corporate financial management, has announced the election of a new slate of executive officers for the fiscal year, effective immediately. Elected to the position of FEI’s national chair is George Boyadjis, executive director of CresaPartners. Boyadjis, who has been a member of FEI since 2006, served […]
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Ex-CFTC General Counsel Joins Tradeweb as Compliance Head
Tradeweb Markets, a developer and provider of electronic trading and trade processing for the financial markets, has appointed Bob Paul, a former general counsel of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as a member of its global compliance and legal team. The move positions the firm with a seasoned chief compliance officer in place for its […]
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More Companies Turning to Data Breach Insurance
As the data breach epidemic continues to sweep through Corporate America and regulatory penalties and litigation become more frequent and costly, compliance and risk officers are increasingly turning to cyber-risk insurance policies to help cover the potential financial losses. The number of companies that have requested applications and quotes at ACE for data breach coverage […]
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The BRIC Wall of Anti-Corruption Law
The United States and Britain may be leading the way on anti-corruption law, but the BRIC nations—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—are making fresh efforts of their own, creating a potential briar patch of worldwide regimes for companies to navigate. China enacted anti-bribery legislation in February in the form of an amendment inserted into the Criminal […]
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Shop Talk: Mitigating Global Anti-Corruption Risks
With Britain’s Bribery Act taking effect in July, enforcement of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act at an all-time high, and similar laws either on the books already or likely to be there shortly in many other countries such as China and India, it’s no surprise that compliance officers worry almost nonstop about bribery and […]
