NBH Holdings, a community bank holding company, has appointment veteran banking executive, Richard Newfield, to the newly created role of chief risk officer. In his new role at NBH, Newfield will be responsible for risk management operations, including compliance, operational, credit and market risk as well as business services credit, credit operations, problem asset management, […]
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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Alamo Group Elects Independent Director
Alamo Group, a maker of highway and agricultural maintenance equipment, has elected Helen Cornell as a new independent director. Cornell fills the vacancy on the board created by the retirement of David Morris in November 2010. Cornell was most recently executive vice president, finance and CFO of Gardner Denver until her retirement in November 2010. […]
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Gastar Exploration Elects New Board Member
Gastar Exploration has elected John Cassels, a 30-year veteran in the Canadian oil and gas industry, to its board of directors. He replaces John Rooney, who resigned from the board on March 8 due to commitments with his current employer. Cassels is currently a partner and chief financial officer of Purdy Partners, a private equity/merchant […]
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DocMagic Appoints Chief Compliance Officer
DocMagic, a provider of compliant loan document solutions for the mortgage industry, has hired Laurie Spira as chief compliance officer. In this role, Spira is largely responsible for ensuring that state, federal and investor-level compliance changes are analyzed and implemented into DocMagic’s Web-based platform, which audits and detects errors with loan transaction data. She also […]
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Dodd-Frank Act Challenges Oil & Gas Sector
The Dodd-Frank Act is more commonly described as “that Wall Street reform law Congress passed last year”—but compliance officers know the law also imposes a slew of new rules on all public companies, and re-grades the regulatory landscape for several industries well beyond banking. THE PANELISTS The following executives participated in the Feb. 16 roundtable […]
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Healthcare Regulators Step Up Privacy Enforcement
Healthcare regulators have issued their first monetary penalties for privacy violations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act since its enactment 15 years ago, and all signs are that they’re just beginning to flex their enforcement muscles. The unfortunate first example was Cignet Health, fined a total of $4.3 million by the Department of […]
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Shop Talk: Challenges of Dodd-Frank for Oil & Gas Companies
The Dodd-Frank Act is more commonly described as “that Wall Street reform law Congress passed last year”—but compliance officers know the law also imposes a slew of new rules on all public companies, and re-grades the regulatory landscape for several industries well beyond banking. THE PANELISTS The following executives participated in the Feb. 16 roundtable […]
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AT&T Controller Appointed CFO
AT&T announced that Chief Financial Officer Rick Lindner will retire effective June 1. He will be replaced by AT&T Controller John Stephens. Lindner has served as CFO for the company since 2004. He previously was CFO for Cingular Wireless, the joint wireless venture between SBC and BellSouth. A 19-year veteran of the company, Stephens has […]
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GM Executive to Join General Dynamics Board
General Dynamics has elected Mary Barra, a senior executive of General Motors, to serve on its board of directors, effective March 15. Barra is the senior vice president of Global Product Development for automaker giant, General Motors Company. In that position, Barra leads the design, engineering, program management and quality of vehicles for the company’s […]
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Verizon COO Joins Board of Directors
Verizon Communications has elected Lowell McAdam, Verizon president and chief operating officer, to the Verizon board of directors, effective immediately. The addition of McAdam brings Verizon’s total board membership to 14. “This is another important step in the succession process at Verizon,” said Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon chairman and CEO, who has previously announced that he […]
