Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger. Chief Risk Officers, Chief Compliance Officers Meta Financial Group has appointed Merid Eshete as chief risk officer. Eshete, who brings more than 15 years of financial institution […]
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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Lawyers Without Borders: The Globalized GC
When you have operations in 100 countries and your legal department speaks at least 19 languages, just understanding what your risks are is no small feat—let alone getting everyone to agree on how to manage them. Still, that’s the job for Gloria Santona, general counsel and corporate secretary for McDonald’s Corp. “I realized very early […]
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Who’s Coming and Going in the GRC World
Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger. Accounting Officers, Controllers Ameen Philip Ameen has announced that he will retire nex month as chief accounting officer from $163 billion General Electric; no word on a […]
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FTC Looks to Revise Its ‘Green Guides’
Everyone knows it’s not easy being green. Federal regulators, however, are starting to wonder whether it should be so easy to say you’re being green. The Federal Trade Commission, for one, recently announced plans to revise its guidelines for how companies present their “environmental marketing.” Those guidelines were last updated 10 years ago. The FTC’s […]
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Report Highlights Employee Use of Hotlines
A new research report on employee calls to company hotlines finds that smaller businesses are fielding fewer complaints per worker today than they were five years ago, while large companies have seen the complaint rate more than double. Exactly why that divergence has occurred—and even whether it’s a good thing or a warning sign that […]
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Who’s Coming and Going in the GRC World
Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger. Accounting Officers and Controllers $24 billion technology titan Apple has named Betsy Rafael chief accounting officer. In addition, Rafael will continue to serve in her current roles […]
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Who’s Coming and Going in the GRC World
Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger. Accounting Officers and Controllers Time Warner Cable has promoted William Osbourn to senior vice president and controller. Osbourn joined the company in 2003 as vice president of […]
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Investor Relations Best Practices for 2008
More and more public companies are viewing outreach to investors and solid investor relations programs as essential to their operations, and nearly 40 percent increased their IR budgets last year, according to Thomson Financial. Kara Newman, head of Thomson’s strategies research team, says a recent survey of more than 500 companies showed that 87 percent […]
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Who’s Coming and Going in the GRC World
Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger. From the Regulators Zegarowski Greg Zegarowski, founder of Financial Leadership Corp., has been elected to the steering committee of XBRL U.S., which oversees development of the financial […]
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Who’s Coming and Going in the GRC World
Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger. From the Regulators The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Thomas Kim chief counsel and an associate director in the agency’s Division of Corporation Finance. Kim previously […]