The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act may have been in the government’s deep freezer for most of its 30-year history, but regulators are heating up fresh new helpings of it these days. Enforcement actions under the anti-bribery statute are bustling, both in sheer numbers and in innovative new applications of the law. According to an analysis […]
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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Who’s Coming and Going in Governance
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 Campos Roel Campos is leaving his job as a commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission sometime next month. Campos, a Democrat and the […]
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Who’s Coming and Going in Governance
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. Compliance Officers, General Counsels, Corporate Secretaries Toronto-based beverage company Cott Corp. has announced that four senior executives will be dismissed as part of the $1.7 billion company’s […]
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Small Filers Count Down to 404 Deadline
Ready or not, the Dec. 15 deadline for non-accelerated filers to start complying with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is fast approaching—and this time, the odds that small companies can avoid compliance yet again are small. The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued its final changes to help companies meet their 404 compliance obligations, […]
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Audit Committee Communications; Hedges
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposed guidance that aims to clarify the “shortcut method” of hedge accounting. Hedge accounting is governed primarily by Financial Accounting Standard No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, which in 1999 generally established that companies must report derivative instruments as assets or liabilities at fair […]
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Audit Committee Communications; Hedges
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposed guidance that aims to clarify the “shortcut method” of hedge accounting. Hedge accounting is governed primarily by Financial Accounting Standard No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, which in 1999 generally established that companies must report derivative instruments as assets or liabilities at fair […]
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Who’s Coming And Going In Governance
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 Spatt The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Chief Economist and Director of the Office of Economic Analysis, Chester Spatt, will leave the agency to return […]
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PerkWatch: Tax Planning, Physicals, Clubs
From exclusive “executive physicals” and club memberships to tax planning, home security systems, and car services, few limits exist when it comes to executive perks. While company aircraft use and Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans top the charts as the two most popular benefits among 250 large companies analyzed by Compliance Week, other favorites offered by […]
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Picking Your Poison Pills Around The World
Picking your poison” is taking on a whole new meaning in corporate governance these days. Poison pills—the controversial plans companies adopt to prevent hostile takeovers—are rising in popularity around the world even as they are becoming more rare in the United States, according to a report by the Institutional Shareholder Services. “Every country has a […]
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Who’s Coming And Going In Governance
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. General Counsels, Corporate Secretaries Pillmore Eric Pillmore, head of corporate governance at manufacturing conglomerate Tyco International, is leaving the company after five years on the job. The […]