Appointment Blogs | Compliance Week – Page 102
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Incorporating compliance into long-term strategy
How can a board work to incorporate the compliance function into a long-term business strategy of the organization? The Man From FCPA offers some suggestions.
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House passes bill seeking end to cookie-cutter stress tests for non-banks
The House of Representatives garnered bipartisan support for legislation that would exempt non-bank financial institutions that are not under supervision by the Federal Reserve, but overseen by the SEC and CFTC, from stress tests.
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Warren presses Department of Defense to monitor contractors' workplace safety
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is asking military officials to update Congress on efforts to ensure that Department of Defense contractors are complying with federal worker protection laws.
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A deep dive into the Senate bill that chips away at the Dodd-Frank Act
On March 15, the Senate, under the leadership of Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, passed what he is calling “the most significant piece of regulatory reform legislation for community financial institutions in nearly a decade” with a bipartisan vote of 67 to 31.
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Pilfered data launches Facebook into a battle with regulators, legislators
Regulators and legislators are demanding answers from Facebook over how an international firm, Cambridge Analytica, improperly used the personal data of 50 million users without their consent to enable the psychological profiling used to sway election results.
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McDonald's nears agreement with NLRB over joint employer status
McDonald's and the NLRB are nearing approval on settlement agreements related to how much control the parent company had over how franchisees treated their employees and resulting wage violations. The case is part of the confusing landscape of what constitutes joint employer status.
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Study establishes link between fee pressure and audit quality
New academic research suggests there is indeed a correlation between pressure on audit fees and audit quality — and it’s not pretty.
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SFO: Ex-Deutsche Bank trader pleads guilty over EURIBOR manipulation
The Serious Fraud Office announced that an ex-Deutsche Bank trader pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud in connection with its ongoing investigation into the manipulation of the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (EURIBOR).
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Barclays trying not to be the U.K.’s Wells Fargo
As one of the U.K.'s top banks struggles with numerous scandals, its audit committee shows there is still a way forward.
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EDPS Opinion calls for enforced data protections
A recently published European Data Protection Supervisor Opinion discussing online manipulation and personal data calls for enforced data protections.
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Office Depot appoints chief accounting officer
Office Depot has appointed Scott Kriss as senior vice president and chief accounting officer, effective April 3, 2018.
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IRS winds down voluntary disclosure, ramps up investigations
Just as the IRS bolsters its international enforcement capabilities and activities, it is also phasing out its voluntary disclosure program.
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CORRECTION: Theranos executives charged by SEC for 'massive fraud'
Correction: In a recent post that appeared in the Filing Cabinet, we incorrectly connected a recent enforcement action against Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes with Mylan, the maker of the EpiPen. Any implication or connection between the two companies was incorrect.
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SEC doles out its largest ever whistleblower awards
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced its highest ever Dodd-Frank whistleblower awards, with two whistleblowers sharing a nearly $50 million award and a third whistleblower receiving more than $33 million.
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World Bank Group debars Innogy Solutions
The World Bank on March 19 announced the debarment of Innogy Solutions and its president for more five years in connection with collusive and fraudulent practices during the selection process for contracts under the World Bank-financed Integrated Persistent Organic Pollutants Management Project in the Philippines.
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Mossack Fonseca closing its doors
Mossack Fonseca, the offshore law firm at the center of the Panama Papers investigation, announced that it will be closing its doors by the end of the month.
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Former Siemens executive pleads guilty in $100M foreign bribery case
The former technical manager of the Major Projects division of Siemens Business Services GmbH & Co. OGH, has pled guilty to conspiring to pay tens of millions of dollars in bribes to Argentine government officials.
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Mars, Inc. appoints new general counsel
Mars, Incorporated has promoted Stefanie Straub, current vice president and general counsel for Mars Wrigley Confectionery, to the role of vice president and general counsel for Mars, Incorporated.
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Starbucks names general counsel, secretary
Starbucks has appointed Rachel Gonzalez as executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary. She reports to Chief Executive Officer Kevin Johnson.
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Dyadic International names chief accounting officer
Dyadic International, a global biotechnology company, has promoted Ping Rawson to the role of chief accounting officer on March 14.