Appointment Blogs | Compliance Week – Page 160
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M-Files receives ISO 27001 Certification
M-Files, a provider of solutions that improve how organizations manage documents and other information, has received ISO 27001 certification, signifying it adheres to stringent security controls for delivery and support of its cloud-based information management software and related services.
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Acquisitions, data privacy, and national security concerns
The attempted takeover of the U.S. company MoneyGram International Inc. by China-based Ant Financial Services raises regulatory concerns and questions.
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Bill would ease SEC requirements on employee stock
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted in favor of a bill that would reduce SEC disclosure requirements for certain companies that offer employees stock options.
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Bipartisan bill would increase SEC penalties
A bipartisan bill making the rounds in Congress seeks to strengthen the SEC’s enforcement authority with increased fines.
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Clayton's SEC nomination advances to Senate
With majority approval by members of the Senate Banking Committee, President Donald J. Trump’s nomination to head the SEC, Jay Clayton, now heads to a confirmation vote before the full Senate.
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Dems demand new rule for disclosing extractive payments
Senate Democrats want the SEC to “promptly re-issue" a disclosure rule for oil, gas, and mining companies that was legislatively repealed last month.
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Tesco, the SFO, and the FCA come to terms
Tesco Stores will pay a £129 million (U.S.$161.4M) fine over a 2014 misstatement of the retailer’s profits. The fine, part of a deferred prosecution agreement with the Serious Fraud Office, is a clarion call for all companies to strengthen their internal controls.
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Government signals H-1B visa crackdown
Tech companies that rely on a specialized visa program to fill highly skilled jobs can expect to face more intense scrutiny from government agencies.
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Labor Department extends fiduciary rule applicability date
To comply with a Presidential Memorandum, the Labor Department has announced a 60-day extension of the applicability dates of its fiduciary rule and related exemptions, including the Best Interest Contract Exemption.
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Kara Brockmeyer, Chief of FCPA Unit, to leave SEC
Kara Brockmeyer, Chief of the Enforcement Division’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit, is planning to leave the agency later this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced.
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The meat of the latest Brazilian bribery scandal
Brazil has a new corruption scandal on its hands, this one dubbed “Operation Weak Flesh.”
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AICPA release 11 more revenue recognition drafts
Accounting experts are releasing their latest views on how to apply the new revenue recognition standard to some industry-specific questions.
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Toshiba—a culture of lies?
Shareholders react strongly to Toshiba's announcement of its intention to take a $9 billion loss for the year and the chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by Westinghouse Electric Co., a U.S. nuclear-plant builder 87-percent-owned by Toshiba.
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Conflict of Interest—the revolving door turns both ways
A look at the case of U.K. entity HS2, the taxpayer-owned company building Britain’s new high-speed rail line, which recently revoked a key contract amid allegations of conflicts of interest involving the U.S. engineering firm CH2M.
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Bombardier asserts commitment to ‘highest level of integrity’ amid bribery probe
Bombardier, a Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company, said that it is “committed to the highest level of integrity” in response to an investigation being conducted by Swedish authorities and the World Bank into a Bombardier Transportation contract in Azerbaijan.
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Centennial Resource Development names chief accounting officer
Centennial Resource Development has appointed Brent Jensen as chief accounting officer. He assumes the role from Jamie Wheat, who resigned, effective as of March 24.
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Mastercard names assistant general counsel for privacy
Mastercard announced that Erika Brown Lee joined the company in March as senior vice president and assistant general counsel for privacy and data protection.
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Grapevine: Who’s coming and going in compliance
Volkswagen and Hamilton Lane both have new compliance officers; Louis Berger has a new chief integrity officer; and the co-founder of LinkedIn has joined Microsoft’s board. Check out the CW Grapevine for the latest personnel moves.
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Senators demand investigation into SEC rule reconsiderations
A quartet of Senate Democrats are demanding that the SEC’s inspector general conduct an investigation into Acting Chairman Michal Piwowar’s “reconsideration” of the agency’s pay ratio and conflict minerals rules.
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FASB shortens write-down period for some debt securities
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has settled on a new way for companies to amortize, or write down the value, of certain debt securities.