Appointment Blogs | Compliance Week – Page 161
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SEC Historical Society names new executive director
The Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society’s Board of Trustees has named Washington D.C. policy veteran Jane Cobb as its new executive director. She replaces the departing Carla Rosati, the Society's founding executive director.
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Execs use audit insights to improve business, poll says
A Deloitte poll says C-suite executives and audit committee members use audit insights to improve business performance and operational processes.
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Trump nominates M&A expert for Justice Department
President Trump has found his M&A guru and announced his intention to nominate Makan Delrahim to the Department of Justice. If confirmed, he will serve as an assistant attorney general in the Anti-Trust Division.
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Burn, baby, burn: Executive Order torches Obama’s climate rules
President Donald J. Trump, through an Executive Order, has directed the Environmental Protection Agency to dismantle the Obama Administration’s controversial, anti-coal Clean Power Plan.
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Latest CFPB defense focuses on military families, veterans
The latest angle in the fight to preserve the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: safeguarding military families and veterans.
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A bipartisan plea for economic growth ideas
Republican Mike Crapo and Democrat Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) are working across party lines to solicit, from the public, legislative proposals for increasing economic growth.
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Hamilton Lane appoints chief compliance officer
Hamilton Lane, an alternative investment management firm, has appointed Frederick Shaw as chief compliance officer, effective April 1. The company also named Lydia Gavalis as general counsel.
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Internal audit increases uptake in data analytics
Internal auditors are developing at least a baseline capability in data analytics, with most departments using the high-tech tools or making plans to do so.
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Trump blacklists ‘blacklisting' rule for federal contractors
With an Executive Order this week, President Trump has made good on a promise to repeal the Obama Administration’s so-called “blacklisting rule” for federal contractors.
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Louis Berger appoints chief integrity officer
Louis Berger has named Adelle Elia as chief integrity officer, effective April 1. Elia’s predecessor, Tom Nicastro, is stepping down as Louis Berger’s chief compliance and ethics officer after 15 years of service with the company, seven years of which he spent leading the company’s compliance function to shape Louis ...
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IPC, Actiance collaborate to provide archival solution for financial services industry
IPC Systems, a provider of global communications solutions and software for the financial services industry, announced an agreement with Actiance, a communications compliance and archiving provider to leverage Actiance’s Alcatraz solution by offering IPC’s financial services customers a holistic archival solution across various digital communications.
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Accume Partners acquires Aporia Solutions
Accume Partners, a provider of audit, technology, compliance, enterprise risk, and cyber-security services principally to the banking and financial services industry, recently announced the acquisition of Aporia Solutions, a provider of technology and information system auditing and cyber-security services.
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Former OCC director of enforcement and compliance joins Buckley Sandler
Ellen Warwick, former director for enforcement and compliance for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), has joined international law firm Buckley Sandler as a senior counsel in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.
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Dun & Bradstreet launches beneficial ownership solution
Dun & Bradstreet recently announced the launch of D&B Beneficial Ownership, a solution that delivers quick and reliable data for actionable management of regulatory compliance.
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FBI: Cyber-criminals targeting protected health information
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning to medical and dental facilities: Cyber-criminals are actively targeting protected health information and personally identifiable information to intimidate, harass, and blackmail business owners.
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CFPB will reassess remittance rule
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is reaching out to the public as it assesses the effectiveness of remittance rules made effective in 2013.
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ING faces corruption probe
Global financial institution ING confirmed it is the subject of a criminal investigation by Dutch authorities for money laundering and corrupt practices in Uzbekistan. The Netherlands-based company has also received related information requests from U.S. authorities.
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Volkswagen appoints chief compliance officer
Picking up the pieces of its emissions-cheating scandal, Volkswagen this week appointed Kurt Michels, previously chief compliance officer for the Trucks, Vans, and Buses sector of Daimler, as chief compliance officer of the Volkswagen Group, effective April 1. In this position, he will succeed Frank Fabien, who is joining Wolfsburg ...
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Corruption affects everyday lives in South America
As the Petrobras and Odebrecht corruption scandals continue to be investigated and enforcement actions abound, The Man From FCPA considers some of the societal costs of systemic bribery and corruption.
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Compliance insights from a massive trading loss
Kweku Adoboli is the former UBS trader who took positions that led the firm to sustain a $2.3 billion dollar loss—as he dryly noted, “for which I took responsibility in September 2011—and to my eventual imprisonment.” What are the cultural lessons for compliance?