Appointment Blogs | Compliance Week – Page 193
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Liberty Global appoints chief accounting officer
Liberty Global, a global telecommunications company, has appointed Jason Waldron as chief accounting officer. He will report to Charlie Bracken, who will assume the role of chief financial officer on Jan. 1, 2017.
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Callon Petroleum names chief accounting officer
Callon Petroleum, an independent energy company, has appointed Mitzi Conn to the newly created position of vice president and chief accounting officer. She will report to President and Chief Financial Officer Joseph Gatto.
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Blog10 years later, fugitive CEO pleads guilty to options backdating
Although the days of “options backdating” prosecutions are long past, the case against former Comverse Technology CEO Jacob Alexander, a fugitive in Namibia since 2006, ended just this week with his appearance before an unsympathetic federal judge. Bruce Carton has more.
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FSOC vs. MetLife legal battle resumes in October
Round two of the fight between insurance giant MetLife and the government over its status as a systemically important financial institution heads to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Oct. 24 for oral arguments. Joe Mont reports.
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Deloitte poll: Panama Papers will cause financial crime enforcement to spike
As the Panama Papers saga continues to unfold, global enforcement of financial crimes are expected to spike over the next year, according to a recent poll conducted by Deloitte Advisory. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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Apollo to pay $52.7 million for disclosure and supervisory failures
Four private equity fund advisers affiliated with Apollo Global Management agreed to a $52.7 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for misleading fund investors about fees and a loan agreement and failing to supervise a senior partner who charged personal expenses to the funds. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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Congress presses Treasury for relief on Section 385 proposal
Ranking Republicans are pressing the U.S. Treasury to rework its fast-tracked, inversion-attacking proposal that would assign debt treatment to common corporate transactions. Tammy Whitehouse has more.
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Will VW impact international settlements for bribery and corruption?
The Man From FCPA Tom Fox explores the fallout from VW’s emissions-testing scandal and how the company will make restitution going forward to its customers, dealers, and other stakeholders.
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CONCACAF appoints chief compliance officer
The Confederation of North, Central America, and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) has hired Guilherme Carvalho as chief legal and chief compliance officer, effective Aug. 23. The newly created position is part of a broader effort by CONCACAF to strengthen its governance, management, and operations in the wake of the ongoing ...
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Mega Bank fined $180 million for AML violations
The New York Department of Financial Services has ordered Mega International Commercial Bank of Taiwan to pay a $180 million penalty and install an independent monitor for violating New York’s anti-money laundering laws. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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To really improve corporate culture, it must be measurable
The days of viewing culture as a hazy intangible are over, given regulator interest in using the efficiency of cultural programs as benchmarks for everything from indictment decisions to penalties. Corporate culture, says Jose Tabuena, needs to be subject to performance benchmarks, like anything else.
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Office Depot appoints new chief legal officer; board member
Office Depot has promoted Steve Calkins to executive vice president and chief legal officer. The company also appointed Kristin Campbell, the general counsel of Hilton Worldwide, to its board of directors.
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Tone at the top really does matter
The Man From FCPA Tom Fox looks at the case of disgraced pharmaceutical company Valeant and what new Chief Financial Officer Paul Herendeen has planned for the company’s future.
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Altice USA names general counsel
Altice USA, a subsidiary of Altice N.V. and a national telecommunications, media, and entertainment company, announced two new leadership appointments, effective immediately.
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Target and Walmart show that supply chain risk is everywhere
The bigger the company, the bigger the supply chain risk. Just ask Target and Walmart, which recently had to confront this issue head-on over fake Egyptian cotton bedsheets. More from Tom Fox.
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RICS fines Sweett Group £125,000 in bribery case
Following the outcome of a disciplinary panel, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) this month found that Sweett Group “did not at all times act with integrity” concerning a bribery case relating to its Middle East operations. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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Use of Video Slowly Creeping into Legal Marketing in Enforcement Area
A series of enforcement-focused videos launched this summer by one law firm is an interesting twist on marketing that allows its lawyers to present information and themselves in a different way. Bruce Carton reports.
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LockPath partners with ISACA
LockPath, a GRC solutions provider, has partnered with global IT association ISACA, the creator of the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT) framework. Through the partnership, LockPath will have the ability to distribute the COBIT 4.1 and COBIT 5 frameworks through its Keylight GRC Platform.
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Grapevine: Who’s coming and going in compliance
Hamilton Lane, a private markets investment company, has appointed Fred Shaw as chief compliance officer; Factor Trust also has appointed a new chief compliance officer; and Dominion Diamond has elected two new board members; Check out the CW Grapevine for the latest personnel moves.
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Health Net to pay $340K for whistleblower ‘pretaliation’
The SEC reached a consent agreement with yet another company over allegations it violated securities laws for using severance agreements that required outgoing employees to waive their ability to obtain monetary awards from the Commission’s whistleblower program. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.