Appointment Blogs | Compliance Week – Page 217
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EU calls for corporate tax transparency
Image: The European Commission has proposed rules requiring multinational companies currently active in the EU’s single market with a permanent presence in the European Union and with a turnover in excess of EUR 750 million a year to disclose publicly the income tax they pay within the European Union, country ...
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PwC elects Tim Ryan new U.S. chairman
Image: /*-->*/ PwC has appointed former audit leader Timothy Ryan as its new U.S. chairman for a four-year term. Ryan succeeds Bob Moritz, another former audit leader who was recently appointed global chairman of PwC after two terms as U.S. chairman. Ryan has served since 2013 ...
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PCAOB proposes new rules for supervising outside audit work
The PCAOB is changing the rules on how audit firms must manage the outside auditors they hire to help with audit work. The board has proposed for public comment a new standard and amendments to existing standards to direct auditors on how they must evaluate and supervise the work of ...
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AMU co-chief Marshall Sprung announces departure from SEC
Marshall S. Sprung, co-chief of the SEC Division of Enforcement’s Asset Management Unit, is leaving the agency after 13 years of service. Sprung's co-chief, Anthony Kelly, will continue to lead the unit following Sprung’s departure later this month.
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SEC obtains settlement in kickback scheme
Seven individuals from broker-dealer Direct Access Partners settled charges with the SEC last week for their role in a massive kickback scheme to secure the bond trading business of a state-owned Venezuelan bank. As Compliance Week previously reported, the SEC and Department of Justice unsealed criminal charges in May 2013 ...
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SEC forgoes Supreme Court appeal for conflict minerals rule
The SEC had until April 7 to defend its controversial conflict minerals rule by appealing to the Supreme Court. While many watched for the filing of a writ of certiorari on the deadline day, there was a twist: A decision to forgo a challenge was made, with little fanfare, last ...
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LockPath achieves ISO 27001 certification
LockPath, a provider of governance, risk management and compliance solutions, has achieved the ISO 27001 certification, an internationally recognized information security standard. Published by the International Standardization Organization, the certification is awarded to companies that have continually demonstrated a high level of information security management and the ability to protect ...
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Robert Wilson joins London office of Exiger as director
Exiger, a global regulatory and financial crime, risk and compliance firm, has appointed Robert Wilson as a director in the firm’s London office focusing on forensic accounting.
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Markit launches CTI Tax Solutions for Common Reporting Standard
Markit, a global provider of financial information services, has announced the launch of Markit CTI Tax Solutions for the Common Reporting Standard, which identifies tax residency and performs due diligence on customer accounts. The solution enables institutions to conduct due diligence through validating account data across existing books and records, ...
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Tenet appoints chief compliance officer
Tenet Healthcare has appointed Howard Hacker as chief compliance officer, effective May 2. He will succeed Vanessa Benavides, who left Tenet to assume the leadership of compliance and privacy operations at Kaiser Permanente.
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FinCEN fines Sparks Nugget casino $1 million for AML violations
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) recently slapped a $1 million civil money penalty on Sparks Nugget casino for willfully violated the anti-money laundering provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act. “Despite the fact that it hosted convicted embezzlers and had been repeatedly alerted to suspicious transactions by its own BSA ...
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FINRA Deputy Chief Counsel returns to Foley
Dean Jeske, Deputy Regional Chief Counsel in the Enforcement Department of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, is returning to the securities enforcement and litigation practice of law firm Foley & Lardner as a partner in the firm's Chicago office.
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FinCEN Enforcement Director joins Gibson Dunn
Stephanie Brooker, director of the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), has joined law firm Gibson Dunn its Washington, D.C. office as a partner. At Gibson Dunn, Brooker will focus on financial services related criminal and regulatory enforcement, compliance, and litigation.
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The Butcher, the Baker and the Candlestick Maker … in Cuba, they are all covered under the FCPA
The winds of change are coming to Cuba, and U.S. businesses are slowly, but surely, beginning to get their long-awaited opportunities to set up shop in one of the world’s last truly socialist states. But this brings with it a most unusual FCPA liability that makes doing business in Cuba ...
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Exterran names chief accounting officer
Exterran has appointed Ray Carney as chief accounting officer. Carney brings to Exterran a 27-year accounting career. Most recently, he spent eight years with Dresser-Rand Group, serving as its vice president, controller and chief accounting officer.
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Las Vegas Sands pays $9 million for FCPA violations
Las Vegas Sands has agreed to pay a $9 million penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by failing to properly authorize or document millions of dollars in payments to a consultant facilitating business activities in China and Macao.
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PCAOB prepares new rule on outside auditors, reviews EQR standard
The PCAOB has scheduled an open meeting to consider a proposed new requirment around firms relying on others outside the principal firm to assist with audit work. The new proposal would address the lead auditor’s responsibilities with respect to those other auditors from outside the principal audit firm who participate ...
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Yamana Gold discloses fees for ESG assurance
A gold mining company’s recent disclosure of its cost for obtaining assurance with respect to its use of conflict materials might be the first of its kind, but the lack of standards in this area, coupled with a lack of independent third-party assurance points to a need for higher-quality reports ...
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What depreciation at Intel says about Moore’s Law
A recent earnings statement by one of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers offers what looks like good news at first blush, but in reality might suggest that a bigger, and more negative trend might be underway. At the heart of it: a potential slowdown in Moore’s Law itself, the law ...