Appointment Blogs | Compliance Week – Page 301
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AG Nominee Loretta Lynch on FCPA Enforcement
Image: Anyone curious about where attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch stands on enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act now has a lot of reading material. Lynch answered a host of written questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, giving her views on the Justice Department’s current level of transparency, the ...
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Chief Risk Officer of Federal Reserve Bank of New York to Retire
Sandra Krieger, chief risk officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, this week announced her intention to retire from the Bank in the second quarter of 2015. Krieger also is a member of the Bank’s management committee. Details inside.
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HSH Nordbank Chief Risk Officer to Depart
Germany-based financial institution HSH Nordbank this week announced that its chief risk officer, Edwin Wartenweiler, will not be extending his current contract, which runs until May 31. He is leaving to pursue new career opportunties, the company announced. Details inside.
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Flowserve Uncovers Potential FCPA Violations
Flowserve said this week in a securities filing that it has discovered potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The developer of valves and pumps said that it has uncovered actions involving an employee based in an overseas subsidiary that violated its Code of Business Conduct, and may have ...
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Canada Hits SNC-Lavalin With Fraud Charges; Company Hits Back
Canada has filed corruption and fraud charges against construction company SNC-Lavalin Group and two of its subsidiaries for possible misconduct in Libya—and the company has roundly rebutted them as baseless. “SNC-Lavalin firmly considers that the charges are without merit and will vigorously defend itself and plead not guilty,” the company ...
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United Benefit Advisors Names Chief Compliance Officer
United Benefit Advisors, an independent employee benefits advisory organization, has appointed Danielle Horstman Capilla as chief compliance officer, effective immediately. Prior to joining UBA, Capilla was an attorney and senior writer analyst for the health law division of Wolters Kluwer Law and Business. Details inside.
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FASB Finalizes New Consolidation Guidance
Image: The Financial Accounting Standards Board has finished some targeted improvements to the accounting requirements around consolidations, or the rules around when a company must add another entity to its financial statements because it controls the business. “This new standard simplifies consolidation accounting by reducing the number of consolidation models, ...
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Who Is the Most Systemic of Them All? JP Morgan
Which large U.S. bank would cause the most collateral damage if it were to fail? JP Morgan, according to a new report from the Treasury Department. The report tried to quantify just how much systemic risk exists in banks designated as “Systemically Important Financial Institutions,” and JP Morgan topped the ...
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U.K. Fraud Office Loses Corruption Case, Owes £6M Legal Bill
Image: The Serious Fraud Office is facing a £6M legal bill after a judge dismissed a case in which the agency attempted to retry six people over an alleged fraud using a legal method known as “voluntary bill of indictment.” Justice Hickinbottom said, “Once the dismissal application had been formally ...
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New Ideas on Disclosure Reform
Disclosure reform is one of the more intractable problems of corporate reporting. The SEC says it will work to move that issue forward this year, and inside, Compliance Week columnist Robert Herz offers his view on how to reinvigorate that project: Aim for a system of one corporate “evergreen” file ...
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Famous Dave's Promotes Chief Accounting Officer
Restaurant chain Famous Dave's of America has promoted John (Jack) Beckman as vice president, chief accounting officer, effective as of Feb. 16. Previously, Beckman was senior director, chief accounting officer of Famous Dave's. Details inside.
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Transparency Watchdog Calls for End to Money Laundering ‘Impunity’
Image: Title: UgazTransparency International is calling on governments around the world to join together to end money laundering. The group says authorities should make it their highest priority to prosecute individuals and banks for conducting illicit financial transactions. TI board chairman Jose Ugaz said the lack of senior ...
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The Logic Behind COSO’s ERM Framework Update
Even as compliance officers are still digesting the updated COSO framework for internal controls, COSO has set its sights on what’s next: an update to its enterprise risk management framework, likely to arrive sometime in 2016 or so. Why ERM? Why now? Inside, Compliance Week columnist Rick Steinberg walks us ...
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Feds: Employee Impersonated Firm’s President in SEC Inquiry
As I have noted here before, SEC enforcement actions are civil matters, meaning no matter how badly a defendant may lose the case he or she isn't going to prison. However, there is a one easy way to parlay this situation into jail time, and that is by perjuring yourself ...
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FASB, IASB Staff Call for Changes to Revenue Rules
Staff members of both the U.S. and international accounting rulemakers are recommending that their boards re-open their massive joint standard on revenue recognition to answer specific questions around implementation. The Joint Transition Resource Group has fielded nearly 40 issues that companies have encountered; FASB began to consider possible changes this ...
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Rolls-Royce Gets Rolled Into Petrobras Bribery Scandal
British engineering company Rolls-Royce Holdings is facing allegations that it paid bribes to Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras in exchange for a $100 million contract to provide gas turbines to power Petrobras oil rigs. Pedro Barusco, a former Petrobras senior executive, said he received at least $200,000 in bribes from ...
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Huron Consulting Group Names Chief Accounting Officer
Huron Consulting Group has appointed John Kelly as chief accounting officer and assistant treasurer, effective immediately. Kelly most recently served as controller since 2012. Details inside.
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Editor’s Note: Presidents Day Schedule
Compliance Week will publish one day late this week, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, due to the Presidents Day Holiday in the United States.
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ELM Arrives as New Compliance Buzzword
Image: We try to look cynically upon any slick new marketing campaign from the GRC software vendors, but occasionally something appears that does seem to have real substance. That may have happened earlier this month at LegalTech 2015 with its extensive discussion of “enterprise legal management.” The concept is a ...
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Video: What it Looks Like When Your GC is Wearing a Wire
In April, the criminal trial of former PetroTiger CEO Joseph Sigelman for alleged violations of the FCPA will begin in federal court in Camden, New Jersey. Prosecutors allege that Sigelman bribed a Colombian official at Ecopetrol SA, a state-run energy company, to win a contract for PetroToiger. The WSJ reports ...