Below is an excerpt from “Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency,” published this spring by Cambridge University Press. By special arrangement, the authors—Archon Fung and Mary Graham of the Kennedy School of Government, and David Weil of the Boston University School of Management—have allowed Compliance Week to publish an excerpt on what makes […]
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Data Breaches And SOX: Where Your Worries Are
In January, retailer TJX Cos. joined the long list of businesses tarred and embarrassed by losing sensitive customer information. One mildly consoling thought for compliance executives: loss of customer data doesn’t really harm the integrity of financial statements, so a breach doesn’t necessarily plunge you into Sarbanes-Oxley difficulties. Or does it? Actually, experts say, breaches […]
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General Counsel Of Iron Mountain On ERM
In the latest of our occasional Q&As with governance and compliance executives, we talk to Garry Watzke, general counsel at $2 billion Iron Mountain. Click here for other recent conversations. How big is your compliance staff? What are its main responsibilities? I have a director of compliance responsible for the front-line work on compliance; the […]
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Taking A Holistic View Of Risk And Privacy
Companies looking to purchase technology to assist in compliance efforts increasingly are turning to systems that allow them to implement controls for both governance and privacy regulations. “Customers are more mature,” says Ron Ben-Natan, chief technology officer of Guardium, a database monitoring and security company. Customers know not to treat each regulation with standalone initiatives, […]
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Using Technology To Build Your GRC System
This month, Compliance Week and the Open Compliance and Ethics Group present the third installment of our regular series, “GRC Illustrated.” The interactive series—which features visual representations of key governance, risk, and compliance initiatives—is intended to help readers understand how to put principles into practice (Click here for information on the series). In this month’s […]
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A New Framework For US-EU Hotline Issues
Letters exchanged between the Securities and Exchange Commission and an important study group in the European Union are offering new hints to companies trying to bridge a trans-Atlantic regulatory spat over whistleblower hotlines. The correspondence—swapped between Ethiopis Tafara at the SEC Office of International Affairs and the EU Article 29 Data Protection Working Party—addresses the […]
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Who’s Coming And Going In Governance
Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week Assistant Editor Laura Starczewski. From The Regulators Chookaszian Dennis Chookaszian, former chairman and chief executive office of CNA Insurance, has been named chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory […]
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Still A Disconnect Between Compliance, IT
It’s the disappointing truth about much of Corporate America’s IT efforts: Despite years of overhauls, tweaks, and projects, many companies still remain unprepared for lawsuits, audits, or regulatory probes because they lack the IT infrastructure to manage their data effectively and apply it to compliance efforts. So say two recent studies trying to gauge the […]
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The New Congress & Corporate Governance
Last week’s dramatic shift in power in Washington—with Democrats regaining both chambers of Congress—could change the tone of debate on corporate-governance issues and has renewed hopes that Congress might relax aspects of Sarbanes-Oxley. But Beltway-watchers who spoke with Compliance Week say they aren’t anticipating wholesale legislative changes on SOX or other compliance matters. Phan “I […]
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A Duty To Act When Misbehavior Happens
In the company lunchroom, you overhear a group of employees talking about the new hire in accounting. “I heard he’s been dating Susan in accounts payable for a couple of months,” says one of them. “They met a while back … No wonder he got the job here!” “Yeah,” another employee chirps. “I saw them […]
