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    Granite Construction fined $12M over exec accounting fraud scheme

    2022-08-26T20:10:00Z

    California-based civil engineering and infrastructure firm Granite Construction agreed to pay $12 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges alleging fraud related to inflation of the company’s financial performance.

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    McDonald’s claws back $105M severance paid to disgraced former CEO

    2021-12-17T20:42:00Z

    McDonald’s has agreed to drop its lawsuit against disgraced former CEO Steve Easterbrook, who will return more than $105 million in equity and cash he received upon the termination of his employment in 2019.

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    Senators want Equifax answers on clawbacks, disclosures

    2017-09-27T14:00:00Z

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and fellow senators have expanded their investigation into the recent Equifax breach, the company's response, and the possibility of executive pay clawbacks.

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    Wells Fargo scandal prompts senators to focus on clawbacks, KPMG

    2016-10-27T17:30:00Z

    Still responding to the Wells Fargo scandal, Senate Democrats are urging tougher clawback rules and grilling KPMG over its “failure to identify illegal activity when it audited the bank’s financial statements.” Joe Mont reports.

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    Q&A: Farient Advisors’ John Trentacoste

    2016-10-12T10:00:00Z

    Joe Mont talks with John Trentacoste, a director at Farient Advisors, on how Wells Fargo’s woes may influence boards’ compensation decisions.

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    The many compliance lessons of Wells Fargo

    2016-09-20T09:15:00Z

    What should compliance officers take away from Wells Fargo employees secretly opening unauthorized deposit and credit card accounts for their customers? Joe Mont looks at the important lessons.

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    SEC’s White offers insight on 2016 priorities

    2016-02-12T11:30:00Z

    In a wide-ranging conversation at Northwestern University, SEC Chairman Mary Jo White detailed her thoughts on a variety of topics, offering fresh perspective on agency priorities for the months ahead, including the ongoing disclosure effectiveness review, a new accredited investor definition, and the “clawback” rule for executive compensation.

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    Disclosure Update: How Companies Are Tackling Comp Rules

    2015-11-17T14:30:00Z

    The Dodd-Frank Act brims with new disclosure demands regarding executive compensation. Slowly but surely—emphasis on slowly—the SEC has been issuing rules on clawbacks, pay for performance, and the dreaded pay ratio rule. This week, we look at those three measures and what companies have done so far to comply with ...

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    Clawbacks, Other Reforms Drive Better Pay Disclosure

    2015-10-14T11:00:00Z

    A new study from Deloitte finds that FTSE 100 companies have dramatically improved their disclosures around executive pay in recent years, probably in no small part due to new clawback provisions and other governance requirements adopted lately. (New regulations on pay disclosure were rolled out last year, such as a ...

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    All the Questions Confronting Clawback Policy

    2015-07-07T09:15:00Z

    The SEC has proposed a new rule that publicly traded companies adopt a clawback policy to recoup incentive-based compensation from executives that later turns out to be based on faulty financial statements. How hard can that be? Well, pretty hard, many compensation experts say. Inside, we have the run-down on ...

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    SEC Goes Beyond SOX with Clawback Proposal

    2015-07-01T12:30:00Z

    The SEC has proposed another controversial executive compensation rule per the Dodd-Frank Act: a clawback requirement for erroneously awarded compensation, that applies to the CEO, CFO, and numerous other corporate executive officers. If adopted as proposed, the rule will go well beyond previous clawback requirements under Sarbanes-Oxley. More inside.

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    U.K. Watchdogs Issue New Rules on Clawbacks for Bankers

    2015-06-24T12:00:00Z

    The Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England have finished banker rules that could have bonuses clawed back even after a decade of being awarded, if the firm comes under regulatory scrutiny for “potential material failures,” the FCA said. Senior managers aren’t off the hook either: They face a ...

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    When Revenue Recognition and Executive Pay Collide

    2015-02-18T12:15:00Z

    Image: The impending new accounting standard for revenue recognition already has corporate accountants buzzing; now compensation committees should brace for impact. The standard redefines a host of terms under the heading of “revenue,” and that will affect pay plans. “To the extent executive compensation is triggered by company performance … ...

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    Prudential Financial Adopts New Clawback Policy

    2015-02-13T10:45:00Z

    Prudential Financial this week adopted a new clawback policy covering all incentive-based compensation made to its executive officers in the form of stock options and other equity awards. "The policy, which marks an expansion of Prudential’s previous clawback policy, was adopted by the Board as part of its annual review ...

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    Study: Companies Taking Own Action on Clawbacks

    2015-02-10T10:45:00Z

    Even ahead of any new clawback rules mandated by Congress or the SEC, companies are moving ahead themselves to add clawback provisions to executive compensation arrangements—and are swallowing some added accounting and financial reporting complexity to do so. PwC recently analyzed 100 large public companies and found 40 percent of ...