All off-channel communications articles
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OpinionHighlights from Compliance Week 2023
Significant changes in policy and technology, in addition to fresh perspectives on tried-and-true compliance topics, highlighted the discussion at Compliance Week’s 2023 National Conference.
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CW2023 leadership panel assesses new DOJ priorities, training impact
Recent policy changes at the Department of Justice provided plenty of fodder for a leadership panel of senior legal and compliance practitioners to discuss during Compliance Week’s 2023 National Conference.
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Tech think tank participants tackle TPRM, MDM, off-channel comms at CW2023
With new technology tools come risks that can’t be denied, a think tank comprised of senior compliance professionals discussed at Compliance Week’s 2023 National Conference.
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HSBC to pay $45M to settle CFTC spoofing, recordkeeping violations
HSBC was fined $45 million by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over allegations its traders used manipulative and deceptive trading practices. The bank and its subsidiaries were separately fined $30 million by the CFTC for business use of off-channel communications by employees.
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HSBC, Scotiabank latest caught in regs’ off-channel comms sting
The Bank of Nova Scotia and HSBC were fined $22.5 million and $15 million, respectively, by U.S. regulators for admitted recordkeeping failures regarding employee use of off-channel communications to conduct company business.
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CPE Webcast: WhatsApp and off-channel communications: Lessons for the rest of us
The SEC and CFTC spent the latter part of 2022 issuing a series of exceptionally large enforcement actions against financial services firms over unapproved communications tools. Most of these actions stemmed from recordkeeping violations.
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DOJ sets new compliance criteria for criminal investigations
The Department of Justice announced changes to its evaluation procedures for corporate compliance programs in criminal investigations, including monitoring off-channel messaging by employees, executive compensation programs, and how the agency selects compliance monitors.
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Wells Fargo probed for employee use of off-channel communications
The Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission are investigating Wells Fargo regarding employees’ improper use of off-channel communications to conduct business and the bank’s recordkeeping of those communications.
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Societe Generale says SEC probing employee off-channel comms
French bank Société Générale is the latest financial institution to be swept up in U.S. regulators’ crackdown on the use of personal cellphones and private apps by employees to conduct official business.
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Reports: Morgan Stanley fines bankers up to $1M for off-channel communications
Morgan Stanley fined its employees up to $1 million for using unauthorized communication channels in violation of recordkeeping rules, according to multiple reports.
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Loaded SEC agenda to carry into 2023
The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to see through its controversial policy proposals from 2022, though the newly Republican-led House could slow the agency’s momentum.
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Top ethics and compliance failures of 2022
Businesses not taking AML requirements seriously, years of noncompliant off-channel communications catching up to financial services titans, and a manufacturing firm that shared revenue with terrorists comprise CW’s list of the biggest ethics and compliance fails of 2022.
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DOJ official hints at policy changes for off-channel communications, clawbacks
The Department of Justice is considering issuing new guidance regarding companies’ record-keeping obligations for employees’ use of personal cell phones to conduct corporate business, as well as executive compensation clawback policies.
