- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Kyle Brasseur2024-03-05T20:05:00
KPMG agreed to pay a reduced penalty of nearly 1.5 million pounds (U.S. $1.9 million) assessed by the U.K. Financial Reporting Council (FRC) addressing admitted failings in the Big Four audit firm’s financial year 2018 work at advertising services company M&C Saatchi.
The firm earned a discount from an original penalty of £2.25 million (U.S. $2.9 million) for admissions and early disposal, the FRC announced in a press release Monday. KPMG received further leniency from the agency by improving its audit procedures to “reduce the risk of the failings identified during the M&C Saatchi audit recurring.”
Adrian Wilcox, the KPMG engagement partner on the audit, was ordered to pay a reduced £48,750 (U.S. $62,000).
2024-07-15T16:41:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The U.K.’s Financial Reporting Council fined audit firm MacIntyre Hudson (MHA) and two employees for breaching the agency’s requirements.
2024-05-14T16:30:00Z By Jeff Dale
Crowe U.K. was assessed a penalty of £144,000 (U.S. $181,000) by the U.K. Financial Reporting Council for failures in its audit of Aseana Properties Limited’s financial statements for the year ended Dec. 31, 2019.
2024-04-09T17:23:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Grant Thornton UK was assessed a penalty of £40,000 (U.S. $51,000) by the Financial Reporting Council for alleged procedure failures affecting the firm’s audit of a local authority’s pension fund.
2025-07-02T18:31:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Emerging enforcement priorities of the U.S. Department of Justice’s health care fraud division align with the Trump administration’s emphasis on prosecuting transnational criminal organizations and ending opioid trafficking.
2025-07-01T23:26:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has yet to keep up the level of enforcement it had under previous chair Lina Khan. The agency, however, returned to antitrust action in the case of fuel stations, just in time for the July 4th holiday.
2025-06-25T16:29:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
In May, three commissioners for the Consumer Product Safety Commission were abruptly fired by President Donald Trump and sued for their jobs shortly after. A federal judge has ruled that the commissioners should be reinstated, although it’s unclear whether that ruling may itself be reversed.
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