- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Aaron Nicodemus2024-06-18T15:10:00
Two senior officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) described how both agencies are committed to rooting out off-channel communications among registered entities for the long term.
“The off-channel communications issue will be with us for the next 50 years,” said Zachary Sturges, senior counsel at the SEC, during Compliance Week’s Financial Crimes and Regulatory Compliance Summit June 10 at Fordham Law School.
Texting and phone apps are the way traders under 40 communicate, Sturges said, and firms will have to use every means at their disposal—better technology, better policies, better training—to record and retain their business communications.
2024-09-05T14:32:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Six credit rating agencies will pay $49 million in fines to the Securities and Exchange Commission for allowing their employees to communicate on company business using nonapproved communication channels like Whats App and WeChat.
2024-04-26T14:13:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
The Department of Justice’s renewed scrutiny toward a corporation’s approach to the use of personal devices strengthens the case for companies to get away from bring your own device, a panelist at Compliance Week’s 2024 National Conference argued.
2024-04-08T17:35:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Sanjay Wadwha, deputy director of the SEC’s Enforcement Division, discussed the agency’s rationale for issuing widely disparate penalties for off-channel communications recordkeeping violations, as well as violations of its amended marketing rule.
2025-07-03T15:51:00Z By Ruth Prickett
The EU’s new strategy aims to boost SME growth and cut market barriers, but businesses doubt reforms will happen, and consumer groups fear weaker data protections.
2025-06-26T20:22:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
In another sign of President Donald Trump’s focus on cryptocurrency, the head of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to create proposals to consider crypto assets for a single-family home mortgage.
2025-06-24T17:21:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Four years after Brexit, the U.K. and EU announced a “reset” that will ease barriers to importing and exporting food, drink, and agricultural produce. It may also harmonize rules around carbon emissions trading systems, simplifying compliance for multinational organizations that are large emitters, and enable more young people to gain ...
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