All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 1011
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World Bank: FreeBalance faces six-month debarment
The World Bank Group announced the debarment for six months of FreeBalance, a Canadian provider of financial-management-related software, connected to sanctionable misconduct under the Integrated Financial Management Information System Project for Liberia.
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Survey: Office culture still a major barrier to whistleblowing
Whistleblowing is becoming a more standardized practice in workplaces around the world, but workplace culture is still deterring large numbers of employees from engaging in the practice, new research by law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has revealed.
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Accuity launches Live Services pilot with global banks
Accuity, a global financial crime compliance, payments, and KYC solutions provider, recently announced the launch of its Firco Live Services pilot with global banks.
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TrustArc enhanced privacy solution addresses GDPR compliance
TrustArc, a data privacy management provider, recently announced the launch of Data Flow Manager, a new data inventory and mapping solution that builds and visualizes business process data flows to dramatically simplify the steps companies must take in order to produce the controls and reports needed to comply with GDPR ...
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ArticleCompliance practices for Iran and Russia sanctions
Looming deadlines and decision points concerning Iran and Russia may portend changes in the implementation of existing sanctions. The challenge for sanctions compliance professionals is how to manage these risks while still engaging in legitimate trade.
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Amid uncertainty, SEC entrance into Fiduciary rule saga takes shape
While the Labor Department’s Fiduciary rule for investment advice remains uncertain amid lawsuits and Congressional attacks, the SEC prepares to issue its own version.
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Avoiding the compliance complications of GDPR
The EU GDPR transcends borders, and any company with business ties to the EU should be aware this rule is not only set in stone, but has teeth that can cut into bottom lines.
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Financial services firms buckle down on data security
There is no single solution to prevent the many flavors of cyber-crime. Private enterprise and the government, however, should do a better job of working together.
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Delete your accounts. All of them
The porous nature of data security is worse than we thought. Maybe the only way for anyone to really secure their digital presence is to destroy it.
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Employee amnesty programs: Strategic move or act of desperation?
Employee amnesty programs are a successful investigative tactic to get to the bottom of ethics and compliance lapses. So why don’t more compliance programs offer them?
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SEC makes an example of Alere
A recent enforcement action against a medical manufacturer for revenue recognition failures and bribery illustrates some interesting new enforcement trends for the SEC.
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New guidance for best practices on human rights
A new guidance is giving compliance officers the tool they need to benchmark their own organization’s efforts to protect, respect, and remedy human rights.
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CBI: Adoption of existing technologies will solve productivity problems in U.K.
CBI, the U.K.’s leading business group, finds that the slow adoption of existing technologies and management practices is fueling the U.K.’s deep-seated productivity problems, creating disparities in productivity and pay among businesses.
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Wells Fargo Securities names co-heads of Investment Banking Coverage
Wells Fargo Securities, the investment banking and capital markets business of Wells Fargo & Company, has named John Hudson and Kristin Lesher as the new co-heads of Investment Banking Coverage, effective immediately.
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Sessions deflects charges of lying about Trump campaign aide and Russia connection
AG Jeff Sessions went before the House on Tuesday to deflect charges that he had lied in regard to having knowledge of campaign aide George Papadopoulos’ contact with Russia.
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Calling out usual audit ills, PCAOB also ponders next steps
While acknowledging audit firms have taken measures to address adverse inspection findings, the PCAOB also is starting to ask if the firms are doing enough.
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Are changes coming to the DoJ corporate monitor program?
As a review of the Justice Department’s corporate monitor practices is taking shape, reports have surfaced that experts have their own suggestions.
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Tax reform pace could produce major year-end reporting
If tax reform is enacted by the end of 2017, companies could be facing a mad scramble to report the effects in their year-end financial statements.
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Kokesh impacting SEC enforcement program
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the case Kokesh v. SEC was a significant decision that has already had an impact on many parts of the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement program, according to a senior SEC enforcement official.
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SEC, UPS, and the MLB
Title: SEC, UPS, and the MLBThis week, the SEC comes under fire for whistleblower complaints, UPS joins the blockchain bandwagon, and two individuals connected to the MLB are convicted of smuggling.