All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 1470
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Blog
Everlaw welcomes chief legal officer
Everlaw, a cloud-native ediscovery solution, announced the appointment of Gloria Lee to the position of chief legal officer.
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Mashreq Egypt names CRO
Mashreq Egypt announced the appointment of Amr Hassan as chief risk officer.
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MLC Life Insurance names CRO as customer, strategy chief
MLC Life Insurance appointed its Chief Risk Officer Jane McGovern as chief customer and strategy officer.
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Figure Technology Solutions names first CLO
Figure Technology Solutions announced the appointment of Ronald Chillemi as its first chief legal officer and corporate secretary.
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WebcastCPE Webcast: The acronyms that changed the finance industry: from AML and BSA to KYC and BaaS
In the ever-evolving landscape of finance, governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) have emerged as critical pillars that underpin the stability and growth of financial institutions.
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Sabert adds sustainability chief
Sabert Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of innovative and sustainable food packaging solutions, announced the appointment of Richa Desai as chief sustainability and strategy officer.
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News BriefFINRA dings JPMorgan Securities $190K over registration, supervision failures
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined JPMorgan Securities $190,000 for unregistered investment banking activities and not having a supervisory system reasonably designed to achieve compliance with FINRA registration requirements.
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PremiumNorfolk Southern fires CEO, CLO for affair that violated company policies
Norfolk Southern Corp., the railroad still cleaning up the environmental and financial damages caused when one of its trains derailed in a small Ohio town, has fired its top executive and chief legal officer after concluding they had an affair that violated company policies.
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PremiumAn Amsterdam discussion on increased role of CCOs
Compliance Week and its sister organization the International Compliance Association will bring together more than 200 GRC professionals for Compliance Week Europe Oct. 15-16 in Amsterdam to discuss how they’re making sense of the constantly changing regulatory landscape.
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News BriefCFPB orders TD Bank to pay $28M for sending false info to credit agencies
TD Bank has been ordered to pay $27.7 million and implement compliance measures, for providing inaccurate, negative credit information to credit agencies about tens of thousands of its customers and taking too long to fix the errors, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said.
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News BriefWells Fargo agrees with OCC to shore up BSA/AML, sanctions program deficiencies
The Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ordered Wells Fargo to make “comprehensive corrective actions” to its Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering and U.S. sanctions programs, along with receive permission from the OCC to offer new products and services or enter new geographic markets with “medium or high” ...
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News BriefSEC charges three Medly execs with fraud for investment scheme
Former executives of Medly, an online pharmacy that is now shuttered, have been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with defrauding investors.
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PremiumBudweiser Budvar registration failures show ESG impacts of U.K. noncompliance
Most businesses think more about their products than what they come wrapped in, but a recent U.K. penalty against Czech brewery Budweiser Budvar indicates packaging is an increasingly important element in sustainability regulations.
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PremiumChinese regulators impose six-month ban, $62M fine on PwC’s China unit
Chinese authorities banned PwC’s Chinese unit from performing audits in the country for six months, labeling the subsidiary’s flawed audit work as complicit in the failure of giant property developer Evergrande.
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WebcastCPE Webcast: Extra guac, extra insights: How to engage learners on a Chipotle burrito budget
When Chipotle began to strengthen their E&C program in 2020, they were met with a lot of resistance to traditional compliance training.
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News BriefFINRA fines Wells Fargo unit $3M for repeatedly pushing ‘unsuitable’ investments
A Wells Fargo subsidiary will pay nearly $3 million to settle allegations that it failed to properly supervise an employee attempting to sell unsuitable investment products to retail investors–the fifth time it has been penalized for similar supervisory failings since 2020.
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Premium‘Tick-box’ training leads to tragic outcome in Costa Coffee allergen case
Company training has always been equal parts important and annoying. But a recent inquest found some eLearning courses fail to warn companies when employees struggle through education and testing. For 13-year-old Hannah Jacobs, the consequences ended with her death.
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News BriefDOJ orders Walgreens to pay $107M for fraudulent claims caused by Rx ‘software error’
Walgreens agreed to pay nearly $107 million to resolve allegations, first brought by two whisteblowers, that it improperly billed federal healthcare programs for prescriptions that were never picked up or delivered.
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News BriefSEC nets $1.3M in off-channel comms sweep against municipal advisory firms
Fines for off-channel communications use by employees just keep on coming, with 12 municipal advisory firms fined a total of $1.3 million in the latest Securities and Exchange Commission sweep.
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News BriefSEC charges Kubient 'gatekeepers' with failing to stop CEO's AI fraud
Gatekeepers including chief financial officers and the chair of the audit committee have a responsibility to shareholders to report fraud wherever they find it–especially when that fraud involves an artificial intelligence tool meant to combat fraud.