All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 2
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ArticleWill U.K. mandate that Big Four separate audit units make a difference?
The FRC hopes its demand that the Big Four isolate their audit units from their other businesses by 2024 will improve their ethical behavior … but some are skeptical.
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Deutsche dinged $150M for compliance failures related, in part, to Jeffrey Epstein
Deutsche Bank will pay $150 million in penalties under a consent order with New York State for “significant compliance failures” regarding, in part, its former relationship with accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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Wirecard scandal will have cascading impact on Germany’s audit, regulatory landscape
Wirecard already is shaping up to be to Germany what Enron was to the United States: An accounting oversight failure so epic in its scope and scale that its aftermath is likely to forever alter the country’s auditing and accounting profession as it exists today.
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CPE Webcast: CCPA - The California AG is ready. Are you?
With the CCPA being the most important privacy and data security law ever to be enacted in the United States, it will bring a sea of change in the way businesses manage and communicate with consumers about personal data.
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Adidas vows more ‘diverse and inclusive’ workplace after key exec departs
Footwear and apparel giant Adidas is focused on improving its diversity efforts after its head of global human resources stepped down following controversial remarks on race that angered employees.
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Analysis: Following the telephone trail to detect fraudsters
One way to thwart money launderers is to take a page from the government’s playbook and examine smartphone applications when the contamination of fraud or money laundering is discovered.
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White paper: Digital Transformation & Cyber Risk: What You Need to Know to Stay Safe
CyberGRX and Ponemon Institute surveyed 581 IT security and 302 C-suite executives to determine what impact digital transformation is having on cybersecurity and how prepared organizations are to deal with that impact.
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Microsoft announces chief accounting officer succession
Microsoft disclosed in a regulatory filing the appointment of Alice Jolla as corporate vice president and chief accounting officer, effective July 31. Jolla will replace Frank Brod, who is retiring from the position.
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Options Clearing Corp. promotes chief compliance officer
Options Clearing Corp., the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced the promotion of Jennifer Baum to senior vice president and chief compliance officer.
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Happy Money adds compliance chief, general counsel
FinTech firm Happy Money announced the appointment of Jason Altieri as general counsel and chief compliance officer.
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Tricolor names chief compliance officer
Used vehicle retailer Tricolor announced the addition of veteran compliance executive Stacie Trier as chief compliance officer.
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Akcea appoints chief compliance officer
Akcea Therapeutics, a majority-owned affiliate of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, announced Tracy Palmer Berns has joined the company as chief compliance officer.
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Novartis’ latest settlements: $729M in kickback charges
A week after resolving FCPA investigations for $347 million, Swiss pharmaceutical drug maker Novartis will pay another $729 million in separate settlements related to kickback schemes.
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Alexion Pharmaceuticals to pay $21M to resolve FCPA case
Alexion Pharmaceuticals will pay $21 million to resolve SEC charges that it violated the books and records and internal accounting controls provisions of the FCPA concerning bribes made by subsidiaries to foreign government officials.
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Managing emerging trade-based money laundering risks
Trade-based money laundering was already happening prior to the coronavirus pandemic, but now its nature has shifted. The ICA offers key considerations for managing emerging risks.
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Ask Amii mailbag: What to do when back-to-work guidance falls to you
Executive coach Amii-Barnard Bahn offers some tips for when your compliance title morphs into “Chief Public Health Officer,” plus ways to highlight the compliance function at your company and more.
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OCC report highlights elevated compliance risks in banking
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency published a new report describing key issues facing the federal banking system and the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the banking industry.
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EPA enforcement discretion policy to end next month
The Environmental Protection Agency has revised its temporary—and controversial—enforcement discretion policy regarding environmental legal obligations during the coronavirus pandemic, establishing an end date of Aug. 31.
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Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to CFTC authority
A lawsuit questioning the enforcement authority of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has petered out after being denied the chance to be heard at the U.S. Supreme Court.
