All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 410
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Doing Compliance: Design, Create, and Implement an Effective Anti-Corruption Compliance Program
Compliance Week columnist Tom Fox shares his considerable anti-corruption expertise in this book that walks the reader through the requirements to build, and execute, a modern compliance program. With a focus on anti-bribery and anti-corruption issues, the book first reviews the basic building blocks a compliance officer needs (code of ...
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Adopting Effective Data Privacy Controls
Cyber-security is taking a new twist this year, as companies begin to assess risks posed by sales and marketing activities that rely on digital channels and social media. For the compliance officer, there are many challenges associated with data management. This in-depth report takes a closer look at how compliance ...
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Segregation of Duties & Sensitive Access: Leveraging System-Enforced Controls
This report begins with a review of segregation of duties and sensitive access controls, and reasons why both subjects are often misunderstood by the audit and compliance community. It then offers an 11-step method for assessing business processes to find gaps where SoD and SA controls are necessary, establishing those ...
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CCO 2.0 | Internal Marketer and Soft Skills Required
CCO 2.0 provides the compliance practitioner with some of the most current ideas on the types of skills that a compliance officer might need and how to market the compliance function within the corporate environment.
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SEC brings charges in EDGAR hacking case
The SEC has brought charges against nine defendants for participating in a previously disclosed scheme to hack into the SEC’s EDGAR system and extract non-public information to use for illegal trading.
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NICE Actimize launches financial crime advisory practice
Autonomous financial crime management provider NICE Actimize announced the launch of its Financial Crime Enterprise Consulting & Advisory Practice (eCAP) and introduced its Financial Crime Target Operating Model.
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ArticleLIBOR death knell tolls compliance, accounting issues
The slow death of a critical benchmark interest rate will produce a series of compliance headaches for companies stretching over the next few years.
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Brexit vote unlikely to produce clarity, so government prepping businesses for the worst
While the current Brexit deal (set to be voted on Tuesday evening) remains the U.K. government’s top priority, it understands preparation for all scenarios is necessary.
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Anti-corruption developments in emerging markets
In a recent webcast conducted by law firm Gibson Dunn, a panel of anti-corruption experts shared some key insights into the latest anti-corruption developments in some of the world’s largest—but most corrupt—regions and offered some practical tips on how to do business in these countries without running afoul of anti-corruption ...
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Supreme Court will not hear CFPB constitutional challenge
The Supreme Court has declined to hear a years-long lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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EU investigates Nike over tax
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to examine whether the Dutch government unfairly helped U.S. sportswear company Nike avoid paying taxes on its European profits through a series of favourable tax rulings.
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Warren: Comerica left retirees, veterans vulnerable to fraud
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is urging government officials to respond and react to allegations that Social Security beneficiaries were the victims of fraud through their use of a government program administered by Comerica Bank.
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Senate bill would restrict pharmaceutical advertising
Senate Democrats are promoting the End Taxpayer Subsidies for Drug Ads Act, legislation that would prohibit pharmaceutical drug manufacturers from claiming tax deductions for consumer advertising expenses.
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ResourceThe year ahead in compliance
Is 2019 the year of the compliance officer?, more regulator questions in the new year, SEC enforcement priorities for 2019, accounting changes in 2019, top ethics and compliance failures of 2018, and more.
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FASB issues Q&A on CECL method, sets roundtable date
To answer CECL implementation questions, FASB issued a Q&A focusing on the weight average remaining maturity, or WARM, method some entities are exploring.
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Los Angeles sues Weather Channel app, IBM over location data
The City of Los Angeles has filed a lawsuit against the operator of the Weather Channel smartphone app—an IBM subsidiary—for “covertly mining the private data of users and selling the information to third parties.”
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ArticleStudy: Blowing the whistle won’t harm the bottom line
A new study from NAVEX Global reveals whistleblower hotlines don’t often prove detrimental to business outcomes.
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ArticleUnderstanding the territorial scope of the GDPR
EU companies should scrutinize new guidelines from the European Data Protection Board that signal the long arm of the GDPR extends far beyond the European Union.
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SEC fines company over non-GAAP prominence issue
Still on its soap box over non-GAAP reporting, the SEC issued an enforcement action against home security company ADT focused on problems with prominence.
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Waters: Shutdown is jeopardizing financial markets
As she assumes leadership of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is arguing that the ongoing government shutdown is harming the SEC and the integrity of U.S. financial markets.