All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 471
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FASB queues up technical questions on hedging standard
After approving a new standard for how to account for hedges in financial statements, now FASB is hearing requests for clarifications and technical corrections.
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Department of Justice creates Cybersecurity Task Force
A new Cyber-Digital Task Force will assess how the Department of Justice is combatting the global cyber-threat and how federal law enforcement can more effectively accomplish its mission in this evolving area.
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Former PdVSA officials face corruption-based civil lawsuit
A look at the first civil action filed in Houston for the massive PdVSA bribery and corruption that engulfed the company and those who tried to do business with it over the past few years.
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Dems want to end to federally-funded, private debt collection agencies
A team of Senate Democrats have filed legislation that would repeal authority from the Internal Revenue Service to contract with private collection agencies to collect unpaid taxes.
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CFTC and UK’s FCA agree to collaborate on FinTech innovations
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have agreed to collaborate on international FinTech efforts.
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SFO charges Barclays a second time over fraudulent $3B Qatar loan
Barclays will face charges of unlawful financial assistance in relation to an illegal transaction during the height of the financial crisis to keep the bank from failing.
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Albemarle names new chief compliance officer
Albemarle Corporation, a specialty chemical company, has appointed Andrew McBride as chief compliance officer.
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Social media companies lag on compliance with EU consumer rules
Social media companies—Facebook, Twitter, and Google+—need to do more to respond to requests made last March by the European Commission and member states' consumer authorities to comply with EU consumer protection rules.
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FCA seeks input on using technology to achieve smarter regulatory reporting
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority is seeking comment on how technology can make it easier for firms to meet their regulatory reporting requirements and improve the quality of the information they provide.
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Swiss regulator publishes ICO guidelines
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, FINMA, has published guidelines setting out how it intends to apply financial market legislation in handling enquiries from initial coin offering organisers. The guidelines also define the information FINMA requires to deal with such enquiries and the principles upon which it will base its ...
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U.K. and U.S. to collaborate on FinTech initiatives
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission have signed a first-of-its-kind arrangement with one another to collaborate and support innovative firms through each other’s FinTech initiatives.
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Could Tesco have avoided its £4 billion (U.S.$5.6B) unequal pay case
Law firm Leigh Day is taking legal action against Tesco in “what is potentially the largest ever equal pay challenge in U.K. history,” according to the firm.
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Is IFRS 9 shaking up U.S. activity to adopt CECL?
Accounting activity at publicly held financial institutions apparently is picking up to prepare for new requirements for the recognition of loan losses.
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Facilitation payments under the FCPA
In addition to its restrictions, a key to FCPA compliance is accurately recording facilitation payments going forward. As with all things FCPA-related, the “document, document, document” mantra holds.
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Extortion policies under the FCPA
An extortion payment, while not a violation of the FCPA, should have its own set of policies and procedures that employees adhere to per the chief compliance officer.
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Charitable entities and compliance
The stories of Plan International USA and of Oxfam make clear the need for robust compliance programs in a non-profit charity.
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Bad days ahead for Shell and ENI?
The bribery allegations against Shell and Italian energy company ENI makes one wonder: If monies paid to a foreign government itself are now subject to scrutiny, could it open up an entirely different exposure to liability for international organizations?
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ERM for ESG risks: Companies have new guidance to ponder
COSO is looking for feedback on draft guidance regarding how its ERM framework can be used to manage risks in environment, social, and governance areas.
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SEC’s Jackson seeks dual-share compromise with ‘sunset’ provisions
SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson is urging exchanges to prohibit companies with dual-class shareholder structures from listing if that arrangement does not include sunset provisions.
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U.S. Bancorp to pay $613M for AML compliance failures
U.S. Bancorp, the parent company of U.S. Bank, announced today that it will pay a total of $613 million in total penalties for willfully failing to have an adequate anti-money laundering compliance program and willfully failing to file a suspicious activity report in violation of the Bank Secrecy Act.