All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 490
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Compliance & ethics in litigation finance
Crowdsourcing legal costs is one of the world’s more novel alternative asset classes, but the clock is ticking on when compliance officers will need to enforce some rules on it.
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Encrypted messaging you can’t afford to ignore
The rise of messaging apps such as WhatsApp and WeChat mean that compliance departments will have to square encrypted messaging with current healthcare and finance regulations.
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European Medicines Agency publishes Brexit guidance for pharma companies
The European Medicines Agency has published additional guidance for pharmaceutical companies to help them prepare for the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union.
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5 questions to ask about cloud security implications
As firms increasingly turn to cloud computing and data storage, compliance officers need to understand the particular risks that come with using this kind of technology.
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Audit technology pushes companies to get data in order
To stay in step with audit technology, companies need to start thinking hard about their own technological capabilities to stand up to the audit process.
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Blog
OECD: Brexit to weaken U.K. economic growth
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development projected that Britain’s exit from the European Union will result in a sharp slowdown in economic growth in the United Kingdom.
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Turmoil reigns at CFPB after Cordray resigns
As both the CFPB itself and the White House clash over who runs the agency in the wake of Director Richard Cordray’s resignation, compliance officers should brace for one of the Trump administration’s uglier legal battles.
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U.K. Serious Fraud Office prosecutor joins Gibson Dunn in London
Sacha Harber-Kelly, a prosecutor with the U.K. Serious Fraud Office in the Anti-Corruption and Bribery Division, will join the international law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a partner in its London office.
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Companies make progress, face more work on revenue
Third-quarter filings suggest companies are making progress implementing new revenue rules, but still have plenty of work to do in the fourth quarter.
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Identifying Third-Party Risks in the Financial Sector
Third-party risks in the financial sector are a breed unto themselves. Or, more precisely, they are two related breeds: third-party risks from customers, and third-party risks from vendors. A financial firm’s compliance function must somehow address them both.
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Donnelley Financial Solutions raises bar for financial disclosure management
Donnelley Financial Solutions announced the release of ActiveDisclosure 3, the newest generation of its cloud-based financial disclosure management solution, ActiveDisclosure. By integrating with Microsoft Office Online, ActiveDisclosure 3 allows multiple users to simultaneously create and edit their Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents from most devices.
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Netwrix Auditor 9.5 enables firms to improve detection of threat actors
Netwrix Corporation, a provider of a visibility platform for user behavior analysis and risk mitigation in hybrid environments, announced the release of Netwrix Auditor 9.5, providing customers with security intelligence to proactively reduce risk and spot threat actors.
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Pharmacy compliance director pleads guilty over mislabeled drugs
The former director of compliance for a compounding pharmacy company pleaded guilty last week to introducing adulterated drugs into interstate commerce and conspiracy to defraud the United States by obstructing the Food and Drug Administration’s lawful functions.
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FINRA fines J.P. Morgan $1.25M for failing to screen thousands of employees
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined J.P. Morgan Securities $1.25 million for failing to conduct timely or adequate background checks on approximately 8,600—or 95 percent—of its non-registered employees, in violation of federal securities laws.
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A bird’s eye view of internal control accounting standards & risk
In this eBook, produced by Compliance Week in partnership with Workiva, we explore some of the most significant enterprise-risk management (ERM) challenges facing companies today and best practices being employed to tame those risks.
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For Uber: what else? Not: where else?
Another Uber reveal, this time the fact that the company make a $100K payment to hackers who broke and stole confidential data of some 57 million Uber customers and drivers, leaves many wondering what else the transportation company has kept in the dark.
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The compliance oversight committee
Installing a compliance oversight review committee is a crucial step that should be employed by companies as added protection against any type of compliance and ethics violations that could slip through the cracks and become much bigger problems down the road.
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The regional compliance committee
The regional compliance officer adds a dimension not often seen or even discussed in the compliance profession, offering oversight of the compliance monitoring, reviewing, assessing, and recommending that is deemed necessary to the compliance function.
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Doing business with Citgo? Get ready for a bumpy ride
The arrest of Citgo Petroleum Company’s acting president of the company and five members of the company’s board for offering bonds to finance the company’s continued operations means that if you’re doing business with Citgo, it’s definitely time to review your relationships, contracts, payment status, and all other facets of ...
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What does ‘Made in Japan’ stand for now?
Mitsubishi Materials knew for months one of its subsidiaries was shipping low-quality products, giving the phrase ‘Made in Japan’ a whole new meaning.