All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 538
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Former Homeland Security Chief of Staff joins Crowell & Moring
Paul Rosen, a former federal prosecutor who served as a senior government executive at the Department of Homeland Security, has joined Crowell & Moring in the the firm’s Los Angeles office.
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Eventbrite CEO joins Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts board
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, a luxury hospitality company, has appointed Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz, representing long-term shareholder Cascade Investment, to the company's board of directors.
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Kroger names chief accounting officer
The Kroger Company last month named Todd Foley chief accounting officer, the company announced in a securities filing. He replaces Mary Elizabeth Van Oflen, who is retiring.
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World Bank names vice president of integrity
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim announced the appointment of Pascale Helene Dubois as World Bank Group Vice President for Integrity, effective July 1.
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SEC awards $500K to whistleblower
The SEC today awarded a whistleblower more than $500,000 for reporting information that prompted an investigation into misconduct that resulted in an enforcement action. It is the second whistleblower award announced by the SEC in the past week.
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Plans pile up to revise Dodd-Frank, but can they succeed?
Critics of the Dodd-Frank Act, like torch-bearing villagers in a horror movie, want to kill the legislation by any means necessary, while others seek more measured reforms.
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Richard Bistrong: The great communicator
Richard Bistrong, CEO of Front-Line Anti-Bribery, is one of the compliance world’s most outspoken voices on how companies can build better and more ethical businesses.
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Cindy Fornelli: The auditor’s CCO
Cindy Fornelli leads the Center for Audit Quality, acting as chief compliance officer and stressing the importance of truly proactive and strategic compliance efforts for audit, rather than a check-the-box mentality.
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Wells Fargo scores a pyrrhic victory amid shareholder revolt
Despite controversy before and during its annual meeting, shareholders reelected all of Wells Fargo’s directors. But trouble still lies ahead for the post-scandal banking giant.
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Brian Beeghly: The change agent
Brian Beeghly uses his experience in building better ethics and compliance programs to create technology solutions that could be at the forefront of changing the discipline of compliance itself.
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The OCEG GRC Illustrated Series: Best Practices for Tracking Third Party Risk
OCEG and Thomson Reuters have developed a new installment in OCEG's GRC Illustrated Series to outline the best practices your organization should have in place to ensure ongoing, integrated due diligence of your third party risks.
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Moving toward GDPR readiness
Companies have just about a year to comply with sweeping new EU data privacy law. For those organizations without strong data privacy programs in place, now is the time to start.
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W&T Offshore general counsel retires
W&T Offshore announced the retirement of Thomas Getten as vice president, general counsel, and secretary. He is succeeded by Shahid Ghauri, who joined the company in March 2017.
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Air Products appoints general counsel
Air Products, an industrial gases company, has appointed Sean Major as executive vice president and general counsel, effective May 1.
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Former Magyar Telekom executives settle FCPA case
Two former executives at Hungarian-based telecommunications company Magyar Telekom agreed to pay financial penalties and accept officer-and-director bars to settle a previously filed SEC case alleging violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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SFO investigates KBR over Unaoil
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office confirmed that it has opened an investigation into the activities of engineering and construction company KBR for suspected bribery and corruption offenses.
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Twist Bioscience appoints chief ethics and compliance officer
Twist Bioscience, a company accelerating science and innovation through rapid, high-quality DNA synthesis, today announced the appointment of Mark Daniels to the newly created position of chief ethics and compliance officer.
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Kara Novaco Brockmeyer joins Debevoise
Debevoise & Plimpton today announced that Kara Brockmeyer, former Chief of the SEC Enforcement Division’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit, is joining the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner.
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Senators press PCAOB for answers on KPMG audit of Wells Fargo
U.S. Senators are asking how KPMG could know Wells Fargo had fake accounts on the books, but not flag it as relevant to the financial statement audit.
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Newmont Mining FCPA probe ends in SEC declination
Gold mining company Newmont Mining said this week in a securities filing that the Securities and Exchange Commission does not plan to bring an enforcement action in connection with a previously disclosed investigation into potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.