All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 538

  • Blog

    Former Homeland Security Chief of Staff joins Crowell & Moring

    2017-05-02T13:45:00Z

    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

    2017-05-02T13:30:00Z

    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

    2017-05-02T13:15:00Z

    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

    2017-05-02T12:45:00Z

    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

    2017-05-02T12:15:00Z

    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?

    2017-05-02T11:30:00Z

    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

    2017-05-02T11:00:00Z

    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

    2017-05-02T11:00:00Z

    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.

  • Article

    Wells Fargo scores a pyrrhic victory amid shareholder revolt

    2017-05-02T11:00:00Z

    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

    2017-05-02T10:45:00Z

    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.

  • Resource

    The OCEG GRC Illustrated Series: Best Practices for Tracking Third Party Risk

    2017-05-02T09:00:00Z Provided by

    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

    2017-05-02T08:45:00Z

    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.

  • Blog

    W&T Offshore general counsel retires

    2017-05-01T12:00:00Z

    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

    2017-05-01T12:00:00Z

    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

    2017-05-01T11:45:00Z

    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

    2017-05-01T11:30:00Z

    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

    2017-05-01T11:00:00Z

    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

    2017-05-01T10:30:00Z

    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

    2017-05-01T10:30:00Z

    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

    2017-04-28T16:15:00Z

    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.