All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 601
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BOK Financial names chief risk officer
BOK Financial, a $31 billion regional financial services company, has promoted Marty Grunst to the role of chief risk officer, effective Aug. 1. He will report to President and CEO Steve Bradshaw and serve on the company’s executive leadership team.
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ArticleAlan Halfenger: The true believer
Alan Halfenger stumbled into compliance more than two decades ago, but in the time since then, he has not only come to embrace and embody what it means to be a strong compliance professional, he has made it his mission to spread the word far and wide on what tomorrow’s ...
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Commercial drones raise compliance issues for shipping industry
The shipping industry’s innovative use of drones to ferry goods to tanker ships shows promise, but carries compliance risk. Guest columnist Martin Foncello of Exiger gets into the details.
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ArticleAssessing antitrust risk in M&A transactions
Top officials at the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have announced their intention to focus heavily on M&A antitrust enforcement, at a time when merger activity is skyrocketing. Jaclyn Jaeger explores how the agencies plan to tackle some of the larger, more complex deals ahead.
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10 things about the new revenue standard: Round 3
CW columnist Scott Taub offers 10 more thoughts on why it’s crucial companies begin to implement the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s revenue recognition standard and what pitfalls await those who choose to delay.
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AICPA offers views on revenue recognition implementation issues
In the ongoing quest for consistent interpretations of the new revenue recognition standard, task forces at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants have issued several new papers for public comment.
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Empathy might be the secret ingredient your compliance program needs
Being a great compliance officer requires more than strong analytical skills and acumen. It requires soft skills like emotional intelligence, too, since compliance is ultimately all about people.
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Targeting the demand for a unified digital market
Many companies around the world and across industries now use digital signatures to conduct business transactions—but incompatible digital signature technologies traditionally have made the process cumbersome, not to mention fraught with security weaknesses. A group of cloud-service providers is now looking to change that. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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The OCEG GRC Illustrated Series: The Transformative Power of Cognitive GRC
OCEG, with contributions from IBM, has developed an illustration that shows you how to gain insights, develop meaningful reports and move faster from data to decisions with cognitive GRC capabilities.
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AveXis appoints chief compliance officer
AveXis, a clinical-stage gene therapy company developing treatments for patients suffering from rare and life-threatening neurological genetic diseases, has appointed Michael Johannesen to the executive management team as general counsel and chief compliance officer. He will report to President and CEO Sean Nolan.
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Embedding Ethics & Compliance Through the Supply Chain
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Regent Surgical Health names compliance officer
Regent Surgical Health, a surgery center management and development company specializing in hospital and physician ambulatory surgery center (ASC) joint ventures, has named Christopher Stine as its new corporate compliance officer.
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals names accounting chief
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International disclosed in a Form 8-K that it has appointed Sam Eldessouky as chief accounting officer, effective as of June 15. He assumed this role from Robert Rosiello, who will continue to serve as senior vice president and chief financial officer.
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Pacific Union appoints chief legal and compliance officer
Pacific Union Financial, a full-service mortgage company, has hired Karen Crawford as its new chief legal and compliance officer.
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Accurate Background appoints chief compliance officer
Accurate Background, a provider of automated background screening, has appointed Bon Idziak as chief compliance officer to further advance the company’s compliant employment screening solutions.
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For ENI, business risk, geography, and political risk all come together
How does a company assess its risks and, more importantly, how does it manage them? That’s the question FCPA blogger Tom Fox hoped to answer recently when he explored the case of Italian energy company ENI’s focus on doing business in Africa—known for being politically risky—which put some investors ill ...
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SEC whistleblower chief Sean McKessy to depart agency
The SEC announced today that after more than five years as the first-ever chief of the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower, Sean McKessy plans to leave the agency. McKessy joined the SEC to head up its new whistleblower program in February 2011 and has helped get the program on strong ...
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PhishMe adds healthcare compliance training modules
PhishMe, a global provider of phishing defense and intelligence solutions for the enterprise, announced the immediate availability of three new, complimentary computer-based trainings, accessible through the Phis hMe CBFree program. These modules provide employees with a better understanding of the policies, procedure, and reporting when handling protected personal information.
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Archive2Azure simplifies long-term unstructured data retention
Archive360, a Microsoft cloud solution provider, announced the availability of Archive2Azure, a regulatory compliance storage solution optimized for the Microsoft Azure platform.
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BDO expands Technology Advisory Services practice
BDO Consulting, a division of professional services organization BDO USA, has appointed Judy Selby as Managing Director in the firm’s Technology Advisory Services practice.