All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 662
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Jumping on the VW Amnesty Microbus
Image: Last week Volkswagen offered amnesty to employees who admit any role they played in the emissions-testing scandal currently wracking the company—no doubt drawing upon the success Siemens had when it made a similar offer to employees during a 2006 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation. Opinions differ on the move, ...
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Barclays’ Cost of Conduct Woes Continue
Barclays is set to pay £65.7 million to settle allegations that it manipulated foreign exchange markets—adding to the $120 million the British bank already paid to the New York Department of Financial Services for its involvement in the Libor scandal. According to a report from the CPP Research Foundation, Barclays’ ...
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Justice Department Revises U.S. Attorneys’ Manual
Image: During remarks at the American Banking Association and American Bar Association Money Laundering Enforcement Conference, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates announced that the Department of Justice has made some significant revisions to its U.S. Attorneys’ Manual, providing new insight on how prosecutors are implementing the Yates Memo. “We ...
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Early 2015 Inspection Results Hint to Some Improvements
Image: PCAOB Chairman Jim Doty met recently with FASB’s Standing Advisory Group to provide an early look at 2015 inspection results. “Overall early results indicate that the number of deficiencies identified in the engagements inspected appears to be declining from the 2014 inspections results,” he said. “These results vary for ...
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Disclosure Update: How Companies Are Tackling Comp Rules
The Dodd-Frank Act brims with new disclosure demands regarding executive compensation. Slowly but surely—emphasis on slowly—the SEC has been issuing rules on clawbacks, pay for performance, and the dreaded pay ratio rule. This week, we look at those three measures and what companies have done so far to comply with ...
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Defense Dept. Steps Up Standards on IT Supply Chain Risk
Image: The Defense Department is taking a harder look at supply chain risks posed by government contractors who provide IT products and services, so compliance officers at those businesses should prepare to review how supply chain risks might affect eligibility to bid on future contracts. “This fits into the government’s ...
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FASB Ideas on Materiality Reform Draw Heat, Questions
Image: An effort to align the accounting world’s definition of materiality with how the idea is widely understood in legal circles is sparking a fierce debate in corporate accounting circles, with potentially big consequences for financial reporting. “More information or more disclosure is better than less, in general,” said Damon ...
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Connected Medical Systems, HIPAA Audits Coming in 2016
Image: Inspectors at the Department of Health & Human Services are going to spend 2016 studying the security protocols for medical devices and electronic health records, which means compliance officers in the healthcare field should make sure your policies and controls can pass muster. Also on deck are more HIPAA ...
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What Went So Wrong at VW
The full consequences of Volkswagen’s “emissions evasion” scandal are just starting to be understood. The governance failures that led to the misconduct, however, are not new. Pressure from the chief executive, ineffective directors, a workforce that does not take compliance seriously; we have heard all that before. This week, columnist ...
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Aguilar to Depart SEC by End of December 2015
Image: SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar intends to step down at the end of December. In a letter to the president, Aguilar expressed pride in sponsoring the first Investor Advisory Committee, which was later mandated by Section 911 of Dodd-Frank. Aguilar will leave the SEC as the eighth longest-serving commissioner ...
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SEC’s Next Move on Conflict Minerals Rule Could Open a Pandora’s Box
The SEC finds itself yet again at a legal crossroads concerning its embattled Conflict Minerals Rule. One path leads to the Supreme Court; the other, a retreat from a cornerstone of the rule’s disclosure requirements. At stake is not just the Conflict Minerals Rule alone, but potentially a wide range ...
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MDU Resources Names New General Counsel
MDU Resources Group, a diversified energy company, has named Daniel Kuntz as general counsel and secretary, effective Jan. 9. He will succeed Paul Sandness, who is retiring Jan. 8. Details inside.
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Narrative Science Launches Quill for Anti-Money Laundering
Narrative Science, a provider of advanced natural language generation for the enterprise, announced the launch of Quill for Anti-Money Laundering (AML). Quill for AML automates many of the manual processes related to regulatory reporting and compliance documentation by generating natural language reports that are consistent and traceable back to the ...
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36th Street Capital Names Chief Risk Officer
36th Street Capital, an independent provider of flexible financing solutions for the equipment financing industry, has appointed Gerard Kammerer as chief risk officer effective immediately. Details inside.
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Hall & Company CPAs Appoints Director of Audit Services
Hall & Company CPAs has named C. Wendell Daniel as director of audit services. Daniel joins the tax, accounting and business consulting firm with a broad range of audit and accounting expertise, including in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, succession/exit planning, capital and debt raise transactions, and attestation ...
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Netwrix Auditor Upgraded to Support Security Investigations
Netwrix, a provider of IT auditing software that delivers complete visibility into IT infrastructure changes and data access, has announced the release of Netwrix Auditor 7.1. The new version simplifies investigation of past incidents and provides a complete audit trail for compliance audits. It also supports NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP ...
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On Advertising and the FCPA
Image: When can advertising violate the FCPA? That might not be a question often on the minds of compliance officers. The ongoing FIFA corruption scandal, however, demonstrates that any expenditure going out of a corporation may well need to be considered from an anti-bribery angle. Tom Fox, our Man From ...