All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 668
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Justice Department Names GM Monitor
The Department of Justice announced this week that it has approved the appointment of Bart Schwartz to serve as the monitor for General Motors. The monitor appointment is part of a deferred prosecution agreement GM reached with the Justice Department last month to resolve criminal charges for wire fraud and ...
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BrandProtect Unveils threatSMART Cyber-Security Solution
BrandProtect, a provider of cyber-threat detection and risk mitigation solutions, this week unveiled threatSMART, the latest generation of its comprehensive suite of enterprise cyber-security services. threatSMART combines comprehensive, automated external cyber-threat monitoring, advanced analysis by the BrandProtect team of military-grade threat analysts, powerful new reporting, and numerous other usability and ...
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Exiger Adds Two New Anti-Corruption Experts
Exiger, a global regulatory and financial crime, risk and compliance firm this week announced the appointments of two new associate managing directors, Eunice Lee and Anna Friedberg, to be based in the firm's New York office. Both women bring extensive anti-corruption expertise to the firm. More inside.
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Warner Chilcott to Pay $125 Million in False Claims Act Case
Warner Chilcott U.S. Sales, a subsidiary of pharmaceutical maker Warner Chilcott, today reached a $125 million settlement with the Department of Justice to resolve charges of healthcare fraud. The company pleaded guilty to criminal charges that the company paid kickbacks to physicians throughout the United States to induce them to ...
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CST Hires Chief Compliance Officer
Canada-based CST Trust Company announced that Mark Mulima has joined the company as senior Canadian counsel, chief compliance officer, and corporate secretary. As chief compliance officer, Mulima will be responsible for ensuring that all areas of the company meet compliance responsibilities and applicable laws and regulations. More inside.
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Resource
Managing the Insider Threat with Active Directory Security
Active directory is a prime target for attackers due to its importance in authentication and authorization for all users. Unfortunately, these breaches don’t always originate from the outside. Read this white paper to explore how a typical insider threat unfolds, and how to use best security practices to defend your ...
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SEC Expects Year-End Disclosures on Revenue Rule Plans
Image: SEC Chief Accountant Jim Schnurr has advised audit committees to get involved in overseeing implementation of the new revenue standard, which takes effect in 2018. Schnurr said that should include disclosures about how the standard will affect financial statements. “We expect the level of these disclosures to increase and ...
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SEC Expects Year-End Disclosures on Revenue Rule Plans
Image: SEC Chief Accountant Jim Schnurr has advised audit committees to get involved in overseeing implementation of the new revenue standard, which takes effect in 2018. Schnurr said that should include disclosures about how the standard will affect financial statements. “We expect the level of these disclosures to increase and ...
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White: As Securities Offerings Change, SEC Adapts
Recent years have seen significant changes in terms of how securities offerings are conducted, with many of the recent regulatory reforms for public offerings the result of the JOBS ACT. At a conference in New York City on Wednesday, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Jo White spoke about ...
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ISS Details Proposed Policy Changes, Seeks Feedback
Institutional Shareholder Services has launched its 2016 benchmark voting policy consultation period. Policy topics for the U.S. market include unilateral amendments made by boards to company charters and bylaws without shareholder approval, director overboarding, and compensation at externally managed issuers. More inside.
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SEC’s Financial Reporting Cases, Overall Activity Surge in FY 2015
SEC Fiscal Year 2015 enforcement results revealed that for the year ended Sept. 30, 2015, the Commission filed a record-high 807 enforcement actions and obtained orders totaling approximately $4.2 billion in disgorgement and penalties. Of these 807 enforcement actions, 507 were “independent actions,” with the other 300 actions being either ...
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CW Europe: A View From the U.K. Serious Fraud Office
Image: The general counsel of Britain’s Serious Fraud Office, speaking at the Compliance Week Europe conference in Brussels this week, said the SFO hopes to have several deferred-prosecution agreements in place by the end of this year for companies the agency has been investigating for misconduct. Alun Milford provided no ...
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Companies Lag in Assessing New Revenue Rules, Survey Shows
Image: A recent survey of 335 finance executives by PwC and Financial Executives Research Foundation found that 27 percent of executives said their companies had not yet started an initial impact assessment of the new revenue standard as of summer 2015, and 48 percent had started but not completed it ...
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SEC Offers Proxy 'Unbundling' Guidance for M&A Deals
The Security and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance has released new guidance, in the form of two Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations, concerning proxy bundling in the context of mergers and acquisitions. The Exchange Act requires proxies to clearly and impartially identify each “separate matter” to be acted upon, ...
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Article
When a Board Member Goes Bad
Image: Investigations into rumors of misconduct are part of a compliance officer’s job. Seldom, however, is the task as delicate as when investigating a board member. “You need to think about making decisions knowing that the facts may end up completely different, once it is all done,” Adam Frankel, general ...
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Enforcement Action May Be Omen of SEC’s Cyber-Security Plans
An investment adviser firm in St. Louis has become the (painful) test subject for the SEC’s attitude on cyber-security matters. The case, observers say, is a warning that the agency is moving away from guidance and toward enforcement. So what will the SEC consider to be “reasonable” security efforts? Will ...
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Distilling Compliance Lessons of U.S. Sanctions Laws
Crédit Agricole, fined nearly $790 million last week for violations of U.S. sanctions law, is the latest cautionary tale on this particularly nettlesome patch of corporate compliance. Penalties for sanctions lapses are surging, and the regulations themselves are growing exponentially more complicated. Sanctions compliance was a prime topic at one ...