All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 674
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ERP Maestro Announces Pre-Audit SoD Scan
ERP Maestro introdcued this week a new free, no-commitment offering, the Pre-Audit SoD Scan (PASS), for companies of any size running SAP ERP software. The announcement comes as organizations begin to find it more difficult to pass audits due to higher expectations from external auditors in the wake of updates ...
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Calcbench to Provide XBRL based Financial Data to SEC Analysts
The Security and Exchange Commission has selected financial data provider Calcbench, through a competitive bid, to deliver subscription services to the agency. The award will allow a significant number of the SEC’s analysts to have access to Calcbench’s financial analytics platform, powered by eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). More inside.
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The Need for Third-Party Archiving in Office 365
Do you use, or potentially have plans to use, Office 365? If so, remember that your responsibility to archive email remains. You will still need to respond to litigation, routine discoveries, and pervasive regulations. Will Office 365’s email archiving capabilities meet your needs or will you need a better archiving ...
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Compliance Officer Salaries: A Benchmark Report
A new report compiled by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics offers benchmarking data for chief compliance officers who want to see how their salaries compare to those of their peers. The report, which compares average compliance officer salaries by industry, size of company, and tenure, finds that CCOs ...
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Spokeo Appoints General Counsel
Spokeo has appointed Jason Matthes as senior vice president and general counsel. Matthes joins the people search engine with more than 10 years of experience providing strategic legal counsel to both public and privately-held software and data companies. More inside.
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MediaPro Launches New Adaptive Phishing Simulator
MediaPro this week announced two new tools to support its existing Adaptive Awareness Framework: the Adaptive Phishing Simulator and the Adaptive Knowledge Assessment. Both tools are part of MediaPro’s full suite of products designed to address companies’ evolving needs toward implementing a truly integrated security awareness program. More inside.
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Ingersoll Rand Names Global Legal and Compliance Leader
Ingersoll Rand, an air compressor supplier, has named Maria Green as senior vice president and general counsel, effective Nov. 2. She will serve as an officer of the company and be responsible for strategic leadership and oversight of Ingersoll Rand’s legal and compliance affairs worldwide. More inside.
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Double Trouble in Internal Investigations After Schrems
Image: Last week another huge shift in the compliance world happened: the Schrems decision by the European Court of Justice, finding that the previously presumed European Union Safe Harbor regime is invalid. For the anti-corruption compliance practitioner, the decision is double-trouble when you consider it in light of the recent ...
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More Data Show Audit Fees Rising for Public Companies
A recent study from Financial Executives International of 7,000 public companies revealed that 20.6 percent reported ineffective internal controls over financial reporting, and the median audit fee increase for those companies was 3 percentage points higher than for public companies as a whole. The companies cited two primary reasons for ...
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Hillary Clinton Pledges to Redefine Insider Trading, Self-Fund SEC
The Supreme Court announced this week that it will let stand the Second Circuit's landmark insider trading decision in U.S. v. Newman. Hillary Clinton, however, says that as President she would not do the same, and that she would propose legislation to "clarify" the law post-Newman.
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Update on the Petrobras Corruption Scandal
This week one commentator reported that the Netherlands-based SBM Offshore would pay $255 million in fines and penalties for its role in the Petrobras scandal. If SBM Offshore does settle with Brazilian authorities for this amount, it will be a first step in resolving the morass businesses sucked into that ...
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CFPB Considers Ban on Mandatory Arbitration Clauses
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is moving forward with new rules that would prohibit the mandatory arbitration clauses in contracts that banks, credit card companies, and others rely upon to prevent consumers from pursuing lawsuits. A variety of recommendations, published this week for public comment, are the results of a ...
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SFO Speeds Up Tesco’s Accounting Probe
The Serious Fraud Office has accelerated its probe into the accounting irregularities at Tesco, hoping to resolve the criminal investigation by year-end. The supermarket chain’s former chief executive Philip Clarke is one of many former Tesco executives being scrutinized by the agency in its investigation; Laurie McIlwee, former finance ...
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EU Pushes for More Tax Transparency Among Member States
The European Union passed a new law that will put an end to sweetened tax deals between member states and multinationals. Under the new legislation, member states will be required to swap information about special corporate tax deals twice per year with national tax authorities over an encrypted e-mail ...
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OECD Measures Would Tie Off International Tax Loopholes
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has offered the G-20 nations measures intended to plug the holes that let companies engage in offshore tax planning that reduces the total global tax base. The package includes minimum standards to thwart the use of conduit companies to channel investments. It also ...
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SEC Reform of In-House Trials Gets Lukewarm Reception
Image: Facing lawsuits and other complaints that its administrative proceedings are stacked against defendants, the SEC is mulling changes to give the accused more ability to defend themselves. The proposals have received lukewarm reception at best. “The proposed amendments do not come close to addressing all the issues that administrative ...
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Volkswagen Scandal Puts Yates Memo to the Test
If ever a case of corporate misconduct could drive the Justice Department to follow through on its new promises to prosecute individuals more vigorously, the emissions scandal at Volkswagen is it. Still, finding individual culpability in the case will be difficult, given its focus on surreptitious software. “Figuring out who ...
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SEC Faces New Obstacles in e-Discovery Efforts
As the SEC ferrets out inside traders and Ponzi schemers of the Internet Age, more voices are saying the agency has too much leeway to gather electronic records against investigation targets. Congress is mulling legislation to curb SEC power to get e-mail from Internet service providers; federal judges are applying ...