All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 677
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FASB Simplifies Business Combinations Accounting
FASB has approved a change that simplifies accounting for business combinations, so companies will no longer be required to make retrospective adjustments to historical data as if the facts of the acquired unit had been known from the date of the acquisition. Instead, the acquiring company will recognize adjustments to ...
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Credit Suisse Securities to Pay $4.25M for ‘Blue Sheet’ Compliance Lapses
Credit Suisse Securities yesterday reached a $4.25 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for submitting deficient information to the agency over a two-year period about trades done by its customers, commonly referred to as “blue sheet data.” “We will continue to hold broker-dealers who fail to comply with ...
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Defining Materiality and Sustainability
“Materiality” has long been defined as that financial information which might harm or benefit a shareholder. In modern corporate governance, however, that’s changing. One new proposal seeks to define material information in terms of sustainability for multiple stakeholders, not just shareholders. That has sparked debates over fiduciary duty, corporate personhood, ...
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New U.K. Law Turns Up Heat on Human Trafficking Transparency
Image: Companies doing business in the United Kingdom, take note: a new law in the country establishes new disclosure obligations about what you’re doing to tackle slavery and human trafficking in your operations, as well your supply chain. “Companies should start preparing to ensure compliance with the legislation as soon ...
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Supply Chain Risk Continues to Challenge Companies
Rare is the business these days that can afford to be cavalier about the regulatory scrutiny on its supply chain. So why do so many still struggle so much to gain visibility and control over vendors and suppliers? A lack of sophistication in monitoring third parties (never mind fourth parties ...
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Aligning the Organization for Principled Performance
Management must align objectives to the organizations’s business environment and internal culture, but what does alignment really mean? In this latest installment of the GRC Illustrated Series, brought to you by Compliance Week and OCEG, experts discuss alignment in the context of GRC and keeping the company on the right ...
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SEC Accounting Enforcement: Bigger and Badder
Image: Perhaps some public companies haven’t yet taken to heart the (numerous) signals from regulators to button up their internal controls. A recent legal analysis of accounting-related enforcement actions from the SEC should do the trick. Sanctions are happening more frequently, and penalties are bigger. “The SEC is effectively ...
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Shop Talk: Moving From Compliance to ERM
Moving from silos of compliance to enterprise risk management is a complex task under the best of circumstances. Where should ERM sit within the company? How do you win support from business units? How do you get the data you need to make informed decisions about risk? At Compliance ...
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Moves Against FIFA, VW: Sweating in the C-Suite?
Image: Talk in corporate compliance circles lately has been dominated by the United States and publication of the Yates Memo, where the Justice Department will be pushing for more prosecution of individuals. The real bite for compliance, however, might be happening in Europe, where regulators are moving against the chiefs ...
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Roundtable Biographies - 091515
On Sept. 15, Compliance Week and Workiva presented an editorial roundtable at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando. The focus of the roundtable, which was moderated by Compliance Week Editor Matt Kelly, was on compliance collaboration to drive ERM. Attendees’ full biographies are below.Marie BlakeEVP, Chief Compliance OfficerBank United Marie Blake ...
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Titanium Transportation Group Appoints General Counsel
Titanium Transportation Group, an asset-based transportation and logistics company servicing Canada and the United States, has appointed Nia Karabatsos as general counsel. She joins Titanium from the business law group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell. More inside.
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Ventas Names Chief Accounting Officer and Controller
Ventas, a real estate investement trust, has promoted Gregory Liebbe to senior vice president, chief accounting officer and controller, effective immediately. In his new position, Liebbe will lead all aspects of Ventas’s accounting functions, including internal and external financial reporting. More inside.
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eOriginal Launches Real-Time Auditing and Compliance Solution for Financial Services Firms
eOriginal, a digital transaction management solutions provider, announced the launch of Datalytics, a new real-time asset-level auditing and compliance solution for the financial services industry. Datalytics provides analysis, monitoring, and reporting of origination data for faster audit request response and to prevent errors and re-submissions. More inside.
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Equinix Selects ACL to Drive Operational Risk Management
ACL, an audit, compliance and risk management solutions provider, recently announced that Equinix has implemented ACL GRC and ACL Analytics across the organization to streamline communication and reporting between different departments. Several teams, including business assurance services, enterprise risk management, and compliance, will use the ACL platform to support a ...
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SEC Launches Regulation S-X Review
The Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking public comment on the effectiveness of financial disclosure requirements in Regulation S-X. The request for comment, part of the Commission’s Disclosure Effectiveness Initiative, focuses on financial disclosures companies must file regarding acquired businesses and affiliated entities