All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 683
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Welcome to the Enforcement Action Art Gallery!
Welcome to the "Enforcement Action Art Gallery," this blog's collection of the finest SEC and securities enforcement-related art available anywhere.
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Flying the Unfriendly Skies of Investigations and Resignations
Image: Title: SmisekRarely in compliance do you see a CEO resignation as unceremonious as the ouster earlier this week of now former head of United-Continental, Jeff Smisek (left). While his removal doesn’t involve foreign government officials—only local ones at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey—it does provide ...
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Blood Is Not Thicker Than FCPA Risk
The SEC has now taken its first enforcement action in a “princeling” case, fining BNY Mellon for offering plum internships to the relatives of foreign officials to win business with their countries’ sovereign wealth funds. Inside, columnist Tom Fox looks at the case (which is probably the first of several) ...
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Geoffrey Coll Joins BakerHostetler’s Securities Litigation Practice
BakerHostetler has announced that partner Geoffrey Coll, a former diplomat to France and India, has joined the law firm’s litigation group and securities litigation and regulatory enforcement practice in the firm’s New York office.
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Edwards Promoted to Castle & Cooke's National Compliance Manager
Castle & Cooke Mortgage, an independent mortgage lender with 38 locations throughout the nation, has announced the promotion of Jenifer Edwards to national compliance manager. Edwards has served on the Castle & Cooke Mortgage compliance team since June 2014.
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Karin Lockovitch is New Director of Compliance at Zions Bancorporation
Zions Bancorporation has appointed Karin Lockovitch, a 16-year veteran of the financial industry, as its new director of compliance. She joined the bank after serving as senior vice president and consumer compliance officer for SunTrust Banks and senior director of regulatory risk management for Ally Financial.
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Preventing an FTC Cyber-Security Action
Image: A federal appeals court has upheld the Federal Trade Commission’s efforts to sanction companies for poor data security practices—which opens a new front of cyber-security compliance and legal risks for Corporate America. “Basically, if consumers trust you with data, you need to use reasonable business efforts to honor that ...
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SEC Charges Bankrate, Former Executives With Accounting Fraud
Bankrate Inc. has agreed to pay $15 million to settle accounting fraud charges leveled against it by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Three former executives were also charged, accused of fraudulently manipulating the company’s financial results to meet analyst expectations. Bankrate’s former CFO Edward DiMaria is also accused of selling ...
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Former Gov. Contractor in Afghanistan Charged With Bribery
A former employee with International Relief and Development Inc., a government contractor, has pleaded guilty to charges of bribery in connection with a federal program and attempting to avoid currency transaction reporting requirements. The announcement was made this week by Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal ...
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Human Trafficking Lawsuits Expose Companies to Greater Supply Chain Risk
Image: While you were worrying about conflict minerals, class-action lawsuits over cat food and shrimp cocktail have emerged as the new compliance risk. Suits against Nestlé and Costco both claim the companies used shrimp produced using slave labor in Thailand. What’s more, plaintiffs are using required supply chain disclosures from ...
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Geoswift Names Michael Kireopoulos Global Head of Compliance
Geoswift, a provider of cross-border payments between China and other nations, has named Michael Kireopoulos as Global Head of Compliance. Based in San Francisco, he will be responsible for managing all facets of global compliance, with a specific focus on meeting anti-money laundering and money transmission regulatory standards.
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SEC Charges BDO USA, Partners for Misleading Audit Opinions
The SEC has charged audit firm BDO USA with issuing false and misleading unqualified audit opinions about the financial statements of staffing services company General Employment Enterprises. BDO agreed to admit wrongdoing, pay disgorgement of its audit fees and interest totaling approximately $600,000, and pay a $1.5 million penalty. Details ...
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Investment Advisers Next to Feel AML Scrutiny
Investment advisers have never had to face formal anti-money laundering requirements. That is about to change. A proposed rule by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network adds them to the definition of “financial institutions” and demands comprehensive anti-money laundering programs. That has raised concerns of cost and redundancy and ...
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Marsh McLennan Promotes Compliance Chief to CIO
Marsh McLennan, a $13 billion conglomerate with large insurance and consulting businesses, has promoted Chief Compliance Officer Scott Gilbert to be the company’s new chief information officer.
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Tougher Regulations Lead to Structural Overhaul in Europe’s Biggest Banks
The size and number of European investment banks is shrinking, due to tighter regulations that are causing some big banks to retreat from expansion plans. The move comes as financial firms anxiously await final ring-fencing rules from the U.K. Prudential Regulation Authority. More inside.
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Bulgaria’s Anti-Graft Bill Failed to Win Parliamentary Approval
The Bulgarian government’s plan to create a special anti-corruption unit designed to tackle high-level corruption cases through anonymous reporting has failed to gain parliamentary approval as the fight to end corruption across Europe intensifies. In 2014, Bulgaria was ranked as one of the most corrupt EU countries, according to Transparency ...
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EY Finds More Voluntary Audit Committee Disclosures
According to a recent report from EY, audit committees for the largest companies continue to raise the bar on what they voluntarily say in their reports about their responsibility for and oversight of the external audit. In its analysis, EY says 21 percent of audit committees disclosed in 2015 that ...
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FCPA Lessons in Deflate-gate: Consistency of Discipline
For those in the FCPA world I would like to focus on one aspect of the court’s ruling: consistency in discipline. In Brady’s appeal, the court was highly critical of the fact that the NFL policy for discipline for first offenses involving equipment violations would result in fines rather than ...