All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 734
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Consolidation Rule’s Consequences More Than You Expect
Image: A new rule on consolidating entities into a parent company’s financial statements might reach well beyond the original problem it aimed to fix. Financial reporting executives should prepare to take inventory of the entities in your enterprise and see how they may need to roll onto the balance sheet. ...
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Sanctions Imposed on Venezuelan Officials
President Barack Obama signed an executive order today imposing sanctions on seven Venezuelan government officials for committing human rights violations, and declared a national emergency with respect to Venezuela. The executive order implements and expands on the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act, signed by the president ...
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Second District Court Upholds SEC Use of Administrative Hearings
A hot topic on this blog of late has been the SEC's recent focus on bringing cases as administrative proceedings, an in-house type of action in which the agency has enjoyed extraordinary success. A related, and just as hot, topic has been the efforts of numerous respondents in these APs ...
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How Policy and Corporate Culture Can Collide
Image: Good policies are crucial to effective compliance programs—“good,” however, being the part many companies fail to hit. Inside, Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly picks apart the corrosive effect that poor policies can have on corporate culture, starting with the one policy everyone loves to complain about: business travel. Sit ...
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OSHA Gives Whistleblowers More Time to Report Retaliation
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a final rule that clarifies its procedures for handling whistleblower retaliation complaints. It gives aggrieved employees an extra 90 days to file allegations and allows those complaints to be made orally, not just in writing.
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Tullett Prebon Names Chief Risk Officer
Tullett Prebon, an interdealer broker, has appointed Giles Triffitt as chief risk officer. Triffitt also joins the firm’s global executive committee. Details inside.
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IFRS Foundation Appoints New Vice-Chairs to Advisory Council
The Trustees of the IFRS Foundation, responsible for the governance and oversight of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), recently announced the appointment of Gavin Francis and Goro Kumagai as Vice-Chairs to the IFRS Advisory Council. The IFRS Advisory Council is a formal advisory body to the IASB and the ...
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AvePoint Unveils Risk Intelligence System
AvePoint, a software solutions provider, this week introduced the AvePoint Risk Intelligence System, enabling organizations to address the complete lifecycle of risk across the enterprise. ARIS extends risk identification to provide meaningful action to assessments, including quantifying, lowering, and monitoring instances. Details inside.
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SWIFT Enhances Sanctions Testing Service
SWIFT has announced the addition of Peer Assessment to its Sanctions Testing service. SWIFT’s Sanctions Testing helps financial institutions optimize the performance of their transaction and customer screening systems by analyzing whether their systems are operating correctly and are able to detect illicit transactions or sanctioned customers. Details inside.
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Accellion Partners With Kandy to Enhance Secure Collaboration
Accellion, a provider of enterprise mobile solutions, this week announced a partnership with GENBAND to use Kandy, a communications Platform-as-a-Service, within kiteworks, to enhance secure collaboration capabilities for a mobile workforce via real-time communications. Details inside.
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Netwrix Freeware Helps to Prevent Inside Jobs
Netwrix, a provider of change and configuration auditing software, recently announced the release of Netwrix Effective Permissions Reporting Tool, a freeware solution designed to monitor privileged accounts by reporting on effective permissions in Active Directory and file shares. Details inside.
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Intronis Winter Release ‘15 Simplifies Hybrid Cloud Backup and Recovery
Intronis, a provider of backup and data protection solutions for the IT channel, this week announced the Winter Release ‘15 of its Intronis ECHOplatform. The Intronis Winter Release ’15 introduces several new business-building features and core functionalities designed to help channel partners better support more complex cloud, virtualized and physical ...
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ComplianceBridge Releases New Risk Assessment Automation Tool
ComplianceBridge announced the release of its new TotalCompliance Compliance Risk, Audits, and Assessments Management solution. Designed by compliance officers, TotalCompliance automates the compliance risk assessment and management process, allowing you to create and manage a broad range of question sets; distribute them to organizations or appropriate individuals; and collect and ...
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Delhaize Group Appoints General Counsel; Corporate Secretary
Belgium-based food retailer Delhaize Group has appointed Philippe Dechamps as general counsel and corporate secretary. Details inside.
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Big Banks All Pass First Round of Stress Tests
It was report card day at the Federal Reserve. On Wednesday, it released the first round of this year’s stress test results for the nation’s 31 largest banks. For the first time since it began mandatory stress tests in 2009, all banks with $50 billion or more in total consolidated ...
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Enterprise-Level PDF Accessibility: Drivers, Challenges and Innovative Solutions
Over 20 million Americans suffer from vision loss and, per legal requirements, should have access to digital documents in alternate formats. Organizations are looking for ways to comply with current accessibility legislation to avoid lawsuits, penalties, and brand damage. It is vital to stay informed about available technology to proactively ...
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Trade Groups Tell SEC: Reverse Course on No-Action Policy
A coalition of 17 business groups is asking the SEC to reinstate its practice of giving guidance about shareholder proposals that conflict with other proposals sponsored by management—and hinted that the agency’s new policy of silence on the subject may violate the law. The complaint is the latest salvo in ...
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Survey: Internal Audit Gaining Ground on Cyber-Risks
Image: Protiviti’s recent survey of more than 800 internal audit professionals reports that half of respondents said a cyber-security evaluation is included in their current audit plan, and 60 percent of those organizations use the National Institute of Standards and Technology cyber-security framework to evaluate risks. Protiviti EVP Brian Christensen ...