All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 966
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W&T Offshore general counsel retires
W&T Offshore announced the retirement of Thomas Getten as vice president, general counsel, and secretary. He is succeeded by Shahid Ghauri, who joined the company in March 2017.
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Moving toward GDPR readiness
Companies have just about a year to comply with sweeping new EU data privacy law. For those organizations without strong data privacy programs in place, now is the time to start.
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The OCEG GRC Illustrated Series: Best Practices for Tracking Third Party Risk
OCEG and Thomson Reuters have developed a new installment in OCEG's GRC Illustrated Series to outline the best practices your organization should have in place to ensure ongoing, integrated due diligence of your third party risks.
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ArticleBrian Beeghly: The change agent
Brian Beeghly uses his experience in building better ethics and compliance programs to create technology solutions that could be at the forefront of changing the discipline of compliance itself.
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Wells Fargo scores a pyrrhic victory amid shareholder revolt
Despite controversy before and during its annual meeting, shareholders reelected all of Wells Fargo’s directors. But trouble still lies ahead for the post-scandal banking giant.
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ArticleCindy Fornelli: The auditor’s CCO
Cindy Fornelli leads the Center for Audit Quality, acting as chief compliance officer and stressing the importance of truly proactive and strategic compliance efforts for audit, rather than a check-the-box mentality.
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ArticleRichard Bistrong: The great communicator
Richard Bistrong, CEO of Front-Line Anti-Bribery, is one of the compliance world’s most outspoken voices on how companies can build better and more ethical businesses.
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ArticlePlans pile up to revise Dodd-Frank, but can they succeed?
Critics of the Dodd-Frank Act, like torch-bearing villagers in a horror movie, want to kill the legislation by any means necessary, while others seek more measured reforms.
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SEC awards $500K to whistleblower
The SEC today awarded a whistleblower more than $500,000 for reporting information that prompted an investigation into misconduct that resulted in an enforcement action. It is the second whistleblower award announced by the SEC in the past week.
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World Bank names vice president of integrity
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim announced the appointment of Pascale Helene Dubois as World Bank Group Vice President for Integrity, effective July 1.
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Kroger names chief accounting officer
The Kroger Company last month named Todd Foley chief accounting officer, the company announced in a securities filing. He replaces Mary Elizabeth Van Oflen, who is retiring.
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Eventbrite CEO joins Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts board
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, a luxury hospitality company, has appointed Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz, representing long-term shareholder Cascade Investment, to the company's board of directors.
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Former Homeland Security Chief of Staff joins Crowell & Moring
Paul Rosen, a former federal prosecutor who served as a senior government executive at the Department of Homeland Security, has joined Crowell & Moring in the the firm’s Los Angeles office.
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United Airlines: using a compliance framework to further customer relations
United Airlines has been handed some positive compliance lessons from its recent public relations faux pas, including the forcible removal of a passenger, but will the company follow through on its pledge to make good on customer relations?
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Uganda—a demand side response to corruption
A look at corruption in Uganda and the government’s fear that the high level of corruption is making life worse for citizens and driving out foreign investment.
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Clayton confirmed as SEC chairman
On May 2, the Senate confirmed President Donald J. Trump’s nomination of Jay Clayton as chairman of the SEC. Clayton, previously a partner with the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, has a reputation as a master of corporate deal making.
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Bill would modernize Administrative Procedures Act
New legislation, the Regulatory Accountability Act, is a bipartisan effort to modernize the 70-year-old Administrative Procedures Act, the blueprint for creating federal regulations.
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Big changes at OCC; Curry out, Noreika in
After five years of service, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry will be leaving the agency. Keith Noreika, a partner at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, will serve as acting Comptroller of the Currency.
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GDPR’s hidden e-mail risks
With the EU’s tough new data protection standard fast approaching, a company’s e-mail system poses plenty of easily overlooked compliance risks.
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Senate confirms Alexander Acosta as Secretary of Labor
After months of debate and the withdrawal of President Trump’s first nominee, R. Alexander Acosta has been confirmed by the Senate as the nation’s new Secretary of Labor.