All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 990
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FCPA, CEOs and risk assessments
Ian Narev, chief executive officer of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, may soon join the ranks of those CEOs who depart once a corruption scandal goes public.
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SEC opens search for PCAOB members, including chair
New leadership will soon take over the helm of the PCAOB after SEC Chairman Jay Clayton opens a public search for as many as four board positions.
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Four reasons companies are lagging in lease adoption, and how to get on track
Companies are slipping behind in implementing the new lease accounting standard, and the call for deferral in the effective date may be getting under way.
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KPMG, partner settle SEC audit failure allegations
The SEC has extracted a $6.2 million settlement from KPMG over charges that the firm and an engagement partner failed to properly audit valuations in 2011.
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Resource
Vendor Risk Management: Conducting Pre-Contract Due Diligence
Download ProcessUnity’s e-Book and learn how to get it right from the start, using pre-contract due diligence to intercept risks before they become problems.
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Sen. Warren quizzes bank CEOs on arbitration rule
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is targeting top bank executives, demanding that they go public with their views of the CFPB's recent rule banning forced arbitration.
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Bill would strip NLRB of prosecutorial powers
Recent legislation, gaining Republican support, would limit the power of the NLRB. It would be able to conduct investigations, but not be allowed to prosecute them.
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New SEC chair gets new demands for political contribution disclosures
With a new SEC chairman, a new push is underway to have a fresh consideration of a disclosure rule covering political contributions made by public companies.
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Republican governors serve CFPB director with FOIA demands
Republican governors have served CFPB Director Richard Cordray with another Freedom of Information Act request in an effort to prove a Hatch Act violation.
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After CEO defections, Trump ends White House business forums
Amid an exodus of CEOs, President Trump, under fire for post-Charlottesville remarks, is ending two White House forums that advised him on economics and manufacturing.
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Compensation for outside corporate directors is stabilizing
A recently released analysis by Willis Towers Watson fiinds that the total compensation for outside corporate directors is rising, but only at an average pace of 2 percent in 2016.
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Basel AML index: countries still fall—sometimes severely—short
The annual Basel Anti-Money Laundering Index, a ranking of 146 countries regarding money laundering risks, is out. The findings show that plenty of work on the issue remains to be done.
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Audit tensions often precede control weaknesses, study says
If tensions are rising between a given company and its external auditor, there’s a greater chance the company will be reporting internal control weaknesses.
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Vantage Drilling: Justice Department ends FCPA probe
Vantage Drilling Company, an offshore drilling contractor, announced this week that it will not be facing an enforcement action from the Department of Justice regarding a previously disclosed investigation into potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Rackspace launches new privacy and data protection offering
Rackspace this week announced the launch of Privacy and Data Protection (PDP), a new cyber-security offering designed to help identify and protect sensitive data in a customer’s environment.
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La-Z-Boy appoints new chief accounting officer
Furniture company La-Z-Boy has appointed Lindsay Barnes as chief accounting officer. She replaces Margaret Mueller who has resigned.
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Get your bad-boy groove back
Acceptance at the upper levels of a company is great for integrating compliance with business development and strategy. But don’t lock up the “Department of No” just yet.
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Teza Capital Management names chief risk officer
Teza Capital Management, a quantitative asset management firm, has named Reinhold Gebert as chief risk officer, as well as chief operating officer.
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Workplace Harassment Benchmarking Report
Title: Workplace Harassment BenchmarkWith more than 2 million employees across the globe who have completed Pulse training, you can benchmark your risk trends on a variety of compliance topics. See how Pulse Analytics can equip you with behavioral analytics to benchmark and analyze the effectiveness of your training program in ...
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Signals and virtue
As business leaders publicly resign from Presidential economic committees in light of President Trump’s Charlottesville comments, “tone from the top” matters now more than ever.