Articles | Compliance Week – Page 237
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ArticleTwo benchmark reports reveal in-house counsel salary trends
In-house counsel looking to see how their annual salaries stack up against their peers can refer to two new reports that offer benchmarking data.
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Undaunted, May holds line on Brexit as chaos swirls
A draft plan for how the United Kingdom will engineer its split from the European Union is not going over well with many British Prime Minister Theresa May is counting on.
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Brexit deal passes a milestone, questions remain
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May managed to convince her cabinet to back a draft Brexit deal. What comes next?
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ArticleTax rules, market changes may stretch goodwill testing
Big changes in market conditions and tax rules could drive some added rigor into the annual year-end test of goodwill sitting on corporate balance sheets.
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How election results will impact regulation for next two years
America voted on Tuesday. Now corporate America and its regulators need to see what it all means.
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ArticleCCO salary trends 2018: Industrial, manufacturing lead way
BarkerGilmore’s 2018 Compliance Compensation Report offers benchmarking data and a glimpse into salary trends for both chief compliance officers and employers.
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Legal, governance challenges persist for Tesla
Having finalized a settlement with the SEC, Tesla now faces new controversies as the Justice Department and disgruntled investors take aim at the company and its mercurial founder.
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U.K.’s EA mum on combating plastic waste fraud
A recent report says the U.K. Environment Agency is investigating complaints of widespread fraud and non-compliance with waste regulations being perpetrated by organised criminals and certain U.K. firms—a claim the agency will neither confirm nor deny.
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ArticleBanks sound alarm on CECL, calling for delay, study
When the economy starts to sour, CECL will push it faster and further in that direction, say banks calling for a delay and study of the new loan loss rules.
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ArticleWorld Series compliance lesson: Take a hybrid approach to analytics
The World Series reinforced an important lesson in how compliance officers should deploy data analytics.
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EU regulator pushes for global consensus on data ethics
European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli trumpeted the urgent need for a worldwide data ethics accord at a recent conference, warning that the rapid advance in global digital technologies mandates a global consensus on privacy.
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ArticleA wake-up call in cyber supply-chain risk
Recent reports of a massive cyber-supply chain attack by Chinese spies on several U.S. companies’ servers have companies stressing about their own supply chain vulnerabilities.
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Add hedging to year-end accounting change to-do list
The accounting may be simpler under a new standard on hedging, but that doesn’t mean the transition is any simpler than for any other accounting change.
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ArticleAsk Amii mailbag: Where and how to start your culture conversations
In the “Ask Amii” monthly mailbag, executive coach and former Chief Compliance Officer Amii Barnard-Bahn responds to your anonymous questions on building a culture of compliance, motivating underperforming employees, third-party risk management, and more.
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ArticleA compliance readiness plan for ‘NAFTA 2.0’
The United States, Mexico, and Canada have reached a long-awaited revamped trade agreement, which goes by the moniker “NAFTA 2.0.” The pact portends significant changes to the global trade compliance space.
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Best practices in third-party risk management
NAVEX Global’s fourth annual third-party risk management benchmark report offers risk and compliance officers a glimpse at how their third-party risk management programs stack up against their peers.
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Companies launch year-end push to new lease rules
The Q4 dash to new lease accounting is on, and it’s looking like some companies will not flip the switch to new systems by the Jan. 1 effective date.
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ArticleCFPB pitches choose-your-own disclosure
The CFPB has proposed the creation of a regulatory “sandbox” for testing and approving new approaches to financial product disclosures.
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The ‘Weinstein Clause’: M&A deals in the #MeToo era
A CW analysis identified 15 M&A deals over the past eight months in which firms protected themselves in writing from sexual harassment allegations. Known as the “Weinstein Clause,” these protections still don't address the heart of the matter: corporate culture.
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ArticleSolutions for fixing proxy process are often radically different
Nearly everyone agrees that the current system of shareholder voting should be improved. How to do that is a contentious debate as an SEC roundtable on the matter draws near.