Articles | Compliance Week – Page 35
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Commitment to kindness earns Snap honor of Compliance Program of the Year
For Snap, kindness has long been a core value, but only last year did the company overhaul its code of conduct to thrust the term to the forefront of its internal communications. Snap was recognized as Compliance Program of the Year at the 2022 Excellence in Compliance Awards.
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‘Trusted partner’ Kelly Maxwell of Dana-Farber named CCO of the Year
Kelly Maxwell can’t cure cancer, but she and her team do their part to help the rest of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute achieve that mission. For her work, Maxwell was named CCO of the Year at the 2022 Excellence in Compliance Awards.
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Q&A: Rising Star in Compliance Boon Kim Fam
Boon Kim Fam, legal director of compliance, Asia Pacific at clothing company PVH, discusses with Compliance Week how her cultural sensitivity, technical expertise, and sound international outlook have helped her navigate the global compliance field.
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From ‘Institutional Self-Regulation’: Slippery slope of bad habits
Tamar Frankel, honored for Lifetime Achievement in Compliance at the 2022 Excellence in Compliance Awards, authorized CW to share excerpts from her book “Institutional Self-Regulation.” The following is a passage from the book’s chapter on institutional subversive culture, ethics, power, and behavior.
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Conviction, moral fortitude define Lifetime Achievement winner Tamar Frankel
Tamar Frankel’s 50-year career as a law professor at Boston University more than satisfies her being honored for Lifetime Achievement at the 2022 Excellence in Compliance Awards. Yet, to limit the scope of Frankel’s accomplishments to her academic career would be a massive oversight.
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Connecticut fifth state to pass comprehensive data privacy law
Connecticut has joined four other states in passing a comprehensive data privacy law that requires companies to provide consumers with information about the personal data they collect.
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KPMG facing $17.6M fine following Carillion tribunal
KPMG is set to pay a reduced fine of £14.4 million (U.S. $17.6 million) from the U.K. Financial Reporting Council over its botched audits at collapsed construction company Carillion and software firm Regenersis.
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell confirmed to second term
Jerome Powell is set to begin his second term as chair of the Federal Reserve after receiving bipartisan support in a Senate confirmation vote.
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FedEx’s social mission: Diversity drives better business
FedEx’s DEI strides—including becoming a minority-majority employee company in the U.S. for the first time in its history in fiscal year 2018—are not by accident. The company’s long history of hiring a diverse workforce and promoting from within is among the keys to its success.
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Citi names Tom Anderson as new chief compliance officer
Tom Anderson will be the next chief compliance officer at Citi, effective June 1. His appointment comes two months after Mary McNiff stepped down from the role.
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Binance appoints first deputy general counsel
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, announced the appointment of Joshua Eaton as the company’s first deputy general counsel.
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FTC Democratic majority restored following Bedoya confirmation
Georgetown visiting law professor Alvaro Bedoya has been confirmed as a member of the Federal Trade Commission, following a Senate vote along party lines.
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PCAOB fines Citrin Cooperman $200K over audit failures
Citrin Cooperman was fined $200,000 by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for failing to meet PCAOB standards during its 2016 and 2017 year-end audits at an unnamed broker-dealer.
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Growth vs. green: FedEx’s environmental balancing act
When FedEx published its first Global Citizenship Report in 2008, its greenhouse gas emissions were already top of mind. Yet, the company has struggled to strike a balance between achieving year-over-year decreases in total emissions while it has expanded in the last decade-plus.
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Report: Investigation costs rising, driven by data assessment inefficiencies
More than three-quarters of respondents to a Kroll global benchmark report said they have conducted an internal investigation into fraud or corruption within the past three years and that the cost of such probes is on the rise.
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FTX appoints chief compliance officer
Cryptocurrency exchange FTX US announced the appointment of Marissa MacDonald as chief compliance officer.
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OLB promotes general manager to chief risk officer
Oldenburgische Landesbank, a private financial institution headquartered in Germany, announced the appointment of Chris Eggert as chief risk officer.
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Materion appoints chief accounting officer
Engineered materials corporation Materion announced the appointment of John Zaranec as chief accounting officer.
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Target promotes SVP of risk to general counsel
Retail giant Target has promoted Matt Zabel to executive vice president and general counsel.
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JBS names corporate sustainability officer
JBS, the largest meat processing company in the world, appointed Maurício Bauer as corporate sustainability officer.