Appointment Blogs | Compliance Week – Page 105

  • Blog

    Corruption and Saudi Arabia

    2017-11-15T16:15:00Z

    There is a reason that Transparency International ranked the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at 62 of the 176 countries listed in its most recent Corruption Perceptions Index: The open secret is that to do business in Saudi Arabia, bribes have to be paid.

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    The Yates Memo is alive and well

    2017-11-15T16:15:00Z

    Even if the Justice Department revises and clarifies the Yates Memo, the substance of what Sally Yates was communicating is alive and kicking.

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    Kokesh impacting SEC enforcement program

    2017-11-15T11:00:00Z

    The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the case Kokesh v. SEC was a significant decision that has already had an impact on many parts of the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement program, according to a senior SEC enforcement official.

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    Tax reform pace could produce major year-end reporting

    2017-11-15T09:45:00Z

    If tax reform is enacted by the end of 2017, companies could be facing a mad scramble to report the effects in their year-end financial statements.

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    Are changes coming to the DoJ corporate monitor program?

    2017-11-15T09:45:00Z

    As a review of the Justice Department’s corporate monitor practices is taking shape, reports have surfaced that experts have their own suggestions.

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    Calling out usual audit ills, PCAOB also ponders next steps

    2017-11-14T14:15:00Z

    While acknowledging audit firms have taken measures to address adverse inspection findings, the PCAOB also is starting to ask if the firms are doing enough.

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    Sessions deflects charges of lying about Trump campaign aide and Russia connection

    2017-11-14T13:45:00Z

    AG Jeff Sessions went before the House on Tuesday to deflect charges that he had lied in regard to having knowledge of campaign aide George Papadopoulos’ contact with Russia.

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    Wells Fargo Securities names co-heads of Investment Banking Coverage

    2017-11-14T12:45:00Z

    Wells Fargo Securities, the investment banking and capital markets business of Wells Fargo & Company, has named John Hudson and Kristin Lesher as the new co-heads of Investment Banking Coverage, effective immediately.

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    CBI: Adoption of existing technologies will solve productivity problems in U.K.

    2017-11-14T12:15:00Z

    CBI, the U.K.’s leading business group, finds that the slow adoption of existing technologies and management practices is fueling the U.K.’s deep-seated productivity problems, creating disparities in productivity and pay among businesses.

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    SEC makes an example of Alere

    2017-11-14T12:00:00Z

    A recent enforcement action against a medical manufacturer for revenue recognition failures and bribery illustrates some interesting new enforcement trends for the SEC.

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    Delete your accounts. All of them

    2017-11-14T12:00:00Z

    The porous nature of data security is worse than we thought. Maybe the only way for anyone to really secure their digital presence is to destroy it.

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    TrustArc enhanced privacy solution addresses GDPR compliance

    2017-11-14T11:30:00Z

    TrustArc, a data privacy management provider, recently announced the launch of Data Flow Manager, a new data inventory and mapping solution that builds and visualizes business process data flows to dramatically simplify the steps companies must take in order to produce the controls and reports needed to comply with GDPR ...

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    Accuity launches Live Services pilot with global banks

    2017-11-14T11:30:00Z

    Accuity, a global financial crime compliance, payments, and KYC solutions provider, recently announced the launch of its Firco Live Services pilot with global banks.

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    Survey: Office culture still a major barrier to whistleblowing

    2017-11-14T11:15:00Z

    Whistleblowing is becoming a more standardized practice in workplaces around the world, but workplace culture is still deterring large numbers of employees from engaging in the practice, new research by law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has revealed.

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    World Bank: FreeBalance faces six-month debarment

    2017-11-14T11:15:00Z

    The World Bank Group announced the debarment for six months of FreeBalance, a Canadian provider of financial-management-related software, connected to sanctionable misconduct under the Integrated Financial Management Information System Project for Liberia.

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    Two ex-SBM executives plead guilty in Petrobras bribery scheme

    2017-11-14T09:15:00Z

    Two former executives at Dutch oil and gas services company SBM Offshore have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for their roles in a scheme to bribe foreign government officials in Brazil, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea.

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    Biohaven appoints SVP of finance

    2017-11-14T09:00:00Z

    Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, has appointed Scott Phillips as senior vice president of finance. He will focus on further advancing Biohaven's infrastructure to support the company's accounting, external reporting and finance capabilities.

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    Individual prosecution in Rolls Royce corrupt case

    2017-11-09T04:45:00Z

    For those who might have wondered if the Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department was going to enforce the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, that question seems to have been answered in the affirmative.

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    SFO prosecutor joins Gibson Dunn in London

    2017-11-08T16:00:00Z

    Sacha Harber-Kelly, currently a prosecutor with the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office in the Anti-Corruption and Bribery Division, will join will join Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a partner in the London office.