Appointment Blogs | Compliance Week – Page 138
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Trump Administration releases ‘core principles’ of tax reform
A list of core principles that will inform the Trump Administration’s tax overhaul were announced this week. Highlights: reducing the corporate tax rate to 15 percent and relating a one-time tax on repatriated company assets.
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Bill promotes regulatory relief for community banks
Community bankers are lending their support to newly filed legislation intended to relieve many of the regulatory burdens they have faced in the post-Dodd-Frank era.
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Senate Democrats announce $15 minimum wage bill
Senate Democrats are mustering their forces behind new legislation that, if passed, would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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Tech startups protest retreat from net neutrality
More than 800 tech startups and investors have joined forces to oppose a Federal Communications Commission proposal to scale back rules related to net neutrality.
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Federal Reserve Gov. Powell addresses regulatory reform
In a recent speech, Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell detailed the priorities he thinks should be part of any reconsideration of the post-recession regulatory regime.
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Miscimarra named NLRB Chairman
President Donald J. Trump has named Philip A. Miscimarra as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, a move that promotes him from acting chairman.
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BDO 2015 report shows more restatements, withdrawn opinions
Roughly half the audits inspected at BDO USA contained deficiencies in 2015, several serious enough to result in restatements and withdrawn ICFR opinions.
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Corporations and the financing of terrorism
The recent case of LafargeHolcim’s involvement in keeping a cement facility in Syria safe and operational during civil war has raised questions regarding a company’s responsibilities for ensuring monies it pays out do not go to fund terrorism.
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What does contradictory due diligence mean?
A lawsuit against the Houston energy company Cobalt International Energy has posed a question which is not often considered under the FCPA—what does contradictory due diligence mean?
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CEOs and win at all costs—where does it lead?
A look at the corrupt conduct of Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick and the lengths some executives will go to in support of a win-at-all-costs culture.
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LafargeHolcim CEO latest victim of non-compliance
LafargeHolcim CEO Eric Olsen will resign on 15 July this year, in response to the company’s enquiry into the conduct of its Syrian subsidiary between 2010 and September 2014, in which the subsidiary did business with terrorists who had taken control of the territory surrounding the LafargeHolcim’s cement plant.
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BRF executives charged in ‘Operation Weak Flesh’ probe
Brazilian food company BRF confirmed in a statement that two of its executives were among those arrested and charged with taking part in a widespread corruption scandal, dubbed “Operation Weak Flesh.”
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Department of Justice vows to speed up FCPA investigations
A U.S. Department of Justice official said in remarks that the agency is making a “concerted effort” to speed up the pace of FCPA investigations and that the agency expects cooperating companies to do the same.
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Volkswagen AG sentenced in emissions-cheating scandal
A federal court in Detroit has sentenced Volkswagen AG in connection with a decade-long scheme to sell diesel vehicles containing software designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests. As part of the plea agreement, VW will pay a $2.8 billion penalty.
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FBI cyber leader joins FTI Consulting
FTI Consulting, a global business advisory firm, announced that Anthony Ferrante, former Director for Cyber Incident Response at the U.S. National Security Council and Supervisory Special Agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has joined the firm’s Global Risk & Investigations Practice within its Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment as ...
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NICE Actimize: New behavioral analytics solution detects hidden threats
NICE Actimize, a NICE business and a provider of financial crime, risk, and compliance software for the financial services industry, this month introduced its new Holistic Behavioral Analytics Solution designed to help financial institutions uncover conduct-related threats that traditional analytics are not designed to detect.
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SWIFT: New payment controls service bolsters cyber-crime controls
SWIFT, a global member-owned cooperative and a provider of secure financial messaging services, announced a new real-time payment controls service to complement and strengthen its customers’ existing fraud controls.
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Allied Irish Banks names new chief risk officer
Allied Irish Banks has appointed Deirdre Hannigan as chief risk officer, effective April 24. Hannigan joins AIB from the National Treasury Management Agency, where she was chief risk officer.
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Federal Home Loan Bank San Francisco names chief risk officer
The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco has appointed Lisa Violet as senior vice president and chief risk officer.
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Falcon Group appoints chief risk officer
Falcon Group, a Swiss private banking boutique, has appointed Bruno Meyer to the newly created role of chief risk officer and a member of the executive board, effective July 1.