Appointment Blogs | Compliance Week – Page 181
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Financial Executives International elects new board
Financial Executives International (FEI), an advocacy group for the views of corporate financial management, recently announced the election of a new slate of executive officers and members of the board of directors for the fiscal year, effective as of July 1. Prat Bhatt, corporate controller and chief accounting officer of ...
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Audit regulators globally pen agreement to share information
The International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators has adopted a memorandum of understanding around how audit regulators will cooperate in exchanging information for audit oversight purposes. Tammy Whitehouse has more.
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Does compliance need a seat at VW’s table?
VW’s response to its defrauded customers in Europe is worse, than laughable. It's indefensible. Where is the company's compliance function? Tom Fox explores.
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nanoPay names chief compliance officer
nanoPay, a fully-integrated loyalty and payments platform provider and provider of the MintChip digital cash platform, has appointed Tracy Molino as general counsel and chief compliance officer.
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Theranos’ health takes a turn for the worse
The health of ailing biotech start-up Theranos continues to decline, as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services imposed numerous sanctions on the firm following a review last year of its laboratory operations that uncovered numerous compliance violations. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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Theresa May’s post-Brexit, Euro-style governance reforms
Out of the post-Brexit chaos, Home Secretary Theresa May is poised to become the new U.K. Prime Minister. She supported Remain, but stands by Brexit, so where will she steer the ship? Her first speech gives some indicators, and Brexiters might not like the sound of them. Paul Hodgson has ...
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DoJ to everybody on FCPA prosecutions: We can make this all go away, you know
Just how serious is the Justice Dept. about making life easier if you comply fully with its FCPA violation investigations? Johnson Controls Inc. was caught dead to rights on egregious fraud—but, by cooperating with the DoJ, it managed to secure a declination to prosecute. Tom Fox reports.
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Johnson Controls to pay $14.4 million to SEC in FCPA case
Johnson Controls has entered into a $14.4 million settlement with the SEC to resolve violations of the books and records and internal controls provisions of the FCPA with respect to its China Marine operations. JCI’s quick response, however, resulted in a declination with the Justice Department.
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BOK Financial names chief risk officer
BOK Financial, a $31 billion regional financial services company, has promoted Marty Grunst to the role of chief risk officer, effective Aug. 1. He will report to President and CEO Steve Bradshaw and serve on the company’s executive leadership team.
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10 things about the new revenue standard: Round 3
CW columnist Scott Taub offers 10 more thoughts on why it’s crucial companies begin to implement the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s revenue recognition standard and what pitfalls await those who choose to delay.
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AICPA offers views on revenue recognition implementation issues
In the ongoing quest for consistent interpretations of the new revenue recognition standard, task forces at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants have issued several new papers for public comment.
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Empathy might be the secret ingredient your compliance program needs
Being a great compliance officer requires more than strong analytical skills and acumen. It requires soft skills like emotional intelligence, too, since compliance is ultimately all about people.
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Targeting the demand for a unified digital market
Many companies around the world and across industries now use digital signatures to conduct business transactions—but incompatible digital signature technologies traditionally have made the process cumbersome, not to mention fraught with security weaknesses. A group of cloud-service providers is now looking to change that. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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AveXis appoints chief compliance officer
AveXis, a clinical-stage gene therapy company developing treatments for patients suffering from rare and life-threatening neurological genetic diseases, has appointed Michael Johannesen to the executive management team as general counsel and chief compliance officer. He will report to President and CEO Sean Nolan.
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Regent Surgical Health names compliance officer
Regent Surgical Health, a surgery center management and development company specializing in hospital and physician ambulatory surgery center (ASC) joint ventures, has named Christopher Stine as its new corporate compliance officer.
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals names accounting chief
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International disclosed in a Form 8-K that it has appointed Sam Eldessouky as chief accounting officer, effective as of June 15. He assumed this role from Robert Rosiello, who will continue to serve as senior vice president and chief financial officer.
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Pacific Union appoints chief legal and compliance officer
Pacific Union Financial, a full-service mortgage company, has hired Karen Crawford as its new chief legal and compliance officer.
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Accurate Background appoints chief compliance officer
Accurate Background, a provider of automated background screening, has appointed Bon Idziak as chief compliance officer to further advance the company’s compliant employment screening solutions.
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For ENI, business risk, geography, and political risk all come together
How does a company assess its risks and, more importantly, how does it manage them? That’s the question FCPA blogger Tom Fox hoped to answer recently when he explored the case of Italian energy company ENI’s focus on doing business in Africa—known for being politically risky—which put some investors ill ...
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SEC whistleblower chief Sean McKessy to depart agency
The SEC announced today that after more than five years as the first-ever chief of the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower, Sean McKessy plans to leave the agency. McKessy joined the SEC to head up its new whistleblower program in February 2011 and has helped get the program on strong ...