Appointment Blogs | Compliance Week – Page 187
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Gresham Clareti ARM offers advanced remittance advice capability
Gresham, a provider of real-time financial transaction control and enterprise data integrity solutions, added upgrades to its Account Receivables Management (Clareti ARM) offering. The proven “white label” technology, which enables banks to offer receivables management services to their corporate customers, can now receive and process remittance advices, whether in e-mail, ...
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Rapid7 Nexpose Now offers live exposure management
Rapid7, a provider of security data and analytics solutions, announced Rapid7 Nexpose Now, a major enhancement to its vulnerability management solution that gives customers access to live risk and exposure updates as IT environments change.
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More time, cost required in 2015 to comply with SOX, survey says
A majority of the 1,500 companies polled by Protiviti said the number of hours they devoted internally to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance in 2015 increased by more than 10 percent. Tammy Whitehouse has more study results inside.
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Deadline extended for foreign bank resolution plans
The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have granted four foreign banking organizations additional time to submit their next resolution plans. Previously, Barclays, Credit Suisse Group, Deutsche Bank AG, and UBS were required to submit their next plans on July 1, 2016, a deadline now bumped up ...
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With latest $17 million, SEC whistleblower award firehose remains on full blast
Today, the SEC announced yet another blockbuster whistleblower award--more than $17 million to a former company employee who the SEC credited with submitting a detailed tip that "substantially advanced the agency’s investigation and ultimate enforcement action." In the past month alone, five whistleblowers have received a total of more than ...
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SEC adopts rules for efficiency of securities-based swaps
The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted new rules that establish “timely and accurate” trade acknowledgment and verification requirements for security-based swap entities and their transactions. The rules are designed “to promote the efficient and effective operation of the SBS market.” Joe Mont reports.
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BlogArmada Group responds to Unaoil investigation; threatens legal action
Yet another company entangled in the massive media-leaked bribery and corruption scandal surrounding Monaco-based Unaoil has come forward, refuting the allegations and threatening legal action. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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Platform Specialty Products appoints general counsel
Platform Specialty Products, a global specialty chemicals company, today announced the appointment of John Capps as general counsel and secretary. He will report directly to Chief Executive Officer Rakesh Sachdev.
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New report: promoting workplace integrity globally
Ethics and compliance officers seeking more guidance on how to achieve and promote workplace integrity—doing what’s right in a professional context—now have a new, first-of-its-kind benchmark report at their fingertips. Jaclyn Jaeger offers a look at this Ethics & Compliance Initiative study.
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Want evidence about the FCPA Pilot Program?
Do you want to see evidence of the effectiveness of the Justice Department FCPA Pilot Program? Read on ...
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Proofpoint releases Proofpoint Intelligent Supervision
Proofpoint, a next-generation cyber-security and compliance company, announced the release of Proofpoint Intelligent Supervision, designed to significantly accelerate FINRA, SEC, and IIROC compliance review and reduce audit time.
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SEC Enforcement Hits Morgan Stanley for Cybersecurity Failure
The SEC brought its latest case under Regulation S-P today, announcing a settled administrative proceeding against Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. Morgan Stanley agreed to pay a $1 million penalty to settle the agency's charges that it failed to protect customer data, some of which was hacked and offered for ...
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Everest Re Group elects new board member
Everest Re Group, a Bermuda holding company, announced the election of John Graf to its board of directors, effective last month.
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Akamai Technologies dodges FCPA charges
A letter sent by the Department of Justice to Akamai Technologies reveals that the cloud services provider will not face an enforcement action in connection with a previously disclosed investigation into potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. It is the second declination this week issued under the new ...
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Nortek dodges FCPA enforcement action
Nortek said yesterday in a securities filing that the Department of Justice has decided not to recommend an enforcement action against it in connection with a previously disclosed investigation into potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The declination came in the same week that the company entered into ...
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Audit firm market shares show little shift
Accounting & auditing blogger Tammy Whitehouse looks at market share for the whole population of U.S. public companies. While not very drastic, says Whitehouse, there have been some notable changes to the top 10 firms.
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Companies sweat data details more than IT under new lease rules
Preparers seem more concerned about how they will gather and manage the data they need to comply with new lease accounting rules than they are about new IT system needs, according to a recent Deloitte poll. Tammy Whitehouse has an in-depth look at the survey.
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SEC: two FCPA cases result in non-prosecution agreements
The SEC has entered into non-prosecution agreements with Akamai Technologies and Nortek that will forfeit ill-gotten gains connected to bribes paid to Chinese officials by foreign subsidiaries. Simultaneously, the Justice Department closed its investigations into Akamai and Nortek. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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Quantopian hires chief compliance officer
Quantopian, a provider of capital, data, and infrastructure to algorithm authors, has appointed Derek Meisner as general counsel and chief compliance officer. He will advise the company on legal, regulatory, and compliance issues.
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Financial reporting has room for improvement, says KPMG
A recent KPMG report underscores some pretty widespread deficiencies when it comes to business reporting. Whether companies are failing to note the impact of new products or how much injury time they have suffered, most can stand to improve the state of their annual reports. Paul Hodgson has more survey ...