Appointment Blogs | Compliance Week – Page 247
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DVR Alert: Showtime's Wall Street Drama 'Billions' Debuts January 17
I'm always up for watching some insider trading drama, and Showtime will attempt to deliver some on January 17, 2016 when it debuts its new Wall Street drama series, "Billions."
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The Current State of the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office
Image: Britain’s Serious Fraud Office appears to be under intense pressure, amid the announcement that another part of the government, led by International Development Secretary Justine Greening, is launching a new specialized anti-corruption unit to investigate cases of international corruption affecting developing countries. While the SFO achieved a significant victory ...
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St. Joseph's Healthcare System Names Chief Compliance Officer
St. Joseph’s Healthcare System has appointed Theodore Brown as chief compliance officer. In this role, Brown leads the corporate compliance department and is responsible for assessing organizational risk for misconduct and noncompliance, establishing objectives for compliance, and implementing initiatives to foster a culture of compliance throughout the organization. Details inside.
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Standard Chartered Bolsters Its Financial Crime Unit Amid Regulatory Trouble
Standard Chartered is adding more staff to its financial crimes team, following a probe by U.S. regulators for an alleged breach in sanctions laws that resulted in a $400 million fine in 2012. In its first-half results announced last week, the bank said, “There is a range of potential penalties ...
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Grant Thornton Grows Financial Services Advisory Practice
Paul Makowski has joined Grant Thornton as a managing director in the firm’s national Financial Services Advisory practice. Most recently, Makowski served as interim chief risk officer for the Mortgage division of BB&T. Details inside.
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SCCE Announces 2015 Award Winners
The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics has announced the winners of its annual achievement awards, to be honored in October at its annual conference. Winners range from FCPA bloggers to building products companies. More inside.
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Aguilar Sounds Off on CCO Liability Again
Image: More shots fired this week in the continuing war of words at the SEC about whether the agency is unfairly taking enforcement action against chief compliance officers. This time, Commissioner Luis Aguilar defended the agency with a statement calling for the SEC to be more clear in its enforcement ...
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Internal Control Audits Improving, to a Point
Image: Audits of internal control over financial reporting are starting to improve, but it’s still too early to say if audit practice has turned the corner as fully as regulators want, according to PCAOB Member Jeanette Franzel. Franzel said internal control over financial reporting continues to be the most frequent ...
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New U.K. Crime Unit to Investigate Corruption Affecting Developing Countries
Image: The U.K.’s Department for International Development is stepping up its efforts to investigate cases of international corruption affecting developing countries through a new specialist unit launched by International Development Secretary Justine Greening. “Through the international corruption unit, the best of British law enforcement will step up our aid work ...
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ProcessUnity Enhances Cloud-based Apps for GRC Management
ProcessUnity, a provider of cloud-based applications for governance, risk and compliance management, recently announced the unveiling of new features and enhancements across 24 key application areas—all designed to expand data access, eliminate manual processes, and ensure overall program and user effectiveness. Details inside.
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The Man From FCPA Arrives
Today, I begin a blogging series for Compliance Week as The Man From FCPA. Our goal is to provide you with up-to-date information on all things related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and anti-corruption overall. I will cover FCPA issues that have a U.S.-centric focus, and also other anti-corruption ...
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Rotation Capital Names Chief Compliance Officer
Rotation Capital, an SEC-registered alternative asset management firm, has appointed Marshall Terry as chief compliance officer. Terry also has been appointed a managing director and chief operating officer. Details inside.
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DASH Financial Appoints Chief Compliance Officer
DASH Financial, an institutional agency broker-dealer, has appointed Erin Preston as chief compliance officer. Preston will be responsible for DASH's compliance strategy and will be a key stakeholder in the execution of the firm's business strategy as in--house counsel. Details inside.
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‘Outsider Trading’ Crackdown Announced
The Justice Department and SEC both announced high-profile cases on Tuesday against a large group of hackers and traders. Over a five-year period, the group allegedly carried out a scheme that involved hacking more than 150,000 confidential press releases from the computer networks of Marketwired, PR Newswire Association, and Business ...
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On the Death of Cecil the Lion and the FCPA
By now most everyone knows that in July, U.S. citizen and big game hunter Walter Palmer traveled to Zimbabwe and then shot and killed Cecil the Lion, a protected animal. What does that have to do with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? Quite a lot, columnist Tom Fox notes. This ...
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Eastern Bank Taps Former CFPB Deputy Director as CCO
Eastern Bank, a full-service commercial bank headquartered in Boston, announced this week that it has appointed Steven Antonakes as chief compliance officer. Antonakes most recently served as Deputy Director and the Associate Director for Supervision, Enforcement, and Fair Lending at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Details inside.
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FASB Proposes Fixes to Narrow Hedge Accounting Issues
FASB is proposing some changes to hedge accounting rules to help companies apply the rules consistently. One proposed update would try to resolve varied approaches around a four-step decision sequence to determine whether certain instruments should be treated as embedded derivatives; another addresses questions about whether a change in counterparty ...
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Flying Into Uncontrollable Regulatory Trouble
Image: At a theoretical level, effective compliance programs are fairly straightforward: Risky activity is found; control is implemented; regulatory compliance is achieved. In practice … well, compliance officers may have tougher times ahead. This week, Editor Matt Kelly takes the example of the humble unmanned drone and looks at a ...
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Former Wells Fargo Compliance Officer Wins SEC Case
A former compliance officer of Wells Fargo Advisors who faced an enforcement action by the Securities and Exchange Commission last year for allegedly altering a document before it was provided to the SEC during an investigation has won dismissal of her case. “Wells Fargo clearly had much deeper and more ...
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NCR Dodges FCPA Enforcement Action by SEC
NCR, an automated-teller machine company, recently announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission 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 allegations related to the company’s compliance with the FCPA and ...