Appointment Blogs | Compliance Week – Page 256
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EY Shows Improvement in Latest Inspection Report
EY earned a 36-percent deficiency rating in its latest audit inspection report, with the majority of the busted audits showing problems in both the financial statement audit and the audit of internal control over financial reporting—an improvement over its 2013 record failure of 49 percent, but not enough to beat ...
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PCAOB Revisits Naming Engagement Partner, Audit Quality Metrics
Audit regulators are trying again to propose a rule that would give investors more information about who is working behind the curtain when an audit firm files its final report on a company’s financial statements.
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Cyber-Breaches and Other Threats Involving Conscious Opponents
Cyber-security is now a very real risk, with the potential for staggering costs and reputational harm. Cyber-security has another unusual feature as well: It falls into the realm of conscious harms, where companies must play a cat-and-mouse game to stay ahead of attackers. How do you build, maintain, and audit ...
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Cyber-Security, AML Deficiencies Flagged in OCC Risk Review
As banks try to close the profitability gap created by a lingering low-interest rate environment and offer new services to customers, they face escalating compliance risks. Cyber-security and anti-money laundering controls are among the concerns flagged by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in its “Semiannual Risk Perspective.” ...
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MetLife Challenges FSOC Secrecy with Document Demand
As it sues the Financial Stability Oversight Council in federal court over its designation as a Systemically Important Financial Institution, MetLife is demanding that its lawyers have access to nearly 500 pages of redacted and unreleased agency documents, many of them otherwise shielded because of references to other companies. More ...
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Aguilar on CCO Liability Fears: Untwist Your Knickers!
Image: SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar has jumped into the conversation about CCO liability, rebutting “unwarranted fear in the CCO community” that the SEC is looking to take enforcement action against compliance officers at investment advisory firms. “CCOs that faithfully and reasonably fulfill [SEC requirements] are not going to be subjects ...
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Consortium, Filing Agencies Form XBRL Quality Initiative
If the Securities and Exchange Commission is dragging its heels on enforcing the quality of data gathered through XBRL, then the market will do what it can to enhance quality on its own.
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Get Ready For the Biggest Stress-Test of Them All
Image: Greece in default, China teetering on recession, stock markets shuddering worldwide and interest rates poised for their first increase in years—suddenly, all those exercises in risk management that banks have done in the Dodd-Frank era face their ultimate test. The only problem, writes Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly: Dodd-Frank ...
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SEC to Finalize Clawback Requirements
The SEC will meet on Wednesday to consider the long-awaited clawback requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act. The SEC has postponed addressing the incentive compensation clawback provision for years. If the amendments are made, this will usher in a new wave of compliance requirements for many companies. More inside.
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Peak Re Appoints Chief Risk Officer
Peak Reinsurance, a Hong Kong-based global reinsurer, has appointed Eckart Roth as chief risk officer, effective July 1. Details inside.
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My 15 'Must-Follows' on Twitter -- 2015 Edition
In May 2009, when Twitter was in its infancy, I created a list of "15 People All Securities and Corporate Litigators Should Follow on Twitter." I updated that list here in February 2010, adding and removing a few people as I tried to identify the people and organizations who "consistently ...
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IT Pros Dread Prospect of Compliance Audits
Image: Corporate IT teams aren’t prepared to face a compliance audit. In fact, nearly half of respondents to a recent survey said they would rather have a root canal, work over a holiday, live without electricity for a week, or even eat a live jellyfish. “Companies talk about the importance ...
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SEC Rebukes Investment Advisory Firm for Ignoring CCO Pleas
A bit of good news amid the discussion of personal liability for chief compliance officers: The SEC has delivered a one-year suspension to an investment advisory firm’s former president on the grounds that he consistently ignored the chief compliance officer’s request for resources, which led to the firm’s compliance failures. ...
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Utah AG Brings Charges Against Latest 'Affinity' Ponzi Scheme
Shortly after Utah introduced the nation's first "White Collar Crime Offender Registry" to help fight affinity fraud, the state's Attorney General charged a father and son with 15 counts of securities fraud in which they allegedly exploited their membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to win ...
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CFPB Makes Narratives in Complaint Database Public
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has made the consumer narratives collected by its controversial complaint database publicly available. In March, the CFPB formalized its policy for accepting and disclosing the complaint narratives. Last week, more than 7,700 of those complaints—lodged against banks, credit card companies, and other consumer-dealing financial ...
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SEC Will Consider Universal Proxy Ballot Rulemaking
Image: SEC Chair Mary Jo White said in a speech Thursday that the agency will, in time, propose rulemaking to allow universal proxy ballots—single proxy cards that list both management’s and opponents’ nominees in contested director elections. White says a date has not yet been set for the proposal. More ...
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Mid-Con Energy Partners Names Chief Accounting Officer
Mid-Con Energy Partners, a publicly held Delaware limited partnership formed in July 2011 to own, operate, acquire, exploit and develop producing oil and natural gas properties in North America, has appointed Sherry Morgan as chief accounting officer of Mid-Con Energy GP, the general partner of the partnership, effective July 1. ...
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PDL BioPharma Appoints Chief Accounting Officer
PDL BioPharma, which manages a portfolio of patents and royalty assets, has appointed Steffen Pietzke as controller and chief accounting officer. Pietzke joins PDL from Ernst & Young, where he held the position of senior manager since 2013. Details inside.
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New CD&Is Address Expansion of Regulation A
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance has issued 11 new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations to offer guidance on Regulation A changes that went into effect on June 19. They address such matters as the use of social media for “testing the waters” communications, what a “principal place ...
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U.K. Watchdogs Issue New Rules on Clawbacks for Bankers
The Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England have finished banker rules that could have bonuses clawed back even after a decade of being awarded, if the firm comes under regulatory scrutiny for “potential material failures,” the FCA said. Senior managers aren’t off the hook either: They face a ...