Appointment Blogs | Compliance Week – Page 276
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New Lease Accounting May Favor IFRS Filers
Image: New standards on accounting for leases are likely to be more flattering to the bottom lines of companies that use international accounting standards rather than U.S. GAAP, the International Accounting Standards Board said recently. Beth Paul, a partner with PwC, said during a webcast that the key difference will ...
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March Madness! SEC Loses an AP for First Time Since FY 2013
As I observed here a year ago,It is hard to make anything 100% pure. Ivory Soap famously falls just short at 99.44% pure. Even Breaking Bad's Walter White could not get his blue-tinted methamphetamine purer than 99.1%.In FY 2014, however, the SEC maintained 100% perfection in its administrative proceedings. The ...
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White House Vetting Advisor Leaves for IGI
The Obama Administration’s vetting advisor for presidential candidiates, Douglas Graham, has joined private investigation and corporate intelligence firm Investigative Group International (IGI) as a managing director.
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White: When Activist Shareholders Strike, SEC Will Scrutinize Disclosures
Image: In a speech last week, SEC Chairman Mary Jo White addressed the Commission’s role when companies and shareholder activists do battle, foremost to ensure both parties meet relevant disclosure requirements. She also discussed how the SEC views bylaws that shift shareholder litigation costs to losing plaintiffs. More inside.
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Kelly Services Appoints Corporate Controller, Chief Accounting Officer
Kelly Services, a workforce solutions provider, has promoted Laura Lockhart to corporate controller and chief accounting officer. Lockhart will report to Olivier Thirot, acting CFO.
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Oxfam to SEC: Cough Up Extractive Payments Rule
Oxfam America has fired its latest legal broadside against the SEC, filing a brief in court saying the agency cannot re-arrange deadlines on Dodd-Frank Act rulemaking no matter how busy it might be. The two sides are in a legal tussle over when the SEC will issue a rule on ...
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SEC Trial Scorecard Update: Jury Returns Mixed Verdict in Willie Gault Case
After a verdict-free period that spanned three months, my SEC Trial Scorecard is finally back in action to report on yesterday's verdict in the SEC's case against former NFL wide receiver Willie Gault. This running SEC Trial Scorecard tracks the SEC's trials and outcomes for FY 2015. To date ...
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Successor to ECOA Will Launch Certification Effort
More news from the groups formerly known as the Ethics & Compliance Officer Association and the Ethics Resource Center: The two have been subsumed into a new “Ethics & Compliance Initiative,” which has spawned a third wing, the Ethics & Compliance Certification Institute, to certify compliance professionals. More inside.
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European Commission Unveils Tax Transparency Package
Image: The European Commission has unveiled a package of legislative proposals that it hopes will hinder abusive tax practices and aggressive tax planning, by providing greater transparency on what companies pay and where. “Tolerance has reached rock bottom for companies that avoid paying their fair share of taxes, and for ...
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Justice Department Extends Biomet DPA
The Department of Justice will extend for an additional year a deferred-prosecution agreement reached in 2012 with Biomet, after the medical device maker self-reported additional potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The three-year DPA, which would have expired March 26, 2015, will now expire on March 26, 2016. ...
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British Regulator Slaps Bank of Beirut With A Hefty Fine
Image: Title: PhilippouBritish regulators are taking action after two former Bank of Beirut employees misled the Financial Conduct Authority about whether the bank had complied with orders to boost its financial crime protections. The bank was fined £2.1 million and is temporarily banned from “acquiring new customers from high-risk” locations. ...
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Two Common Misperceptions About Risk Management
The “Three Lines of Defense” theory to risk management is very much in vogue today, along with maturity models to understand how strong your risk management program is. This week, columnist Rick Steinberg takes both ideas to task. The three lines concept too often paints risk as something to be ...
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FinCEN Advisory Addresses Jurisdictions With AML Deficiencies
The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network this week issued guidance in response to the Financial Action Task Force’s updated list of jurisdictions with Anti–Money Laundering and Counter–Terrorist Financing (AML/CFT) deficiencies. “Financial institutions should consider these changes when reviewing their enhanced due diligence obligations and risk–based policies, procedures, and practices ...
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Big 4 Lose Audits to Smaller Firms in 2014, Data Shows
Big 4 firms lost a combined 64 public company audit engagements in 2014 as second-tier national firms snatched up a combined 58 new clients, according to Audit Analytics. The company’s annual summary of auditor changes says KPMG is the only Big 4 firm to win more new engagements than it ...
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Unified Compliance Unveils Common Controls Hub
Unified Compliance has announced the general availability of its Common Controls Hub built on the Unified Compliance Framework. This new, dynamic portal gives users rapid access to its massive data repository of more than 90,000 individual mandates from 800-plus laws and standards from around the globe. Details inside.
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EXIGER Launches Automated Due Diligence Tool for AML Compliance
EXIGER, a global regulatory and financial crime, risk and compliance firm, and OutsideIQ, a developer of risk-focused, artificial intelligence technologies, have announced the launch of DDIQ (Due Diligence IQ), an automated due diligence solution for AML, fraud investigations, third-party vendor screening, anti-bribery, and anti-corruption compliance. Details inside.
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AML Efforts Face Renewed Focus on SARs, Beneficial Ownership Data
Financial institutions should prepare for even greater scrutiny on their anti-money laundering efforts. Pending legislation and rulemaking will smooth the way for regulatory probes to use beneficial ownership information, and to expand the use of Suspicious Activity Reports, regulators said this week.
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Retailers Decry Prospect of Bank-Like Data Security Rules
The National Retail Federation is asking Congress to reject any legislation that would impose data security rules designed for the banking industry upon non-bank businesses. An overly broad expansion of data security standards similar to Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act guidelines would “be a serious error,” it says.
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Deloitte Advances Ucuzoglu to Lead Audit Practice
Image: After Deloitte advanced its head of audit to CEO in February, the firm has appointed Joseph Ucuzoglu chairman and CEO of subsidiary Deloitte & Touche. Ucuzoglu says he has a handful of near-term priorities that focus on innovating the audit practice to elevate audit quality. “We want to really ...
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SEC Details Its Criteria for ‘Bad Actor’ Waivers
Amid a fierce debate among commissioners, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance has issued guidance on how and when waivers will be granted for companies that face disqualification from registration exemptions when raising capital. Determinations will include whether the misconduct was isolated, company leadership was involved, and training and remediation ...