Appointment Blogs | Compliance Week – Page 65
-
Blog
The ‘how’ question in due diligence
A clear lesson to be learned from the Theranos scandal is when conducting merger due diligence, make sure to determine how a new partner conducts itself and its business.
-
Blog
FASB approves tweaks to lease accounting standard
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has finalized a number of improvements to its new guidance on lease accounting, which public companies are working to adopt in 2019.
-
Blog
Tether appoints chief compliance officer
Tether Limited, a provider of tokenized traditional government-backed currencies, has appointed Leonardo Real, former AML Quality Control Manager at the Bank of Montreal, as chief compliance officer.
-
Blog
Google fined $5 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules
The European Commission has fined Google €4.34 billion (U.S. $5.05 billion) for breaching EU antitrust rules.
-
Blog
Companies plan to automate internal controls, poll says
Companies are migrating toward automating their internal control over financial reporting, according to a recent survey by Financial Executives Research Foundation.
-
Blog
SEC charges former Energy XXI CEO with hiding personal loans
The SEC charged the former CEO of Energy XXI with hiding more than $10 million in personal loans that he obtained from company vendors and a candidate for Energy XXI’s board.
-
Blog
SEC charges BGC Financial for failure to maintain accurate books and records
New York-based broker-dealer BGC Financial has agreed to pay a $1.25 million penalty to settle charges that it failed to preserve audio files sought by the SEC and inaccurately recorded travel, entertainment, and other expenses.
-
Blog
BC Partners to acquire NAVEX Global
NAVEX Global, a global provider of governance, risk management, and compliance software, announced today that it has a new majority owner: BC Partners.
-
Blog
Will a Goldman partner flip?
The former head of Goldman Sachs southeast Asia is reportedly in discussions with the Justice Department and will likely plead guilty to federal charges regarding his involvement with the 1MDB corruption scandal. What will his involvement mean for the company, which continues to deny culpability?
-
Blog
Why HR compliance is critical to creating trust
The recent departure of Uber’s head of human resources suggests the company’s new speak-up cultural might not be all it’s cracked up to be.
-
Blog
Law firm files alleged evidence of bribery against former client
U.K.-based mining giant Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. is suing its former counsel and U.K. regulator the Serious Fraud Office for their complacency in leaking information about an investigation into the company for alleged bribery and corruption.
-
Blog
Charles Schwab settles with SEC for failing to file SARs
Charles Schwab on July 2 agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission a civil penalty of $2.8 million for failing to file suspicious activity reports on questionable transactions by its investment advisers.
-
Blog
SFO issues arrest warrant for Eurasian Resources Group CEO
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office announced that a warrant for the arrest of the CEO of Luxembourg-based Eurasian Resources Group has been issued over his failure to appear for questioning in an ongoing corruption investigation.
-
Blog
CFTC: First award issued to a foreign whistleblower
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Monday announced an award of more than $70,000 to a whistleblower who “significantly” contributed to an ongoing CFTC investigation and led the CFTC to a successful settlement.
-
Blog
Judge dismisses SEC FCPA case against former Och-Ziff executives
A federal judge has dismissed the SEC’s civil lawsuit against two former executives of U.S. fund manager Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, finding that the SEC filed too late to seek damages for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
-
Blog
QuantaVerse Financial Crime Report simplifies FinCEN SAR filings
QuantaVerse, the first in the market with artificial intelligence (AI) solutions purpose-built for identifying financial crimes, helps financial institutions file timely and accurate suspicious activity reports (SARs) that match FinCEN’s recently revamped SAR filing format in the BSA E-Filing System.
-
Blog
Control Risks, GAN Integrity create third-party due diligence solution
Global risk consultancy Control Risks and GAN Integrity, a provider of compliance management software, launched a new end-to-end third-party due diligence solution to help compliance teams across the globe manage third-party risk. VANTAGE combines GAN’s software platform with Control Risks’ specialist due diligence capabilities across developed and emerging markets to ...
-
Blog
Senzing releases real-time AI software to help fight financial crime
Senzing, a new artificial intelligence-based software company, recently announced the launch of its Senzing software that senses who is who in real time across multiple Big Data sources.
-
Blog
Former Tesla employee files whistleblower tip to SEC
A former Tesla employee, currently being sued by the company for allegedly hacking into proprietary systems, has made a formal whistleblower report to the SEC. Among the issues that may arise in the Commission’s consideration of the case are matters related to potential retaliation and pretaliation.
-
Blog
New standard triples revenue disclosures, Deloitte finds
Public companies are roughly tripling their revenue-related disclosures to comply with the new revenue recognition standard, according to a new analysis.