- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
Canadian securities regulators for the first time are proposing a whistleblower rewards program, modeled after the SEC’s program created by the Dodd-Frank Act. The proposed initiative is the latest move by Canadian authorities toward a U.S.-style enforcement regime—and in some instances an even harsher one. “Canadian enforcement is going to ...
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Now that facilitation payments under Canada’s anti-corruption law are officially illegal, any company doing business within Canadian jurisdiction needs to adjust its compliance policies and procedures accordingly.
Following the Securities and Exchange Commission’s lead, Canadian securities regulators have launched two very different whistleblower programs—one provides a bounty, the other does not—which creates new legal risks for companies. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
The other shoe finally dropped for Raytheon and parent company RTX, as two U.S. regulators announced nearly $1 billion in penalties to settle defective pricing in defense contracts, false claims related to inflated prices on government contracts, and bribes paid to government officials in Qatar that violated the FCPA.
