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2025-02-28T15:45:00+00:00By Ruth Prickett
Compliance teams should expect more support from their organization’s internal audit functions. That is the clear message from the Institute of Internal Auditors, the global body of national affiliated internal audit institutes, which has just put into action its new Global Internal Audit Standards.

2025-02-26T18:44:00+00:00By Aaron Nicodemus
The CFTC issued new guidance for firms seeking to self-report misconduct, accompanied by a “mitigation credit index” that details how “exemplary” cooperation and remediation can knock up to 55 percent off the final penalty. The agency is the first enforcement agency to issue self-reporting guidance under President Donald Trump.

2025-02-25T13:00:00+00:00By Neil Hodge
The decision by the U.K.’s financial regulator to fine a small trading platform around ten percent of its annual profits under previously unenforced rules has wider ramifications for the sector.

2025-02-24T15:41:00+00:00By Ruth Prickett
Fake reviews of products and services are a global phenomenon, but regulators in the U.K. are beginning to use newly expanded powers to protect buyers and honest competitors following a recent crackdown by U.S. authorities.

2025-02-20T20:24:00+00:00By Aaron Nicodemus
Uncertainty continues to swirl around a requirement that small businesses and foreign entities file beneficial ownership information with the U.S. Treasury Department.

2025-02-18T19:25:00+00:00By Aaron Nicodemus
U.S. President Donald Trump has proven himself to be a chaos agent in the opening weeks of his second term, firing federal workers, shuttering agencies, and issuing executive orders that attempt to upend policies and laws he doesn’t like.

2025-02-14T19:17:00+00:00By Neil Hodge
For the past decade, the United Kingdom has tried to make companies more directly accountable for forced labor in their supply chains. But lawyers warn that the government’s latest plans to beef up protections against worker violations risk being heavily watered down and poorly policed by regulators.

2025-02-13T15:50:00+00:00By Aaron Nicodemus
With a six-month ban on enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, compliance should retreat from fear-based messaging and instead focus on why ethical practices make good business sense, experts say.