All Europe articles – Page 55
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Article‘No-deal’ Brexit risks U.K. and EU data transfer problems
In the event of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit, EU data commissioners are warning of data transfer restrictions between the European Union and the United Kingdom, which will be treated as a third country.
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ArticleCompliance is feeling GDPR’s growing pains
Six months after its enactment, the EU’s data privacy regulation still hasn’t provided the clarity many were looking for … and it might not come for a while yet.
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ArticlePrivacy advocate Schrems foresees lax enforcement of GDPR
Speaking at the recent Compliance Week Europe conference in Amsterdam, leading privacy campaigner Max Schrems cast doubt on whether the newly enacted GDPR would have any teeth.
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SFO secures more convictions in F.H. Bertling corruption case
Stephen Emler and Giuseppe Morreale pleaded guilty for their part in a corrupt scheme to secure a ConocoPhillips freight forwarding contract, worth over £16m, for logistics and freight operations company F.H. Bertling as part of the ‘Jasmine’ North Sea oil exploration project, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office announced.
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ArticleBrexit deal: Take it or leave it?
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal has been controversial, but there appears to be very little room for negotiation if it is scrapped.
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Undaunted, May holds line on Brexit as chaos swirls
A draft plan for how the United Kingdom will engineer its split from the European Union is not going over well with many British Prime Minister Theresa May is counting on.
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Brexit deal passes a milestone, questions remain
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May managed to convince her cabinet to back a draft Brexit deal. What comes next?
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SFO joint head of fraud: ‘Engage now or hide behind smoke and mirrors at your peril’
Hannah von Dadelszen, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office’s joint head of fraud, in recent remarks offered some useful insight as to how a company should engage with the SFO if it chooses to self-report misconduct.
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U.K. money laundering task force launched; watch out McMafia!
A new U.K. initiative aims to enhance processes for catching fraudsters and financial service abusers while educating industry and government agencies on how to identify and prevent economic crime.
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EU regulator pushes for global consensus on data ethics
European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli trumpeted the urgent need for a worldwide data ethics accord at a recent conference, warning that the rapid advance in global digital technologies mandates a global consensus on privacy.
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ArticleU.K. regulator setting global example in facilitating technology growth
FCA-backed sandboxes set up for testing in a live environment have put British RegTech and FinTech ahead of the curve.
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ArticleU.K. government preps for ‘no-deal’ Brexit
The U.K. government has outlined a contingency plan to help companies prepare for a worst-case scenario—the “no-deal” Brexit.
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ArticleA peek at the compliance nightmare of a no-deal Brexit
Though it is still unlikely, a look at the compliance implications (and complications) of a no-deal Brexit is enough to make anyone shudder at the thought.
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Tariffs on/tariffs off: a compliance nightmare
In this world of tariffs on/tariffs off, dealing with compliance issues under the current U.S. administration has become not just a nightmare for compliance officers in the United States, but also for those in the United Kingdom, Europe, Canada, and Mexico.
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ArticleIt could get messy for U.S. companies doing business in EU
Don’t be surprised if the EU uses new data privacy laws to combat any secondary sanctions it might face by the Trump administration for continuing to do business in Iran.
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ArticleTaking a pull-the-plug approach to GDPR compliance
Given the two-year lead time, few would have guessed that the best way some organisations would comply with the European Union’s stringent new data rules would be to simply cut access to services.
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ArticleCreating culture from the ashes of scandal
At Compliance Week 2018 on Tuesday, Hiltrud Werner, head of integrity and legal affairs at Volkswagen Group, spoke of how VW is recovering from a recent scandal and trying to emerge a stronger, better company from lessons learned.
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ArticleAmid criticism, can trust in U.K. FRC be restored?
Attacks on the Financial Reporting Council are growing at the same time the U.K. regulator has been granted sweeping new powers to do a job it has been accused of not doing very well.