All Internal Controls articles – Page 45
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Haskell & White Adds Director of Finance and Administration
Haskell & White, an independently owned accounting, auditing, and tax consulting firm, has hired Eleanor Schultz as the firm’s director of finance and administration. Schultz will oversee the firm’s internal accounting and finance functions, human resources, and facilities and will play a key role in assisting with the firm’s overall ...
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AvePoint Enhances Privacy Impact Assessment Solution
AvePoint, a provider of enterprise-class governance, compliance, and management solutions, recently announced the general availability of the latest release of the AvePoint Privacy Impact Assessment (APIA) solution, exclusively distributed by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. APIA mitigates the risk inherent with manual privacy impact assessments, helping organizations understand and ...
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SEC’s Concerns Prod a Rethinking of Outsourced Compliance
Image: Faced with budget constraints, firms frequently turn to external professionals to supplement compliance programs—but the SEC has provided a laundry list of problems with that approach. “The SEC has not banned outsourced compliance in any way or said it is presumptively disfavored, but reading between the lines you get ...
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Achieving a Unified View of Financial Crime Risk
Increased regulatory scrutiny and the sting of billions in fines and penalties resulting from misconduct have prompted many financial firms to pour money into their compliance programs—investments that may be in vain without a unified view of risk. The tech challenges to build that view are considerable, but not impossible ...
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Global Investigations in the Modern Era
“Europe” may be a nice short-hand for discussions about global business, but in reality is still 28 individual nations, each with their own laws and customs. Little surprise, then, that in several discussions about internal investigations at the Compliance Week Europe conference, the subject got complicated quickly. We have the ...
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Selecting Foundational Controls Makes PCI DSS Compliance Easier
Key components of regulatory compliance include being able to demonstrate the use of appropriate IT-related internal controls that mitigate fraud risk, and the implementation of necessary safeguards for legally protected information that’s electronically stored and transmitted. Read this Dell white paper for a look at PCI DSS security compliance from ...
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GRC Capabilities Illustrated Series: Perform GRC Actions and Controls for Principled Performance
Principled performance is all about being able to reliably achieve objectives while addressing uncertainty and acting with integrity. You need to address threats, opportunities, and requirements by encouraging desired conduct and conditions and preventing what is undesired. Performing the right management actions and controls over business operations, risk, and compliance ...
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As Companies Reorganize Themselves, Compliance Concerns Demand Consideration
Some of the nation’s best-known companies are redefining themselves. Google created a new holding company to spin off its more exotic interests into separate companies; Alcoa is planning to divide into two public companies; Dell and data storage giant EMC are planning to merge. When companies restructure, no matter the ...
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ISO 20022: Tepid U.S. Embrace for New Financial Standard
Image: The push to adopt a new ISO standard for financial transactions is gaining momentum on a global scale—even as the United States continues to weigh the business case for it. “It’s important because it is seen as the standard that all new financial transactions will move to over time,” ...
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e-Book: Conducting Effective Investigations
Corporate investigations are a critical component of a robust compliance program; without the right resources to investigate allegations of wrongdoing, a company can suffer serious financial damages, and its credibility with regulators can also be called into question.To help compliance officers and legal teams navigate those challenges, this e-Book produced ...
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Benchmark Report Shows Latest Trends in Training Programs
A new report conducted by NAVEX Global offers fresh benchmarking data for ethics and compliance officers looking to see how their training program, objectives, and challenges compare to their peers. Among the findings: employee cynicism and fear of retaliation for speaking up about misconduct are the top two challenges to ...
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Former Wells Fargo Compliance Officer Wins SEC Case
A former compliance officer of Wells Fargo Advisors who faced an enforcement action by the Securities and Exchange Commission last year for allegedly altering a document before it was provided to the SEC during an investigation has won dismissal of her case. “Wells Fargo clearly had much deeper and more ...
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Refresher Course on Discipline of Good Investigations
Image: The damage wrought by inept internal investigations can go well beyond wasted time and money; they can cause civil litigation, enforcement risk, and bad publicity. This week we have a refresher on principles for good internal investigations, something every compliance officer must know how to do well. “Ninety percent ...
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ACLA and ACC Unite; Offer Expanded Benefits to Members
The Australian Corporate Lawyers Association this month announced a new brand identity, ACC Australia (ACLA), as it officially joins forces with the Association of Corporate Counsel. The alliance expands global benefits and connectivity to members while also retaining local focus and content in programming. Details inside.
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Compliance? There Should Be an App for That!
Compliance officers talk a lot about the need to embrace new technology. This week in a guest column from Raphael Richmond, global director of compliance at Ford, we hear how her team developed a compliance app for employees, business partners, the public, and even a certain Big Auto compliance chief ...
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Is CEO Pay Over the Top?
Proxy season is now over, littered with the usual adjectives about CEO pay: “supersized,” “outsized,” “piggish,” “outrageous,” and “embarrassing.” This week, columnist Rick Steinberg sounds a cautionary note amid the complaints—that CEOs are still critical to an organization, and hiring the right one encompasses a blizzard of detail. The board ...
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e-Book: Internal Controls in an FCPA Compliance Program
Internal controls have long been an overlooked requirement under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. This e-Book, written by Tom Fox, Compliance Week columnist and award-winning writer on FCPA issues, is a guide that compliance officers can follow to navigate the complexities of internal controls, to help mitigate the risk ...
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BRG Adds Latin America Practice Leader
Berkeley Research Group this week announced that the firm has hired Frank Holder to head its Latin America practice and continues to build a robust BRG presence throughout the region. Holder brings over 20 years of experience in investigations and security consulting assignments in Latin America and the United States. ...
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Fighting Complexity With Integrated Compliance Efforts
More than ever before, managing compliance risk now requires a framework that unifies decentralized compliance activities. The goal: to streamline monitoring, testing, and reporting. That may sound difficult in theory—and, well, it’s difficult in practice too. Inside we have tales from Coca-Cola and Kimberly-Clark on how they try to integrate ...
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Second Citigroup Compliance Update Posted
Ten months after Citigroup’s $7 billion settlement with the government to resolve investigations into the sale of sub-prime mortgages, the bank has published its second compliance progress report, which provides an update on consumer relief credit submitted for the monitor’s assessment; a description of outreach events Citi has conducted; and ...