All articles by Jaclyn Jaeger – Page 91
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Don’t go it alone: working with other functions
During a panel discussion at Compliance Week 2016, ethics and compliance officers came together to discuss both the challenges and opportunities associated with working with other functions and how to minimize turf wars and silos while enhancing the compliance program. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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BlogArmada Group responds to Unaoil investigation; threatens legal action
Yet another company entangled in the massive media-leaked bribery and corruption scandal surrounding Monaco-based Unaoil has come forward, refuting the allegations and threatening legal action. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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New report: promoting workplace integrity globally
Ethics and compliance officers seeking more guidance on how to achieve and promote workplace integrity—doing what’s right in a professional context—now have a new, first-of-its-kind benchmark report at their fingertips. Jaclyn Jaeger offers a look at this Ethics & Compliance Initiative study.
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Akamai Technologies dodges FCPA charges
A letter sent by the Department of Justice to Akamai Technologies reveals that the cloud services provider will not face an enforcement action in connection with a previously disclosed investigation into potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. It is the second declination this week issued under the new ...
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Nortek dodges FCPA enforcement action
Nortek said yesterday in a securities filing that the Department of Justice has decided not to recommend an enforcement action against it in connection with a previously disclosed investigation into potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The declination came in the same week that the company entered into ...
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SEC: two FCPA cases result in non-prosecution agreements
The SEC has entered into non-prosecution agreements with Akamai Technologies and Nortek that will forfeit ill-gotten gains connected to bribes paid to Chinese officials by foreign subsidiaries. Simultaneously, the Justice Department closed its investigations into Akamai and Nortek. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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CW2016: Putting compliance into practice
Yes, yes—companies everywhere know that having in place an effective compliance program is more important today than ever before, but how are compliance officers actually achieving that? Jaclyn Jaeger recaps this discussion from Compliance Week 2016.
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French tax authorities seek €356 million from Booking.com
French tax authorities are seeking €356 million (approximately US$404 million) from Booking.com, a unit of online hotel reservation company Priceline Group, to recover what they claim are unpaid income taxes and value-added taxes, the company disclosed in a quarterly report.
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Two former Deutsche Bank employees indicted on fraud charges
The Department of Justice announced today the indictment of two former Deutsche Bank traders—the bank’s supervisor of the pool trading desk in New York and a derivatives trader in London—for their alleged roles in a scheme to manipulate the USD London InterBank Offered Rate, a benchmark interest rate to which ...
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Former CalPERS CEO gets four years in prison
A California federal judge yesterday sentenced the former chief executive officer of the California Public Employees Retirement System to four years and six months in prison for engaging in a bribery and corruption scheme.
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Defining compliance program effectiveness
During a keynote panel at Compliance Week 2016, enforcement officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice spoke candidly about compliance program effectiveness, personal liability, and more. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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CW2016: Practical implications of the Yates Memo
At Compliance Week 2016 last week, Jaclyn Jaeger covered the conversation between current and former enforcement officials, as well as compliance officers, on how the “Yates Memo” is affecting them from a real-world standpoint.
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BlogCW2016: SEC and DoJ speak on personal liability
Enforcement heads from the SEC and Department of Justice kicked off Compliance Week 2016 in Washington D.C. this week, speaking candidly about compliance program effectiveness, personal liability, and much more. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.
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SEC awards two more whistleblowers
The SEC is awarding more than $450,000 to two individuals for a tip that led the agency to open a corporate accounting investigation and for their assistance once the investigation was underway. The whistleblower award is the third announced by the SEC in the past week, says CW’s Jaclyn Jaeger, ...
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FINRA fines compliance officer for AML compliance failures
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has fined Raymond James & Associates and Raymond James Financial Services a total of $17 million for widespread failures related to the firms’ anti-money laundering programs. RJA’s former AML compliance officer was also fined and suspended for three months.
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ArticleCompanies now have federal remedy to protect trade secrets
Passage this month of the Defend Trade Secrets Act creates for the first time a federal civil cause of action for misappropriation of trade secrets, giving U.S. companies a wide range of remedies—but its new whistleblower protections also call for new reporting obligations. Jaclyn Jaeger explores.
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Australia bolsters antitrust enforcement
Australian regulators are aggressively enforcing that nation’s competition laws, demonstrated by a wave of significant enforcement actions reached in just the last couple of months. Multinationals with operations in Australia should heed the warning. Jaclyn Jaeger has more.
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The many facets of a data breach
Every industry faces the threat of a data breach, but how those breaches are actually carried out can vary significantly industry to industry. Jaclyn Jaeger explores how companies can better focus their security efforts on the most vulnerable areas.
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CCOs feeling the heat of regulatory scrutiny
The threat of increasing personal liability has compliance officers on the defensive, especially in light of the newly established compliance counsel role within the Department of Justice’s Fraud Section. Jaclyn Jaeger looks into how CCOs are dealing with this intensified level of direct scrutiny on their performance.
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Walmart prevails in shareholder FCPA-related derivative case
Walmart’s board of directors successfully moved to dismiss a shareholder FCPA-related derivative claim, in which shareholders accused the directors of breaching their fiduciary duties in connection with a massive bribery and corruption scandal at the retail giant’s Mexico operations. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.