All articles by Joe Mont – Page 58
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ArticleIs blockchain technology FinTech’s magic bullet?
Image: Bitcoin is dead; long live blockchain. To be fair, bitcoin, the much-hyped virtual currency, is hardly ready to fade into oblivion. The technology underlying those online exchanges, however, is poised to become the hottest technology to hit the financial world in years, albeit not without significant business and regulatory ...
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Climate change continues to be a disclosure concern
While pundits and true believers on both sides of the environmental fence bicker over climate change, public companies may want to focus their attention on specific developments that could influence their disclosure regime and what they quantify as material information for investors. Questions they should be asking: whether state officials ...
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Group slams FINRA over arbitration claims
Nearly one out of three investor awards in arbitration cases overseen by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority go unpaid claims a new report by the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association. The group—a not-for-profit association of lawyers representing claimants in securities and commodities arbitration proceedings and litigation—claims that “nearly $1 of ...
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Podcast: due diligence in emerging markets
In our latest podcast we discuss due diligence and third party oversight in emerging markets with Kevin Braine, managing director and head of Kroll’s compliance practice in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Based in London, Braine is responsible for driving forward the expansion of Kroll’s compliance services throughout the ...
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Podcast: due diligence in emerging markets
In our latest podcast we discuss due diligence and third party oversight in emerging markets with Kevin Braine, managing director and head of Kroll’s compliance practice in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Based in London, Braine is responsible for driving forward the expansion of Kroll’s compliance services throughout the ...
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Congressional report: SEC, DoL at odds on fiduciary duty rule
Among the most hotly contested rules currently in the regulatory pipeline are efforts to create a fiduciary duty for brokers who offer retirement advice. Rules to do so are currently being crafted by both the Department of Labor and SEC, with the former poised to enact its final rule, the ...
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U.S., EU will negotiate insurance regulation pact
A bilateral agreement on insurance and reinsurance regulations between the United States and European Union is another step closer to reality. On Tuesday, a statement from the U.S. Treasury Department and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced plans to begin negotiating a covered agreement and regulatory framework with ...
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Q&A with Wolters Kluwer’s Barbara Boehler: What is a “culture of compliance,” anyway?
Image: A term of the moment in regulatory circles is “culture of compliance,” a desire for firms to move beyond check-the-box rules and compliance demands by making good behavior part of their corporate zeitgeist. We spoke to Barbara Boehler, a regulatory compliance expert at Wolters Kluwer, about how to define ...
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White, Stein address ETF oversight, universal proxy access
Each year, anyone who is anyone at the SEC, reflects upon the year that was—and the year ahead—at the Practising Law Institute’s SEC Speaks conference. At the event, held over the weekend in Washington D.C., SEC Chair Mary Jo White placed addressing the “increasingly complex portfolios and operations” of mutual ...
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Podcast: how boards can improve risk response
In the latest edition of the Compliance Week podcast, we chat with Steven Kreit, partner with accounting firm EisnerAmper, about the firm's recent "Concerns About Risks Confronting Corporate Boards" survey. The findings of directors are worried about haven't changed much since last year, with reputation risk and cyber-security perennial causes ...
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Podcast: how boards can improve risk response
In the latest CW podcast, we chat with Steven Kreit, partner with accounting firm EisnerAmper, about the firm’s recent “Concerns About Risks Confronting Corporate Boards” survey. Director worries haven’t changed much since last year, with reputation risk and cyber-security perennial causes of angst, according to the survey. However, there does ...
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Big banks could face new recordkeeping requirements
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has proposed new recordkeeping requirements for federally-insured institutions with more than 2 million customer accounts. The move is intended to facilitate rapid payment of deposits to customers if the institutions were to fail. Banks would be required to ensure that their information technology systems are ...
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Nouy: bank regulation must be consistent, harmonised
Image: European banks are much improved since 2012, with greater stability and resiliency. A challenge, however, is to ensure consistent and equal rulemaking throughout EU member states. That was the prognosis offered by Danièle Nouy, chair of the supervisory board of the European Central Bank, during an address to European ...
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ArticleNASDAQ rule could tug on the ‘golden leash’ of activist directors
So-called “golden leash” arrangements occur when activist shareholders—typically hedge funds—pay a director or board nominee in connection with their service. Calling them “one area where investors may not have complete information,” NASDAQ submitted a rule proposal to the SEC that would require listed companies to disclose these arrangements. A more ...
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SEC, CFTC ‘milestones’ resolve issues with cross-border swaps deals
Consider it regulatory kismet. Independently, on Feb. 10, the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission finalized long-lingering rules and agreements needed to resolve concerns with the international marketplace for derivatives deals. The SEC’s new rules cover foreign swaps dealers who maintain trading desks in the United States, closing a perceived ...
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European Commission concedes one-year MiFID II extension
The European Commission has proposed a one-year extension to the implementation date of its revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, better known as MiFID II, a comprehensive slate of unified regulations across member states for securities markets and investment firms. The new date will be Jan. 3, 2018. The delay ...
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House advances controversial slate of SEC rule changes
A legislative package, recently passed by the House of Representatives, is drawing fire from Democrats and the White House. The bills, bundled as the Capital Markets Improvement Act of 2016, include changes to current SEC rules pertaining to company-issued employee stock, broker-dealer research reports, M&A brokers, and the use of ...
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SEC’s White offers insight on 2016 priorities
In a wide-ranging conversation at Northwestern University, SEC Chairman Mary Jo White detailed her thoughts on a variety of topics, offering fresh perspective on agency priorities for the months ahead, including the ongoing disclosure effectiveness review, a new accredited investor definition, and the “clawback” rule for executive compensation.
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Survey: public underestimates CEO pay, still outraged
Image: A recent survey of 1,202 individuals by Stanford University’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance shows the American public believes CEOs take home much more in compensation than they deserve. “While we find that members of the public are not particularly knowledgeable about how much CEOs actually make in annual ...
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White House plan would double SEC’s budget by 2021
Don’t expect the proposal to emerge unscathed from its trip through partisan debate, but a budget plan announced this week by President Obama would provide the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission the biggest boost to their bottom lines in recent years, with plans to double their fiscal year 2015 ...