All Regulatory Enforcement articles – Page 114
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Accuity trade compliance screening solution has new vessel monitoring capability
Accuity, a provider of financial crime compliance, payments and counterparty know-your-customer solutions, has released a new vessel monitoring capability, Firco Trade Compliance Ship Enforcement Alerts that enables companies involved in trade finance to track shipping vessels in real-time to ensure they are not in breach of international sanctions.
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SCOTUS delivers a constitutional blow to SEC’s ALJ process
The perpetually maligned use of administrative law judges at the SEC faces big changes after the Supreme Court, led by Justice Elena Kagan, agreed with constitutional challenges.
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ArticleCounterpoint: Chevron case creates imbalance
Chevron deference undermines the integrity of the legislative and rulemaking processes and tramples the rights of the individual citizen. Iain Murray has more.
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ArticlePoint: SCOTUS got it right on Chevron
The Supreme Court should make clear that lower courts should review if Congress gave an agency authority to act as it did, and then weigh whether the agency engaged in reasoned decision making. Craig Oren has more.
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SEC: Merrill Lynch to pay $42M for misleading customers
The Securities and Exchange Commission on June 19 announced charges against Merrill Lynch for misleading customers about how it handled their orders. Merrill Lynch agreed to settle the charges, admit wrongdoing, and pay a $42 million civil penalty.
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Theranos founder charged in wire fraud scheme
A federal grand jury on June 14 indicted the former founder and chief operating officer of private healthcare and life sciences company, Theranos, arising from allegations that they engaged in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors, and a separate scheme to defraud doctors and patients.
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What is due diligence?
Due diligence is key to getting your third-party risk management program off the ground.
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OFAC: Ericsson settlement agreement imparts sanctions compliance lessons
In its first enforcement action of 2018, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on June 6 reached a $145,893 settlement agreement with Swedish telecom company Ericsson for violating Sudanese sanctions regulations.
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Merrill Lynch to pay $15M for failure to supervise RMBS traders
The SEC announced on June 12 that Merrill Lynch will pay more than $15 million to settle charges that its employees misled customers into overpaying for Residential Mortgage Backed Securities.
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Credit Suisse to pay $47M in FCPA fines over hiring practices
Credit Suisse has become the latest financial institution to pay a penalty—to the tune of $47 million—and enter a non-prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice concerning questionable hiring practices in the Asia Pacific region.
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ZTE agrees to $1.4B settlement with ‘stringent compliance measures’
Chinese telecom giant ZTE Corp. has agreed to “severe additional penalties and compliance measures” to replace a U.S. Commerce Department’s denial order.
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SEC, CFTC make their case for more funding, boosting cyber-security
Requesting increased funding for Fiscal Year 2019 before a Senate committee, the heads of the SEC and CFTC touted the need to ramp up their internal cyber-security efforts and external supervision and enforcement of breaches.
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SocGen to pay $860M in FCPA and LIBOR case
French banking group Société Générale and its wholly owned subsidiary, SGA Société Générale Acceptance, will pay a combined total penalty of more than $860 million to resolve charges with criminal authorities in the United States and France, the Department of Justice announced June 4.
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SEC charges Goldman Sachs VP in insider trading scheme
The SEC on May 31 charged a Goldman Sachs vice president of investment banking with repeatedly using his access to highly confidential information to place illicit and profitable trades in advance of deals on which the bank was providing investment banking advisory services.
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David Lynn rejoins Morrison & Foerster
David Lynn, former Chief Counsel of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, has returned to global law firm Morrison & Foerster, rejoining the firm’s Corporate Department and Corporate Finance group.
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Avoiding and overcoming GDPR challenges
When GDPR becomes effective on May 25, compliance practitioners will have to be ready for those areas that will be most impacted by the regulatory change.
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ArticleDeputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein keynote: The value of compliance
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein kicked off Compliance Week 2018 in Washington D.C. on Monday, speaking candidly about compliance program effectiveness, the FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy, the newly announced Justice Department coordination policy, and much more.
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Wells Fargo charm offensive
New Wells Fargo ads in prominent business newspapers are an effort to let the world know the bank is cleaning up its act—but, without follow-through, it may not be enough.
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ZTE and the Arthur Andersen myth
Remember the myth of Arthur Andersen—that if you go to trial in a corruption case and lose, the company will be irreparably harmed? That myth may have arisen once again in the form of a U.S. president criticizing U.S. regulators for penalizing Chinese company ZTE.
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Compliance considerations of Iran sanctions
President Trump’s recent decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal will not only have severe sanctions implications for foreign subsidiaries of U.S. parent companies, but will also negatively impact EU firms.