All Regulatory Enforcement articles – Page 76
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ArticleCompliance takeaways from FDA’s final ‘intended use’ rule
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s “intended use” final rule reaffirms the agency’s wide latitude of discretion in establishing an off-label use case against pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
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ArticleSEC fines telecom Pareteum $500K for overstating revenue
New York City-based telecom Pareteum Corp. will pay $500,000 to settle SEC charges it committed fraud by overstating its revenue by approximately $42 million over six quarters and providing false information to auditors.
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ArticleKraft Heinz fined $62M in SEC accounting probe
Kraft Heinz agreed to pay $62 million as part of a settlement with the SEC for improper accounting that led to the restatement of several years of financial reporting.
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ArticleIreland shakes up GDPR enforcement with $267M fine against WhatsApp
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission announced a record-breaking €225 million (U.S. $267 million) fine against WhatsApp that is equally significant for the compliance lessons it imparts and inconsistency of the GDPR it exposes.
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ArticleHedge fund manager/CCO sentenced 4 years for ‘Ponzi-like’ scheme
Jason Rhodes, the co-founder and chief risk and compliance officer of a Connecticut-based investment fund, was sentenced to 48 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $25 million in restitution for his role in a “Ponzi-like” scheme.
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SEC charges CCO for role in TMG fraud scheme
Steven Wolfe, the former chief compliance officer of investment adviser Tellone Management Group, has been charged by the SEC for his role in a fraudulent scheme to hide information from investors.
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ArticleSEC sanctions 8 over email breaches
The Securities and Exchange Commission penalized eight firms across three separate actions for breaches of employee email accounts that exposed the personal information of thousands of customers in each case.
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ArticleRomanian bank penalized over Iran and Syria sanctions lapses
The Office of Foreign Assets Control fined Romania-based First Bank and its U.S. parent company JC Flowers & Co. $862,318 as part of a settlement for First Bank’s processing of transactions in apparent violation of Iran and Syria sanctions.
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ArticleWeathering the storm: Why FinTech compliance failures persist
Experts weigh in with their thoughts on why FinTechs and cryptocurrency firms continue to have a bad reputation in terms of compliance.
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ArticleOFAC fines Bank of China $2.3M for Sudan sanctions violations
The Office of Foreign Assets Control announced Bank of China’s U.K. arm agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle its potential civil liability for processing transactions in apparent violation of now-repealed Sudan sanctions regulations.
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ArticleEY fined $3M in U.K. for Stagecoach audit failings
The U.K. Financial Reporting Council ordered EY to pay a reduced fine of £2.2 million (U.S. $3 million) related to its audits of international transport company Stagecoach Group for the 2017 financial year.
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ArticlePandemic not slowing rising AML fine totals, report says
Kroll’s latest annual enforcement review identified $2.2 billion in AML fines in 2020 compared to $444 million in 2019. The first six months of 2021 indicate a similar pace to last year.
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ArticleSEC fines Healthcare Services Group $6M over contingency reporting lapses
Healthcare Services Group agreed to pay $6 million as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for contingency reporting failures that led to accounting and disclosure violations.
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ArticleICO’s first GDPR fine reduced on appeal
The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office’s fine against pharmacy Doorstep Dispensaree for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation has been slashed approximately two-thirds on appeal to £92,000 (U.S. $126,000).
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ArticleChallenge to SEC’s Bank Secrecy Act authority backed by ex-FinCEN leadership
A brokerage firm petitioning the Supreme Court to review the power of the SEC to enforce the Bank Secrecy Act has received support from two former officials of the primary agency tasked with overseeing the AML law.
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ArticleSEC appoints Sanjay Wadhwa as enforcement deputy director
The SEC named veteran attorney Sanjay Wadhwa deputy director of its Enforcement Division. Wadhwa most recently managed 150 personnel as co-head of enforcement at the agency’s New York office.
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ArticlePearson fined $1M for misleading data breach disclosures
U.K.-based education company Pearson has agreed to pay $1 million as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for misleading investors regarding a 2018 data breach.
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ArticleFINRA notice outlines key areas for supervising third parties
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority issued a notice on compliance deficiencies arising from firms’ relationships with vendors culled from examination findings.
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ArticleExperts: Gary Gensler and the SEC are coming after cryptocurrencies
Many in the cryptocurrency space would prefer Gary Gensler and the SEC leave the sector to function without much regulation, but experts predict he’ll take a heavy-handed approach.
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David Last named permanent head of DOJ’s FCPA Unit
The Department of Justice has named David Last to be the permanent chief of its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit, following his being appointed acting head in April.