All Risk Management articles – Page 83
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Article‘FinCEN Files’ fallout: Where do banks go from here?
The “FinCEN Files” report raises the question: What should banks be doing to address the trillions of dollars’ worth of banking transactions that are facilitating criminal activity every year?
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ArticleCompanies face greater risk as GDPR class actions emerge
In the past month three of the world’s largest tech firms have been hit with legal actions that could lead to billion-dollar damages suits for alleged violations of the GDPR. Neil Hodge explores the trend and what to expect moving forward.
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PremiumEnjoy ‘Compliance Officer Day’—you’ve earned it
In a 2020 full of Blursdays that all run together, it’s perhaps appropriate that the day created in your honor this year happens to fall when you don’t have to be in the office (otherwise known as your bedroom/kitchen table).
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PremiumInside the Mind of the CCO: 2020 a year like no other
Our second annual “Inside the Mind of the CCO” survey revealed that compliance practitioners, by and large, have stepped up to meet the unique challenges presented by this very different, very difficult year.
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ArticleFinCEN leaks impart key lessons on basics of writing SARs
Martin Woods, who has analyzed many of the suspicious activity reports released as part of the “FinCEN Files,” offers best practices for compliance officers in writing SARs.
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Article‘FinCEN Files’ highlight bank leadership flaws, not compliance flaws
Compliance has been taking some heat in the wake of the “FinCEN Files” reports, but it’s banks’ senior leadership that failed, not the folks filing all those SARs.
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Resourcee-Book: Mind the Gap — Where Third-Party Risk Management Programs Fall Short
This e-Book from Compliance Week and Aravo reveals the results of the “2020 TPRM Benchmarking Survey.”
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Article‘FinCEN Files’ report casts compliance officers in unfair light
The BuzzFeed “FinCEN Files” investigation purportedly uncovered evidence of a catastrophic, international collapse of internal controls within the world banking system. But that argument is misleading, to the point of being disingenuous.
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ArticleLesson for startups: Don’t try to fake compliance
Promising startups are often cut slack with compliance because investors feel they will eventually make it, but the time in between is ripe with dangers that extend well beyond the company, writes Martin Woods.
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ArticleWhat CCPA-affected businesses need to know about California’s next privacy initiative
Businesses with operations in California should expect their data privacy compliance obligations to get a lot more complicated next year with the California Privacy Rights Act expected to pass in November.
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ArticleCarreyrou at TPRM: Theranos warning signs were there, but partners failed to spot them
John Carreyrou explained to third-party risk professionals at CW’s TPRM Virtual Summit that the mistakes made by Theranos’s business partners were entirely preventable—had they done their proper due diligence.
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ArticleRecent OCC case shows widespread liability when a BSA program fails
Who faces liability when a Bank Secrecy Act program is deemed to be deficient? A series of recent enforcement actions taken by the OCC against individuals at a now-defunct New Jersey bank provides a case study.
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ArticleCompliance official key to Comtech sanctions penalty
The alleged actions of an export compliance official are at the heart of “egregious” apparent OFAC sanctions violations by New York-based Comtech Telecommunications Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiary regarding sales in Sudan.
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ArticleVolkswagen completes monitorship; Deloitte family leave policy too good to be true?
Volkswagen gets a nod this week for successfully completing its 3-year compliance monitorship related to Dieselgate. Deloitte, on the other hand, lands on the wrong side of our list.
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ArticleBrockmeyer at TPRM: Regulator expectations for monitoring third parties
Former chief of the SEC’s FCPA Unit Kara Brockmeyer shared what regulators are looking for when they assess a company’s relationship with its third parties at Compliance Week’s TPRM Virtual Summit on Thursday.
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ICA news program looks at initiatives leading compliance into future
The ICA and ITN Productions Industry News have co-produced “Compliance: the new decade”: a series of reports addressing the role of the compliance professional and the latest insights, challenges, and opportunities for business growth.
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PremiumChapter 6: Carnival looks toward a new horizon
Carnival will go through extraordinary scrutiny as it prepares to resume guest operations—not just in health, safety, and security but in environmental compliance as well. The storm is not over yet.
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PremiumChapter 5: The storms merge
How can Carnival meet the expectations of a government-mandated environmental compliance plan and stay in the court’s good graces while the coronavirus brings business to a standstill?
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ArticleA step toward managing climate risk in U.S. financial system
A nearly 200-page report on managing climate risk in the U.S. financial system is comprehensively assembled by a group spearheaded by CFTC Commissioner Rostin Behnam, but the real work comes in its implementation.
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PremiumChapter 4: Carnival moves ethics and compliance to the fore
This installment looks at how new Carnival CECO Peter Anderson restructured the Ethics and Compliance department and developed a culture action plan to drive change across the organization.