All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 114
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Blog
Biden taps vice chair of Fed for economics post
President Joe Biden announced the appointment of Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Lael Brainard as director of the National Economic Council.
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Article
Is threat of regulatory censure a risk worth taking?
When making anti-regulatory decisions, a board is expressing its real risk appetite. This can be frustrating, even bewildering, for compliance professionals, especially when rules are clear and explicit in their expectations.
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News Brief
Amigo Loans dodges $89M fine over IT system lending lapses
Amigo Loans faced a penalty of £72.9 million (U.S. $88.7 million) after the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority found it used automated decision-making to drive sales over ensuring whether customers posed credit risks.
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News Brief
Spacelabs Healthcare to pay $2.5M over VA contract false claims
Spacelabs Healthcare agreed to pay $2.5 million as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice resolving allegations it overcharged the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for medical devices.
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Blog
PlayAGS names chief legal officer
PlayAGS, a supplier of table, slot, and interactive gaming products, announced the appointment of Robert Ziems as chief legal officer.
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Blog
LendKey promotes general counsel to chief legal officer
LendKey, an online student loan marketplace, announced the promotion of David Mark to chief legal officer and head of regulatory compliance.
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Blog
Catalent appoints general counsel, chief compliance officer
Catalent, a pharmaceuticals manufacturer and consumer health products company, announced the appointment of Joseph Ferraro as senior vice president, general counsel, chief compliance officer, and secretary.
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Premium
Comerica pressured over handling of government program fraud claims
Comerica Bank has been battling allegations for years of mishandled fraudulent transactions in violation of U.S. federal banking laws. A series of class-action lawsuits against the bank recently certified by a federal district court judge provide scope into the alleged failings.
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Blog
Zendesk recruits compliance head from Snap
Hemma Lomax, the former senior corporate counsel of integrity and compliance at Snap, announced she will be departing the social media company to head compliance at Zendesk.
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News Brief
Judge rules against adding compliance monitor in Boeing DPA
A federal judge in Texas ruled against a request by the families of those killed in two Boeing 737 MAX crashes to alter the terms of a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement between the company and the Department of Justice to add an independent compliance monitor.
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News Brief
Report: FCA probing Barclays over AML controls
Barclays Bank is reportedly being investigated by the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority for failures regarding its anti-money laundering procedures and controls.
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News Brief
CPPA seeking comment on cybersecurity audit, risk assessment rule adds
The California Privacy Protection Agency is seeking comment on privacy rules requiring certain large businesses to conduct annual cybersecurity audits and risk assessments if the state believes they are placing consumer data at risk.
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Blog
FairPrice Group names first chief sustainability officer
Singapore-based grocery chain FairPrice Group announced the appointment of Chan Tee Seng as its first chief sustainability officer.
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Blog
POSaBIT appoints chief compliance officer
POSaBIT Systems Corp., a financial technology company serving the cannabis industry, announced the appointment of Sarah Mirsky-Terranova as chief compliance officer.
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Blog
TuSimple promotes deputy GC to general counsel
Autonomous driving technology company TuSimple announced the promotion of Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Evan Dunn to general counsel.
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News Brief
Banking regs set 2023 stress test scenarios
Banking regulators unveiled new stress test requirements for the largest financial institutions, including a series of hypothetical global market shocks six banks will be required to face.
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News Brief
Kraken to pay $30M for unregistered crypto ‘staking’ product
The Securities and Exchange Commission slapped $30 million in penalties and fees on cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, part of the agency’s ongoing pushback against unregistered crypto products.
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News Brief
Sens press telehealth firms on alleged sharing of patient data for ads
A bipartisan group of senators is leaning on three telehealth firms accused of tracking and sharing patients’ sensitive personal information with advertising platforms like Google and Facebook.
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News Brief
Societe Generale says SEC probing employee off-channel comms
French bank Société Générale is the latest financial institution to be swept up in U.S. regulators’ crackdown on the use of personal cellphones and private apps by employees to conduct official business.
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Blog
Avantax appoints chief compliance officer
Avantax, a tax consulting service, announced the appointment of Melissa Loner as vice president and chief compliance officer.