All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 392

  • Blog

    SEC proposes rules to simplify disclosures in registered debt offerings

    2018-07-27T11:30:00Z

    The SEC has proposed rule amendments to simplify and streamline the financial disclosure requirements applicable to registered debt offerings.

  • Blog

    Peirce rejects SEC’s rationale for denying bitcoin ETF plan

    2018-07-27T11:15:00Z

    For the second time, the SEC has rejected a plan to issue and trade shares of a bitcoin ETF. Commissioner Hester Peirce is openly critical of that decision.

  • Blog

    Audit leaders issue statement to new audit recruits

    2018-07-27T11:15:00Z

    As a new crop of college graduates joins the audit profession, U.S. audit leaders issued a joint statement to sell them on the viability of their career path.

  • Blog

    New appointments at the SEC

    2018-07-26T14:15:00Z

    The SEC has announced new appointments to the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, as well to the Division of Trading and Markets.

  • Blog

    The compliance role in mergers and acquisitions

    2018-07-26T13:30:00Z

    Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matthew Miner in recent remarks spoke about the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate and stamp out global corruption, particularly concerning mergers and acquisitions. He stressed the valuable role compliance officers play.

  • Article

    New index ranks countries by level of ‘compliance complexity’

    2018-07-26T12:30:00Z

    Companies looking to expand their global footprint or invest for the first time in new, unfamiliar regions of the world may want to check out a new index that ranks countries by the complexity of their compliance requirements.

  • Resource

    Reducing risk in the Financial services industry

    2018-07-26T09:45:00Z Provided by

    Amid intensified regulatory scrutiny and enforcement in the financial services industry, on top of an astronomical rise in cyber-crimes, prudent financial, risk, and compliance professionals in the financial services industry will not want to miss this e-Book, sponsored by Thomson Reuters in collaboration with Compliance Week.

  • Blog

    Global accountants get new ethics rule on incentive payments

    2018-07-25T18:15:00Z

    Accountants globally have new rules to follow around offering or accepting inducements, and they’re a little more explicitly stated than those for U.S. accountants.

  • Blog

    Collusion, cartels, and emissions cheating in the car industry

    2018-07-25T16:45:00Z

    In an as-yet unreleased—officially, at any rate—letter, the EU’s industry and climate commissioners Miguel Cañete and Elzbieta Bienkowska outline evidence of widespread manipulation in the car industry of new emissions tests, known as the Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP).

  • Blog

    Senators fret FINRA interpretation of SEC’s ‘Best Interest’ proposal

    2018-07-25T15:45:00Z

    Democratic senators want FINRA to detail  its interpretation of the SEC's proposed standards of conduct rule. FINRA will play a large role in implementing and enforcing the forthcoming rule package.

  • Blog

    Kristin Snyder named deputy director of OCIE

    2018-07-25T15:30:00Z

    The Securities and Exchange Commission on July 25 announced that Kristin Snyder has been named deputy director of the agency’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations.

  • Article

    Senate committee considers Elad Roisman for SEC vacancy

    2018-07-25T15:00:00Z

    Elad Roisman, a Republican nominated as an SEC commissioner, made his pitch Tuesday for the job during a nomination hearing before the Senate Banking Committee.

  • Resource

    Addressing the Human Element of Cybersecurity

    2018-07-25T14:30:00Z Provided by

    Who’s watching the machines? People. With many organizations using automation and artificial intelligence as their primary options for mitigating risks and protecting their businesses and customers, it’s increasingly important to have a better understanding of the people who are in the driver seat of those machines and controls.

  • Article

    Ethics training in the #MeToo era

    2018-07-25T12:15:00Z

    NAVEX Global’s 2018 Ethics & Compliance Training Benchmark Report shows how the #MeToo movement has altered the ethics and compliance landscape in drastic ways.

  • Blog

    Corporate activism from the CECO perspective

    2018-07-25T09:15:00Z

    CEOs and boards of directors have been hailed for their responsiveness to a spate of recent scandals, but one prominent compliance executive argues there’s another critical voice behind these decisions: the chief ethics and compliance officer.

  • Blog

    Bank of England probe latest blow to KPMG’s reputation

    2018-07-25T08:45:00Z

    Accounting firm KPMG has taken some serious reputational hits over the past several months ... and they just keep on coming.

  • Blog

    What is a business relationship?

    2018-07-25T08:30:00Z

    The Man From FCPA ponders the FCPA considerations of electric-car company Tesla putting the squeeze on its suppliers by asking them to refund monies Tesla had paid to them, as far back as 2016.

  • Blog

    A fine mess in Brazil (and Houston)

    2018-07-25T08:30:00Z

    A legal battle between Vantage Drilling and Petrobras, Brazil’s state-owned oil company, has put a new twist on contract challenges and FCPA violations

  • Blog

    The importance of auditing third parties

    2018-07-25T08:30:00Z

    Auditing third parties is critical to any compliance program and an important tool in operationalizing your compliance program.

  • Blog

    CAQ: Control deficiencies not CAMs, but could be tied to one

    2018-07-24T16:00:00Z

    A significant deficiency in internal control over financial reporting will not automatically constitute a critical audit matter that auditors will have to disclose under a new auditing standard, but it could suggest auditors will disclose a CAM related to the underlying accounting, said the Center for Audit Quality.