All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 447
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Blog
Court sides with Trump over who runs the CFPB
The battle for who is the rightful head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been settled—for the moment—by Judge Timothy Kelly.
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IRS prepares to assess penalties under Obamacare
With Obamacare still intact, the IRS plans to begin assessing penalties on companies that failed to meet their obligation to provide coverage to employees.
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SEC hones in on non-GAAP in 2016 comment letters
The SEC focused its comment letters in 2016 on non-GAAP reporting more than any other topic, surpassing even MD&A, the perennial favorite area of focus.
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More companies exiting third-party vendor relationships
An increasing number of companies expect to exit or change relationships with their third-party vendors due to heightened risk levels, finds a newly released vendor risk management benchmark report.
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Currencycloud names chief compliance officer
Currencycloud, an international payments platform based in London, has appointed Tanya Ziv as its new chief compliance officer and money laundering reporting officer.
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Facilitation payments now illegal in Canada
Now that facilitation payments under Canada’s anti-corruption law are officially illegal, any company doing business within Canadian jurisdiction needs to adjust its compliance policies and procedures accordingly.
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CFTC releases annual enforcement results for FY 2017
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission brought 49 enforcement-related actions in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2017, including significant actions to root out manipulation and spoofing and to protect retail investors from fraud, according to the agency’s enforcement results for FY 2017.
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Top companies slammed for “complacency” over slavery reporting
Some of the world’s top brands including confectioners, jewellers, and cosmetics giants are failing to disclose slavery and trafficking risks that might be present in their operations and supply chains, according to a report by a U.K.-based human rights campaign group.
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Compliance & ethics in litigation finance
Crowdsourcing legal costs is one of the world’s more novel alternative asset classes, but the clock is ticking on when compliance officers will need to enforce some rules on it.
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Encrypted messaging you can’t afford to ignore
The rise of messaging apps such as WhatsApp and WeChat mean that compliance departments will have to square encrypted messaging with current healthcare and finance regulations.
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Blog
European Medicines Agency publishes Brexit guidance for pharma companies
The European Medicines Agency has published additional guidance for pharmaceutical companies to help them prepare for the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union.
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5 questions to ask about cloud security implications
As firms increasingly turn to cloud computing and data storage, compliance officers need to understand the particular risks that come with using this kind of technology.
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Audit technology pushes companies to get data in order
To stay in step with audit technology, companies need to start thinking hard about their own technological capabilities to stand up to the audit process.
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Blog
OECD: Brexit to weaken U.K. economic growth
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development projected that Britain’s exit from the European Union will result in a sharp slowdown in economic growth in the United Kingdom.
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Turmoil reigns at CFPB after Cordray resigns
As both the CFPB itself and the White House clash over who runs the agency in the wake of Director Richard Cordray’s resignation, compliance officers should brace for one of the Trump administration’s uglier legal battles.
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U.K. Serious Fraud Office prosecutor joins Gibson Dunn in London
Sacha Harber-Kelly, a prosecutor with the U.K. Serious Fraud Office in the Anti-Corruption and Bribery Division, will join the international law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a partner in its London office.
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Companies make progress, face more work on revenue
Third-quarter filings suggest companies are making progress implementing new revenue rules, but still have plenty of work to do in the fourth quarter.
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Identifying Third-Party Risks in the Financial Sector
Third-party risks in the financial sector are a breed unto themselves. Or, more precisely, they are two related breeds: third-party risks from customers, and third-party risks from vendors. A financial firm’s compliance function must somehow address them both.
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Donnelley Financial Solutions raises bar for financial disclosure management
Donnelley Financial Solutions announced the release of ActiveDisclosure 3, the newest generation of its cloud-based financial disclosure management solution, ActiveDisclosure. By integrating with Microsoft Office Online, ActiveDisclosure 3 allows multiple users to simultaneously create and edit their Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents from most devices.
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Netwrix Auditor 9.5 enables firms to improve detection of threat actors
Netwrix Corporation, a provider of a visibility platform for user behavior analysis and risk mitigation in hybrid environments, announced the release of Netwrix Auditor 9.5, providing customers with security intelligence to proactively reduce risk and spot threat actors.