All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 552
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Sports Direct is a Victorian workhouse or a gulag, not a warehouse
A case of shocking workplace conditions within a European Union-era United Kingdom raises an unsettling question, says Paul Hodgson: Once Brexit occurs, will cases like this become more likely?
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BHS: asset strippers, chancers, and governance failures
Parliament released a scathing report on the sale and management of retail chain BHS in late July. The report, says Paul Hodgson, led to calls for someone to be stripped of his knighthood—a first in Parliament history.
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Hybrid group of professional whistleblowers and insiders on cusp of huge awards
A new hybrid group of professional whistleblowers and corporate employees is about to get paid massive sums for their efforts to uncover securities law violations in the foreign exchange markets. Bruce Carton reports.
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Board needs more time for strategy, risk, directors say
A recent KPMG roundtable series revealed that corporate boards just don’t spend enough time on strategy, strategic risk, technology, cyber-security, executive succession planning, or talent development. Tammy Whitehouse has more details.
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The FCPA as an economic tool
The FCPA is rarely considered as an economoic tool. But as a means of fighting corruption, however, it also helps to improve market efficiency.
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FRC: U.K. corporate culture needs serious work
The United Kingdom’s Financial Reporting Council has released a report of observations on overall U.K. corporate culture and highlighted a number of ways in which boards and management can make some much-needed adjustments. Neil Hodge has more.
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ArticleOn its fifth anniversary, CFPB is as controversial as ever
The Consumer Financial Protection Agency may be the most polarizing government agency ever created. It’s also one of the most resilient, given its perseverance in the face of political and legal attacks. Its ultimate fate, despite its successes, may depend on two separate challenges to its constitutionality winding their way ...
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The pros and cons of using stock buybacks
It’s become commonplace for public companies to use stock buybacks to distribute excess cash to shareholders. Tammy Whitehouse hears from accounting experts on accelerated stock repurchases—what pitfalls and unintended consequences companies should beware when structuring shareholder contracts.
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SEC modifies administrative proceedings, but did it go far enough?
The SEC views administrative proceedings as a streamlined, time-sensitive process that can adjudicate certain enforcement actions that would otherwise clog federal courts. Critics see an unfair process that stacks the deck in favor of the Commission. The big issue, writes Joe Mont, is whether new procedural changes can appease detractors.
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Amid corruption scandals, compliance booms in Brazil
It might seem that corruption scandals are one of Brazil’s leading exports this year, but amid renewed government anti-bribery enforcement efforts, the country’s compliance sector is growing by leaps and bounds. Rodrigo Amaral has more.
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ArticleMike Lamberth: Shepherding the future of compliance
Mike Lamberth, managing vice president of compliance for Capital One Financial, was on the job as compliance programs first started to become ubiquitous. His vision for the profession: a continuing evolution that combines talents, keeps pace with regulatory change, realizes the positive disruption technology will bring, and does all this ...
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DoJ sends clear signal in the LATAM/LAN FCPA enforcement action
A recent Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case found LATAM Airlines Group shouldering a heavy burden, paying out approximately $22.2 million in penalties. The significant costs, notes Tom Fox, seems to imply the Justice Department’s FCPA Pilot Program is working.
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Olympic heroes in an age of cheating
As our sporting heroes take to the field in Rio this week, their exemplary efforts are undercut by the creeping notion that among them, somebody is cheating. Bill Coffin has more.
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Regulators clarify diversity self-assessments
Federal banking regulators are offering additional details on the self-assessments of diversity policies and practices the institutions they oversee will need to submit as part of an effort to meet a requirement of the Dodd-Frank Act. Joe Mont has more.
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SEC’s Piwowar offers ideas for improving bank regulation
Troubled by what he sees as an intrusion by bank regulators onto the Securities and Exchange Commission's turf, Commissioner Michael Piwowar has outlined a new regulatory approach that comes with a variety of additional disclosure obligations for financial institutions. More from Joe Mont.
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Resource
The OCEG GRC Illustrated Series: Balancing Your Compliance Program
OCEG, with contributions from Compli, has developed an illustration that shows you how automating workforce compliance execution provides significant benefits, supports issue management and balances the compliance program.
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AML due diligence for non-financial institutions: the next big thing in compliance?
What does the 1MDB scandal portend for non-financial companies and anti-money laundering compliance? Plenty, especially if they haven't reviewed their AML policies and procedures in the last 12 months. Tom Fox reports.
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Event
AICPA Governmental Accounting and Auditing Update Conference (GAAC)
WashingtonWashington, DC 11111United States
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Cardiologist facing criminal, SEC charges for trading based on clinical trials
Dr. Edward Kosinski, a cardiologist in his late ’60s living in Weston, Connecticut, has been named as a defendant in a criminal prosecution—as well as an SEC enforcement action—charging him with insider trading for allegedly trading based on the confidential results of a clinical trial he conducted. Bruce Carton reports.
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Anti-corruption efforts slowly gain steam in Latin America
A majority of executives in Latin America may think their country’s anti-corruption laws are ineffective, but a recent survey by law firm Miller & Chevalier and 13 partner firms based in the region offers evidence of region-wide improvements in corporate compliance measures. Joe Mont has more study details.