All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 555
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Workforce compliance in the gig economy
Today’s organizations are using contingent workers on a greater scale than ever before. Known as a “gig economy,” this task-based approach to work has added benefits, such as being a cost saver, bringing unique skills to the workforce, and more, but it also means additional risk. This edition of the ...
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This is not a game: Scenario planning can help protect your organization’s reputation
With some 4,000 cyber-attacks occurring every day, compliance officers are looking for any solution to help protect their organization from cyber-risk. A method worth considering is wargaming: a simulation that provides a live example of what a cyber-attack might look like and illustrates what can be to better protect the ...
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BAE Systems on what compliance needs to know about cyber risk
As cyber risk continues to increase, companies need to step up their security skills when it comes to procurement, audit, compliance, and legal on a variety of fronts. And that is just the beginning, says Bill Sweeney, financial services evangelist at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, in an exclusive interview with ...
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Inside the quest for better corporate reporting
Laura Phillips is in the trenches trying to help key capital market players understand why so many public companies sense a misalignment between how audits and managers deal with internal controls. Tammy Whitehouse gets the inside track.
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Symantec launches Control Compliance Suite
Symantec has announced the next version of Symantec Control Compliance Suite, an enterprise-class IT governance, risk and compliance solution. Symantec Control Compliance Suite delivers new features to give IT and security operations teams the ability to implement agile business processes while remaining in compliance with regulations.
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Executives and investors form alliance to drive better governance
In part an after-effect of say-on-pay rules, shareholders are finding corporate executives and their boards increasingly willing to improve upon their once confrontational relationship. Joe Mont reports.
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Actiance Socialite solves compliance challenges for companies using Instagram
Actiance, a communications compliance, archiving, and analytics provider, recenly announced enhanced Actiance Socialite support for Instagram, ensuring that companies using Instagram as an enterprise communication tool meet compliance mandates.
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K2 Intelligence names head of U.S. business investigations practice
K2 Intelligence, an investigative, compliance and cyber-defense services firm, has appointed Snežana Gebauer as executive managing director and head of the U.S. business investigations and intelligence practice.
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ArticleChristopher Michaelson: A man of letters
Bill Coffin catches up with Christopher Michaelson, who works as a professor of ethics and business, as well as a practicing business advisor. By keeping a foot in both the academic and practical worlds, Michaelson sees a path forward for ethics and compliance not just as a professional or as ...
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Auditing your data breach incident response plan
The time to discover when your data breach incident response plan actually works is not in the middle of data breach. Jose Tabuena offers some insights on how to make sure that the incident response plan in place is actually up to the task.
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EU tackles tax abuse in the wake of Panama Papers
The Panama Papers document leak shed much light on a deep and pervasive effort to evade taxes. Since then, the European Union has passed a number of new rules to improve tax transparency and close tax loopholes. According to CW’s Paul Hodgson, the EU is only just getting started.
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ArticleEU-U.S. Privacy Shield passes: Now what?
For any U.S. company that collects and handles data on EU citizens, the time to review privacy policies, practices and contracts with service providers and customers is now. Jaclyn Jaeger has more.
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LATAM Airlines resolves FCPA case for $22 million
LAN Airlines (now known as LATAM Airlines Group), a commercial airline company based in South America, has agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle parallel civil and criminal cases related to improper payments it authorized during a dispute between the airline and its union employees in Argentina. Jaclyn ...
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Front-loading at HSBC
The woes at HSBC continue as executives in its forex unit face charges of trading manipulation. Tom Fox has more.
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Even CAEs see need for change, latest poll shows
It’s not just regulators or professional associations calling the internal audit profession to transformation. Even chief audit executives in the trenches recognize the internal audit function needs to evolve to remain relevant, according to a recent Deloitte study that surveyed 1,200 CAEs worldwide to get a pulse on the state ...
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OMI Chief Vincente L. Martinez departing SEC next month
Vincente L. Martinez, Chief of the SEC’s Office of Market Intelligence since 2013, is leaving the agency next month. OMI plays a critical role in the SEC's Enforcement Division's collection, evaluation, and dissemination of the tips and referrals that come into the agency.
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Grapevine: Who’s coming and going in compliance
Just five months after reaching a $795 million settlement with U.S. and Dutch prosecutors for paying bribes to a government official in Uzbekistan, Amsterdam-based VimpelCom has appointed a group chief compliance officer, as well as a “chief values and culture transformation officer,” a newly created role; and Dean Foods and ...
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The Wolf of Wall Street comes to asset forfeiture
Plot twist! The Wolf of Wall Street, a movie about corruption on Wall Street, might have been funded by corrupt money. Suddenly, this is starting to sound more like Inception.
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Frank’s International launches bribery probe
Frank’s International, a Netherland’s-based oil and gas company, said in a filing with the SEC that it is conducting an internal investigation into operations of certain of its foreign subsidiaries in West Africa including possible violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the company’s policies and other applicable laws. ...
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Dean Foods names new general counsel, corporate secretary
Food and beverage company Dean Foods has named Russell Coleman executive vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary and government affairs, effective Aug. 1.