All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 596
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White, Stein address ETF oversight, universal proxy access
Each year, anyone who is anyone at the SEC, reflects upon the year that was—and the year ahead—at the Practising Law Institute’s SEC Speaks conference. At the event, held over the weekend in Washington D.C., SEC Chair Mary Jo White placed addressing the “increasingly complex portfolios and operations” of mutual ...
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Justice Department concludes $795M FCPA action against VimpelCom
Image: Dutch telecom giant Vimpelcom will be hit with nearly $800M in fines, penalties, and disgorgement of profits and prejudgment interest from its huge FCPA case where it spent millions to bribe its way into the Uzbekistan marketplace. Tom Fox looks at the details of the Justice Department’s FPCA enforcement ...
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Volkswagen: A lesson in implicit versus explicit rules and regulations
As uncertainty swirls around what Volkswagen executives knew or did not know about the company’s emissions cheating, this much seems certain: To achieve accountability going forward, Volkswagen executives must commit to creating a corporate culture in which employees and executives follow the same codes of conduct. Inside, guest columnist JTI ...
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Innovations in Measuring Performance, Attribution, and Risk
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Corruption can give you a very bad few days
Title: Corruption can give you a very You know it is going to be a bad day when you see your company’s name splashed across a BBC investigative report into alleged payment of bribes to secure business contracts. However, your day can get considerably worse when US congressmen, call ...
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Podcast
Podcast: how boards can improve risk response
In the latest edition of the Compliance Week podcast, we chat with Steven Kreit, partner with accounting firm EisnerAmper, about the firm's recent "Concerns About Risks Confronting Corporate Boards" survey. The findings of directors are worried about haven't changed much since last year, with reputation risk and cyber-security perennial causes ...
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Podcast: how boards can improve risk response
In the latest CW podcast, we chat with Steven Kreit, partner with accounting firm EisnerAmper, about the firm’s recent “Concerns About Risks Confronting Corporate Boards” survey. Director worries haven’t changed much since last year, with reputation risk and cyber-security perennial causes of angst, according to the survey. However, there does ...
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Apple, the FBI and a terrorist’s iPhone
As the FBI continues its investigation into the deadly San Bernadino terror attack from last December, it has run into an unlikely adversary in Apple, which has refused the Bureau’s requests to defeat the security measures of one of the terrorists’ iPhones. While the legal struggle over this raises the ...
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FASB, SEC offer new insights on XBRL
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has made some changes to the Development Taxonomy for any early adopters of FASB’s new standard on the recognition and measurement of financial instruments, adding elements that companies can use in submitting their financial statements in XBRL. The newest guide is the latest in a ...
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BlogVimpelCom to pay $795 million for FCPA violations
Amsterdam-based VimpelCom, a global telecommunication services provider, and its wholly owned Uzbek subsidiary, Unitel, yesterday reached a combined $795 million settlement with the U.S. and Dutch prosecutors for paying bribes to a government official in Uzbekistan, making it one of the largest global foreign bribery resolutions ever. VimpelCom will pay ...
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Big banks could face new recordkeeping requirements
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has proposed new recordkeeping requirements for federally-insured institutions with more than 2 million customer accounts. The move is intended to facilitate rapid payment of deposits to customers if the institutions were to fail. Banks would be required to ensure that their information technology systems are ...
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Winter is coming
It is easy to see data that is slightly off and to accept it, but what happens when you start accepting data that deviates from your deviation? It sounds crazy, but it happens all the time. Perhaps one of the best ways to combat this kind of creeping non-compliance is ...
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Financial world braces for expected credit loss rule
A pending new requirement for how banks should write down the value of troubled loans is providing a ringside seat for those in capital markets who want to understand how or why accounting and auditing are becoming more difficult by the day. FASB met with the Independent Community Bankers of ...
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Pressure builds on FASB as it finalizes lease standard
As the Financial Accounting Standards Board dries the ink on its pending new lease accounting standard that will bring lease assets and liabilities on to corporate balance sheets, more than a dozen trade and professional groups are making an eleventh-hour appeal for FASB to exempt private companies. The groups, which ...
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SEC dusts off Reg AC to charge former Deutsche Bank analyst
Today, the SEC announced that it has filed a settled administrative proceeding against Charles P. Grom, a former Deutsche Bank research analyst, for allegedly certifying a rating on a stock that was inconsistent with his personal view. The SEC alleged that Grom's conduct violated the analyst certification requirement of Regulation ...
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Nouy: bank regulation must be consistent, harmonised
Image: European banks are much improved since 2012, with greater stability and resiliency. A challenge, however, is to ensure consistent and equal rulemaking throughout EU member states. That was the prognosis offered by Danièle Nouy, chair of the supervisory board of the European Central Bank, during an address to European ...
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BlogEU implements plan to prevent falsified medicines
The European Medicines Agency and the European Commission have published a plan to prevent falsified medicines from entering the market. The regulation introduces two safety features: a unique identifier and an anti-tampering device to be placed on the packaging of most medicines. “The safety features will help protect European citizens ...