All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 601
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Information Governance Considerations and Big Data in The Financial Services Sector
Learn how you can manage Big Data in the financial services sector and protect yourself from an uncertain future.When it comes to information governance in the financial services sector, remember that:Scrutiny by regulators is increasing.Auditors need comprehensive context to examine and reconstruct a financial event properly.Any non-compliance that auditors do ...
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American National Appoints Chief Accounting Officer
American National Bankshares last month appointed Cathy Liles as chief accounting officer. She reports to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer William Traynham.
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Ruth's Hospitality Group Chief Compliance Officer Retires
Ruth’s Hospitality Group has announced the retirement of John McDonald as general counsel, chief compliance officer, and corporate secretary. Beginning Feb. 1, McDonald will transition these roles to Alice Givens, lead in-house counsel at J. Crew Group.
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Sonic Appoints New Chief Accounting Officer
Sonic, a drive-in restaurant chain company, has apppointed Michelle Britten to the role of chief accounting officer. Britten previously served as controller.
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FASB Member Daryl Buck to Retire
The Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) last week announced that Financial Accounting Standards Board member Daryl Buck will retire from FASB, effective December 31, 2016. Buck was appointed to the FASB in February 2011 and is currently serving in his second term.
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HealthCare Partners Names General Counsel
HealthCare Partners, an independent medical group in America, has appointed Ilene Moore as general counsel, effective Feb. 1, 2016. With 19 years of legal experience, Moore joins HealthCare Partners from The Permanente Federation, where she was general counsel.
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Sweett Group Closes Middle East Business
Sweett Group, a British property management, construction and surveying company, announced today that the board has resolved to close its Middle East business and exit the region. In December 2015, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office confirmed that Sweett Group admitted to violating the Bribery Act, regarding conduct in the Middle ...
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DVR Alert: ABC's 'Madoff' Miniseries Airs February 3-4
On February 3-4, "Madoff," ABC's miniseries on Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, will be aired at 8 pm Eastern. Madoff stars Richard Dreyfuss as Bernie Madoff and Blythe Danner as his wife, Ruth.
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PwC Appoints New Partners to Risk Assurance Practice
PwC has appointed three new partners to its risk assurance practice. Details inside.
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Marathon Petroleum Names Chief Compliance Officer
Marathon Petroleum has named Molly Benson as corporate secretary and chief compliance officer. Additionally, J. Michael Wilder, vice president, general counsel and secretary, will retire, effective March 1.
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New Recommind Solution Optimizes the Discovery Process
Recommind, an advanced analytics provider, has announced the release of Axcelerate Cloud, the latest iteration of its subscription-based SaaS e-Discovery product built on the Axcelerate platform. Now incorporating Efficiency Scoring, Axcelerate Cloud builds on Axcelerate’s interactive Business Intelligence layer to provide legal teams powerful, simple insights into the efficiency levels ...
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Chubb Launches Cyber-Incident Response Partnership With Crawford & Company
Property and casualty insurance company Chubb this week announced the launch of a new partnership with claims and crisis management provider Crawford & Company, as Chubb continues to invest in building its cyber enterprise risk management capabilities.
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Barclays Names Chief Risk Officer
Barclays has appointed C.S. Venkatakrishnan as chief risk officer, effective in May 2016. He will join the executive committee of Barclays and report directly to the Group Chief Executive Jes Staley.
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia Chief Risk Officer to Retire
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has announced that Alden Toevs, who was appointed group chief risk officer in 2008, has given notice of his intention to retire from the role at the end of the 2016 financial year.
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RSA Names Chief Risk Officer for U.K. and Western Europe
Insurance company RSA has appointed Doug Stewart to the new role of chief risk officer for the U.K. and Western Europe. He will join the company on March 1 as part of the U.K. and executive team, reporting to William McDonnell, RSA group chief risk officer.
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What Will Wal-Mart Wrought?
Please forgive the mixed tenses in the title but I have been thinking about what the Wal-Mart anti-corruption matter might mean at the end of the day.
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Dawn Bennett Refuses to Attend 'Kangaroo' AP, SEC Proceeds Without Her
Yesterday, a financial advisor who is the respondent in an SEC administrative proceeding announced that she is employing a new tactic to challenge the SEC's controversial in-house court: refusing to attend.
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IIA Offers Latest Intelligence on Outsourcing Functions
As talent and staffing challenges persist for the internal audit profession, 43 percent of public companies other than those in financial services reached outside the organization for help, according to the latest data from the Institute of Internal Auditors. Financial institutions, public and private alike, make the greatest use of ...
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Where Audits Go Awry, Internal Control Audit is Faulty Too, Analysis Shows
Image: Big 4 firms exhibited problems in 35 percent of all audit engagements inspected in 2014, and a whopping 84 percent of those deficient audits involved problems with internal control over financial reporting, according to an analysis by Dan Goelzer, a former member and acting chair of the PCAOB. The ...
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PwC and LRN Forge Strategic Relationship to Elevate Corporate Values
PwC and LRN have announced a long-term strategic relationship to better help organizations elevate behavior, define and scale their values. Together, the PwC network of firms and LRN will develop innovative solutions in governance, culture and leadership, and in areas such as strategy, talent, forensic investigations, enterprise risk management, and ...