All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 602
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ISS Updates Guidance on Executive Compensation Policies
Leading proxy adviser ISS has updated guidance, in the form of “frequently asked questions,” regarding its approach to executive compensation policies. The document is intended as a general discussion about the way ISS will analyze certain issues in the context of preparing proxy analyses and determining vote recommendations for U.S. ...
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February 1 Deadline for Data Transfer Clarity
February 1 is a date that all U.S. and EU compliance practitioners need to circle. It’s the deadline for the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission to reach a deal regarding the transfer of data from EU countries to the United States. As of now, the two still ...
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Five LIBOR Defendants Acquitted
A jury at Southwark Crown Court has found five individuals not guilty of conspiracy to defraud in connection with the U.K. Serious Fraud Office’s ongoing criminal investigation into the manipulation of LIBOR. The SFO alleged that all six conspired with Tom Hayes, who was convicted after trial and sentenced last ...
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Blog2015 Corruption Perceptions Index Shows Improved Scores
More countries’ corruption scores improved, according to Transparency International’s 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index, rather than declined. That’s the good news. The bad news: Corruption, overall, is still rife globally. Brazil, Libya, Spain, and Turkey are just a few countries that fared worse than last year. More results inside.
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Treasury and Commerce Further Amend Cuba Sanctions Regulations
The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security recently published amendments to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations to further implement policy change amendments to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations laid out by the president in December 2014. These ...
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Financial Conduct Authority Names New Chief Executive
Image: HM Treasury this week announced the appointment of Andrew Bailey as the new permanent chief executive of the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority for a five-year term. He is expected to take up the role in July 2016. Bailey is currently the deputy governor for Prudential Regulation at the Bank ...
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FASB Proposes Changes to Pension Accounting, Disclosures
For companies that still carry defined benefit pension plans, FASB is proposing an update to accounting standards to require companies to separate the service cost from other components of the net benefit cost for purposes of presenting it in financial statements. The proposal outlines specific guidance on how to break ...
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SEC Extends Comment Period for Extractive Payments Rule
The Securities and Exchange Commission has extended its public comment period for its second attempt at a rule requiring the disclosure of payments made to governments by energy and mining companies for extraction rights. The new deadlines are Feb. 16 for the first round of commentary and March 8 for ...
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Pale, Male, and Stale
The call for greater boardroom diversity is not merely a matter of political correctness; it’s a matter of modern business planning, and most of all, a matter of regulatory compliance. And yet, despite the strides being made here, there is still much more ground to cover, and progress seems to ...
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ArticleThink the FTC Isn’t Monitoring Big Data? Think Again
Companies that use Big Data analytics will want to carefully review a new report issued this month by the Federal Trade Commission, which warns companies about the sort of ethical, legal, and compliance risks they could encounter when using data analytics practices that fly in the face of consumer protection ...
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FTI Technology Launches Analytics Software Platform
FTI Consulting, a global business advisory firm, today announced the launch of Radiane, a new visual analytics software platform that enables organizations to dynamically investigate and understand their enterprise data. Developed by FTI Consulting’s Technology segment, Radiance is now available either as a cloud-based service or as a rapid deployment ...
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Hains Celestial Chief Accounting Officer Joins Multi Packaging Solutions
Multi Packaging Solutions, a print and packaging solutions provider, has appointed Ross Weiner as vice president of finance and chief accounting officer, effective Feb. 15. As Compliance Week previously reported, Weiner joins Multi Packaging Solutions from the Hain Celestial Group, where he was serving in a similar role.
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Missing Links in Regulators’ View of Compliance Programs
We recently heard from Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell about what she and her staff considers what is—or is not—an effective compliance program. Most notably, she noted that many companies have what appear to be good structures on paper but fail in practice to devote adequate resources and management attention—with ...
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SEC Committee Ups Ante in Fight Against FASB Materiality Changes
Members of the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee are ramping up their fight with FASB over proposals that redefine its approach to materiality in financial statements. The plan is “fraught with the risk that disclosures that are unfavorable to the issuer are disproportionately viewed as immaterial and as a result excluded ...
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New DoL Guidance Has Chilling Effect on Third-Party Relationships
Does your company use sub-contractors or have franchisees? Ever put a vendor compliance program in place? If so, new guidance from the Department of Labor is about to make life more complicated. It broadens how joint employer relationships—where two or more companies cooperatively employ workers—will be defined and applied under ...
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Level Global Case Continues to Rewind
Watching developments in the Level Global insider trading case -- which fell apart after the Second Circuit's landmark decision in Newman resulted in the conviction of its co-founder and another defendant being overturned -- feels like watching a movie rewind.
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What Does Good Compliance Look Like? Internal Audit Can Help
Board audit committees and compliance professionals should review new compliance guidance provided in a recent speech by assistant attorney general Leslie Caldwell, chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division. Along with the DoJ’s appointment of a “compliance counsel” this guidance presented so-called “metrics” to apply when evaluating programs ...
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Companies Prep for FASB’s New Take on Leases
Still knee-deep in preparing for the massive new revenue recognition standard, public companies have plenty of reason to start revving up now for another major accounting change on the horizon—the new leasing standard. “As soon as possible—even prior to the issuance of the new leases standard—preparers should consider creating a ...