All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 603

  • Blog

    Tripwire announces Tripwire Configuration Compliance Manager Express

    2016-07-29T12:30:00Z

    Tripwire, a provider of endpoint detection and response, security and compliance solutions, announced a new version  of Tripwire Configuration Compliance Manager (CCM): Tripwire CCM Express is designed to simplify compliance audits for mid-sized organizations and stand alone divisions of larger organizations.

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    Deloitte Center for Regulatory Strategies names independent senior advisor

    2016-07-29T12:30:00Z

    The former head of the statistics function and senior advisor to the director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Kenneth Lamar, was recently named an independent senior advisor to the Deloitte Center for Regulatory Strategies. He will advise financial institutions—largely banks—on regulatory reporting, data infrastructure, and ...

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    NICE Actimize launches authentication-IQ solution

    2016-07-29T12:30:00Z

    NICE Actimize, a NICE business and a provider of financial crime, risk, and compliance software platform for the financial services industry, announced the launch of Authentication-IQ, a solution that manages multiple authentication methods across financial institution channels with a unified strategy, enhancing both security and customer experience while improving cost ...

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    Waddell & Reed Appoints chief risk officer for investments

    2016-07-29T12:15:00Z

    Waddell & Reed Financial, a mutual fund company, has appointed Daniel Scherman as senior vice president of its investment adviser subsidiaries, Waddell & Reed Investment Management Company and Ivy Investment Management Company, in the newly created role of chief risk officer.

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    Peak Resorts names new chief accounting officer

    2016-07-29T12:15:00Z

    Peak Resorts, an owner and operator of ski resorts in the United States, has promoted Christopher Bub to the newly created position of vice president and chief accounting officer, effective Aug. 1. He currently serves as Peak Resorts’ corporate controller.

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    People, please stop making these two insider-trading mistakes!

    2016-07-29T10:45:00Z

    Bruce Carton has been warning us for years about two insider-trading mistakes. Last month, a former partner at law firm Fox Rothschild was sentenced to six months in prison for allegedly making both of them. See inside.

  • Blog

    Law firm involvement in the 1MDB Scandal

    2016-07-28T20:00:00Z

    What does the use of the Shearman & Sterling trust account by 1MDB mean for the law firm?

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    FASB proposal would target income tax disclosures

    2016-07-28T15:45:00Z

    FASB proposed a change to the disclosure requirements under Topic 740 in the Accounting Standards Codification that would require public companies to add nearly a dozen new items to their existing income tax disclosures, including income or losses from continuing operations along with income tax expense or benefit, separated by ...

  • Blog

    Accounting leaders advocate looking at non-GAAP accounting measures

    2016-07-28T15:30:00Z

    As the Securities and Exchange Commission continues its focus on use of non-GAAP accounting measures, accounting experts are advising companies to take a look at their internal controls and assure they are appropriate. Tammy Whitehouse reports.

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    State Street to pay $382 million for foreign currency exchange fraud

    2016-07-28T12:30:00Z

    State Street Bank and Trust Company has agreed to pay a total of $382.4 million to the United States to resolve allegations that it deceived some of its custody clients when providing them with indirect foreign currency exchange (FX) services. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.

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    FinCEN expands crackdown on real estate shell companies

    2016-07-27T14:45:00Z

    The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network will add San Francisco, San Diego, and San Antonio to a geography-based initiative demanding that title insurance companies identify who is behind shell companies used to pay all cash for high-end residential real estate. The initiative is already underway in Manhattan and Miami-Dade County. Joe ...

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    Business associate to pay $650K for HIPAA violation

    2016-07-27T12:15:00Z

    The Department of Health and Human Services reached its first-ever enforcement action with a “business associate” of a HIPAA-covered entity. Compliance officers in the healthcare industry looking to minimize risk of future HIPAA violations will want to take a look at the resulting corrective action plan for lessons learned. Jaclyn ...

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    EU watchdogs temporarily green-light Privacy Shield

    2016-07-27T11:45:00Z

    European Union data protection authorities indicated in a recent statement that they will hold off for at least one year any new challenges to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. But legal challenges from others concerning its provisions could be on the horizon. Jaclyn Jaeger reports.

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    Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca linked to offshore deals in Africa

    2016-07-27T10:15:00Z

    A new round of investigations on the Panama Papers conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) this week revealed that Panama-headquartered law firm Mossack Fonseca established offshore companies to own, hold, or do business with petroleum, natural gas, and mining operations in 44 of Africa’s 54 countries—many of ...

  • Article

    Second Circuit ruling gives legal backing to Yates Memo

    2016-07-26T14:45:00Z

    At last, compliance officers have a legal decision to cheer about: A recent court case affirmed the ability of companies to fire executives who refuse to cooperate with internal investigations. This gives compliance departments a serious boost in authority, reports Jaclyn Jaeger.

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    Workforce compliance in the gig economy

    2016-07-26T12:15:00Z

    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 ...

  • Article

    This is not a game: Scenario planning can help protect your organization’s reputation

    2016-07-26T11:30:00Z

    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

    2016-07-26T11:15:00Z

    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 ...

  • Article

    Inside the quest for better corporate reporting

    2016-07-26T11:00:00Z

    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.

  • Blog

    Symantec launches Control Compliance Suite

    2016-07-26T10:45:00Z

    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.