All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 652
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Nordea Bank Tackles AML Compliance Amid Hefty Fine
Nordea Bank AB, a major financial institution for the Nordic region, is re-establishing its anti-money laundering program to correct flaws in its processes that resulted in the company paying up to $5.9 million in fines. This is not the first time Nordea has been put in the spotlight for poor ...
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Behind China’s Regulatory Disarray
Image: More informed people than me can, and have, painted crisp pictures of the regulatory chaos currently unfolding in China. The latest is an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal today, “China’s Response to Stock Rout Exposes Disarray,” that is well worth your time if you do business there.
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Refresher Course on Discipline of Good Investigations
Image: The damage wrought by inept internal investigations can go well beyond wasted time and money; they can cause civil litigation, enforcement risk, and bad publicity. This week we have a refresher on principles for good internal investigations, something every compliance officer must know how to do well. “Ninety percent ...
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Small-Company Rules Inch Forward
Congress (and SEC commissioners) routinely complains that the SEC is so focused on churning out overdue rules for compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act, it has neglected to churn out overdue rules on capital formation required under the JOBS Act. In truth, the SEC is likely to move forward with what ...
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Squeezed: Banks Have No Easy Path on De-Risking
Image: Money service businesses, bitcoin startups, marijuana shops; the population of high-risk customers in the banking world is surging. Regulators have sent conflicting messages about wholesale de-risking of certain sectors, and that can force painful questions about how to build effective, and extensive, due diligence programs. “Regulators are talking from ...
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Auditing Anti-Corruption Efforts: Best Practices Take Shape
Image: More anti-corruption efforts by compliance departments means more auditing of those programs by internal audit, and a vanguard of businesses (many of them, admittedly, stung by misconduct violations in the past) are pioneering better auditing techniques on that point. Tom O’Reilly, director of internal audit at Analog Devices, says ...
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The Keys to Better Access Control Systems
Image: Gone are the days when “access control” meant locking your door or filing cabinet. Now compliance, IT, and audit teams must collaborate on controls to access networks rather than physical stores of information. Inside, we look at three best practices to design strong access control and at how to ...
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FDIC’s Hoenig Pitches Framework for Regulatory Relief
Thomas Hoenig, vice chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, wants to see the regulatory burden for “traditional” banks eased, regardless of their asset size. Speaking on this week about a Congressional demand to identify outdated and unduly burdensome regulations he recommended that a bank be eligible for regulatory relief ...
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ISS Posts Annual Policy Survey
Institutional Shareholder Services, a leading proxy advisory service, kicked off its annual global policy formulation process on Tuesday by releasing its 2016 proxy voting policy survey to institutional investors, corporate issuers, and corporate directors. The survey will be operational from Aug. 4 to 5 p.m. (ET) on Sept. 4.
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Scardino Named Global Controller, CAO at Walgreens Boots Alliance
Walgreens Boots Alliance has named Kimberly Scardino as its new senior vice president, global controller, and chief accounting officer. Scardino joins the company from American Express Company, where she was senior vice president, business advisory controller.
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Follett Joins Weaver’s Quality and Risk Management Group
Tim Follett has joined Weaver, the largest independent accounting firm in the Southwest, as an assurance partner in the firm’s quality and risk management group. He will focus on developing tools, resources, guidance, policies and processes associated with firm compliance, risk management, administration and operations.
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McGladrey Names Bill Gorman Chief Operating Officer
McGladrey—a provider of assurance, tax and consulting services—has announced that Bill Gorman will succeed Mike Kirley as the firm’s chief operating officer, effective Sept. 1, 2015. In the role, Gorman will be responsible for overseeing business planning and strategy execution, as well as the firm’s five regions, accounting industry services ...
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What ‘Improving Communication’ to Investors Really Means
The SEC is working now to draw up new rules for audit committee and executive compensation disclosure. Why? To make corporations more transparent with investors about what they already know. The thing is, Compliance Week columnists Stephen Davis and Jon Lukomnik write, companies can start that better communication themselves. This ...
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Brad Weber Joins B2R Finance as Chief Accounting Officer
B2R Finance, a lender for single-family rental property investors, announced that Brad Weber has joined the company as chief accounting officer. In his role, Weber will lead the accounting, reporting and control functions, as well as human resources and regulatory compliance.
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FASB Adopts Fixes to Employee Benefit Accounting
FASB has finalized its accounting standards update with a three-part fix to simplify accounting for employee benefit plans. The first part allows companies to measure the value of fully benefit-responsive investment contracts at the contract value rather than fair value; part two cuts disclosure requirements for certain individual investments; and ...
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Ryanaski Will Be Union Pacific's New Chief Accounting Officer
Union Pacific has named Todd Rynaski as chief accounting officer, vice president and controller effective Sept. 1. He succeeds Jeffrey Totusek, who plans to retire in 2016 and will assist with the transition until that time.
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Why Obsess Over CEO Pay? Well, Why Wouldn’t We?
Image: While we all await the SEC’s final CEO pay ratio disclosure rule this week, let’s remember the ethical subtext beneath all this: CEO pay is still too large for most people’s liking, and income inequality is too. Until companies learn how to solve those challenges internally as a governance ...
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NY Regulator Blocks Promontory from Bank Consulting
New York’s Department of Financial Services Department will deny Promontory Financial Group access to confidential supervisory bank information, a move that prevents it from engaging in regulatory work with financial institutions the state regulator oversees. The action follows a report critical of work the consultant did for British bank ...
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GE, AIG Unable to Shed SIFI Status at Annual Review
What will it take to be de-designated as a systemically important financial institution by the Financial Stability Oversight Council? We may need to waitlonger for the answer to that burning question as, despite a restructuring that will slice away most of its financing arm, General Electric was not yet able ...
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GAO: Dodd-Frank Plan for Ratings Agency Overseer is 'Premature'
A new government report says creation of an oversight body for credit rating agencies is “premature” right now, and that Washington should wait to see how rules the SEC adopted in June for agencies might change their behavior. Tighter oversight of credit rating agencies was one call from the Dodd-Frank ...