All Compliance Week articles in Web Issue – Page 692
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New Chief Compliance Officer Joins itBit
Digital currency exchange itBit has apppointed Daniel Alter as the company’s new general counsel and chief compliance officer. Alter joins itBit after stepping down in February from his most recent post as general counsel of the New York State Department of Financial Services. Details inside.
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Epic Data Fails: How Companies Can Lose 20% of Their Value in 10 Minutes
Data security is paramount, and inadvertent data exposure (either due to malicious intent or human error) can cost companies millions of dollars. Every day, we engage in mundane activities that could be placing sensitive data at risk without our knowledge.Novaworks’ white paper, Epic Data Fails: How Companies Can Lose 20 ...
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Report Highlights Cybersecurity Risks to Accountants
A lot has been written here and elsewhere about the cybersecurity risks to law firms, but a recent report by ACCA USA highlights another, similarly situated profession that has not received as much attention: accountants.
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Cooper Standard Appoints VP of Internal Audit and Compliance
Cooper-Standard Holdings, the parent company of Cooper-Standard Automotive, announced this month that it has appointed Peter Brusate to vice president of internal audit and compliance, effective Oct. 12. In this position, Brusate will oversee Cooper Standard's global internal audit and compliance activities. Details inside.
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Mindtree Partners With MetricStream to Simplify Regulatory Compliance for Financial Firms
Mindtree, a digital transformation and technology services company, announced this month that it has partnered with GRC provider MetricStream to help simplify regulatory compliance for financial firms. Mindtree will leverage MetricStream's Zaplet, a cloud-based open platform to build, deploy, and manage a variety of GRC applications for financial firms globally. ...
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Supreme Court Asked to Consider No-Action Letters
As if the process for excluding shareholder proposals wasn’t confusing enough, now the Supreme Court could weigh in. Trinity Wall Street has petitioned it to review a 2014 appellate court ruling, which found that a proposal requiring that Walmart’s board review the retailer’s policy on gun sales encroached upon “ordinary ...
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FASB Appoints New Members to Emerging Issues Task Force
Paul Beswick, a partner with Ernst & Young and former chief accountant for the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Robert Malhotra, partner at KPMG, have been named to the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Details inside.
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CFTC Makes it Official: Bitcoin is a Commodity
Bitcoin, the controversial virtual currency vexing financial regulators, is now officially a commodity—at least in the eyes of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. On Thursday, with the CFTC’s first ever enforcement action against an unregistered Bitcoin options trading platform, the agency designated the virtual currency, and potentially others like it, ...
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Socialware Unveils Social Access Control Solution
Socialware, a provider of social media risk management solutions for the enterprise, has announced the availability of its Social Access Control solution. Complementing Socialware’s existing solutions for regulated users in financial services, Social Access Control gives firms in any industry the ability to place controls around which social network features ...
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New Tipalti W-8 Solution Fully Integrates With Global Payments
Tipalti, a global payments management platform provider, has fully integrated the first-ever intelligent Form W-8 collection solution into its platform. The solution helps U.S. companies automate the accounts payable process by both paying suppliers who are nonresidents, foreign alien or entities while ensuring W-8 tax form compliance. Details inside.
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Anadarko Elects New Board Member; Promotes CCO
Anadarko Petroleum has elected Sean Gourley to serve as an independent director of the company, effective as of Sept. 15. Additionally, the company has promoted its chief compliance officer. Details inside.
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FINRA Pitches Safe Harbor For Firms Flagging Investor Exploitation
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s Board of Governors has advanced proposed rulemaking that would allow the firms it oversees to place a temporary hold on a disbursement of funds or securities if it has a reasonable belief that financial exploitation is occurring. The rule would provide firms with a safe ...
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Hercules Technology Growth Capital Names Chief Compliance Officer
Hercules Technology Growth Capital, a specialty finance company, has appointed Melanie Grace as general counsel and chief compliance officer. Grace will oversee Hercules’ legal and compliance functions and serve as corporate secretary. She will report directly to Chief Financial Officer Mark Harris. Details inside.
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Institute of Business Ethics Appoints New Trustees
The Institute of Business Ethics this week announced that it has appointed four new trustees to join the Trustee board, chaired by Edward Bickham. The new trustees replace recent retirees, as well as augmenting the skills and experience of the Trustee board. Details inside.
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Analogic Proposes $1.6 Million FCPA Settlement
Analogic, an airport security and medical-imaging technology provider, said in a quarterly filing this week that it has proposed a $1.6 million settlement to the Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case.The potential sanctions concern certain questionable transactions involving Analogic’s Danish subsidiary BK Medical and ...
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SEC Calls for Attention to Credit Impairment Rules
Image: With a new standard expected before the end of the year to change the way financial institutions account for credit impairments, the SEC will be looking for strong processes and controls around critical judgments. Recently, SEC Chief Accountant James Schnurr told accountants at a conference to get ready to ...
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GM to Pay $900 Million to Resolve Criminal Charges in Product Safety Case
General Motors today agreed to a $900 million forfeiture to resolve criminal charges for wire fraud and for concealing information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration concerning safety defects in its vehicles. The automaker also entered into a deferred prosecution agreement under which it admitted that it failed to ...