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Brazil's Supreme Court heard the appeals of 25 people convicted in the country's high-profile bribery scandal in a scheme to buy pro-government votes.
Read More »As companies become increasingly attuned to the vulnerability of their computer systems to cyberattacks, many may be overlooking a more obvious hole in their protections: The front door.
Read More »Although employers have won the early rounds of lawsuits by medical-marijuana users fired after failing drug tests, the risk of litigation by such fired employees nonetheless looms larger, according to insurance, legal and business sources.
Read More »Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it will spend between $75 million and $80 million in each of the next two fiscal quarters on expenses related to ongoing Foreign Corruption Practices Act issues and on its compliance programs.
Read More »Mary Dunn, deputy general counsel for the Credit Union National Association, talks to Risk & Compliance Journal about the growing number of regulations governing credit unions, and what impact they are having on operations and consumers.
Read More »In fact, five of J.C. Penney's 11 directors–six including Mr. Tysoe–sit on three or more boards.They're busy, by the standard definition. Is that a problem? It's worth pondering, but who on the board has time for that?
Read More »At a time when companies big and small are eager to build up their compliance programs, some providers are offering tools at a price that's hard to pass up: $0.
Read More »The news about the Bribery Act charges is buried under a "notes for editors" section of the SFO statement.
Read More »Florida pharmacists blowing the whistle on $3 billion in overbilling of Medicare won a $597 million award for their efforts.
Read More »The news Bruno Iksil, the J.P. Morgan trader once dubbed "London Whale," will not face charges offers a new twist on an old melodrama.
Read More »Siemens AG held to its claim that a Taiwanese former regional company compliance officer isn't eligible for whistleblower protection after raising concerns about potential foreign-bribery problems.
Read More »Initial documents required for the appeal are due Sept. 12, according to a clerk's order issued Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit.
Read More »A video shows a Nigerian policeman asking for a bribe; the cop was fired after the video went viral. Zimbabwe struck a deal to sell uranium to Iran, according to a report,.
Read More »From now on it's going to be more complicated to do business in Germany, the fifth largest trading partner of the U.S. Angered by news that the U.S. National Security Agency's electronic surveillance efforts included Germans, that country's data-protection body declared last month that most data transfers to the U.S. breach its laws.
Read More »SciClone Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Friday it had received another subpoena from federal authorities in the course of a long-running foreign corruption probe.
Read More »Drugs salesmen in China say bribes are a routine part of doing business. A federal judge strikes down New York City's stop-and-frisk policy.
Read More »An SEC official emphasized the time-intensive nature of sorting through the whistleblower tips the agency receives--roughly 300 in the 2012 fiscal year, from all 50 states and several dozen foreign countries.
Read More »Though Congress has yet to pass new cybersecurity legislation that could pave the way for more private-public collaboration, one agency last week gave a peek at the strides it's already making in this area.
Read More »Tom Glocer, former chief executive of Thomson Reuters, is joining the board of K2 Intelligence, a firm started by the family that used to head Kroll Inc.
Read More »The former J.P Morgan Chase trader whose wrong bets cost bank $6 billion is unlikely to face prosecution. A secure email service reportedly used by NSA documents leaker Edward Snowden shut down after issuing a cryptic message.
Read More »More than 65 percent of IT/security professionals surveyed said they did not think, or were unsure, whether their company had experienced any security incidents in the past 18 months. A new whitepaper says it's crucial for multinational companies to understand the environmental risks before venturing into new markets.
Read More »Juniper Networks Inc. said Thursday the U.S. government is investigating whether or not the network-gear company paid bribes to foreign officials.
Read More »Whoops. The Serious Fraud Office said Thursday it had accidentally sent information from a past bribery investigation into BAE Systems plc to the wrong party.
Read More »SciClone Pharmaceuticals Inc. cut its earnings estimates for the year amid mounting costs tied to a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation, underscoring the burden a long-running bribery probe can place on a smaller firm.
Read More »Texts and emails sent by Americans into and out of the United States are being searched by the National Security Agency for mentions about foreigners under surveillance. Meet the whistleblower known as the Edward Snowden of banking.
Read More »The financial-services industry is doing an exemplary job of sharing cyber-threat data among companies, a panel of top government officials and cybersecurity experts said this week.
Read More »A leader in a cybercrime ring that stretched from Brooklyn to Ukraine was sentenced Thursday, and 12 more people pleaded guilty for their roles in the gang that swiped 95,000 credit cards and stole more than $5 million.
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Penn State employees are protesting a new wellness program that requires them to provide detailed health information or pay penalties that can total $1,200 a year, in an unusually public backlash against an increasingly common employer practice.
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Many of the new health-insurance marketplaces will include relatively few choices of doctors and hospitals. The big reason behind these limited plans: Cost.
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Title insurance and escrow services firm Title365 Company announced that Clay White was promoted to chief compliance officer. U.K. regulator the Financial Conduct Authority appointed four directors to lead parts of its supervision division.
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A U.S. appeals court has thrown out a lawsuit in a long-running dispute between a South Korean university and Yale University over an art history professor who faked a degree from the Ivy League school.
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The United States Department of Energy notified employees via an email Wednesday that hackers gained personal information, such as names and social security numbers, of 14,000 current and former agency employees as the result of a hack that occurred in late July.
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Say on pay, proxy access, board declassification, social and environmental policies, and independent chairmen and leadership structure are among the top issues that unfolded in this year's proxy season. Meanwhile pay for performance, pay ratio, hedging disclosures and claw-back policies, are pending implementation as part of Dodd-Frank. Learn about issues arising from the proxy season and other governance developments.
Companies have long recognized cost benefits by asking suppliers to reduce the cost of their operations, but some go further by reexamining supply chains and focusing on reducing use and production of five common metrics: energy, carbon, water, materials and waste. Learn five steps an organization can take to determine where resource metrics are most overused along the supply chain so that savings can be identified while managing risks.
With the rising tide of cybercrime, security strategies need to go beyond defense to include detection, response and recovery. This calls for new skills and approaches and specialized tools and services, including continuous monitoring and threat forensics powered by analytics. Learn how tapping into collective intelligence and joining automation and analytics to human judgment can help reduce the risk of a cyberattack and lower the costs of mitigating attacks that do occur.
COSO's recent update to its baseline internal control framework guidance adds a more formal structure that highlights risk interdependencies and updated principles that place a greater emphasis on IT risk and related controls, as well as the quality of information. Learn how the new framework provides companies with enhanced ways to think about risks and controls using the more formal structure of principles and points of focus for each of the five components of internal control.
The third-quarter edition of "Global Economic Outlook" offers timely insights from Deloitte Research economists about China, Japan, the United States, eurozone, the United Kingdom, India, Russia and Brazil. In addition, this issue features a special section called “Consumers and the recession: Trends in eurozone consumer spending.”
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