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A survey of 277 board members and senior executives found regulatory change and heightened regulatory scrutiny the top overall risk for the third straight year.
Read More »Banks won't touch funds from legal marijuana businesses, so they're laundering their money through the sale of custom-made bongs.
Read More »An organization of faith-based and socially responsible investors is pushing back against the call for divestment from fossil fuel companies.
Read More »Facebook Inc. this week announced its ThreatExchange, a place where companies can share cyberthreat information. But before companies allow their employees to engage on these sites, one cybersecurity attorney said it’s important for them to have policies and procedures in place to guard against sharing the wrong information.
Read More »U.S. senators proposed legislation recently that would authorize sanctions on human rights abusers and corrupt officials across the globe.sanctions.
Read More »Two employees of a U.K.-based printing company were sentenced to prison Thursday for their roles in a scheme that also led to the Serious Fraud Office's first conviction of a corporation for foreign bribery offenses.
Read More »Republicans on a U.S. Senate panel delayed a vote on Loretta Lynch's nomination to be attorney general due to the HSBC revelations.
Read More »Companies practicing good risk management will pay particular attention to their supply chains, as problems in this area—be they natural disasters or man-made crises—could have ramifications for business continuity, regulatory oversight, worker safety and company reputation.
Read More »The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network hit the Trump Taj Mahal casino with a record $10 million penalty in January for anti-money laundering failures.
Read More »In a sign that the U.S. is not backing away from aggressive and risky tactics to combat overseas bribery, prosecutors used a man's own corporate counsel to secretly record conversations they hope will help convict him of overseas bribery. Experts say the tactic has the potential to play badly in front of a jury.
Read More »Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. indicated its foreign-bribery probe has uncovered significant problems that could lead to a penalty.
Read More »Loretta Lynch, the nominee to be the next U.S. attorney general, said HSBC Holdings PLC could face criminal prosecution in the wake of a leak of data from its Swiss unit.
Read More »Hedge fund manager Bill Browder has been challenging a subpoena from defense lawyers seeking to depose him in a lawsuit filed by U.S. prosecutors alleging money laundering by a Russian businessman.
Read More »The silos that HSBC Holdings PLC's businesses used to operate in are coming back to haunt the bank once again despite its big compliance overhaul.
Read More »Gary Davis, Intel Security’s chief consumer security evangelist, speaks to Risk & Compliance Journal about company compliance in the era of the Internet of Things and wearable technology, and how mobile remains the weakest link in a company’s cyberdefense.
Read More »The crisis experts were asked to look at how Intuit Inc.’s TurboTax backtracked from its plan to make customers pay for a more expensive level of their tax software to file returns they could file in the past on the less-expensive version.
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Continuing tensions about privacy and government spying weighed heavily on the White House’s first summit on cybersecurity, with Apple CEO Tim Cook delivering a blistering critique.
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Russian asset sales are complicating sanctions compliance for U.S. companies, which already have to contend with a complex set of rules.
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General Cable Corp. named Kurt Drake as its chief compliance officer. Jonathon Kellerman was named as Activis PLC's global chief compliance officer.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) isn’t sold on helping small banks avoid new post-crisis rules.
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Understanding the current state of affairs in the oil and gas industry is paramount to decision makers of entities that operate in the exploration and production sector. Deloitte's latest “Oil & Gas Spotlight” newsletter discusses considerations related to the marketplace as well as industry-specific accounting treatment related to assets, valuations, assumptions, operations and more.
The latest edition of the quarterly Asia Pacific Economic Outlook from Deloitte University Press provides a near-term outlook for China, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. China continues to implement short-term fixes to the economic slowdown. Japan is starting to ease policies to boost growth. Malaysia is on the path of fiscal reform, and Singapore faces subdued growth due to global volatility.
With aggregate U.S. private-sector defined benefit pension plan assets exceeding $3 trillion, more plan sponsors are choosing to shift the liability off their balance sheets by offering voluntary lump-sum payments to pension participants or transferring defined benefit risk to an insurer through an annuity buyout-actions some call “derisking pension plans.” Learn what to consider when contemplating pension plan derisking.
Upcoming webcasts include “Unitary Group Combined Filing Requirements and Options: A Tangled Web?” on February 18 at 2 PM ET and “Supply Chain Forensics: The Global Supply Chain Fight Against Fraud” on February 19 at 2 PM ET. Join these and other webcasts designed for executive-level audiences on important developments affecting business.
To defend against expanding threats, cyber security should become like the human immune system, isolating and attacking intruders even before knowing their identity or source. This could allow teams to apply cyber forensics in a controlled environment where business risk has already been contained.
As social media applications multiply and regulation quickens to keeps pace, one thing remains clear: Reputation is a ranking strategic business issue-and an area of growing vulnerability. Learn how a high-level assessment of social media activities across the organization-and the creation of a well-defined social media strategy-can help prepare executive teams to tackle social media governance.
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