Now that we’ve had a long weekend to digest the FCPA enforcement action imposed against Cognizant Technologies last week, compliance officers have a lot more consider here. In many ways what happened with Cognizant is an excellent case-study for corporate ethics and compliance done right, with a few points to ponder about potential risks to…
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IT outsourcing firm Cognizant Technologies agreed Friday to pay $25 million in disgorgement and penalties to settle FCPA charges related to bribery in India, while the company’s former president and top legal officer were indicted for their roles in orchestrating the scheme. The settlement included $19 million in disgorgement of ill-gotten profits, plus $6 million…
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The Compliance Jobs Report this week bounces from Georgia Tech (new head of ethics and compliance) to Wells Fargo (new head auditor) to Annaly Capital (new chief compliance officer) and many more. Another merger in GRC vendor world this week, plus four job openings, and our Meme of the Week is a big Valentine to…
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Well this is juicy: Apple’s former corporate secretary, who helped to craft the company’s policies against insider trading, has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with insider trading. Gene Daniel Levoff, a senior lawyer at Apple for 10 years and the company’s corporate secretary from 2013 until Apple fired him last September, allegedly…
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Technically, Radical Compliance is the personal blog of Matt Kelly, long-time writer and observer of the corporate compliance and GRC scene. I was a writer, editor, and publisher at Compliance Week, 2003 through 2015; some of you may know me from my career there. I also speak frequently at compliance conferences and other events, and will pretty much shoot the breeze on any compliance topic with anyone who asks.
