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Compliance Jobs Report: Oct. 31
This week the Compliance Jobs Report begins with a grim update from Fannie Mae. We also have personnel news from Hewlett Packard, AMD, Booking.com, UBS, Foundation Medicine, Capital One, Cisco Systems, and lots more. A great friend of the compliance profession is also moving on; and job leads are in social services, market research, and…
Read MoreSEC Chair Talks Messaging Enforcement, Misses Point
The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said this week that the agency’s Biden-era crackdown on improper use of off-channel messaging apps was “not the way a regulator should act” and presumably won’t happen again under his watch. That’s probably music to compliance officers’ ears, but tread carefully — his words raise other, unsettling…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Oct. 24
This week the Compliance Jobs Report has hiring news at Amazon, Philip Morris, Harman International, ICE (no, not that one), Emirates, and more. Indivior has had a changing of the compliance guard, plus other promotions at Bristol Myers Squibb, Comcast, Kohler, Rio Tinto, and elsewhere. Job leads are in medical devices, sporting goods, and cable…
Read MoreGood Guidance on Third-Party Cyber Risk
Good news if you’re still smarting from that Amazon Web Services failure earlier this week that paralyzed large swaths of the business world! Regulators in New York just released fresh guidance about how to manage the cybersecurity risks of third-party technology providers. Apparently we all need a refresher course, so let’s take a look. The…
Read MoreThe Troubling Smartmatic FCPA Indictment
Last week the Justice Department indicted Smartmatic, a voting technology company, for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. For compliance professionals it’s a bizarre moment: after 10 months of the Trump Administration telling us it would limit FCPA enforcement severely, the department turned around and took one of the most forceful actions it can against…
Read MoreStudy Ranks AI Models on Compliance Tasks
We’re back to artificial intelligence today, with fresh research on how well various AI models perform at tasks that compliance teams encounter on a daily basis. The bottom line: yes, just about all AI models are generally good at lots of compliance work, but integrating AI into compliance workstreams is still going to be a…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Oct. 17
Lots of notable names in the Compliance Jobs Report this week. We have new compliance chiefs at Qatar Airways and Scout Motors; other new hires at Mastercard, Sleep Number Mattress, X-Rite, and Adtran; plus promotions at AbbVie, Boeing, Huntington Bank, and lots more. Job leads are in skincare, higher education, and banking; and don’t forget…
Read MoreNY DFS Nails Insurance Firms on Cyber Fails
Regulators in New York have fined eight auto insurance businesses for poor cybersecurity practices that led to widespread privacy breaches in 2021. It’s our latest example of what cybersecurity risk looks like in the modern era, with numerous points that IT auditors and privacy compliance professionals can ponder. The New York Department of Financial Services…
Read MoreThe ‘Dual Crisis’ of AI-Driven Fraud Today
More glum news from the anti-fraud world: A new report says financial firms are getting hammered by rising levels of AI-enhanced fraud — but at the same time, consumers are embracing online privacy technologies that make anti-fraud efforts more difficult because firms can’t easily verify an online user’s identity. So says Fingerprint, which on Tuesday…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Oct. 10
The Compliance Jobs Report is back with another week’s worth of personnel news! We have a new ethics and compliance boss at Georgia Tech, other new hires at the Nature Conservancy, Danaher, Stripe, Sierra Nevada, and more. Also promotions at AbbVie, Stryker, and Hewlett-Packard, among others; plus job leads in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and toys! We…
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