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Compliance Jobs Report: Feb. 19
The Compliance Jobs Report this week has new hires at Peloton, Coinbase and a few other cryptocurrency players, Arcutis, and more. We also have promotions at DraftKings, TJX Cos., and RPM International. Job leads this week are in Cleveland, Boston, and Helsinki; and our Meme of the Week goes out to IT risk managers. As…
Read MoreOFAC Hits Bitcoin Processor
The Treasury Department has slapped a $507,375 fine against a bitcoin payments processor for sanctions compliance failures that allowed transactions with parties in Cuba, North Korea, Iran, and elsewhere — only the second such enforcement action ever taken over digital currency transactions, but probably not the last. The firm in question is BitPay, headquartered in…
Read MoreDoJ Dinged on Whistleblower Protection
Radical Compliance is never one to engage in schadenfreude, but for whatever this may be worth: the Justice Department has been dinged by its own inspector general for sloppy whistleblower protection efforts with its third parties. The inspector general, Michael Horowitz, sent a memo to senior Justice Department officials last week warning that the department…
Read MoreDigging Into Diversity Disclosures
The other week we had a post on what companies are saying about ethics and corporate culture in the new human capital disclosures now required in annual reports. Today I want to circle back to another subset of that information: what companies are saying about their diversity and inclusion efforts. Diversity disclosures have been on…
Read MoreCDC Guidance Change Worth Noting
All right compliance officers, gird your loins. The Centers for Disease Control published new guidance this week relaxing a crucial public health restriction on people vaccinated against covid, opening what could be a Pandora’s Box of policy management challenges. The guidance came Wednesday. It specifies that “fully vaccinated persons” — people who have received all…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Feb. 12
The Compliance Jobs Report this week has personnel moves all over the world: Italy, Argentina, Spain, Iceland, Nigeria, and even right here in the United States. Updates from the World Food Programme, Novartis, Volkswagen, Olympus Corp., Abercrombie & Fitch, and many more. Our Meme of the Week goes out to anyone dealing with data. As…
Read MoreThoughts on IT Risk Management
Another week, another report painting a mottled picture of corporations and their approach to IT risk and compliance. This time around we have interesting points to explore about the pandemic’s effect on IT risk, how companies are responding to that pressure, and who is or isn’t in charge of all this stuff. The report is…
Read MoreEnterprise Risks: The Pandemic, and Beyond
Surprising exactly no one, the top worries this year among corporate leaders are the pandemic and its economic consequences. So says Protiviti’s annual report on top enterprise risks, although the report does also flag a few other concerns that corporate audit and risk managers may want to consider. The top risk for 2021, according to…
Read MoreOSHA on Covid Compliance at Work
The Occupational Health & Safety Administration has published guidance on how companies should mitigate the spread of covid in the workplace — and wouldn’t know it, the material looks an awful lot like a compliance program. The document was published on Friday and should be no surprise; the Biden Administration had made clear that OSHA…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: Jan. 29
The Compliance Jobs Report has news from Facebook, Disney, and Sinclair Broadcasting this week; plus other moves at FINRA, Red Hat, Dell, and more. We have several job openings at General Electric and a few in the nonprofit sector; a compliance vendor just got a big cash infusion, and our Meme of the Week —…
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