We begin this week with a round of praise for James Mattis, U.S. secretary of defense. On Friday Mattis circulated a memo to Defense Department staff stressing the importance of ethics, saying he expects all DoD staff “to play the ethical midfield.” The message isn’t long: five staccato paragraphs squeezed onto one typewritten page. I…
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This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Compliance Jobs Report! We celebrate with another big roundup: the CCO of State Street has been promoted; StockPath has a new corporate controller; K&L Gates just poached a top FCPA lawyer at the SEC; and we have a bundle of interesting compliance jobs spanning the globe. Read…
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If you want to understand the forces pushing to roll back compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act—and if you work in corporate compliance, you should—then spend time today reading a superb Wall Street Journal article about the conflicted state of investment in the private markets. We can’t ignore the uncertainty there, because it’s a big driver…
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Well, it’s started. Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission have begun plotting ways to roll back corporate compliance and governance practices. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is a top priority. New SEC chairman Jay Clayton fired the starting gun on July 12, when he gave his first public address as chairman. He laid out eight concerns…
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A busy week for the Compliance Jobs Report, even in the July vacation season! The head of compliance at Snap has received a field promotion to general counsel; and the chief compliance officer at DaVita Healthcare may be heading to the Justice Department. We also have news from AB InBev, Uber, CHS, Pfizer, and more.…
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The title says it all, Radical Compliance followers: we are on vacation this week, which means no posts until Friday. We will have the Compliance Jobs Report as usual on Friday, July 28. (If you have any personnel moves, vendor news, or other industry gossip to report, send it along to [email protected].) You can also…
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Topping this week’s Compliance Jobs Report: the University of California has a new chief compliance officer, plucked from the LAPD; the head of financial crimes compliance at Deutsche Bank is leaving; and a new SEC commissioner may be nominated soon. We also have plenty of news in the GRC vendor world, and a few work…
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Compliance officers have heard a lot in the last year about ISO 37001, the new standard for managing anti-bribery programs published by ISO in 2016. Microsoft and Walmart both say they plan to implement it, as a formalized structure to manage their FCPA risks. Then again, Italian oil company ENI announced in January that it…
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New SEC chairman Jay Clayton gave his first speech last week, to the Economic Club of New York—a wide-ranging address that touched on a litany of topics, from cybersecurity to enforcement to Clayton’s favorite subject, “capital formation,” which is code for relaxing rules for IPOs. We could spend days dissecting all 3,865 words of his…
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This week’s Compliance Jobs Report includes compliance personnel news from LexisNexis, Trinity Health, and WPP Health & Wellness. We have a new CEO at SAI Global, a few personnel moves in the audit world, a well-deserved promotion at the AICPA, and a compliance job opening at Smith & Nephew. Read on… I gather these bits…
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