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A Convergence of Risk Disclosure
Like many other people, last week I read the SEC’s new requirements for disclosure of climate change risks with a sense of trepidation. The more I studied them, however, the more I felt something else: a sense of déjà vu. Like, has anybody else noticed how similar these disclosure requirements are to those that the…
Read MoreSEC Adopts Climate Disclosure Rule
The Securities and Exchange Commission has finally adopted its rule for disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks, voting Wednesday to impose the rule but dropping its original (and most controversial) proposal that companies would need to calculate and report greenhouse gasses caused by their supply chains. The vote fell along the SEC’s usual…
Read MoreRats! Family Dollar Dinged on Sanitation
Family Dollar Stores is paying $41.6 million to settle charges that the discount retailer ignored a rat infestation at one of its distribution centers and allowed contaminated goods to go to its retail stores — one of the ickier examples of corporate culture gone wrong that we’ve seen lately. The settlement, announced Tuesday by the…
Read MoreDFS Adopts Fitness and Character Guidance
Financial regulators in New York have introduced new guidance on the character and moral fitness they expect to see for senior executives at banks and other financial firms working in the state — a big step forward in the quest to be sure that corporate executives are, ya know, ethical and stuff. The New York…
Read MoreCyber, AML Lessons From a Crypto Flop
New York financial regulators have served up another case study in poor cybersecurity, transaction monitoring, and anti-money laundering compliance, courtesy of an enforcement action against a bankrupt cryptocurrency platform found to be deficient in all three. The state’s Department of Financial Services announced the sanction against Genesis Global Trading last Friday, fining the company $8…
Read MoreThat Clear Channel FCPA Settlement
Before the moment slips by, we should take a look at that FCPA enforcement action against Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings that the Securities and Exchange Commission announced two weeks ago. The more you read the details, the more you wince at this tale of poorly managed executives and ineffective internal auditing. Don’t let this stuff…
Read MoreLessons on Policies & Procedures
A subsidiary of Deutsche Bank is serving up a double feature of compliance gone wrong this week, paying $25 million to settle charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the firm both made misleading disclosures about ESG investments and allowed an ineffective anti-money laundering program to linger for years. The SEC announced the settlement…
Read MoreCanadian Bank Needs Spy Compliance
Nutty news from up north: Canadian regulators have forced a bank there suspected of ties to the Chinese government to cut ties with its three founders, relocate to new headquarters with better security, sweep the corporate premises for bugs, and hire two senior compliance officers — including a “national security” compliance officer who will need…
Read MorePCAOB Compliance Proposal Draws Heat
Comment letters have begun to arrive for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s proposal to have auditors look for compliance and legal violations at their client companies. So far the idea has plenty of critics — although plenty of that criticism is stuff compliance officers will like to hear. The PCAOB’s proposal is to require…
Read MoreCompliance Jobs Report: July 28
If it’s Friday, it’s the Compliance Jobs Report! This week we have news from Illinois Tool Works, Bechtel, Lixil Group, Cambridge University Press, and more. We also have some gossip about a certain GRC vendor; job leads in entertainment, auditing, and weapons; and Meme of the Week goes out to Barbie! Always remember that we…
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