The Compliance Jobs Report this week has news from Walgreens Boots Alliance, Oracle, Apollo Global Management, Citizens, Geico, Ball Corp., and many more. A new association for compliance officers in Europe just launched; we have job leads in airport security, armored cars, and higher ed; and Meme of the Week goes out to presidential debates!…
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Deere & Co. is paying $10 million to settle one of the more colorful FCPA cases we’ve seen in a while, replete with Thai massage parlors, envelopes of cash, sketchy overseas agents — and even a few lessons about compliance fundamentals from due diligence of acquisitions to program remediation. Let’s take a look. The Securities…
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Well here’s news that will wake up all you sustainability reporting enthusiasts: the Securities and Exchange Commission just fined coffee giant Keurig Dr. Pepper $1.5 million for making misleading disclosures about the recyclability of those little K-cups. The SEC announced the enforcement action Tuesday morning. According to the settlement order, Keurig stated in its annual…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s campaign against companies using pre-taliation language in their employment contracts continues, with seven businesses sanctioned this week for making employees sign away their eligibility for whistleblower rewards. In total the companies will pay more than $3 million in penalties. The SEC announced its enforcement action Monday morning. The worst offender,…
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Today we have a guest column from Mary Shirley, chief compliance officer at ScionHealth. Earlier this year Australia passed new anti-corruption legislation known as the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combating Foreign Bribery), and in August the government released voluntary guidance to help corporations understand the “adequate procedures” — that is, the elements of an effective compliance…
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The Compliance Jobs Report this week has updates from ScionHealth, DraftKings, Caterpillar, MetLife, Orthofix, and plenty more! We also have a new compliance advisory firm on the scene; plus job leads in banking, retired people, and space flight! Always remember that we need your help to make the Report work, so send me some news!…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Massachusetts company with allowing a poor control environment and weak segregation of duties, which in turn allowed one of the company’s corporate finance directors to inflate his division’s financial performance for years. The company in question is Circor International, a maker of industrial valve systems for the…
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Today we continue our look at that RTX Corp. export controls settlement announced last week, since we barely scratched the surface of the remediation measures RTX agreed to undertake. From dedicated compliance leaders to dedicated compliance spending, there’s lots more to review here. If you missed our previous post on the case, the summary is…
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Anyone looking for a complicated case-study in export controls compliance, turn your eyes to RTX Corp. The defense contracting giant just agreed to pay $200 million and overhaul its export compliance function, to settle charges that the company improperly sent classified defense goods to foreign countries and allowed employees to bring along sensitive information while…
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Another big Compliance Jobs Report heading into Labor Day Weekend! We have new hires at Eli Lilly, Veon, Truist, Lifepoint Health, and more; plus a reshuffle of integrity and compliance leaders at Volkswagen. Also a bunch of promotions to note, job leads in insurance, investing, and hospitality; and Meme of the Week goes out to…
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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.
