Posts Tagged ‘policy & procedure’
How to Support Policy & Procedure
The New York Times had a fascinating article last week about discrimination in hiring practices at large corporations. The article also cited a powerful remedy for discriminatory hiring practices — one that compliance officers might want to ponder at length, for what it tells us about effective compliance generally. Let’s start with the article itself,…
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 MoreLessons in Cardiac Company Fraud Settlement
A medical device company based in Oregon has agreed to pay $12.95 million to settle charges that it ran a sham training program as a vehicle to pay kickbacks to doctors, in a case that offers compliance professionals plenty of lessons about internal controls and third-party risk. The company is Biotronik, a maker of defibrillators,…
Read MoreSEC Warns on Penny Stocks, Compliance Programs
Broker-dealer firms have another warning from the SEC to do better with AML compliance and suspicious activity reporting, and particularly to do better with customers’ trading in penny stocks and acting on known red flags with that type of transaction. The message came from the SEC’s Division of Examinations, which published its latest risk alert…
Read MoreMassachusetts’ Covid-19 Attestation
The state of Massachusetts has unveiled its plans to resume business activity after 10 weeks of Covid-19 lockdown, complete with a step that compliance professionals may see more often: a compliance attestation poster that every business will need to display publicly and prominently. The poster certifies that the business in question has taken four steps…
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