Cross-border litigation on the rise, says survey
Gone are the days when a company mostly had to face court battles with competitors or customers who were around the corner or...
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Governance Practices Survey: top governance challenges
Corporate Secretary’s Governance Practices Survey is our first ever study of major issues affecting governance professionals in...
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Critical audit matters: weighing the benefits
The PCAOB’s latest proposal to require auditors to disclose more information in their annual reviews of corporate financial...
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Expanding FCPA violations to include commercial bribery
With the high-profile investigations into alleged FCPA violations by Walmart and GlaxoSmithKline, companies have become more...
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Corzine trial means more scrutiny for top executives
Last week’s decision by US District Court Judge Victor Marrero to allow the US Commodity Futures Trade Commission (CFTC) lawsuit...
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Report says senior managers big cause of data breaches
Maybe ‘tone at the top’ isn’t always a good thing. According to a new survey from Stroz Friedberg, On the Pulse: Information...
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Companies lack resources for cross-border investigations: KPMG survey
With regulators stepping up efforts to combat bribery, money laundering and other forms of corruption, companies should be going...
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Essential lessons for FCPA compliance audits
With government regulators around the world paying closer scrutiny to corporate anti-corruption and bribery policies, companies...
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Is tougher SEC enforcement improving governance?
The SEC announced a record $3.4 billion in monetary sanctions for 2013 – a 10 percent increase over the fines collected in 2012...
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Transfer agents in transition
The transfer agency business is changing rapidly, and issuers need to be aware of how the industry’s evolution will affect their...
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