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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Regulatory & compliance archive
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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Supreme Court decisions may affect compliance
The Supreme Court will issue only a handful of decisions during its current term with broad compliance implications, but three of...
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Halliburton case threatens class actions for securities fraud
The US Supreme Court recently agreed to decide a case with major implications for all publicly traded companies. The issue in...
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Internal audit key in gauging Affordable Care Act risks
With the regulatory requirements of the US Affordable Care Act taking effect, health care will likely be an area of increased...
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Ten tips to ease the transition to IFRS
A common challenge for multinational corporations is achieving consistency across operations in different countries with different...
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Delaware Law conference explores new impacts on governance
More than 150 corporate secretaries, general counsel, other corporate lawyers, judges and academics met at the first Delaware Law...
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Awards, legal protection incentivizing more whistleblowers, SEC reports
The chance to report misconduct among corporate chieftains and fellow employees, and profit personally too, is proving too good an...
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Deciding whistleblower law's limits
The hundreds of thousands of privately held U.S. companies need to watch the Supreme Court case, Lawson v. FMR LLC, very closely...
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