Managing corporate subsidiary compliance
Today’s corporate compliance officer must contend with a myriad of complex domestic and international regulatory requirements. In...
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Regulatory & compliance archive
Managing enterprise-wide board risk
Sometimes great ideas come with big consequences. The continued business trends toward globalization, advantages of economic scale...
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Accounting rules convergence?
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), the global accounting standard-setter, has reiterated its commitment to...
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Getting the green light
Last October the SEC issued Staff Bulletin No 14E, making it much simpler for shareholders to file resolutions on climate change...
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Cleaning house
The year 2009 will be remembered primarily for the calamitous recession and the regulatory authorities’ haphazard and...
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Who reports to whom?
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer recently paid a $2.3 billion fine, one of the largest settlements in US corporate history, partly for...
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Leading the way
Great corporate governance and effective risk management have always been ideals most companies strive for, and recently the...
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The search for the Holy Grail
In awarding Cisco the honor of best overall governance, compliance and ethics program in the large-cap category, judges noted the...
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The power of conversation
A group of corporate secretaries and other governance professionals, many of them in New York for the second annual Corporate...
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Death of the IPO
David Weild, a board member of the National Investor Relations Institute’s New York chapter, has been getting a lot of attention...
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