Compliance

The SEC’s long-awaited cybersecurity rules for publicly traded companies have had, as expected, a huge impact in the United States. But the effect won’t stop at U.S. borders, and as FTI Consulting’s Jordan Rae Kelly and Adriana Villasenor explain, foreign companies listed on American stock exchanges should take note. As a result of new cybersecurity rules adopted by the SEC,...

What’s more useful to your organization: understanding your compliance posture today or where you stood six months ago? Drata’s Alev Viggio talks about the business enabler that is continuous compliance. Imagine a home security system, complete with smart locks. Now imagine you leave your house to go to work but can’t remember whether you locked the front door. You query...

While it may be overshadowed by this year’s benchmark survey for existing foreign direct investments, U.S. businesses and foreign investors should not forget the BE-13’s reporting requirements for new and expanded foreign direct investment in the United States, says Mayer Brown’s Matthew Bisanz. Unlike the annual and quarterly surveys, the BE-13 must be filed regardless of whether a U.S. business...

Pratt & Whitney’s American jet engine division hit a patch of turbulence earlier this year, and while the company's Canadian operations aren’t immune to challenges, they’ve recently tackled one that’s decidedly more down-to-earth: compliance training. Ina Junona Nicolae, a training leader at Pratt & Whitney Canada, talks about how the manufacturer used microlearning to bridge the gap between knowing compliance...

By 2025, an estimated 85% of enterprises will shift to a cloud-first mindset, while others will adopt a hybrid approach where some services are on-premise and others are in the cloud. For organizations that must comply with HIPAA regulations, cloud computing paves the way for a new set of risks. Often, that means finding the right software solution, which could...

How are different EU member states protecting Whistleblowers? Global Insights European Whistleblower Report Provides Critical Country-by-Country Updates What's in this report from World Service Group: The World Services Group (WSG) Employment and Labor Group collaborated with WSG network law firms in more than 20 European jurisdictions to create the European Whistleblower Report, which provides knowledge on the implementations of the EU...

Popular among Web3.0 companies, decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs, lack many of the traditional elements of legal business entities. But attempts to fit DAOs into traditional structures is having a perhaps-unintended consequence: Some of these organizations may be subject to the enhanced beneficial ownership reporting requirements coming early next year. Jeanne R. Solomon and William E. Quick of Polsinelli dig...

New IRS regulations allow startups, government entities and other tax-exempt organizations to benefit from two clean energy tax credit delivery methods built into 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act — elective or transferrable. A group of tax experts from Baker Donelson highlight the key aspects businesses and organizations should know. Before passage of the IRA last year, government entities, many types of...

Starting this week, the UK’s Consumer Duty Act is in force for new and existing insurance products or services open for sale or renewal. The new law marks a significant shift in the Financial Conduct Authority’s expectations for firms in the insurance industry. Charles Rowley, managing director of business management consultancy DA Strategy, gives an update on the challenges the...

Banks and financial institutions subject to anti-money laundering and know your customer regulations are old hands at understanding the importance of ID verification. But as ID-Pal’s Colum Lyons sees it, ID verification is a load-bearing wall, regardless of industry. While the pandemic accelerated digitalization to the benefit both of organizations and consumers, it also produced a new set of challenges....

EU proposal is likely to have European nations, US harmonizing on fight against fraud

Simplifying implementation of anti-bribery systems Guide Anti-Bribery Management Systems What's in this whitepaper from Speeki: A challenge for any company with an embedded anti-corruption compliance program is implementing an anti-bribery management system as required by the ISO 37001 standard. This report covers: Setting context in ISO 37001 Stakeholders in ISO 37001 Scope for ISO 37001 The visual guide The role...