Compliance

The year is coming to a close, but financial criminals aren’t taking a holiday. Each month, Ahmed Taimour brings us compliance news from around the world, and today, we share a roundup of the latest developments in anti-money laundering and recent sanctions and fines.

While there are many benefits to migrating your compliance program to a SAAS provider, the process of finding the right vendor can be daunting. In this 15-page white paper, My Compliance Office offers step-by-step guidance.

The selection and administration of a company’s retirement savings program is one of HR’s most important jobs. But given the complex nature of the industry and its many rules, this isn’t always an easy task. Lisa Chui offers tips to help your company’s HR department select the best retirement plan provider while remaining compliant with ERISA regulations.

Recent SEC settlements should cause in-house counsel to assess their current separation agreements and company policies to ensure the documents do not impede whistleblower protections afforded to employees under U.S. federal law. Read on for more detail.

The role of a compliance director is growing ever more complex as regulations and their attendant penalties continue to increase and as compliance staff begin to be held personally liable for noncompliance. LogicGate’s Jon Siegler explores processes and methods to alleviate the growing fears of a compliance director or chief compliance officer.

Companies have a new measuring stick for their anti-bribery efforts. ISO 37001 specifies requirements and provides guidance for establishing, implementing, maintaining and improving an anti-bribery management system, which can be stand-alone or integrated into an overall management system.

ADA website lawsuits are on the rise as technology becomes increasingly pervasive in life and in business, and many sites are essentially inaccessible to users with sight impairments or print disabilities. Learn how to protect your business from discrimination claims by making your website accessible to all users.

With due diligence, the expectation is that when risks are identified, something is done about them. Knowledge of a potential threat and mitigation of that problem are two very different things. The NFL could learn a thing or two about proper due diligence; its handling of recent domestic abuse among its players indicates the league doesn’t take abuse as seriously...

If this month’s roundup is any indication, financial crime is on the rise across the globe. Ahmed Taimour shares some of September’s most significant news stories related to compliance, fraud and anti-corruption measures. The U.S. Financial Action Task Force has been hard at work, as have other anti-corruption organizations in the international community.

The Environmental Protection Agency will delegate to states authority to implement and administer the Clean Air Act at the state level, provided an acceptable state implementation plan is in place. And the EPA has long allowed for certain exceptions in emissions limits during start-up, shutdown, and malfunction periods. But that has recently changed for more than 30 states.

If you haven’t revisited your company’s sanctions compliance program in a while, now is the time. U.S. regulators expect a certain level of sophistication – not to mention effectiveness. Clifford Chance attorneys Wendy Wysong, Ali Burney and Nick Turner outline best practices for maintaining compliance with U.S. economic sanctions.

We’ve all seen headlines about disastrous IT outages that cost companies millions. It’s easy to sit back and judge. How could they have possibly let that happen? Reality check: IT outages happen every day. It’s how you respond that counts. Learn from the mistakes other companies make far too often.