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Compliance
March 13, 2017

Everything You Need to Know About Comp Time

By: Noelle West One-third of private employers are at risk for an FLSA lawsuit. Are you one? In a recent independent survey, one-third of 500 private-sector employers said they used comp time (or compensatory time) instead of overtime — a common violation of the FLSA.* In other words, one-third of…
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Compliance
March 8, 2017

Technology & The Scarcity of Compliance Talent

By: Carlos Guillen At the end of a year in which regulators placed compliance management at the top of their list of priorities, financial firms should assess the processes and systems they have in place to prevent compliance breaches, such as failing to develop and enforce written policies and procedures…
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New DOJ Guidelines for compliance officers
Compliance
March 7, 2017

DOJ Issues New Guidelines for Compliance Programs

The Department of Justice in February quietly released a document,  “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” (Evaluation), on the Fraud Section of its website. The document is an 11-part list of questions that encapsulates the DOJ’s most current thinking on what constitutes a best practices compliance program. Within the list are some…
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A Machine to Measure Trust
Compliance
March 3, 2017

How Easy is it to Lose Trust? Just ask Wells Fargo

Billionaire and legendary investor William Buffet had some scathing words this week for former Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf. Buffet – who happens to be the bank’s biggest shareholder — said he couldn’t explain why Stumpf failed to take action in the face of evidence that the bank’s high-pressure culture had…
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Compliance
February 23, 2017

Breaking News: DOJ Issues New Guidance for Compliance Officers on Quality of Compliance Programs

The DOJ Fraud Section’s “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” puts chief compliance officers, the “C Suite” and the Board of Directors on notice about how the adequacy of their companies’ compliance programs will be evaluated by prosecutors if investigated. The publication outlines specific factors that prosecutors should consider in conducting…
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Compliance
February 20, 2017

Artificial Intelligence: The New Superpower for Compliance

By: Anant Kale In our quest for business productivity and cost savings, compliance teams are all too often being given increasing demands to keep the organization out of trouble, but are not being allocated additional budget to achieve this goal. It typically takes a high-profile violation or industry-wide regulations like…
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Compliance
February 13, 2017

The Win-Win Argument: Compliance as a Marketing Advantage

By: Michael Volkov This article was republished with permission from Michael Volkov’s blog, Corruption, Crime & Compliance.  My good friend and colleague Dan Chapman, now the CCO at VimpelCom, is a compliance rock star. I have known Dan for years, beginning when he took over at Parker Drilling and implemented a world-class…
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Compliance
January 23, 2017

What You Need to Know About the WOTC Retro Guidance and Extension

By: Jason Fry Since first implemented, the Work Opportunity Tax Credit program, or WOTC, has helped countless companies to benefit from significant tax incentives when they hire individuals from groups that typically face barriers to finding employment. The result is that companies that hire WOTC-eligible employees can earn an income…
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Compliance
January 20, 2017

Homeland Security Wants to Know: How Did You Handle I-9s in an M&A?

By: Michael Boshnaick Civil monetary penalties for knowingly hiring and retaining unauthorized aliens, as well as for paperwork violations increased on August 1, 2016. Assessing the potential liabilities and fines an acquiring company could face if it retains the I-9s of an acquired company is an important part of M&A due…
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PWC State of Compliance Study 2016
Compliance
January 18, 2017

PwC State of Compliance Study 2016

Laying a Strategic Foundation for Strong Compliance Risk Management  For many companies, increasingly complicated regulations and a heightened level of regulatory scrutiny have resulted in more challenging — and at times inefficient — compliance and ethics management. Therefore, it’s critical for companies to establish a culture of compliance and ethics,…
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