The U.S. Supreme Court is considering what whistleblowers must do to qualify for protection against retaliation under the Dodd-Frank financial law. Government agencies' ability to interpret a broad range of laws could be at stake as well.
Three soccer officials who pleaded guilty in U.S. courts to accepting bribes were banned for life by the FIFA ethics committee.
Companies in the European Union will likely be pressured to disclose gender pay ratios after the bloc issued a plan of action this week to ensure that publicly traded companies have more women on boards and that firms are transparent about pay practices.
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In the first of an occasional series, Risk & Compliance Journal put the assertions to the test in the form of a point-counterpoint debate.
A witness in the FIFA trial testified that he kept a spreadsheet of those he bribed, using the brand names of cars as code for his targets.
Enforcement priorities laid out by the SEC last week reflect the focus of the new administration on cybersecurity, retail investors and accountability for individuals, legal experts say.
Prosecutors in New York on Monday unsealed a criminal complaint against the head of a non-government organization and a former Senegalese foreign minister, alleging they bribed the former president of Chad and the Ugandan foreign minister and used the U.S. financial system to do so.
The Fed is looking for feedback on proposed guidance that will replace various supervision letters that have been in place to chart its regulatory relationship with banks, and focus on five key traits related to a board’s core responsibilities.
The Internal Revenue Service and a couple that helped the agency collect $74 million are battling over the pool of funds that can be paid out as a reward when a whistleblower helps the IRS recover money.
The U.S. Treasury Department called out the gaming industry for ignoring its potential exploitation when imposing an $8 million fine on a card club.
It's not enough to have a sanctions compliance program on paper; that program must be an active player in business decisions down to foreign subsidiaries, according to a penalty announced Friday by the U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions office.
More than four of five people who have received whistleblower payouts from the Securities and Exchange Commission first flagged the problems within their own companies, according to the commission.
A 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowed key parts of U.S. anti-bribery law weighed over the trial of Sen. Robert Menendez (D., N.J.), legal observers said after Mr. Menendez's case ended in a mistrial.
Government officials world-wide said they would look at Uber’s handling of a major data breach last year.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s enforcement actions and fines plunged in the first year of the Trump administration from a year earlier, when the figures were lifted by big settlements with banks.
Data breaches like the one disclosed by Uber could soon draw fines from European regulators.
As the industry weighs the impact of the Justice Department’s lawsuit, Comcast Corp.’s bid to acquire a significant chunk of 21st Century Fox’s assets draws comparisons to the AT&T-Time Warner deal.
Rep. Joe Barton (R., Texas) apologized to his constituents for not using better judgment in his personal life, after a nude photo of him circulated on the internet this week.
Exxon Mobil Corp. has joined with seven other big energy companies to reduce pollution from natural gas production, an effort by the industry to present itself as part of the solution as governments and consumers demand more environmentally friendly energy.
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday charged the Long Island town of Oyster Bay with defrauding bondholders by failing to tell them about four private loan deals.
Procter & Gamble said it is continuing to review the official tally of the hotly contested proxy contest with activist Nelson Peltz but hasn’t decided whether to formally challenge the results, which showed the company lost by a thin margin.
Retailers are contending with a new challenge as this year’s holiday shopping season heats up: extra shipping fees during the busiest weeks.
Broadcom’s $105 billion gambit to acquire Qualcomm faces challenges not only in winning over shareholders but in navigating a host of potential roadblocks from regulators.
CFOs say the ubiquitous spreadsheet software that revolutionized accounting in the 1980s hasn’t kept up with the demands of contemporary corporate finance units.
Trial attorney Daniel Petrocelli, charged with defending AT&T Inc.’s takeover of Time Warner Inc., is well known as an aggressive litigator who has represented the infamous and famous, including then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in a case against Trump University.
North Korea lashed out at the U.S.’s decision to redesignate it as a state sponsor of terrorism, calling the move an “impudent provocation” that undermines Washington’s stated desire for diplomacy.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said late Tuesday that he is “standing down” from his threats of litigation against the NFL, even as he stepped up his criticism of commissioner Roger Goodell, according to a letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The country’s intelligence agency arrested six top executives at the U.S. subsidiary of state-oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA, as part of what authorities are calling an anticorruption “crusade.”
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer issued a downbeat assessment Tuesday of efforts to rewrite Nafta, decrying ‘a lack of headway’ and criticizing Canada and Mexico for refusing to ‘seriously engage’ on controversial U.S. proposals aimed at cutting the U.S. trade deficit.
Uber Technologies on Tuesday revealed it paid hackers $100,000 in an effort to conceal a data breach affecting 57 million accounts last year.
Federal regulators outlined plans for dismantling Obama-era rules requiring equal internet access, clearing the way for service providers to offer new options and creative pricing.
John Lasseter is taking a six-month leave of absence from the senior creative post at Walt Disney’s animation operations, he told staff in an email that cited unspecified “missteps” on his part, including making some personnel feel “disrespected and uncomfortable.”
CBS fired veteran broadcast journalist Charlie Rose after reports of allegations of sexual harassment that the media company called “extremely disturbing and intolerable.”
Meg Whitman, one of the most prominent women in U.S. business, will step down as chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise early next year.
The Trump administration imposed an additional set of sanctions against North Korea on Tuesday, a day after announcing that Pyongyang was being placed back onto the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Citibank agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle accusations by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that it harmed people whose student loans it serviced, including by giving misinformation about a tax deduction.
The Justice Department’s lawsuit against the combination of AT&T and Time Warner sets the stage for the biggest antitrust contest in almost 20 years, and drew a split reaction from antitrust experts.
The Justice Department’s new antitrust chief, Makan Delrahim, needed just seven weeks to land himself in the middle of the biggest antitrust case in 20 years.
Federal prosecutors unsealed charges against an Iranian national, accusing him of hacking into HBO’s computer network, stealing unreleased scripts of “Game of Thrones” and then threatening to leak them publicly.
The FCC moved one step closer to potentially raising the national cap on corporate television station ownership, a move that would likely spur more consolidation in the local television industry.
CBS channels went dark for some Dish Network subscribers overnight as a pricing dispute between the companies dragged on, potentially leaving more than two million customers without access to NFL and college-football coverage on the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Federal trade regulators have recommended that the Trump administration impose big tariffs on imported washing machines to protect Whirlpool Corp. and other U.S. manufacturers.
Lu Wei, a propaganda officer for China’s Communist Party who in recent years personified its effort to shape the global internet, became the first major political figure to come under corruption scrutiny since President Xi Jinping’s second term began last month.
A Hong Kong tribunal on Tuesday upheld the bulk of a fine imposed on a unit of HSBC Holdings PLC that would be the largest ever meted out by Hong Kong’s securities regulator.
President Robert Mugabe stepped down after ruling Zimbabwe for 37 years, one week after the military took control of the government.
Risk management, strategy and analysis written and compiled by Deloitte
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