Basel II news from FierceSarbox

We've noted before that Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory schemes have ratcheted up salaries for lots of professions, accountants, financial staff, compliance executives, IT folks and legal. In the Read more...

Compliance on Demand blogger, Brett Curran, vice president of GRC and privacy practices at Axentis, has some advice as compliance initiatives proliferate. Take a truly top-down approach. It sounds Read more...

The movement to adopt interactive financial reports, which most agree is a good idea, has not really taken off in the U.S. Extensible Read more...

> GM's accounting woes have been an open sore for the company for years. The fact that controls are still deficient is dismaying--as were the appointment of about six new accounting managers Read more...

You may be shocked at just how many companies, some of them quite large, continue to approach each set of regulations as separate issues. This approach is getting more costly. You are likely faced Read more...

Here's an issue that could easily be swept under the rug: Wireless network compliance issues that stem from not only Sarbanes-Oxley but also HIPAA, Basel II, the Patriot Act and all the others. Read more...

Last week, we discussed the nature of compliance at financial services firms, particularly Read more...

Banks have an extraordinarily large amount of data to keep up with. The regulations at home and abroad--Basel II takes effect in Europe next year--can also be fairly daunting, which makes Read more...

> Edgar, we hardly knew ya. Looks like the SEC is moving toward creating an electronic filing system that will shove Edgar out the door. It has awarded three contracts to build such a system. Read more...