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Here is a list of my recent Compliance Building posts:
That means an extra long weekend for me.
With the Thanksgiving holiday this weekend, I’m turning the blog over to public service.
The tale of 650 Fifth Avenue is one that should be closely watched by compliance professionals dealing with real estate. Last year, the Department of Justice filed a forfeiture proceeding against a 40% interest in the property held by the Assa Corporation.
When thinking about risk, I break things into four quadrants. There are things we know and there are things we don’t know as individuals. I then slice slice that further again with the things we know and the things we don’t know as part of the larger organization or conscious state.
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Here are some interesting stories from the past week:
To continue the Madoff dogpile on the SEC, the SEC’s Office of Inspector General released a report criticizing the SEC’s process for selecting investment advisers and investment companies for examination.
OpenCongress allows you to create custom widgets for the status of bills in Congress.
Starting November 21, 2009, you need a new workplace poster: EEO is the Law.
There are two new federal workplace laws the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act and the ADA Amendments Act. Federal law requires all employers covered by the federal anti-discrimination laws (those with 15 or more employees) to post multilingual notices describing the federal laws
Eight federal regulatory agencies today released the final model privacy notice form. It’s supposed to make it easier for consumers to understand how financial institutions collect and share information about consumers.
The Congressional Budge Office released a cost estimate of H.R. 3818, the Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act of 2009. Obviously, there will be an additional cost to fund managers that need to register with the SEC and operate under the SEC rules and oversight.
Trace International has launched an online, fully-searchable database containing summaries and analyses of international anti-bribery enforcement actions and investigations in the U.S. and throughout the world. The Trace Compendium summaries are searchable by name or by numerous other criteria, including year, substantive criteria, enforcement authority, and enforcement result.
Do criticism and praise work to affect performance?
Leonard Mlodinow briefly addressed this topic in The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. He explores the studies of Daniel Kahneman who was lecturing the Israeli air force flight instructors on behavior modification.
Developers Diversified Realty Corp. sold $400 million worth of of debt backed by shopping centers backed by 28 malls in 19 states. The offering is the first to use the Federal Reserve’s Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility since it was opened to the debt in June.
Mantria Corporation is a “diversified and progressive business enterprise that seeks out emerging sectors with a passionate focus on sustainability and the commercialization of socially responsible products and services.” At least that’s what their website says.
The SEC says: “In reality, the only green these promoters seemed interested in was investors’ money.”
Now that Jones v. Harris has been argued, we have to sit and wait for the decision. But there is another compliance case coming up for argument in front of the Supreme Court: Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB.
PBWorks has announced a “Real-time Collaboration Update” which brings integrated Instant Messaging collaboration, Live Notifications (activity streams), Live Editing (rather than standard wiki asynchronous editing) and integrated Voice Collaboration with on-demand voice conferencing.
First, Bernie the boss turned himself in, saying he did it all by himself. Nobody believed that, including the SEC. So the SEC went after Madoff’s right-hand man, DiPascali, and Madoff’s accountant, Friehling. Now the SEC is going after the geeks.
The bright sun greets the International Space Station in this Nov. 22 image, taken from the Russian section of the orbital outpost and photographed by the STS-129 crew.
Image Credit: NASA
The Brightness of the Sun
One of my favorite shows on television was HBO’s The Wire. An enterprising soul put together the video below of some of the best quotes from the series.
Since the quotes are from The Wire there is lots of language that you don’t want your kids (or your boss to hear).
Of course, there are spoilers. So if you have not watched the entire series and are planning to watch it, you may only want to watch the first few minutes.
For Columbus Day, I took the kids down to Fall River’s Battleship Cove. They had such a good time that I decided to put it together in a blog post for GeekDad: A Visit to Battleship Cove.
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