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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $74.4 Million in Funding Opportunities to Improve Behavioral Health

By HHS News releases on Thursday, November 16, 2023.

Press Release for $74.4 million mental health dollars.

HHS Celebrates National Rural Health Day

By HHS News releases on Thursday, November 16, 2023.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), celebrates National Rural Health Day

SEC Adopts Rules to Improve Clearing Agency Governance and Mitigate Conflicts of Interest

By SEC Press Releases on Thursday, November 16, 2023.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted new rules to improve the governance of all registered clearing agencies by reducing the likelihood that conflicts of interest may influence their boards of directors or equivalent governing bodies.

The Biden-Harris Administration Takes Action to Improve Health and Wellbeing by Addressing Social Determinants of Health

By HHS News releases on Thursday, November 16, 2023.

CMS releasing several resources to help coordinate health care, public health, and social services.

The FBI on Economic Espionage [Podcast]

By The Compliance & Ethics Blog on Thursday, November 16, 2023.

Economic espionage sounds more like the stuff of a spy thriller than a day-to-day concern for business. Not so, as it turns out. To learn more we sat down with the FBI's Counterintelligence Division Unit Chief Matthew Charles and Cyber Division Supervisory Special Agent Michelle Liu.

CFPB Proposes New Federal Oversight of Big Tech Companies over Digital Consumer Payment Applications

By Coalition For Healthcare Communication on Wednesday, November 15, 2023.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed a rule to define a market for general-use digital consumer payment applications. Larger participants in this market would be subject to CFPB supervision and examination authority under the Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA). The proposed market would cover providers of funds transfer and wallet functions through consumer digital applications for consumers' general use used to make payments to other persons for personal, family, or household purposes.

Charter Communications to Pay $25 Million Penalty for Stock Buyback Controls Violations

By SEC Press Releases on Tuesday, November 14, 2023.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against Charter Communications Inc. for violating internal accounting controls requirements relating to its stock buybacks.

SEC Announces Enforcement Results for Fiscal Year 2023

By SEC Press Releases on Tuesday, November 14, 2023.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it filed 784 total enforcement actions in fiscal year 2023, a 3 percent increase over fiscal year 2022, including 501 original, or "stand-alone," enforcement actions, an 8 percent increase over the prior fiscal year.

Vera Cherepanova on the EU Directive on Combatting Corruption [Podcast]

By The Compliance & Ethics Blog on Thursday, November 09, 2023.

Currently there is a patchwork of anticorruption laws across the EU. What has been lacking, though, is a EU-wide approach. That is likely to change soon, reports Vera Cherepanova, founding partner of Studio Etica.

How Do You Measure Culture? Part II - Indirect Inputs

By The Compliance & Ethics Blog on Wednesday, November 08, 2023.

Culture springs from the interactions of people in an organization. Repeated actions create expectations, common experiences, and the sense that "this is how things are done around here." Regulators like the Department of Justice have been very clear that they expect companies to measure culture, but they aren't clear as to how they expect us to do this.

Kristine Coy-Foster on Goal Tracking [Podcast]

By The Compliance & Ethics Blog on Tuesday, November 07, 2023.

Kristine Coy-Foster (LinkedIn), Senior Manager, Compliance & Employee Engagement at Vulcan, had a challenge many in compliance face: tracking all her to-dos, and then, once a to-do turned to done, tracking the accomplishment. It was important for her to be able to capture the challenges she faced, new ideas tested and processes developed.

How Do You Measure Culture? Part I - Direct Inputs

By The Compliance & Ethics Blog on Wednesday, November 01, 2023.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines "culture" as the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization. That's a pretty heady idea. We know from regulatory expectations and personal experience that creating a culture of compliance is critical. But it can be tricky to get our hands around what that means and how to measure it.