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September 29th, 2009 LONDON - - FireScope Compliance releases best-in-class integrated compliance offering. FireScope, a leading developer of IT Service Management solutions today announced the release of FireScope Compliance, an innovative offering designed to slash the cost and labor spent on compliance and audit preparation.

September 15th, 2009 ATLANTA and LONDON - SecureWorks(R), a leading, global provider of security services, is streamlining the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Attestation of Compliance (AOC) and FFIEC Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) Self-Assessment Questionnaire processes with Predefined Assessment Programs. These programs are preconfigured with assessment questions based on the PCI and FFIEC guidelines.

June 28th, 2009 BENSHEIM, Germany - Organizations are spending millions of dollars each year on their compliance programs. However, many senior executives have become frustrated.

June 15th, 2009 LONDON - Leading Investment Management Firm to Perform Sanctions and PEP Screening in Compliance with 3rd EU Directive FinScan, a leading provider of sanctions list, PEP and heightened risk screening solutions for the financial services industry, today announced Ashburton (Jersey) Ltd, part of the FirstRand Group, a premier investment management firm serving an international client base, has gone live with the latest version of the FinScan hosted screening service. Subject to the jurisdiction of Jersey in the Channel Islands, Ashburton chose the FinScan Hosted compliance solution to help reduce enterprise risk and meet the heightened screening requirements of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Anti-Terrorist Financing (ATF) regulations of the 3rd EU Directive.

May 18th, 2009 CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - Neohapsis, a leading provider of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) products and services, today announced that the company has been named one of the top 100 most promising technology companies in North America by Red Herring. To select the Top 100, the Red Herring editorial team diligently surveys entrepreneurship around the globe.

May 10th, 2009 HOLMDEL, New Jersey - Menarini Group chooses Enterprise Quality Management Solution to manage quality and maintain regulatory compliance Sparta Systems, Inc., the maker of TrackWise(R) software and the market leader in enterprise quality and compliance management, today announced that Menarini Group, the world's leading Italian pharmaceutical group, has selected its TrackWise Enterprise Quality Management System (EQMS) to simplify quality processes throughout distributed manufacturing sites. The company will leverage TrackWise software to help achieve the harmonization of quality assurance (QA) processes and availability of critical information for organization-wide regulatory compliance.

May 4th, 2009 MANCHESTER, England - Enterprise Provisioning Suite Awarded Best in Category Courion(R) Corporation (www.courion.com/), leaders in access governance (www.courion.com/solutions/access-assurance.html), provisioning (www.courion.com/solutions/user-access-provisioning.html) and compliance (www.courion.com/solutions/access-compliance-management.html), today announced that its Enterprise Provisioning Suite (www.courion.com/products/access-assurance-products.html) has been recognised as Best Identity Management Solution at the SC Magazine Awards Europe 2009 in London. A panel of judges comprising chief security officers and high level IT security executives from a wide breadth of industries, including representatives from Deloitte and KPMG, reviewed more than 300 entries before choosing the winners.

April 27th, 2009 UTRECHT, The Netherlands - EXIN and QT&C are working together in delivering ISO/IEC 27000 training and qualifications to several major U.K. private and public sector organisations including central and local government, National Health Service and police.

April 7th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - Despite Acknowledging the 'Severe Recession,' Percentage of Executives Who Believe the Economy is Recovering Nearly Doubled in March - Buoyed by a sustained stock market rally, executive attitudes about the state of the global economy ticked up in March, though the majority still feel we are in the midst of a "severe recession" according to results from the latest Executive Quiz released today by The Korn/Ferry Institute. Additional findings show that executives favor limited involvement by governments in key corporate actions such as layoffs and compensation limits, but the majority feels that bonuses should be returned by executives at companies receiving government bailout funds.

March 30th, 2009 LONDON - Join Panel of Experts to Discuss 'Information Services and Infrastructure' Wayne Grundy, Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) director, and Philippe Laflandre, TSCP vice chairman and head of secure information management programme at EADS, will discuss the progress made towards effective and secure information sharing at the 2nd annual Defence IT conference in London. As cyber security threats continue to rise, the imperative to secure information shared between government and commercial organisations in the course of doing business grows.

May 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A majority of Indian firms believe that there is a need to evaluate the performance of the top management and board members and to link the salaries of chief executives to corporate performance, said a report released by auditing major KPMG Wednesday. The report, 'The State of Corporate Governance in India: 2008', prepared on the basis of a corporate governance poll conducted by KPMG in India, said about 85 percent of the respondents said linking CEO remuneration to company performance would help improve corporate governance.

September 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - Minister for Corporate Affairs Salman Khurshid will inaugurate an International Conference on Convergence of Corporate Governance Norms here on Saturday. The two-day Conference is being organized by IIT Kharagpur in association with National Foundation of Corporate Governance (NFCG) - which is a not-for-profit Trust under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

August 20th, 2009 Corus Bankshares gets Nasdaq compliance noticeCHICAGO — Corus Bankshares Inc. said Wednesday it got a notice from the Nasdaq stock market that it's out of compliance with rules for listing its stock after failing to file a quarterly financial report on time.

June 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India will soon have an autonomous Environment Protection Authority (EPA) that will ensure industries comply with all the green laws of the country, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here Friday, as his ministry had "no way to ensure strict compliance". "Not enough is being done to monitor environmental compliance," Ramesh said at the eighth corporate awards ceremony of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

August 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A business is more likely to "over-comply" with environmental regulations if its boss believes in environment protection, according to a new study. JunJie Wu, an economist at Oregon State University, examined why some firms violate environmental regulatory standards while others exceed them.

July 22nd, 2009 Ex-compliance officer pleads guiltyNEW YORK — The former chief compliance officer at a Greenwich, Conn.-based securities company has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud. The plea was entered Tuesday by Deborah Duffy.

July 21st, 2009 Ex-compliance officer at Conn. firm pleads guiltyNEW YORK — The former chief compliance officer at a Connecticut securities company has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud.

January 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian cricket board will launch an inter-corporate tournament to generate employment for cricketers. The winners will get Rs.10 million (approx $200,000).

September 4th, 2009 Fannie Mae meets price listing standardWASHINGTON — Fannie Mae, the government-backed mortgage company, said Friday it regained compliance with the New York Stock Exchange's minimum price standard for listing common stock. Fannie Mae was notified on Nov.

June 19th, 2009 Report: Some bailout banks hold on to jet perksNEW YORK — A number of executives of banks that received federal bailout money have continued to use corporate jets for personal use despite controversy over such perks, according to a report Friday. The Wall Street Journal said flight records show that executives at Regions Financial Corp., Bank of America Corp., Morgan Stanley and Citigroup Inc.