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Oracle: Push into Compliance

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle’s buying spree continues.  This week Oracle snapped up the seven-year-old governance and compliance company, LogicalApps.  Oracle has now purchased more than 35 companies with nine this year since their hostile takeover of PeopleSoft a little less than three years

Sarbanes Oxley: Compliance Costs Hit Most At Mid-Sized Companies

By Dick Weisinger

Sarbanes Oxley has been a controversial piece of legislation ever since it was enacted in 2002. Many dispute whether the results have been worth the seep costs, and nearly everyone agrees that the costs of compliance have been expensive. To

Sarbanes-Oxley: The Unsung Benefits

By Dick Weisinger

In an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, Thomas Healey, senior fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, outlines benefits and positive results coming from Sarbanes-Oxley legislation that he thinks many are over-looking: The US economy, rather than

Compliance: EU Regulations Find Companies Unprepared

By Dick Weisinger

The clock is ticking for finance companies in the Europe. In November the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) will go into effect. The new regulation would require investment firms to find and execute public trades at the best price,

Sarbanes-Oxley: SOX spins round the World

By Dick Weisinger

Over the five years since Sarbanes-Oxley has been enacted, it has received a good share of criticism for being too strict, too vague,… too much. But that hasn’t stopped other countries from studying it, and it some cases copying it.