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Thames Water Plugs Leaks to Win Project Backing: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Thames Water hopes to win backing for controversial infrastructure projects by cutting leakage from its ageing pipe network and encouraging water users in southeast England to use less through metering. The London-area water supplier, owned by a consortium led by Australia's...; Tags: Regulator, Regulations, Government, Meters, Oukbs, Thameswater; News items 2008-05-07
BHP Says Chinese Likely to Take Stake: BHP Billiton chief executive Marius Kloppers says Chinese interests will take a stake in the mining giant.The prediction comes as BHP Billiton says it is just "weeks" away from formally filing its $179 billion takeover bid for Rio Tinto Ltd.The market was awash with rumours last month after an...; Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Regulator, European Union, BHP, Regulations, Corporate Law, Government, Business Operations, AAP; News items 2008-05-07
BoA Says No Assurance on Countrywide Debt: Filing: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America (BAC), which said it would buy Countrywide Financial Corp (CFC) in January, said there was no assurance any of the mortgage lender's outstanding debt would be redeemed, assumed or guaranteed, according to a regulatory...; Tags: Countrywide Financial Corp., Bank of America Corp., mortgage company, regulatory filing, bank, New York, Thomson Reuters Corp.; News items 2008-05-02
EasyJet to Withhold BAA Payment in Price Protest: LONDON (Reuters UK) - Low cost airline easyJet (EZJ) said on Tuesday it would withhold part-payment of recent price rises by operator BAA at Gatwick airport until the outcome of its legal challenge to the hikes was known. "EasyJet and other airlines have been incensed by...; Tags: BAA Payment, Civil Aviation Authority, Easyjet, Government, Oukbs, Regulations; News items 2008-04-15
Corus Framing Solutions Housing Frame: Corus' lightweight framing system for the volume housing market cuts average construction time by 6 to 8 weeks and offers Taywood Houses advantages over more traditional techniques. While volume house-builders face more and more demanding regulations, market conditions stubbornly refuse to improve. In this context, the ease with which light...; Tags: Corus Group, housing market, technique; Case studies

Sutter Health: Sutter Health Gains HIPAA-Compliant E-Mail Without Adding to IT Support Costs: Sutter Health is one of the nation's leading not-for-profit networks of community healthcare services, serving more than 100 communities in Northern California. It needed to ensure the HIPAA-compliance of its e-mail system, but wanted its solution to be simple and inexpensive to deploy and maintain. The CertifiedMail solution, running on...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Sutter Health, HIPAA, e-mail, health care, storage, network; Case studies
Capgemini Analysis of Overlake Hospital HIPAA Readiness Predicts Microsoft BizTalk Server Can Reduce Compliance Risk: Overlake Hospital Medical Center (with annual revenues of over $200 million) is a highly rated hospital that cares for about 150,000 patients each year. Like all United States healthcare organizations, it must comply with the federal Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 regulations starting in October 2003. This...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Capgemini, Microsoft BizTalk Server, hospital, HIPAA, compliance, HIPAA compliance, health care, EAI, health insurance, patient, analysis, server, Microsoft Corp.; Case studies
IT Auditors to Build on Sarbanes Experience in Year 2: The paper outlines that as the public companies are moving into Year 2 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, Information Technology auditors have "a huge opportunity" to make IT audits more useful and easier to do. At these companies, IT Audit helped with risk assessment, design and documentation of controls and coaching...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Strategy, Regulatory compliance, Protiviti, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, risk assessment, information technology, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, audit; White papers
Does SAS 70 Suffice for SOA?: With the 2004 deadlines for Sarbanes-Oxley filings fast approaching, many organizations started searching with a growing sense of urgency for tools and strategies that provided management and external auditor's assurances that the Securities and Exchange Commission's rules are being met in all critical areas. The paper depicts that while SAS...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Financial accounting, Protiviti, SAS Institute, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, audit, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, outsource, SOA, compliance, tool, strategy, financial; White papers
Meeting 2005 HIPAA Security Guidelines: HIPAA became law at a time when Americans were growing increasingly wary of the amount of personal health information available to organizations in the open marketplace. The first HIPAA guidelines set a compliance deadline of April 2003, and focused on improving the privacy of patient data. The impact of these...; Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Protiviti, HIPAA, personal health information, patient, compliance; White papers
A Collaborative Approach to HIPAA Compliance Yields a World-Class Solution: Addressing Compliance Issues While Reducing Processing and Payment Times by 15 Percent: When a new processing platform dramatically increased the scope of Blue Shield of California's (BSC) Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance efforts, the company turned to EDS to help speed development. EDS consultants with experience in both HIPAA and mainframe integration issues joined the BSC team to assist...; Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, HIPAA, Balanced Scorecard, Electronic Data Systems Corp., compliance, HIPAA compliance, accountability, scalability, payment, health care, team; Case studies
Power by the Minute: Can the electricity industry be deregulated and still avoid a California-style energy crisis? The best way to do so, argue the authors of this piece, would be for regulators to link electricity prices in retail and wholesale markets through "Dynamic Pricing," which lets utilities pass on to the consumer disparities...; Tags: Pricing, Regulations, McKinsey & Co., regulator, pricing strategy; White papers
PowerLock AuthorityBroker Helps C&D Technologies With Sarbanes Oxley Compliance: C&D Technologies, Inc. produces and markets systems for the power conversion and storage of electrical power, including batteries and electronics. As a publicly traded company, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance has had a major impact on the IT department at C&D Technologies. Auditors insist on separation of duties. A recent IT audit raised...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Backups, Regulatory compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, backup system, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, audit, programmer, backup, battery, electronics, storage, information technology; Case studies
Taxing Overseas Firms for SOX Compliance: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, also called the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 was signed into law on July 30, 2002 by President Bush. SOX compliance by vendors and business partners outside the U.S. is a frightening task. The risks and complications involved in enforcing the regulations...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, SOX compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, data management, U.S., information technology; White papers
Harness the Compliance Power of Your ERP Platform: It's no secret that thousands of companies struggled with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) in their initial year of compliance and continue to do so. Finishing documentation and testing of controls strained staffs and budgets during that first year, with costs ending up far higher than expected. Manual detective controls were...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Protiviti, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, compliance, ERP, leader, tool; White papers
Adapting to Change: Change is the most pervasive influence within today's workplace. Profound changes are shaking up people's lives and the way one does business. And the pace of change will continue to accelerate - driven by sharp economic swings, increasing competitive pressures, new technologies, government regulations, sociocultural shifts, further globalization of the...; Tags: globalization, workplace; White papers
A Prescription for Success: Compliance With the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)á: The paper outlines that HIPAA is in direct conflict with state law. HIPAA requires providers to provide patientsùfree of charge, upon request, once each calendar yearùan accounting of all disclosures of the past six years. Some states allow a handling or copying fee to be charged, and others require more...; Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, HIPAA, patient, health insurance, compliance, accounting, health care; White papers
Process Improvement Through Sarbanes-Oxley: Compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has left many questioning finance's value to an organization. Efforts to speedily meet Sarbanes-Oxley year-one certification requirements forced companies to ignore the merits of planning and improving processes. Companies that view Sarbanes-Oxley compliance as an improvement process are making greater strides toward a sustainable infrastructure...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, APQC, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, finance, compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, process improvement; White papers
Employee Morale & the Hidden Costs of SOX Compliance: Financial executives say employee morale presents the biggest challenge for ongoing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Read The 2005 Financial Executive Report on SOX and learn how executives are managing the compliance process and driving bottom-line business benefits from their compliance efforts. See the roadblocks that challenge ongoing SOX compliance, such as hiring...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Oversight Systems, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SOX compliance, employee morale, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, compliance, financial, hiring; White papers
Reducing the Costs of SOX Compliance: While many companies are already in full compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, most are finding it extremely time-consuming and expensive to prove their compliance to SOX auditors. This instructive white paper explains the various types of controls required to prove compliance with SOX and describes...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, RSA Security Inc., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, compliance, SOX compliance, identity management; White papers