Thus, UBS failed to establish a reasonable supervisory system and written procedures to monitor the sale of Non-Traditional ETFs.

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Furthermore, securities regulators need to provide the written supervisory procedures to the firms instead of forcing the firms to pay a third party to prepare them.

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The hope of Barclays is that a single code of conduct for the entire bank can be written and procedures put in place to make it effective.

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Finally, as with most in-house compliance rules, your firm will likely require you to submit an annual update addressing most of the punch-list items in its written supervisory procedures and employee manuals.

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Develop, Update, and Enforce Written Supervisory Procedures.

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From February 1, 2009, through November 30, 2011, BIFS allegedly failed to maintain written supervisory procedures reasonably designed to achieve compliance with applicable securities laws and regulations, and utilized recruiting and hiring guidelines that were inaccurate and inadequate regarding the hiring and registration of statutorily disqualified persons.

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Completely new procedures had to be written and tested in the simulator before being passed up to the crew.

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And I think that they are the best place to go for an explanation of those processes and procedures and why they're written the way they are and followed the way they are.

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Continental politicos should, but probably won't, think about how to devise procedures and institutions to give people real powers that are protected by a written constitution.

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