Only about 25 percent of banks and other financial institutions are trying to [roll their initiatives together], which is a shame because, in a way, it's an easy fix. You would have one overall compliance risk program instead of everyone doing their own thing.

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One of them, there's about 20, will make it through before the 2006 elections.

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You'll have more missed meetings. But as for SOX or privacy compliance, who cares? I don't see any broad implications.

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I thought they would have come with some recommendations that actually reduce the burden -- maybe, you'll only have to, say, audit a third of the controls in any given year. Or maybe they would have come with some clarity on what are effective controls, a problem for all-sized companies.

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