No Longer Business as Usual in China
November 10th, 2014
With heads of state and corporate chieftains in Beijing for a major economic summit meeting this week, China’s increasing economic nationalism is expected to be heavily debated. China is changing the rule book for business, forcing multinational companies to ...
AMF publishes draft recommendation on quarterly and interim financial disclosure
November 5th, 2014
In anticipation of the transposition of the revised Transparency Directive into national law, the AMF is publishing a draft recommendation to accompany the abolition in 2015 of the obligation to produce quarterly financial information. The revised Transparency Directive (2013/50/EU) ...
The Age of Vulnerability
October 13th, 2014
Two new studies show, once again, the magnitude of the inequality problem plaguing the United States. The first, the US Census Bureau’s annual income and poverty report, shows that, despite the economy’s supposed recovery from the Great Recession, ordinary ...
Financial Education for Entrepreneurs: How to get it right?
October 10th, 2014
Financial education needs a coordinated and integrated approach and to be taught as early as possible. More and better synergies among all players in the financial environment – but not only- are needed, but it is also important to ...
CFTC organised session on Bitcoin
October 10th, 2014
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) held a meeting yesterday in Washington, DC, to discuss bitcoin as it relates to the agency’s role as the country’s chief futures and options regulator. Panelists for the CFTC event included Coin ...
IG Group obtains License for Swiss Banking Business
October 6th, 2014
IG Group Holdings Plc, the U.K. spread-betting firm, is set to start operations in Geneva, close to the private banks it hopes to win as customers. The London-based company chose Geneva partly because many institutional customers it wants to ...
CySec: Risks Associated with Investing in Contingent Convertible Instruments
October 3rd, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has published an announcement regarding the supervised entities, the stakeholders and the investing public to the statement published by the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) titled Potential Risks Associated with Investing in Contingent ...
Incoming antitrust head promises action on tax deals
October 3rd, 2014
Europe’s incoming antitrust chief has promised a tough line on state-subsidised tax avoidance, saying she will “send a signal” with the speedy conclusion of probes into deals with the likes of Apple, Fiat and Starbucks. At her European parliament ...
Contributing Authors
October 2nd, 2014
Dr Alan Waring Dr Alan Waring has 35 years’ experience in risk management. His several books include Managing Risk (1998), co-authored with Prof Ian Glendon, Practical Systems Thinking (1996) and Corporate Risk and Governance published in May 2013. He has presented numerous conference and ...
Arbitration may be dropped from EU-US trade deal
September 30th, 2014
The EU’s incoming trade chief on Monday raised the possibility that controversial investor protections which she described as politically “toxic” could be dropped from a new transatlantic trade deal, suggesting the pact could be less ambitious than Washington and ...
