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Decline and Fall of the Demagogues

December 19th, 2014 (0)
This article could have been entitled ‘The Bonfire of the Vanities’ (with apologies to the book’s author Tom Wolfe) as it too is all about ruthless ambition, political sleaze and rampant greed. However, as vanity in others is regarded ...

Ultimate owners of companies would have to be listed in central registers in EU countries

December 18th, 2014 (0)
The ultimate owners of companies would have to be listed in central registers in EU countries, accessible to people with a “legitimate interest”, such as investigative journalists and other concerned citizens, under a deal struck by Parliament and Council ...

Switzerland bows to pressure; Tightens money-laundering rules

December 15th, 2014 (0)
The Swiss Parliament has bowed to international pressure, tightening the country’s money-laundering rules. There will be a CHF100,000 ($104,000) cap on cash transactions, and not just foreign dictators, but also senior politicians and officials like Sepp Blatter, will be ...

Proposal To Form China’s First Bitcoin Advocacy Group To Test Government Attitude

December 10th, 2014 (0)
Established in 2012, the Bitcoin Foundation has quite a few titles – It is a “top trade organization”, an “unofficial organisation to represent the interests of Bitcoin”, a Bitcoin “lobbying group” and “one of the world’s leading advocacy groups ...

Audit Commission reveals highest ever levels of council fraud detection

October 22nd, 2014 (0)
Nearly £200M of fraud has been detected by English councils in 2013/14 – the highest amount for a generation and ten times the 1990 figure, the Audit Commission has revealed. In its latest – and last – report on ...

Interview with Danièle Nouy, Chair of the SSM

August 26th, 2014 (0)
Interview with Danièle Nouy, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), conducted by Theano Theiopoulou from Phileleftheros newspaper: 1. How is preparatory work for the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) progressing? Will everything be ready by 4 November? As ...

Case closed in favor of INTL FCStone in Sentinel case

August 22nd, 2014 (0)
INTL FCStone Inc. (Nasdaq:INTL) (“the Company”) announced on March 19, 2014 that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit had reversed the trial court’s January 2013 decision against its subsidiary, FCStone, LLC, in the Sentinel matter. Because ...

Small business bill: HMRC to share VAT data with credit agencies

June 26th, 2014 (0)
Under the guise of increasing access to finance, the government brought forward proposals to make VAT registration data available to third parties in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill published yesterday. As previewed in the Queen’s speech, the ...

ACCA welcomes new rules against money laundering and terrorist finacing

June 20th, 2014 (0)
The keywords in fighting money laundering and terrorist financing throughout Europe and worldwide are transparency and consistency between EU rules and the international approach, says global accountancy body In February 2013, the European Commission unveiled a package incorporating new ...
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