A member of the Treasury select committee this morning asked Adam Applegarth, CEO of Northern Rock: When did you qualify as a banker? The answer?:
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The EU Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs considered IFRS 8 on 9 October. I presumed we’d know their decision by now. But I now note
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I noted the following comment in the FT in a discussion on tax havens: The EU staged a crackdown on “harmful tax practices”, including un-equal
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The FT reported yesterday that, when referring to the change in behaviour forced on tax havens by the EU and OECD that: Leonie Kerswill, a
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Prof Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel Laureate, former Chief Economist of World Bank, former head of the Council of Economic Advisors to President Clinton and
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