From the Guardian: Lord Myners is savaged for "naivet?©" over his handling of Sir Fred Goodwin’s £16.9m pension pot in a damning report by the
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Bond markets lack transparency
The Financial Times has noted that: Retail investors are being prevented from investing in the UK corporate bond market because of the way the market
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Indian ambassador to Luxembourg says banking secrecy laws attract illicit funds
Jaimini Bhagwati, the Indian Ambassador to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg has written in the Indian Business Standard, saying: Anti-money laundering efforts will not succeed
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I was just acting on professional advice
Quote from Tory MP Andrew MacKay who has quit as parliamentary aide to David Cameron over what the party said was an "unacceptable" expenses claim:
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Mark Thomas is angry
The comedian Mark Thomas is another man I enjoy working with. Today he’s angry. He’s threatening to launch a judicial review of the Speaker’s actions
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Orwellian integrity
I am proud to work with Global Financial Integrity, based in Washington DC. They are committed to exactly what their title suggests: global financial integrity.
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Cayman in the news
TJN has two very important blogs on Cayman out today. One is about their attempt to get off the OECD grey-list. The other refers to
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Let’s have some real extremists
Will Self has said: [S]itting MPs have managed to alienate the electorate all by themselves, by using taxpayers’ money to clean their moat/change their light
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Should this man be in charge of a public service broadcaster?
Luke Johnson wrote this in the FT yesterday: Business is tough now, but it could get much worse. The backlash against free market economics is
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