In an age when criminals can digitally flash stolen money and intellectual property across the globe in an instant, corporations are often ill-prepared to investigate
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Jersey – spinning for all it’s worth
Jersey is issuing a press release today on the evidence presented by Senator Frank Walker to the Senate Finance Committee Hearings on ‘Stashing Cash Offshore’
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Wolfowitz goes
I’ve said before. I won’t gloat. Wolfowitz has gone from the World Bank. That had to be. Now it’s time for a proper process of
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The EU begins to get tough on savings
The EU has, as reported on this blog, been considering plans to amend the EU Savings Directive. These plans are, of course, exploratory at this
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Are ‘dual contracts’ still in use in hedge funds?
Dual contracts were often used by the City for their non-UK domiciled individuals. These people had two contracts issued to them: one in the UK
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Wolfowitz
The FT has reported that World Bank President: Paul Wolfowitz’s handling of a secondment deal for his girlfriend Shaha Riza broke the World Bank’s code
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The Swiss aren’t all they seem
According to Transparency International’s Bribery Perceptions Index the Swiss are the least likely to bribe in the world. According to their Corruption Perception Index the
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Greed persists
The FT notes this morning that: Between January 1 and April 20 of this year, the New York Stock Exchange referred 45 potential instances of
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10 reasons why Country-by-Country accounting is vital
In the 1980s I was a volunteer for Oxfam. At the time I remember discussing the role an accountant could play in campaigning on development
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