As is well known, Bono bought part of Forbes magazine through his interest in Elevation Partners, a private equity firm. Bono is, as is now
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Banking CSR
Regulation
I note some on the political Right are suggesting that there is no logic to my comment that regulation is the biggest stimulant to innovation
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Grant Thornton – failing to join up their thinking
Grant Thornton, the UK’s fifth biggest firm of accountants have told UK Chancellor Gordon Brown that it wants these things in the Budget: A cut
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Canadians want to close the Tax Gap
Opinion polls are fickle things and majorities are not always right, I know, but an opinion poll published in Canada yesterday does certainly give reason
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Money laundering
For those with an interest in money laundering, the US Government has recently published its 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. Volume 2 is on
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Private equity – just a way of avoiding corporate responsibility?
Nils Pratley is a Guardian columnist to whose opinion I usually pay little attention. But he caught my eye today. Writing on the raid on
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Another welcome move from the European Court of Justice
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled on the UK’s ‘thin capitalisation’ tax rules. These attempt to restrict the amount of interest deducted on
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Germany moves on private equity
Germany has made a welcome move on the private equity issue. As the FT has reported, Peer Steinbr?ºck, Germany’s finance minister, is proposing to limit
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