Archive for the ‘Corporate Fraud’ category
The Operational & Financial Review has gone from company accounts. But get ready for its successor. The government is writing a White paper on how firms should spell out in detail what they do and how they do it.
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Posted on 22nd September 2011 in Corporate Fraud | No Comments »
Now that a US judge has reduced claims from Bernie Madoff’s creditors,
perhaps the fraudster’s 150-year jail sentence should be cut too.
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Posted on 1st August 2011 in Corporate Fraud | No Comments »
Nevermind whether James Murdoch should remain chairman of British Sky Broadcasting, how long before someone asks why he is on the board of GlaxoSmithKlein Plc (LON:GSK)?
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Posted on 18th July 2011 in Corporate Fraud | 1 Comment »
How could part of an international publishing organisation hack into the phone of schoolgirl Millie Dowler? Easily – and justifying the ethics was even easier than mastering the technology. Despite the outcry now we know she was murdered, there is no clear moral code of what newspapers can do.
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Posted on 6th July 2011 in Corporate Fraud | No Comments »
If 71-year-old Bernie Madoff gets 150 years in jail for a $65bn fraud, what deterrent is there against going for a $130bn scam - or $260bn? Or why not do a serious crime?
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Posted on 30th June 2009 in Business, Corporate Fraud, Executives, capitalism | 1 Comment »
Another crisis, another corporate governance code. What started as Cadbury and developed into the Combined Code is being rewritten again. But if it changes so often, why should we think this will be the definitive version?
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Posted on 29th June 2009 in Banks, Corporate Fraud, Executives, Finance Director, Government, bonuses | No Comments »
Now National Rail’s chief executive is waiving his annual bonus the group should also abandon its search for two dozen people to keep the board in order. This is corporate governance gone mad.
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Posted on 14th May 2009 in Business, Corporate Fraud, Executives, Government, bonuses | 1 Comment »
Most businessmen will react to the revelations of MPs expenses with anger, cynicism or wry amusement. But how many could survive public exposure of their own expenses claims?
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Posted on 11th May 2009 in Corporate Fraud, Government, Law | No Comments »
I don’t know what the definition is of insider-dealing in Sunderland, but in the City it means trading shares with privileged information. It doesn’t mean writing newspaper stories that move share prices.
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Posted on 9th April 2009 in Corporate Fraud, Economics, Executives, Law, Markets, Media, trading | 1 Comment »
Is the corporate sector going to hell in a handcart – or has the bond market misjudged the risk of default? Unless business goes bust en masse, bonds yielding 10 per cent look a good buy and a bad sell.
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Posted on 19th February 2009 in Barclays, Bonds, Corporate Fraud | No Comments »