Identity thieves have sent out thousands of bogus emails in an attempt to trick consumers into sharing personal financial information. The bogus emails claim to come from government agencies like the IRS, Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department.
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Climate change is shaping up the big corporate governance issue of the 21st Century. It could have an impact on directors in many ways. Whether that happens remains to be seen. But they can’t afford to ignore it.
Sphere: Related ContentThere is no simple formula for success and businesses keep getting sucked in by plug-in solutions. It’s called the “halo effect”.
Risk and uncertainty, in a variety of forms, have become increasingly salient features of life in the early years of this century. Arguably, ‘risk’ will be a central idea of the early 21st century, just as ‘globalisation’ was the dominant idea of the 1990s.
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Fund managers have ridden the coat-tails of the baby boomers, ignoring the next generation of clients and that could create enormous problems for the financial services industry.
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The amount of spoiling around the last book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, released last week, has raised a number of important questions about ethics.
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Nearly five years after the most stringent anti-fraud and corporate governance measures were introduced in the US, and fraud is still as a big a problem as ever. Sarbanes-Oxley has not worked.
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Maybe it seemed like a good idea at the time. But then, it was so stupid and flawed that the time must have been 2am! Pilloried by congressmen and the banking industry, the Securities and Exchange has decided to suspend its web site linking companies to state sponsors of terrorism of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria.
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