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    UK government seeks to prevent cost claims

    As part of the UK government’s latest plan to curb taxpayer-funded legal spending, companies and directors cleared of criminal charges in the UK could be barred from recovering t...
    On April 21, 2009 / By
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    Rumble in the jungle

    Moses Singo is an African exception. A black farmer with green fingers, he has probably had to overcome more obstacles than faced by most entrepreneurs anywhere else in the world t...
    On February 20, 2009 / By
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    Investigating fraud at Satyam

    Oh the irony. “Satyam” means “truth” in Sanskrit,?a fitting name then for the fourth largest company in India’s booming information technology sector –?a company that n...
    On February 19, 2009 / By
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    Do we need the IMF?

    “We were all Keynesians now,” said Richard Nixon, back in 1969. If it was true then, it didn’t stay true for long. The rise of monetarism and neo-liberalism in the 1970s side...
    On February 19, 2009 / By
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    Crunch costs

    After the crisis, comes the litigation – and the regulation. The financial turmoil of 2008 will lead to tougher regulatory action, and a wave of law suits, this year, as governme...
    On February 18, 2009 / By
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    Charting a new map

    Managers say the focus this year will be on restructuring and shopping for value assets. As heads of investment banking survey a new year, some of the most crucial documents in the...
    On February 18, 2009 / By
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    Fixing the bank?ng system

    What element of the crisis has most surprised you?The scale of leverage and underpriced risk on banks’ balance sheets. I was more conscious of household and government debt in th...
    On February 18, 2009 / By
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    More failure for the Securities and Exchange Commission

    When America’s biggest banks began to collapse during the presidential election campaign, the SEC became the butt of criticism from both candidates. Then when giant insurer AIG h...
    On February 18, 2009 / By
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    On your marks… get set… go

    In the past five years, and including 2008, the Ministry of Finance in Finland has launched many packs of patchwork on tax laws and the systemic tax reform has been much awaited. N...
    On February 12, 2009 / By
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    Public-private partnerships

    Public-private partnerships is the institutional and practical expression of the central idea: the involvement of the private sector in the provision of infrastructure and services...
    On February 12, 2009 / By