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Irish Panel to Pick Privacy Regulator With Global Reach
August 29th, 2014
In the coming weeks, an Irish government committee is set to pick the country’s new data privacy regulator, a relatively obscure position but one with global sway. The five-person panel of civil servants and privacy experts will choose a ...
Is Russia connected to JPMorgan hacking?
August 29th, 2014
Security experts say the sophistication of the attacks suggest they were state sponsored. Federal investigators are trying to determine if state-sponsored Russian hackers were behind the coordinated cyber attacks that looted data from JPMorgan Chase and other banks this ...
India’s Narendra Modi launches bank accounts for all
August 28th, 2014
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a plan to provide a bank account for every household, in a landmark initiative to help the poor. Nearly 40% of Indians have little access to financial services and are often at ...
Sage launches corporation tax application
August 28th, 2014
Originally developed for large corporate organisations, Sage chose to extend the Sage Corporation Tax application to smaller businesses that had claimed they were seeking a “more straight-forward” program than previous services. The functionality in the offering builds upon the ...
FSA takes administrative action against Kookmin Bank
August 28th, 2014
The Financial Services Agency (FSA) has taken some administrative actions against Kookmin Bank, Japan Branches. Following its on-site inspection and the report prepared by the Japan Branches based on Article 24, paragraph 1, and Article 48 of the Banking ...
$2.4 Billion Invested in Chinese Bad-debt Company
August 28th, 2014
China’s biggest manager of bad debt said on Thursday that it had attracted about $2.4 billion from eight investors, including Goldman Sachs and Warburg Pincus, before an expected initial public offering here. China Huarong Asset Management, the biggest of ...
Telecom Italia bids $9.25 billion for Vivendi’s GVT
August 28th, 2014
The battle over Brazil’s telecoms market intensified on Thursday as European competitors Telecom Italia and Telefonica made rival offers for Vivendi’s Brazilian broadband business GVT. Vivendi, which will examine the bids at a Thursday board meeting, must now choose ...
Mega-IPO to rekindle the ‘bromance’ behind Alibaba’s rise
August 28th, 2014
Masayoshi Son’s nose for an investment has turned a $20 million start-up punt on Alibaba into a stake worth maybe $50 billion or more as the Chinese e-commerce giant co-founded and led by Jack Ma heads to what could ...
Wachtell to pursue Deloitte in HP Autonomy row
August 28th, 2014
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz is to pursue Deloitte on behalf of Hewlett-Packard (HP) in an escalation of the company’s row with software firm Autonomy over its doomed 2011 acquisition. Wachtell partner Marc Wolinsky told a San Francisco court ...
FCA warns against boiler room clone firm
August 28th, 2014
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British regulator has issued a warning against boiler room “London Capital Group Asia (Clone of FCA authorised firm) / LCGA Fxplatform / LCG Asia / LCG Forex” (www.lcga-fx.com / www.lcga.asia.lid-cn / http://indo.lcga-fx.com / www.fxlcg.com), ...
