Lenovo says China strike an IBM matter, but it won’t cut wages
March 11th, 2014
Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group Ltd said it was up to IBM to resolve a wildcat strike at a China-based factory, as a deal to buy the U.S. company’s server business had yet to be finalized. More than 1,000 ...
FASB Stands by Fair Value Measurement Standard
March 11th, 2014
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has responded to a post-implementation review of its accounting standard for fair value measurement, saying it doesn’t plan to make any comprehensive changes. Last month, FASB’s parent organization, the Financial Accounting Foundation, released the ...
FCA: on SME Banking Market Study
March 11th, 2014
The FCA has announced that it has been working closely with the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) on the SME banking market study. The OFT has issued a market study update, which sets out a summary of the analysis ...
Cyprus central bank head who led Cyprus through bailout quits
March 11th, 2014
Cypriot Central Bank governor Panicos Demetriades, whose testy relations with the island’s government dogged a tumultuous tenure when Cyprus teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, resigned on Monday. President Nicos Anastasiades, who had been pressing for Demetriades’s departure ever ...
SRA investigates collapsed law firm Calibre
March 10th, 2014
THE Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has launched an investigation into Calibre Solicitors, a Salford-based personal injury law firm that went into administration in February. According to a creditors report a number of clients had complained to the SRA about ...
As talk of sanctions on Russia heats up, business groups draw cautionary line
March 10th, 2014
Business groups are pushing to ensure that any economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States are joined by as much of the rest of the world as possible, warning Congress and the Obama administration that unilateral U.S. ...
More than 1,000 lawyers protest outside parliament at legal aid cuts
March 10th, 2014
UK- More than 1,000 barristers and solicitors – many bearing placards declaring “Grayling must go” and accompanied by a giant, papier-mache effigy of the justice secretary – have protested outside parliament at cuts to criminal legal aid in their ...
Inmates running the asylum
March 10th, 2014
IT WAS always an awkward coincidence that the cousin of Steve DiCarmine, a former executive at the collapsed law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf , was “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano, who ran the Bonnano crime family and is now serving a ...
CySec informs on EU Council Regulation
March 10th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (‘the Commission’) informs, the Cyprus Investment Firms, the Management Companies and the Administrative Services Companies (‘the Regulated Entities) about the publication in the Official Journal of the European Union of the Council Regulation ...
Dividend Policy Ratios
March 6th, 2014
Dividend policy ratios provide insight into the dividend policy of the firm and the prospects for future growth. Dividend policy ratios measure how much a company pays out in dividends relative to its earnings and market value of its ...