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GM Sales Are Strong Despite $1.7 Billion Recall Scandal
June 6th, 2014
Despite a damaging investigation that linked a defect in some of General Motors’ cars to 13 deaths, GM (NYSE: GM) auto sales have remained steady. Last month, the company reported its strongest monthly sales since 2008, according to numbers ...
General Motors (GM) accepts ‘troubling’ report on Chevrolet Cobalt recall
June 6th, 2014
General Motors (GM) has accepted the findings of a “brutally tough, deeply troubling” report into recalls of its Chevrolet Cobalt over ignition problems which have been linked to 13 deaths. GM also said it would launch a compensation fund ...
China Seeks to Cap Fossil Fuel Emissions for First Time
June 6th, 2014
China is working on how to cap its greenhouse gas emissions for the first time, an effort that would spur the worldwide effort to hold back climate change. The world’s biggest producer of fossil fuel emissions has been studying ...
CySec: imposition of administrative fines to Cyprus Popular Bank Co Ltd and Bank of Cyprus
June 6th, 2014
CySec announcement dated 05 June 2014 The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) informs the investors that, at its meeting held on 28 April 2014 , has completed its investigation regarding the investment in Greek Government Bonds from Cyprus ...
FCA says logbook lenders must raise standards
June 5th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British regulatory authority has urged the importance of raising longbook lenders’ standards after finding evidence of poor firm behaviour, including little or no affordability checks with some applicants encouraged to manipulate details of their ...
Bank of England maintains key rate at 0.50%
June 5th, 2014
The Bank of England (BoE) decided to maintain its Bank Rate at 0.5% after a meeting held today following the decision of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. The Committee also voted to maintain the stock of purchased assets financed ...
Deutsche Bank cap hike delay due to court bottleneck
June 5th, 2014
Deutsche Bank’s (DBKGn.DE) plans for an 8 billion euro ($11 billion) capital hike came to an abrupt halt on Wednesday when a procedural bottleneck in a German court forced Germany’s flagship lender to delay the issue by several days. ...
SEC Charges Bitcoin Entrepreneur With Offering Unregistered Securities
June 4th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the co-owner of two Bitcoin-related websites for publicly offering shares in the two ventures without registering them. An SEC investigation found that Erik T. Voorhees published prospectuses on the Internet and ...
The Perils of Silos in Risk Management
June 4th, 2014
Silos, or autonomous units, can exist in most organizations. It’s no surprise that risk management can be divided into “siloed” functions, and it’s commonly done. Among their advantages: Silos can enable risk management specialization by business unit. For example, ...
Illegal Bitcoin IPO Actually Worked Out Pretty Well for Investors
June 4th, 2014
Today the Securities and Exchange Commission shut down a bitcoin investing scam that, as bitcoin investing scams go, is disappointingly un-scammy. A very bitcoiny guy named Erik Voorhees1 started some very bitcoiny companies called SatoshiDICE and FeedZeBirds,2 and he ...
