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Andy Coulson guilty over phone hacking as Rebekah Brooks walks free
June 24th, 2014
David Cameron’s former communications chief Andy Coulson is facing jail after being found guilty of conspiring to hack phones while he was editor of the News of the World. Rebekah Brooks, his predecessor in the job, walked free from ...
Auditors Favor Curbs on Changes to the Audit Report
June 23rd, 2014
Rather than divulge every worry that kept them up at night during an audit, some auditors feel that they should limit their reporting of “critical audit matters” to the anxieties they’ve reported to the audit committee, according to an ...
An Interview With Jeffrey Smith, CIO of GHash.io
June 23rd, 2014
For the past two weeks, the Bitcoin community has been buzzing with worry over the mining pool GHash.io. Founded in July 2013, the pool has quickly risen to become the world’s largest Bitcoin mining group, prompting concerns that they ...
Regulator Investigates Controls at Deutsche Bank Commodities Unit
June 20th, 2014
Germany’s top financial regulator recently investigated internal controls at Deutsche Bank AG’s commodities unit, according to a person familiar with the probe. The regulator, BaFin, sent a letter to the bank outlining its findings in April, this person said. ...
Emerging Markets: What Has Changed
June 20th, 2014
1) Russia continues to liberalize the currency and move to an inflation targeting regime 2) Political risk is rising in Poland 3) South Africa came under renewed rating downgrade pressures 4) The Chinese yuan’s one-way depreciating bet appears to ...
Japan not regulating bitcoin, for the moment
June 20th, 2014
Japan’s leading Liberal Democratic Party said it decided against regulating bitcoin for the time being, after the collapse of Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox prompted them to consider more scrutiny of the virtual currency. Mt. Gox, once the world’s ...
IMF calls on ECB to consider quantitative easing
June 19th, 2014
The International Monetary Fund is expected to sound the alarm on Thursday over the risk of deflation within the eurozone and to urge the European Central Bank to consider US-style quantitative easing, including “large-scale” purchases of sovereign bonds, to ...
Six banks sued over trustee roles
June 19th, 2014
A group of big investors including Blackrock and Pimco are suing six different banks including Deutsche Bank and HSBC for their role as trustees of mortgage-backed securities in the lead up to and during the financial crisis. In six ...
US central bank cuts growth forecast for 2014
June 19th, 2014
The US Federal Reserve has cut its growth forecast for 2014 because of the harsh winter weather. The central bank is now predicting growth of between 2.1% and 2.3% for this year, down from its March forecast of 2.8% ...
European court to rule on allegations Facebook passes personal data to NSA
June 18th, 2014
A European court has been asked to rule on a landmark case which seeks to force watchdogs to audit the personal data Facebook allegedly releases to US spy chiefs. The high court in Dublin has referred to Strasbourg a ...
