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Rethinking the Sino-American Relationship
June 27th, 2014
In early July, senior US and Chinese officials will gather in Beijing for the sixth Strategic and Economic Dialogue. With bilateral frictions mounting on a number of fronts – including cyber security, territorial disputes in the East and South ...
Hedge-Fund Hack Part of Bigger Siege: Cyber-Experts
June 23rd, 2014
The attack on a U.S. hedge fund’s network, which a cybersecurity contractor said last week disrupted the firm’s high-speed trading and stole its data, is but one among many. That is the assessment of more than a half-dozen computer ...
US court rejects Gemalto’s Android patent lawsuit
June 20th, 2014
Gemalto NV, the French digital security company, said on Friday that the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected its patent claim relating to the Android smart phone operating platform. Gemalto, which makes smart cards, filed a ...
Post-Crash Economics
June 19th, 2014
In last month’s European Parliament election, euroskeptic and extremist parties won 25% of the popular vote, with the biggest gains chalked up in France, the United Kingdom, and Greece. These results were widely, and correctly, interpreted as showing the ...
BNP Paribas, U.K. Fraud Raids, Taiwan Rules: Compliance
June 17th, 2014
BNP Paribas SA (BNP) has given investors scant information about how much it expects to pay to settle a criminal probe of U.S. sanctions violations. The bank told shareholders at an annual meeting on May 14 that the settlement ...
Bank of England launches cyber crime unit
June 10th, 2014
The Bank of England (BoE), ahs announced that it has launched a new framework to help identify areas where the financial sector could be vulnerable to sophisticated cyber-attack. This is part of the Bank of England’s response to the ...
Money Moves, India Tax Evaders, Credit Suisse: Compliance
June 10th, 2014
The U.S. Treasury Department said it sets limits while giving the nation’s intelligence agencies access to reports that banks file on suspicious or large money moves by customers, including information about Americans. The Treasury, saying it was responding to ...
EU to Decide Next Week on Irish, Dutch Tax-Breaks Probe
June 6th, 2014
The European Union may open a formal probe as soon as next week into tax breaks that Ireland and the Netherlands use to attract international companies, according to people familiar with the case. The European Commission is scheduled to ...
How to: be a better solicitor
June 6th, 2014
The following grew out of various informal talks I used to give to the many articled clerks and trainee solicitors with whom I had the privilege of sharing an office over the years. Solicitors are good at teaching hard ...
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, ...
