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Questions raised after India Blocks WTO Trade Deal
August 1st, 2014
Several member states of the World Trade Organisation voiced frustration after India’s demands for concessions on agricultural stockpiling led to the collapse of the first major global trade reform pact in two decades. WTO ministers had already agreed the ...
HMRC’s plan for debt recovery plan
July 31st, 2014
The Law Society has joined the chorus of opposition to government plans to allow HM Revenue & Customs direct access to tax defaulters’ bank accounts. In its response to HMRC’s call for evidence on new powers for direct recovery ...
EU Practiced Its Russian Sanctions in Cyprus
July 30th, 2014
Europe’s new financial sanctions against Russia will be among the first meaningful ones the West has introduced since the Ukraine crisis started. But punishing rich Russians is not exactly new territory for the EU — it has been doing ...
ASIC accepts enforceable undertaking from Adelaide-based AFS licensee
July 30th, 2014
The Australian regulator, ASIC, has today announced that it has accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from Adelaide-based PGW Financial Services Pty Ltd (PGW), after an ASIC surveillance found deficiencies in its advice to clients and arrangements for supervising its ...
Russia faces more sanctions from the U.S. and Europe
July 29th, 2014
The United States and Europe have unitedly decided to increase the economic sanctions against Russia since they fear that Moscow might be planning an invasion in Ukraine soon. After months in which European leaders resisted going as far as ...
Mt. Gox Creditors’ Meeting Delivers Few Answers and One Apology
July 23rd, 2014
Today’s long-anticipated meeting between Mt. Gox bankruptcy trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi and creditors from the defunct exchange provided several revelations, but left many more questions unanswered. At the Tokyo meeting Kobayashi disclosed he would consider distributing the exchange’s remaining funds ...
Key questions for audit committees to ask about internal audit
July 22nd, 2014
An effective relationship between the audit committee and internal auditors is fundamental to the success of the internal audit function. It has become increasingly important for audit committees to assess whether internal auditors are monitoring critical controls and identifying ...
MPs grill HMRC over accounts and new powers
July 18th, 2014
HMRC’s chief executive, Lin Homer, has told MPs that it will let the National Audit Office check its forecasts for tax collection after it miscalculated figures by £1.9bn a year. Homer and other HMRC board directors also told MPs ...
Bitcoin Protected, VeriCoin Stolen in Latest Exchange Breach
July 15th, 2014
Digital currency exchange platform MintPal has suffered a successful hack attack that resulted in the loss millions of vericoins from its hot wallet. The 13th July attack targeted a vulnerability in the site’s withdrawal system. The hacker, according to ...
Interview with GoCoin’s Steve Beauregard
July 14th, 2014
I visited Los Angeles Bitcoin Incubator Bitropolis earlier this year, and I got to meet Steve Beauregard, the founder of GoCoin. While in his office in the scenic Santa Monica, CA, I had a few questions for him– and ...
