Financial Services – Page 10
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InterviewsTugs battle to contain Gulf oil spill
Deepwater Horizon explosion is unfolding environmental disaster
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InterviewsAirmic vision launched
Lloyd’s chief executive predicts tighter capacity and higher prices
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Online onlyFurther crises inevitable unless ethics improve
Paul Moore challenges the risk profession to make rapid changes to their organisation's culture, behaviour and balance of power in the boardroom
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InterviewsUK clamps down on corporate corruption
The Bribery Act has far reaching implications for both UK businesses and multinationals with offices or headquarters in the UK. Rupert Nevin explains how the Act will affect corporate liability
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Lockton declares: “It’s a buyers market”
Capacity is high and prices remain soft, says broker
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InterviewsGoldman charged with fraud
The SEC claimed Goldman Sachs misstated key facts about a product tied to subprime mortgages, which cost investors $1bn
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Online onlyQIS5 capital requirements “radically reduced”
The calibration for standard formula capital requirements has been reduced from what CEIOPS proposed but it is still above QIS4
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InterviewsFinancial firms rethink risk management
WEF report designed to help finance learn risk management lessons from unlikely sources
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FSA fines three firms £4.2m for poor reporting
Credit Suisse, Getco and Instinet fall foul of regulator
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Online onlyRisk managers exonerated
Most risk managers say they saw the risks well in advance of the banking crisis but they were ignored
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Features
By hook or by crook
From Enron to Worldcom to Madoff, the last decade featured a number of momentous frauds and scams. But, as Andrew Leslie discovers, those profiting from people's desire to make a quick buck is not just a modern problem
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FeaturesSeat of power
Tougher corporate governance standards have changed how risk managers work, says Neil Hodge. Why, they've even been known to change boardroom thinking...
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FeaturesCleaning up after ourselves
Dorothée Prunier of ACE assesses the impact for companies of the European directive on environmental liability
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FeaturesPrime crime
Has fraud boomed in the recession? Or is it simply that cash-strapped copmanies are spotting things earlier? As the old adage goes, there's no such thing as a small fraud, just those that haven't had time to grow. Peter Davy reports
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FeaturesSeal of confidence
Dan Trueman discusses how businesses can protect their key intangible assets
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FeaturesSo where do we go from here?
Our first decade has been, among many things, an invaluable learning process - and we intend to build on that in the decade to come, says Sue Copeman
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FeaturesProtect yourself
With financial collapse usually comes a steep rise in executive liability claims, and yet the hard market expected for 2009 never materialised. But there is still scope for things to change in 2010? Thibaud Hervy at HCC takes a closer look
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InterviewsFirms trading in Russia warned over “grey practices”
Businesses trading in Russia could fall foul of efforts to defraud, facilitate money laundering, pay bribes and conceal conflicts of interest
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Online onlyRisk managers worried by impact of Solvency II
Insurers say they will have to raise premiums by 50% in some lines under new regime
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AnalysisFalkland oil assets at risk in run up to Argentine elections
Drilling in the Falklands has sparked tensions and a populist decree poses confiscation risks to oil firms and cargo vessels
