AABA

ASSOCIATION FOR ACCOUNTANCY
AND
BUSINESS AFFAIRS (AABA)

Use CTRL + F to search this page

December 2004

RBS chiefs named in Enron court papers (31 Dec 2004)
How Much Did The Barclay Twins Pay For Telegraph? (31 Dec 2004)
Hollinger delays its 2003 report (31 Dec 2004)
UK Final salary schemes fall another £5 billion in value (31 Dec 2004)
A mogul's fall from grace (31 Dec 2004)
Shell hits self-destruct button (31 Dec 2004)
Split caps pair banned for a year (31 Dec 2004)
Buffett firm helps with SEC probe (31 Dec 2004)
UK Spread-betting firm hit with fine (30 Dec 2004)
Samsung Puts $100 Million in Reserve for Price-Fixing Case (30 Dec 2004)
Glass ceiling still holding working women back. Report: Sex and power - who runs Britain? 2005 (30 Dec 2004)
FSA admits limits on split-cap fiasco (28 Dec 2004)
Financial Services Authority’s "settlement" of the split-capital trust debacle is a regulatory cop-out (28 Dec 2004)
Uncovering the Billion-Dollar Secret (28 Dec 2004)
From 2005, more than 90 countries will either permit or require their quoted companies to present their accounts according to international financial reporting standards (28 Dec 2004)
UK Split trust deal shuts out 10,000 investors (27 Dec 2004)
UK FINANCIAL regulators defend decision not to take action against the firms involved in the split-caps scandal (27 Dec 2004)
UK regulator under fire for split trust settlement (27 Dec 2004)
Average pay of a top UK company director has nearly doubled in the past five years while the value of leading shares has plunged by almost a third (26 Dec 2004)
UK Watchdog probes Severn Trent 'fraud' (26 Dec 2004)
Savills is sued over £3m fraud (26 Dec 2004)
UK regulator agrees to drop split-cap investigation (26 Dec 2004)
UK regulator unveils £194m splits scandal deal (24 Dec 2004)
FSA and firms announce details of Split capital investment trust settlement (24 Dec 2004)
Iraq Contractor Claims Immunity From Fraud Laws (23 Dec 2004)
Abbey chief quits with £1m payoff (23 Dec 2004)
£196m for the UK split scandal victims' (23 Dec 2004)
US stock market regulator is investigating troubled insurance broker Marsh & McLennan's shareholder transactions (23 Dec 2004)
Brokerage Edward D. Jones & Co. LP agreed to pay $75 million to settle allegations of improper disclosure of revenue-sharing payments (23 Dec 2004)
UK government water down rules to curb corruption by companies after lobbying (23 Dec 2004)
Edward Jones to Pay $75 Million to Settle Revenue Sharing Charges (22 Dec 2004)
Brussels blow to Microsoft upheld (22 Dec 2004)
Price-fixing probe leads to charges against air conditioning companies (22 Dec 2004)
Bradford & Bingley fined £650,000 for precipice and with-profit bonds mis-selling (22 Dec 2004)
Fannie Mae CEO’s halo tarnished (21 Dec 2004)
Stricter governance urged for UK life mutuals (21 Dec 200)
Robert Bonnier fined £290,000 and Indigo Capital £65,000 for UK market abuse (21 Dec 2004)
AXA Sun Life fined £500,000 for misleading advertisements (21 Dec 2004)
UK regulator slaps £500,000 fine on AXA for misleading advertisements (21 Dec 2004)
UK Report condemns beer 'stranglehold' (21 Dec 2004)
1.5m UK workers switch back to State pension (21 Dec 2004)
Fed up with your UK bank? Read on (21 Dec 2004)
Privatization is a ticket to poverty (21 Dec 2004)
Mysterious bidder buys $9.4 billion Yukos “headache”(21 Dec 2004)
UK Homeless facing season of sorrow (21 Dec 2004)
We have to bring an end to UK's child poverty shame (20 Dec 2004)
Think tank in child poverty call (20 Dec 204)

Report Summary

Read IFA fined £150,000 for 'pensions unlocking' (20 Dec 2004)
UK FINANCIAL firm fined £150,000 for wrongly encouraging 1,100 people to unlock money early from their pensions (20 Dec 2004)
UK City regulator to get tough on key industries (20 Dec 2004)
US Senator Kerry slams Bank of England on BCCI (19 Dec 2004)
Victims win £190 million payout over UK splits scandal (19 Dec 2004)
The poor don't need charity. They need markets that work (19 Dec 2004)
Poverty, profit, opportunity (19 Dec 2004)
Guilty finding in Australian petrol price fixing (18 Dec 2004)
UP to 700 UK solicitors may be sued as part of a £70m legal wrangle after the collapse of The Accident Group (17 Dec 20)
£70m legal challenge over Accident Group (17 Dec 2004)
Price-Fixing Versus the Poor (17 Dec 2004)
PFI 'misused to cap state borrowing' (17 Dec 2004)
US Regulators probe KPMG audit of Fannie Mae (17 Dec 2004)
US Watchdog damns Fannie Mae books (17 Dec 2004)
Parmalat sues 45 banks over crash (16 Dec 2004)
SEC AND NASD FILE FRAUD CASE AGAINST KNIGHT SECURITIES, L.P FOR extracting excessive profits out of its customers' orders (16 Dec 2004)
Ontario Securities Commission approves $156.5M in market-timing payouts (16 Dec 2004)
OSC penalizes 4 funds $156.5M, IDA hits 3 banks for $41.4M over market timing (16 Dec 2004)
Telewest looks into illicit commissions (16 Dec 2004)
Teeth on edge over Italian dentist scam (16 Dec 2004)
Private Finance Initiative (PFI) needs £110bn reform (16 Dec 2004)
12 Years of PFI (16 Dec 2004)

Read the Report: Reforming the Private Finance Initiative

Ryanair rapped by advertising watchdog (15 Dec 2004)
From 2001 to mid-2004, Fannie Mae's accounting practices did not comply in material respects with the US accounting requirements (16 Dec 2004)
Affidavit reveals alleged Amcor price-fixing details (16 Dec 2004)
First Command to Pay $12 Million to Settle SEC and NASD Charges Involving Misleading Sales of Investments to Members of the Military (15 Dec 2004)
Mutual fund manager AIC reaches settlement with OSC over market timing (15 Dec 2004)
Argos and Littlewoods lose price fixing appeal (15 Dec 2004)
Monopoly: a game of price fixing (15 Dec 2004)
3 Canadian funds settle market-timing inquiry (14 Dec 2004)
Private Finance Initiative (14 Dec 2004)
Chronic Stress May Raise Skin Cancer Risk (14 Dec 2004)
Tight deadlines raise heart attack risk (14 Dec 2004)
Britain is conniving in torture (14 Dec 2004)
UK Unions fight back over asbestos (14 Dec 2004)
UK Supermarkets 'overcharge' online shoppers (13 Dec 2004)
Lloyds TSB puts aside £110m to cover claims for compensation over endowment mis-selling in the UK (13 Dec 2004)
Progress and poverty (13 Dec 2004)
Bank of England frets over hedge fund risks (13 Dec 2004)
Worldwide value of completed merger deals to date in 2004 has risen to $1,536bn (£808bn) (13 Dec 2004)
Courts director transferred £3.9m into personal pension (12 Dec 2004)
Former Irish President and UN commisioner Mary Robinson is trying to bring multinationals together in a major effort to alleviate global poverty (12 Dec 2004)
Money for less than nothing: CEO pay now ridiculously outstrips profit increases (12 Dec 2004)
Human rights groups call Barclays to account over Thai pipeline project (12 Dec 2004)
'One man's bribe is another's commission' (12 Dec 2004)
Bribery and corruption: UK government volte-face over rules designed to stop bungs securing export deals (12 Dec 2004)
Is all well with Shell? (11 Dec 2004)
Mutual insurers are better value (10 Dec 2004)
The Warranty Windfall (10 Dec 2004)
UK MPs attack 'flawed' Standard Life (10 Dec 2004)
UK financial companies that have abandoned their customer-owned status pass on higher costs and lower benefits to consumers (10 Dec 2004)
UK Regulator clamps down on premium rate scams (10 Dec 2004)
European Union (EU) regulators investigate whether fees charged when mobile phones are used abroad are too high (10 (Dec 2004)
Winning the argument on poverty (10 Dec 2004)
What monies lost due to tax avoidance could do: Help 1 billion children (9 Dec 2004)

Read the UNICEF Report

Equitable victims look to Europe (9 Dec 2004)
Equitable case goes to EC (9 Dec 2004)
EU Fines Akzo Nobel, BASF for Price-Fixing (9 Dec 2004)
European Commission slaps fines on groups in vitamin price-fixing (9 Dec 2004)
Poor safety of North Sea rigs exposed (9 Dec 2004)
Guardian victory in arms bribe case (9 Dec 2004)
Alvis: the president's family and the payoffs Tank sale to Suharto's Indonesia was mired in corruption (9 Dec 2004)
Chemical companies to face fines for choline price-fixing (8 Dec 2004)
'Still too few women' in boardroom (8 Dec 2004)
CSFB betting ring denies abuses (8 Dec 2004)
Half of all workers on $2 a day or less (8 Dec 2004)
Privatisation: Half of hospitals fail to meet good cleanliness standards (8 Dec 2004)
How It Went Sour: The inside story of Parmalat, the biggest, most brazen corporate fraud in European history (7 Dec 2004)
UK firm accused of £16m arms bribe (7 Dec 2004)
Half the world's workers living below US$2 a day poverty line, says ILO (7 Dec 2004)
Tank deal that blew hole in ethical policy (7 Dec 2004)
Morgan nears price-fixing settlement (7 Dec 2004)
Former head of WH Smith's was paid £866,000 after five months' work (7 Dec 2004)
Jarvis teeters on the brink: PFI work grinds to a halt as group pins hopes on property deal (7 Dec 2004)
Make room at the top for women, urges UK government (7 Dec 2004)
UK Non-executive directors' pay up by 40% (6 Dec 2004)
Split caps on verge of UK settlement (6 Dec 2004)
UK Watchdog nears £200m payout over split caps (6 Dec 2004)
UK Women facing retirement poverty (6 Dec 2004)
Poor are Paying the Price of Rich Countries’ Failure, says Oxfam (6 Dec 2004)

Read the Oxfam Report - 86 page PDF File

Brain drain must stop if poor countries are to be helped (6 Dec 2004)
Nigerian villagers seize Shell oil platforms (6 Dec 2004)
Beware loan protection insurance (6 Dec 2004)
Allied Domecq suspends one of its top executives for alleged 'personal financial irregularities' (5 Dec 2004)
Halliburton asbestos deal 'final' (4 Dec 2004)
Isle of Man chief minister quits over fraud claims (3 Dec 2004)
Pensioners in the UK are more likely to die from cold this winter than older people in any other Northern European country (3 Dec 2004)
FOUR INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES EXECUTIVES AGREE TO PLEAD GUILTY IN INTERNATIONAL DRAM PRICE-FIXING CONSPIRACY (3 Dec 2004)
Price Fixing in the Computer Memory Market (3 Dec 2004)
Barclays Capital and Standard Bank London - are ensnared in a growing financial scandal in Singapore (3 Dec 2004)
UK Textile workers lose 60% of pension (3 Dec 2004)
The Isle of Man's chief minister was arrested last night for alleged corruption (2 Dec 2004)
When we buy a jar of instant coffee we pay 7,000% more than the farmer got for it (2 Dec 2004)
Just five giant coffee manufacturers control over half the world's coffee beans (2 Dec 2004)
Four Infineon execs heading to jail on price-fixing charges (2 Dec 2004)
Dynamite in the Center of Town: Thousands died in Bhopal (2 Dec 2004)
EARLY DAY MOTION IN UK PARLIAMENT: GOVERNMENT URGED TO INVESTIGATE BIG ACCOUNTANCY FIRMS, BANKS AND LAW FIRMS FOR PEDDLING TAX AVOIDANCE SCHEMES (2 Dec 2004)
EARLY DAY MOTION IN UK PARLIAMENT: GOVERNMENT URGED TO TARGET TAX DODGING COMPANIES (2 Dec 2004)
UK government faces review over BAE bribery (2 Dec 2004)
Courts shoppers lose out due to insolvency (2 Dec 2004)
OECD Reviews Progress in the Worldwide Fight Against Corruption (1 Dec 2004)
UK Audit office investigates PFI profit distribution (1 Dec 2004)
China Aviation Oil loses $550 million on derivatives speculation (1 Dec 2004)
Exposure Draft for the UK Operrating and Financial Review (OFR) (1 Dec 2004)

NOVEMBER 2004

Private finance deals (PFI) in public services have led to staggering corporate profits (30 Nov 2004)
Pension hit adds to woes at Severn Trent (30 Nov 2004)
Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election (30 Nov 2004)
Lessons learnt from Enron (30 Nov 2004)
Courts furniture chain collapses (30 Nov 2004)
New York judge rejects apartheid case against more than 30 companies including IBM, NatWest, Barclays and BP (30 Nov 2004)
Yes Car pair agree to settlement (30 Nov 2004)
£20,000 fine for the UK insurance boss who broke rules (30 Nov 2004)
Pension scheme implications for UK insurer's capital requirements (29 Nov 2004)
Calling time on corporate accountability (29 Nov 2004)
World 'failed' Bhopal gas victims (29 Nov 2004)
MyTravel appeals against FSA fine and allegations (27 Nov 2004)
It's a mad house: UK judges want tax exemptions with threats of Mass resignation (27 Nov 2004)
One law for the rich .....: anger as UK government sneaks in pension gift for judges (27 Nov 2004)
Time to can the UK film subsidies: £2bn loophole needs to be closed (27 Nov 2004)
New rules for UK audits watered down by lobbyists (26 Nov 2004)
UK Firms failing workers over safety (26 Nov 2004)
CSFB exec 'behind at least 19 leaks' (26 Nov 2004)
UK competition authority urged to look at supermarkets (26 Nov 2004)
Pressure group calls for inquiry into UK market domination by big four supermarkets (26 Nov 2004)
Repay taxpayers' £95 million cash, UK union tells Ford (25 Nov 2004)
Serious allegations about the behaviour of America's Food and Drug Administration are adding to the mounting woes of big drug firms (25 Nov 2004)
UK Firms failing workers over safety (25 Nov 2004)
Clouds on the Organic Horizon (25 Nov 2004)
Almost 90 per cent of the foreign enterprises in China are making money under the table (25 Nov 2004)
UK Independent financial advisers are avoiding selling private pensions to those on low incomes (25 Nov 2004)
Impregilo Shares Sink on False Accounting Probe News (25 Nov 2004)
Blueberry growers claim price-fixing; Kona coffee crop hurt by storms (25 Nov 2004)
Suspect Impregilo accounts (audited by Ernst & Young) raise fears of new Italian scandal (25 Nov 2004)
IMPREGILO SUSPENDED FOR EXCESSIVE FALL (24 Nov 2004)
Tax and a tale of modern morality (24 Nov 2004)
Whose lawyer are you now? When clients can be charged with obstruction for lying to their own counsel, the lines become blurred (24 Nov 2004)
MyTravel rescue package approved (24 Nov 2004)
Smoking killed almost five million people around the world in 2000 (24 Nov 2004)
Investors sue Deutsche Telekom (24 Nov 2004)
Foreign firms 'hyped job claims' to secure public subsidies (24 Nov 2004)
FORMER BAYER AG EXECUTIVE AGREES TO PLEAD GUILTY TO INTERNATIONAL RUBBER CHEMICALS PRICE FIXING CONSPIRACY (23 Nov 2004)
Better Governance and Reporting Under Sarbanes-Oxley: Are we There Yet? (23 Nov 2004)
Whistleblower Complaints Are Up, but Why? (23 Nov 2004)
Severn Trent denies charging too much (23 Nov 2004)
Provident faces claim from Yes Car founders (22 Nov 2004)
Sugar reform may hit poor nations, says Oxfam (22 Nov 2004)
Nearly 12 million Britons use alcohol to "self medicate" to relieve symptoms of depression (22 Nov 2004)
Big business brought to book (21 Nov 2004)
UK Water giant Severn Trent accused of £75m accounting fraud (21 Nov 2004)
The inside story of Parmalat, the biggest, most brazen corporate fraud in European history (21 Nov 2004)
UK Phone giants face massive lawsuits (21 Nov 2004)
Shares deal inquiry at Commerzbank (21 Nov 2004)
Canadian Regulators halt insider trading at MDC Partners amid accounting problems (20 Nov 2004)
Drug firms hit by safety fears (20 Nov 2004)
Citigroup probe into Arafat accounts (19 Nov 2004)
Lady Black thrown off Hollinger board (19 Nov 2004)
Ireland Revenue launches major investigation into tax fraud by the insurance industry (19 Nov 2004)
BBC finds evidence of corruption by companies doing business with Iraq while it was under the sanctions regime (19 Nov 2004)
Hollinger Inc blow for Black (19 Nov 2004)
APW to axe final salary pension (19 Nov 2004)
'80% of UK final pay pension schemes at risk' (19 Nov 2004)
Microsoft accused systematically destroying company documents to frustrate legal action brought against it (18 Nov 2004)
Canadian Fund companies to pay $200M to settle market timing allegations (18 Nov 2004)
Tories' privatisation adviser struck off (18 Nov 2004)
Big rise in number of children given mind-altering drugs (18 Nov 2004)
Bosses of UK's 'worst company' are banned (17 Nov 2004)
Cooking the Insurance Books: A Decade of Lax Regulation Lays Groundwork for Scandal (17 Nov 2004)
US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Hearings on the Insurance Brokerage Industry (17 Nov 2004)

Spitzer calls on US Congress to dig deeper into insurance industry (17 Nov 2004)
TWO MORE INSURANCE UNDERWRITERS PLEAD GUILTY (17 Nov 2004)
Two employees of Zurich Financial Services (ZFS) have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in connection with a price-fixing probe in the United States (17 Nov 2004)
Insurance price-fixing - how far will probe go? (17 Nov 2004)
Bribery rules too tough for Rolls, Airbus and BAE (17 Nov 2004)
21,500 people over the age of 65 died during cold weather in England and Wales in 2003 (16 Nov 2004)
Betrayal on 'free' cash machines (16 Nov 2004)
Consumers are being ripped off by Northern Ireland's four biggest banks (16 Nov 2004)
20 years on - Bhopal 'faces risk of poisoning' (16 Nov 2004)
UK workers persuaded to switch from a State pension scheme to a private plan have been told they could be better off changing back (15 Nov 2004)
SEC FILES FRAUD CHARGES AGAINST CONRAD BLACK, F. DAVID RADLER AND HOLLINGER INC (15 Nov 2004)
SEC, Spitzer probing 'finite' insurance: Ace subpoenaed over income-smoothing products (15 Nov 2004)
Lord Black is charged with fraud (15 Nov 2004)
Insurance Scheme Rigged Bids (14 Nov 2004)
Deloitte report on shaky MG Rover (14 Nov 2004)
UK employers'fury at proposed new law on workplace deaths (14 Nov 2004)
BAE implicated in bribery allegations has leading politicians as non-executive directors (14 Nov 2004)
Rover chiefs attacked for 'disgusting' salaries (13 Nov 2004)
New York Attorney General sues Universal Life Resources Inc. for receiving much of its revenues from special "payoffs" (13 Nov 2004)
California insurance broker Universal Life Resources sued by New York Attorney General for taking kickbacks (13 Nov 2004)
800 jobs lost by Dyson founder collects record £17 million dividend (13 Nov 2004)
UK regulator loses credit card fight (13 Nov 2004)
Stockbroker Evolution Beeson Gregory fined £500,000 for market distortion (13 Nov 2004)
UK fines premium dial firms (12 Nov 2004)
Kuwait Documents Allege Halliburton Bribe Scandal (11 Nov 2004)
The West is no less corrupt (11 Nov 2004)
FTSE100 women FDs cut to three (11 Nov 2004)
Hollinger inquiry costs soar (11 Nov 2004)
UK watchdog to cut credit card fees (11 Nov 2004)
Retailers and their customers face unduly high fees when using MasterCards (11 Nov 2004)
Tobacco giant hid harmful research (11 Nov 2004)
UK regulator fines for double glazing product price fixing (10 Nov 2004)
PPP schemes have little to offer taxpayers (9 Nov 2004)
Diageo fights dirty cash claim (9 Nov 2004)
Microsoft pays $536m (£289m) to Novell to resolve a long-standing lawsuit over alleged anti-competitive practices (9 Nov 2004)
New bribes scandal at Halliburton (9 Nov 2004)
UK investigations into the Accident Group continue (9 Nov 2004)
Snared by a loan with 300% charge (9 Nov 2004)
£1.7 million Fines for UK double glazing product price fixing (9 Nov 2004)
UK Double glazing price fixing smashed (9 Nov 2004)
Colombia is suing some of the world's biggest spirits firms, such as the UK's Diageo and France's Pernod Ricard, for allegedly selling to drug traffickers (8 Nov 2004)
Pepper Hamilton Hit With Massive 'conflict of interest' Malpractice Suit (9 Nov 2004)
Revelation, chapter one (8 Nov 2004)
Fraud rife across corporate Australia (8 Nov 2004)
Jarvis axed from £92m school deal (8 Nov 2004)
Most people in Britain earn less than £19,000 a year (8 Nov 2004)
Top 100 UK firms give less than 1% of profits to charity (8 Nov 2004)
UK electricity suppliers 'too complacent' when estimating customers' bills (8 Nov 2004)
Colombia sues Diageo over 'bribes' (7 Nov 2004)
BAE flies into storm over Saudi 'slush fund' (7 Nov 2004)
UK government is putting the interests of business before tackling climate change (7 Nov 2004)
About 40 per cent of the total increase in income between 1979 and 2003 went into the pockets of the top 10 per cent of Britain's earners (7 Nov 2004)
Britain's tax burden is relatively low as a proportion of GDP compared to other European countries (7 Nov 2004)
Revealed: GlaxoSmithKline secret plan to push'happy' pills (7 Nov 2004)
High-handed action by civil servants is stifling the public's right to hear of corporate misdemeanours (7 Nov 2004)
Vodafone Ireland admits multi-million overcharge (6 Nov 2004)
Merck knew that its blockbuster painkiller Vioxx was causing thousands of heart attacks and deaths, but kept it on the market (5 Nov 2004)
The Invention of Operational risk (5 Nov 2004)
UK parliamentary committee launching a probe into cash machine charges (5 Nov 2004)
UK legislation not specify any indicators for the Operating and Financial Review (4 Nov 2004)
CBI dream a nightmare, says TUC (4 Nov 2004)
UK Garages 'letting down car owners' (4 Nov 2004)
Enron and Merrill Lynch staff face jail (4 Nov 2004)
Bondholders' fury over MyTravel plan (4 Nov 2004)
BAE denies it is target of probe (4 Nov 2004)
Dismay at BAE as fraud office comes calling (4 Nov 2004)
Two arrested after police raids in BAE investigation (4 Nov 2004)
Police raids rock BAE Systems (3 Nov 2004)
Citigroup: Parmalat Claims ''Unfounded'' (2 Nov 2004)
Indian farmers spraying cotton and chilli fields with Coca-Cola to keep them free from bugs (2 Nov 2004)
4.8 million Brits facing pensions poverty (2 Nov 2004)
3,500 Britons died in 2002-03 as a result of exposure to asbestos fibres (2 Nov 2004)
Asbestos claims in the UK could reach £20bn (2 Nov 2004)
Merck may have covered up evidence linking its painkiller Vioxx to heart attacks and strokes (2 Nov 2004)
About 40% - or 4.5 million - of Britain's children live in families where at least one parent regularly works at the weekend (2 Nov 2004)
THREE in every five UK workers suffers from stress at work (2 Nov 2004)
UK Consultation on implementing EU prospectus directive (2 Nov 2004)
Marconi boss leaves with £7m share deal (2 Nov 2004)
UK urged to join US insurance action (1 Nov 2004)
Silence please - corporations at work: City investors are urged to tone down protests (1 Nov 2004)
20,000 lose their jobs but Marconi CEO gets £8m pay-off (1 Nov 2004)
Failures of privatisation: UK has too many water companies (1 Nov 2004)

OCTOBER 2004

Some reflections on morality of accountants, bankers and lawyers (31 Oct 2004)
Time for politicians to take back power (31 Oct 2004)
Auditors cast doubt on Rover's Chinese bail-out (31 Oct 2004)
REVOLVING DOORS: Treasury star joins KPMG (31 Oct 2004)
The economy is founded on the biggest casino of all - the stock exchange (31 Oct 2004)
Murdoch betting coup on the cards (31 Oct 2004)
Stress becomes the No 1 complaint of British workers (31 Oct 2004)

Stress case studies (31 Oct 2004)

INSURANCE RIVALS CLOSE IN ON MARSH & MCLENNAN (30 Oct 2004)
Cheney oil firm faces UK inquiry (30 Oct 2004)
British lawyer may have handled cash in oil investigation (30 Oct 2004)
Calls for changes to Credit rules to stop 'extortionate' loans (30 Oct 2004)
FBI 'studying Halliburton deals' (30 Oct 2004)
Britain is haven for money laundering, says report (30 Oct 2004)
SECis investigating allegations that German automaker DaimlerChrysler AG maintained at least 40 secret bank accounts to bribe foreign government officials (29 Oct 2004)
272,000 adults in the UK receiving less than the minimum wage (29 Nov 2004)
UK Ministers waive new corruption rules for industry (29 Oct 2004)
London 'a haven' for money launderers (29 Oct 2004)
Corruption and Money Laundering in the UK (33 page PDF file) (29 Oct 2004)
Some insurance companies to disclose commissions and secret contingent payments (29 Oct 2004)
EU Proposals Target Accounting Scandals (29 Oct 2004)
EU Commission proposes collective board responsibility and more disclosure on transactions, off-balance sheet vehicles and corporate governance (29 Oct 2004)
European Commission proposal for amending the Accounting Directives - Frequently Asked Questions (29 Oct 2004)
FSA publishes consultation paper on International Accounting Standards (29 Oct 2004)
FSA publishes consultation paper on International Accounting Standards (29 Oct 2004)
Court frees UK couple from loan debt that soared from £5,750 to £384,000 (29 Oct 2004)
Reorganisation pushes Sun Life Profits (28 Oct 2004)
Shell to scrap twin board structure (28 Oct 2004)
Profits rise as Shell unites board (28 Oct 2004)
UK regulator to meet New York Attorney-General to discuss the insurance scandal (28 Oct 2004)
Corporate Abuses: Insurance bonuses rampant (28 Oct 2004)
Governments for Hire: Accountancy donors rally behind Bush campaign (28 Oct 2004)
US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS EXPECTED TO COST NEARLY $4 BILLION (28 Oct 2004)
UK School meals fail salt and fat tests (28 Oct 2004)
Cracking the Insurance Biz Wide Open (28 Oct 2004)
Big western oil companies’ record profits may be masking future problems (28 Oct 2004)
UK Energy firms slammed over bills (27 Oct 2004)
Civil lawsuits mount against brokers accused of bid-rigging (27 Oct 2004)
Joe Bloggs founder to face trial for conspiracy (27 Oct 2004)
Insurance scandal: Marsh & McLennan will pay customers back (27 Oct 2004)
Citigroup fined $250K in hedge fund case (26 Oct 2004)
UK Directors scorn code to combat corporate crime (26 Oct 2004)
Sainsbury's 0% card defies UK legislative probe (26 Oct 2004)
How a bank loan of £5,750 grew to £384,000 (26 Oct 2004)
Insurance brokers are paid secret commissions (26 Oct 2004)
What Cheney did at Halliburton (26 Oct 2004)
Demands to end gender pay gap in the UK (26 Oct 2004)
CITY lawyer hounded out of job after accusing Merrill Lynch of breaking financial rules (26 Oct 2004)
Aon likely to come under scrutiny in the insurance scandal (26 Oct 2004)
Sun Life Financial to review its sales commission practices (26 Oct 2004)
U.S. probe stirs Canadian insurance market (25 Oct 2004)
Rethink over UK money laundering rules (25 Oct 2004)
ICAEW green report attacked by environmentalists (25 Oct 2004)
US insurance investigation widens (25 Oct 2004)
Lakshmi Mittal becomes Britain's best paid boss by awarding himself a £1billion bonus (25 Oct 2004)
Richard Desmond, the owner of Express Newspapers, paid himself £46.2m last year (25 Oct 2004)
The corporation is a rapacious and immoral creature (24 Oct 2004)
Lord Lang, former UK trade and industry secretary, embrolied in the US insurance scandal (24 Oct 2004)
Taxing the Boundaries of Corporate Social Reporting (23 Oct 2004)
SEC EYEBALLS EX-CITIGROUP EXECS (23 Oct 2004)
EMI and three big record companies subpoenaed by New York Attorney General (23 Oct 2004)
Charges possible in SEC inquiry into transactions at Citigroup (23 Oct 2004)
Warning over US insurance scandal (23 Oct 2004)
New York state attorney general is investigating the music industry's practices for influencing which songs are played on the radio (23 Oct 2004)
UK Minimum wage 'should rise to £7' (22 Oct 2004)
The Insurance Scandal: Just How Rotten? (22 Oct 2004)
Green gains £460m in Arcadia dividends (22 Oct 2004)