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Anti-corruption body slams major export countries
in Sox First, on June 25, 2009
...arency International has condemned some of the world's biggest exporters for failing to tackle bribery corruption. In its latest report , the anti-corruption body said some of the world's w...
Swine flu and crime
in Sox First, on June 10, 2009
...s interim director general for health, safety and the environment has told Time Magazine that the fallout could be devastating with panic setting in and the "worried well" pouring into hos...
Employee disengagement in a recession
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...th more companies cutting costs, and cutting down on engagement strategies, we can expect a massive fallout and lots of pissed off employees....
Here we go again
in The CIO Weblog, on April 6, 2009
... company.
My guess is that this will take something of the same path that the Yahoo/Microsoft deal fallout took. Investors will rebel, executives will be shuffled, and negotiators will be back at the...
Giving banks permission to lie
in Sox First, on April 4, 2009
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More fallout from the Financial Accounting Standard Board's latest attempt to make the banks happy. From now on, it should be called the Fake Accounting Standards Board. As Peter Schiff, the ...
The politics of AIG
in Sox First, on March 16, 2009
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The political fallout from the AIG bailout will be massive. With $165 million in US taxpayers' money going to pay executive bonuses, the Obama administration is bailing itself for a backlash. ...
Downturn hits democracy
in Sox First, on March 2, 2009
...ons typically threaten democracy via increased social unrest." Just another warning about the fallout from the economic crisis. The impact could spread well beyond the market. We have the lesson...
The Stanford-Madoff connection
in Sox First, on February 22, 2009
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With the fallout from the goings-on at the Stanford Financial Group, a clear and worrying pattern is emerging. Allen Stanford and Bernard Madoff are the first two big frauds that have come out of ...
Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
Implicit in the conflation of agile operations with fragile support is a requirement that your users have access to services which are at once flexible and scalable and which are also efficient for your business to provide. When you put those three words together, the next thing you come to is i...
Satyam stranger than fiction
in The CIO Weblog, on January 7, 2009
...my take on this on Friday, when that expanded entry is slated to go up.
In the meantime, expanding fallout available here on Techmeme....
Why smart investors fall for scams
in Sox First, on January 4, 2009
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The fallout from the Madoff scandal has left us with one important question: why do Smart People keep falling for financial pea and thimble tricks? Why do people with high IQs keep getting tak...
Madoff's insanity defense
in Sox First, on December 29, 2008
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The legal fallout over Bernard Madoff has taken a New turn with a judge ruling that Madoff must provide a list of all investments, lines of credit, loans, business interests, brokerage account...
Looking in the Mirror and Seeing Your Ethics Smiling Back at You
in Biz Plan Hacks, on December 29, 2008
...uker's Ethics of Prudence and declared it "timely" in light of recent events like the bribery scandal at Seimens and Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
I like Druker's complaint abo...
Madoff fallout continues to spread
in Sox First, on December 22, 2008
The shock waves set off by Bernard Madoff's $50 billion scam continue to reverberate with reports that the FBI is now diverting agents from its counter-terrorism divisions to focus on Madoff's fraud schemes. What's clear now is that you can't have a fraud of that size without s...
Fair Food Organization Is Latest Victim Of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme
in Exclusive from our news room , on December 17, 2008
...The cloud of fallout from the Bernard Madoff embezzlement scandal continues to widen as reports of fortunes and dreams lost pour into news bureaus.
It will take years to untangle this investor's ...
Hi-Res-Texture-Pack für Fallout 3
in Daily Gamer, on December 11, 2008
Fallout 3 macht schon von Haus aus eine gute Figur. Mit einem neuen Texture- pack , von einem bis dato unbekannten Modder sieht apokalyptische Welt noch ein Stück besser aus. Das Pack ist 400 MB groß und steigert die Grafikqualität von Fallout 3 enorm.
Dafür muss das Pack heruntergeladen werden...
Bribe payers index
in Sox First, on December 10, 2008
...rom those places will sling the odd bag of money if it suits them. Clearly, the attempts to rein in bribery are not completely successful....
Britain moves on bribery
in Sox First, on November 28, 2008
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Britain's bribery laws are finally set for an overhaul withe Law Commission bringing in a set of proposals that would make Britain's enforcement standards more like the US. Under the pr...
Merkel's attack
in Sox First, on November 27, 2008
...m tax cuts. As Spiegel notes, it's splitting her own party and causing all sorts of political fallout....
Profiting from prospecting
in The CIO Weblog, on November 25, 2008
In the Cloud Computing Gold Rush of '08, IBM has decided to play the storekeep rather than the prospector, and stick with the reliable business of selling pickaxes to all parties instead of grubbing around in the mud with all those hoping for a strike with the new business model.
Big Blue m...
The Siemens saga rolls on
in Sox First, on November 19, 2008
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The Siemens bribery saga rolls on with two former managers confessing their crimes and likely to receive suspended sentences. The pair took the illegal payments and established a secret accounting...
Siemens' bribery bill
in Sox First, on November 10, 2008
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How much does bribery cost a company? Siemens has announced it has set aside 1 billion Euros ($US1.3 billion) to settle the case with authorities in the United States and Germany. "The com...
Britain is a laggard on bribery
in Sox First, on October 27, 2008
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) working group on bribery has published a special review of the UK's record in fighting foreign bribery and it's not...
Entellium fallout
in The CIO Weblog, on October 9, 2008
...if we were going to see the first significant failure of a SaaS business and the subsequent ghastly fallout among customers who may lose both their software and their information in one fell swoop. Co...
BAE - more bribery allegations
in Sox First, on October 1, 2008
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Defense contractor BAE Systems is reeling from allegations that it was involved in bribery and corruption in relation to the Al-Yamamah arms contract with Saudi Arabia. As a result, the Financial...
Siemens, corruption and corporate social responsibility
in Sox First, on September 25, 2008
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The fallout from the Siemens saga continues with trials of two figures, including a former board member, now well under way, reports Deutsche Welle . Charges are around invoices for work that was...
Black Sunday fallout
in Sox First, on September 16, 2008
Wall Street's meltdown is likely to be a sign of things to come. The shock waves of what happened on Black Sunday will flow into 2009, writes Kathleen Madigan from Dow Jones . "US households are already under strain from falling house prices and incomes that haven't kept pace wit...
Vista fallout
in The CIO Weblog, on September 13, 2008
I don't want to make too much out of the information I am about to relay, but I do want to point it out as an example of the sort of detrimental effect that the badly botched release and subsequent handling of Windows vista is actually having on Microsoft. Too many Vista stories head imm...
Fannie and Freddie fallout
in Sox First, on September 9, 2008
So The Dow Jones gained nearly 300 points on the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Don't expect the party to last. Home loans are being foreclosed more than ever, growing at their fastest pace in three decades . Does anyone really think that saving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wil...
KBR bribery case goes deep
in Sox First, on September 5, 2008
The former chief executive of Halliburton spin-off US construction firm KBR, Albert Stanley, is facing seven years in the slammer after pleading guilty to charges of corruption relating to Nigerian deals, according to news reports . But this case could extend deep into Dick Cheney's old...
Fallout 3 in October!
in PCGamers Blog, on August 20, 2008
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Bethesda Softworks have today announced that their long awaited next game in the Fallout series, number 3, is set to be released on October the 31st. It's odd to me, I could've sworn I wa...
OECD slams Britain on failure to fix corruption
in Sox First, on August 18, 2008
...mic Co-operation and Development member-states slamming London's failure to deal with corporate bribery. The Financial Times reports it has seen a letter from the OECD's anti-bribery workin...
BAE and Mugabe
in Sox First, on August 5, 2008
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Only a few weeks ago, I did a blog entry on how the BAE-Saudi bribery scandal was getting worse. Just how much worse? Well, now we have the Financial Times reporting linking the armaments mak...
First Siemens conviction
in Sox First, on July 28, 2008
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The first Siemens manager has been convicted in the trial into the engineering group's bribery and corruption, according to the latest news . Reinhard Siekaczek (pictured above) has been giv...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fallout - the questions continue
in Sox First, on July 15, 2008
The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Max continue to raise questions. The US government's plan to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got the initial tick. The big investors supported a $US3 billion short term debt issue from Freddie Mac. But then things turned pear-shaped. Investors, worr...
BAE scandal widens
in Sox First, on July 11, 2008
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Arms dealer BAE might be vowing to clean up after the Saudi bribery scandal but trouble is not going away. Swiss authorities have expanded their investigations into BAE following allegations ...
Siemens charges
in Sox First, on July 3, 2008
...massive political upheaval in Greece. Just another sign that when companies are caught bribing, the fallout is extensive and doesn't just stop at the doors of the business. Meanwhile, a Si...
Prolifique Designer Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on July 2, 2008
...1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and Sadako and her family were exposed to the fallout at their home in Kusunoki-cho, about 1.7 km from the bomb's hypocenter. The blast blew h...
BAE vows to clean up
in Sox First, on June 30, 2008
...al standards in the wake of the Woolf Report into the company's ethics following allegations of bribery and corruption, and the Serious Fraud Office's controversial decision to abandon an inve...
Google and Yahoo Together
in The Search Engine Weblog, on June 26, 2008
...SearchEngineWatch's Kevin Ryan has a great post on the fallout of the recently announced partnership between Yahoo and Google. The deal that is supposed to have spurned the takeover bid from Micro...
Losing the anti-bribery fight
in Sox First, on June 24, 2008
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About 10 years after the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and it looks like the battle against corruption is going nowhere. According to a Transparency International report , has found that mor...
Siemens case expands
in Sox First, on June 20, 2008
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The Siemens bribery scandal gets wider and wider. Now we have reports that the bribe money was distributed through a German company owned by three banks. Needless to say, the banks have all...
Bear Stearns pair to face charges?
in Sox First, on June 17, 2008
...d Matthew tannin , now face the prospect of criminal charges, reports Bloomberg . Given the fallout from the battering the investment bank received in the spring after bad bets on high-risk mo...
BAE: The net closes
in Sox First, on June 5, 2008
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The intrigue surrounding the BAE-Saudi bribery scandal continues with the Financial Times reporting that a third man, BAE's business development director Alan Garwood has been issued wit...
Deutsche Telekom spying scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2008
...esident of the Association for Ethics in German Business told The Times . There will be a massive fallout from this case with politicians and privacy watchdogs calling for blood. More details from ...
Zeroing in on BAE
in Sox First, on May 22, 2008
The US Department of Justice is flexing its muscles with the unexpected detention of BAE chief executive Mike Turner and another executive at George Bush International Airport. The DOJ is investigation BAE for alleged corruption and if found guilty, the company could be forced to repay billions ...
Voice 2.0-Just Like Voice 1.0 With APIs
in The VoIP Weblog, on May 16, 2008
I remember reading Doug Mohney back in the days of Boardwarch , but have not been keeping up with him since then. But the VoIP Princess Carolyn Schuk brought to light some very relevant opinions from Doug related to Voice 2.0 :
[Jeff] Pulver wanted purple minutes, minutes of IP traffic part...
News from the FCPA front
in Sox First, on May 16, 2008
... reports that the US Justice Department has started targeting inidviduals, not just companies, for bribery and corruption. This is quite strategic. It not only puts the heat on individuals, but it al...
Global corruption on the rise
in Sox First, on May 14, 2008
... which shows that one in four executives around the world has experienced at least one incident of bribery or corruption in the last two years and 23 per cent admitted their organisation had been app...
Siemens: from bad to worse
in Sox First, on May 1, 2008
...ngs are sliding , down 67 per cent, because of project delays, cancellations and costs flowing the bribery investigation. Siemens latest woes coincide with a report from international law firm De...
Daly and Harmon. Again.
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 30, 2008
I tell ya, the more I read about John Daly, the more I really believe we're watching the man wash himself away week by week.
The latest kafuffle involves Daly and his former swing coach, Butch Harmon. Harmon gave up on Daly after Big John was spotted drinking in the hooters hospital...
BAE-Saudi appeal
in Sox First, on April 24, 2008
... ruling in London overturning the British government decision to drop an investigation into alleged bribery and corruption in a major deal between arms maker BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia. Now we have...
IBM suspension fallout
in Sox First, on April 22, 2008
...have lifted a week-old suspension of IBM from seeking new federal IT work but the shock waves and fallout from this case will continue. IBM is not out of the wars yet. It still faces an investigatio...
No Fallout 3 Demo...
in PCGamers Blog, on April 22, 2008
... off by letting them play a trial of the game. Hopefully this is not the case with the long awaited Fallout 3, as Bethesda have been telling people that there will be no demo for the game, apparently ...
Samsung chief indicted
in Sox First, on April 17, 2008
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In the past, I have looked at Samsung's bribery scandal and allegations that samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee set up a $225 million slush fund to buy art for his art museum director wife. ...
Siemens saga rolls on
in Sox First, on April 15, 2008
...proof of that with The Wall Street Journal reporting that German prosecutors have broadened their bribery investigation to include the power transmission business and warning that other units of Sie...
SocGen rogue trader sues bank
in Sox First, on April 3, 2008
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The fallout from the Société Générale trading scandal grows stranger and stranger. Jérôme Kerviel, the rogue trader who ran up losing Société Générale €5 billion ($7 billion) in losses is now sui...
Class actions rise: more to come
in Sox First, on April 2, 2008
...n, we can expect the number of class actions to increase. The question is what impact the subprime fallout will have on these figures. It will make it worse. As Kevin LaCroix points out in D&O D...
The Bear Stearns fallout and a solution
in Sox First, on March 27, 2008
If the Fed thought orchestrating the sale of Bear Stearns to JP Morgan for a bargain basement price would make the problem go away, it was dead wrong. The shockwaves from the US-government backed sale continue with the Senate launching a probe into how much risk it creates for the taxpayer, repo...
Fallout 3 to be Epic
in PCGamers Blog, on March 25, 2008
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Bethesda head has been talking to OXM about the upcomming fallout 3 , and he has revealed that the game is going to be absolutely epic in scale, with talk of over 100 hours of gameplay, and...
More Siemens woes
in Sox First, on March 20, 2008
...period for Siemens' new boss Peter Löscher. He is trying to clean up the company following the bribery scandal but has been forced to issue a surprise profit warning because of delays to project...
The Siemens clean up
in Sox First, on March 6, 2008
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Siemens says it's making progress rooting out corrupt practices in the fall-out from its bribery scandal. Siemens general counsel Peter Solmssen has told The Wall Street Journal that a speci...
Daimler's new compliance officer
in Sox First, on February 20, 2008
...act. It might have taken two years but better late than never. But it does go to show that foreign bribery allegations are going to become more of a problem for companies right around the world. Ther...
Société Générale fallout: who's next?
in Sox First, on February 18, 2008
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The fallout from the Société Générale implosion continues. Bloomberg reports that Standard & Poor's has downgraded the bank's long-term counterparty credit rating cut one level...
Saudi and BAE threats: drop the corruption probe
in Sox First, on February 15, 2008
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The BAE bribery scandal grows grubbier by the day. As the Guardian reports, secret files show that Saudi Arabia's rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to pull off anothe...
BAE-Bandar blues
in Sox First, on February 12, 2008
...di Arabia , the former Saudi ambassador to the US, has been one of the key figures in the BAE-Saudi bribery scandal. One of the biggest allegations was that Britain's Ministry of Defense knew of a...
FCPA prosecutions to increase
in Sox First, on February 8, 2008
...ommission. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is now updating its 1997 anti-bribery convention. That should be completed in March. But most European companies remain either un...
The BAE makeover
in Sox First, on February 1, 2008
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BAE - it might stand for Bribery Allegations Everywhere - has been pilloried for secretly paying Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia more than £1bn ($US1.98 billion) in connection with Britain's bigg...
Société Générale mystery and fallout
in Sox First, on January 26, 2008
French investigators might now be looking into how rogue trader Jerome Kerviel ran up billions of dollars in losses at Société Générale but there are broader questions to answer at Société Générale and European banks in general. Like how many people actually knew what was going on. Was K...
