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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has identified a website which it says is fraudulent and a fake of a real bank's online presence. Of itself, that's not especially rare. But this one is different: the name of the site is in Chinese characters an...
The Risk Professional: USA reaches 100 failed banks so far in 2010
The USA's secret banking crisis continues. Small banks are failing by the handful. More than 100 have failed so far this year and the dubious accolade of being the 100th falls to the first to fail this year in Kansas - Thunder Bank which was lit...
The Risk Professional: Anti Iran sanctions bite in unexpected ways
The latest round of United Nations sanctions is biting in ways that were not obvious when they were put into force. UPDATE: IRAN STATEMENT: reports are "false."
The Risk Professional: to travel or not to travel, that is the question
It's a basic policy that many boards follow - most of the time. Don't all or most of the senior management on the same train, plane or bus. But in the week when Poland faces elections after its president took senior members of government and gov...
The Risk Professional: Turkey's international aspirations
What has happened to Turkey? After decades - perhaps even a century - of being irrelevant on the international stage, it has suddenly leapt into a position of being far more than a floating voter. It is now taking an active part in international...
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. So goes the playground mantra. With governments lining up to criticise Israel...
The Risk Professional: capture of bomb suspect - success or failure?
As Emirates flight pushed back ready to leave New York for Dubai, Faisal Shahzad, settled back into his seat. He had escaped the USA having plant...
Risk Professional: Puerto Rico suffers rush of bank failures
One might imagine that the island of Puerto Rico, which is often seen as the 50th-and-a-half state of the USA would have suffered badly in the fi...
Risk Professional: Has the SEC spooked markets to protect its own reputation?
The news that the USA's Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a civil action, alleging fraud, against Goldman Sachs is, of itself, no big...
Risk Professional: USA hits 50 failed banks so far this year
As of 16th April 2010, the USA authorities have closed 50 banks so far this year. Many are small. And amongst those closed on 16th April is the f...
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