All Europe articles – Page 49
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ACC opens new Europe headquarters in Brussels
The Association of Corporate Counsel, a global legal association representing more than 45,000 in-house counsel employed by over 10,000 organizations in 85 countries, has opened its first office in Brussels. It will serve as the nucleus of ACC in Europe, led by new managing director Giuseppe Marletta.
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SFO faces criticism for closing Rolls-Royce, GSK cases
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office closed two long-running bribery and corruption cases against Rolls-Royce and GlaxoSmithKline—a decision that casts further doubt around the effectiveness of the SFO’s investigatory powers and makes companies question the purpose of entering a deferred prosecution agreement at all.
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U.K. committee slams Facebook as chief visits Zuckerberg
Facebook behaves like a “digital gangster,” has deliberately broken privacy and competition law, and should be subject to statutory regulation urgently, according to a U.K. parliamentary report.
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BlogE3 moves to circumvent U.S. sanctions on Iran
The E3 has set up a special trade channel designed to allow companies in the European Union to circumvent U.S. sanctions in an effort to continue humanitarian trade with Iran.
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EBA investigation linked to AML activities at Danske Bank
The European Banking Authority is formally investigating a possible breach of Union law by the Financial Services Authorities of Estonia and Denmark in connection to the Danske Bank money-laundering scandal.
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Danske Bank under investigation in France over money-laundering saga
For a second time, Danske Bank is under investigation in France for suspected money-laundering transactions worth €21.6 million (U.S. $24.4 million) committed between 2007 and 2014.
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ArticlePrison time for U.K. bosses who botch pension scheme management
The U.K. government says those executives who mismanage company pension schemes could face a jail sentence of up to seven years.
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ArticleEU expands controversial AML country blacklist
The European Commission adopted its proposed new blacklist of countries that it has identified as having significant deficiencies in their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regimes.
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Big Four: Please don’t break us up
An in-depth look at responses to the Competition and Markets Authority proposals to reform the U.K. audit market.
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Privacy violations surge despite Europe’s tougher regs
A steep uptick in potential privacy violations has hit Europe, eight months after it issued stringent data privacy regulations.
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BlogSFO: Former Petrofac executive pleads guilty in bribery case
A former executive of Petrofac pleaded guilty this week to bribery offenses in connection with an ongoing investigation by the U.K. Serious Fraud Office into the oilfield services company and its subsidiaries.
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New rules would make setting up a company in the EU easier
EU co-legislators agreed this week on new rules to facilitate establishing businesses electronically and promote online operations throughout a company’s lifecycle. The new rules aim to save companies time and money, while increasing safeguards against fraud and abusive behaviour through online identity checks.
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New system opens up EU business trade with Iran
The United Kingdom, Germany, and France have created a new payments system to allow European businesses to trade with Iran without falling foul of U.S. sanctions.
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Little external audit improvement post-Carillion collapse
Only half of U.K. company secretaries feel that the level of service their organisations get from their external auditor has improved in the wake of the Carillion crisis and other corporate governance scandals.
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U.K.’s top ethical lapses in 2018
The Institute of Business Ethics has recorded which industries had the most negative news coverage in the past year.
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World Bank debars Odebrecht subsidiary
The World Bank has imposed a three-year debarment on Brazil-based construction and engineering company Construtora Norberto Odebrecht for fraudulent and collusive practices during its participation in the World Bank-financed Río Bogotá Environmental Recuperation and Flood Control Project in Colombia.
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Two new members added to SFO senior management team
Following an open competition, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office has appointed two new members to its senior management team: a chief intelligence officer and a new head of corporate services.
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Muddled DPA outcome for Tesco accounting fraud scandal
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office has released details of the deferred prosecution agreement it struck with Tesco—on the same day the supermarket chain’s former finance director accused of the accounting fraud was acquitted.
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EU fines Mastercard $648M for anticompetitive behavior
The European Commission on 22 January 2019 fined Mastercard 570.6 million euros (U.S. $648 million) for anticompetitive behavior, in breach of EU antitrust rules.
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French data regulator fines Google under GDPR
France’s data protection regulator recently slapped Google with a substantial €50 million (U.S. $57 million) fine for failing to provide users with clear, accurate, and informative details on its data use policies.