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DECEMBER 2006

Overpaid Fat Cats: Bosses must win or walk the plank (31 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: Splits scandal boss pockets £4.5m in pay and bonuses (31 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: Sea Containers paid bosses £1m despite collapsing into Chapter 11 bankruptcy (31 Dec 2006)
Exxon Mobil Corp. has agreed to supply details on its business ties with firms that advise it on executive pay (31 Dec 2006)
GE to disclose all business with compensation advisers (31 Dec 2006)
Mixed signals cloud pension funds crisis (31 Dec 2006)
UK Pension fund deficits for the FTSE100 stand at £39.9 billion at the end of 2006, down by £20.5 billion (31 Dec 2006)
Pension deficits decline in 2006: Current FTSE 100 pension deficit is £38 billion (31 Dec 2006)
Total deficit for the final salary pension plans of the UK’s top 100 companiesis currently £38 billion (31 Dec 2006)
Pensions: Smoking ban is £10bn drag for employers (31 Dec 2006)
Vantis - another name for the hall of tax avoidance shame? (30 Dec 2006)
Using tax subsidies to promote discrimination - the Heritage Foundation exposed (30 Dec 2006)
Booms, bonuses and bankruptcy (30 De 2006)
Fat Cats: Gambling group ups pay despite slump in share price (30 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: Contrast the Government's Attitudes to City Bonuses and the Unemployed (30 Dec 2006)
UK average house price passing £150,000 for the first time (30 Dec 2006)
Apple to take $84 mln charge to correct options accounting (30 Dec 2006)
Apple has cleared chief executive of misconduct into backdating stock-option grants (30 Dec 2006)
Apple chief could still face SEC investigation over options (30 Dec 2006)
Apple admits board minutes were falsified over Jobs options (30 Dec 2006
Poverty and Inequality: £1.4 billion record amount of personal debtwritten off in the UK (29 Dec 2006)
CEOs should not be paid for risks they do not bear (29 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: 'Growing pay gap harming companies' (29 Dec 2006)

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BRITAIN'S biggest earners often move abroad or keep money in offshore accounts, avoiding paying tax (29 Dec 2006)
Nuclear stations to close as costs of safety checks mount (29 Dec 2006)
True cost of UK pension pledges put at £440bn (29 Dec 2006)
The UK public sector pension burden (28 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: UK Top bosses' salaries 'race away' (28 Dec 2006)
UK Executive 'fat cats' double their pay as staff salaries barely increase, says TUC (28 Dec 2006)
Fat cat bosses pile on the pounds (28 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: Time for a national debate about top pay (28 Dec 2006)
US Executive pay restraint sought (28 Dec 2006)
UK Food agency takes on industry over junk labels (28 Dec 2006)
Combined pension deficits of FTSE 100 firms shrank by a £20.5bn in 2006 (27 Dec 2006)
The rise and rise of private equity and hedge funds (27 Dec 2006)
Tax Dodgers: At least the super-rich will vote for New Labour (24 Dec 2006)
Farepak victims in plan to sue parent company's directors (24 Dec 2006)
Little Chef chain fights to stave off bankruptcy (24 Dec 2006)
UK Government consultants are making profits margins double those made in typical private sector contracts (24 Dec 2006)
Corruption: Siemens boss ‘knew about bribes three years ago’(24 Dec 2006)
Corruption: City attacks ending of BAE probe (24 Dec 2006)
Governments for Sale: Labour MP asks police to probe Blair loan accounts (24 Dec 2006)
Britain's high street banks have been approached by the Government to help the poor (24 Dec 2006)
Samsung Electronics executive pleads guilty in price-fixing scheme (23 Dec 2006)
Price Fixing: Woolworths has been fined almost A$16 million this year (23 Dec 2006)
Fund manager raises alarm over dropping of BAE inquiry (23 Dec 2006)
US Court halves Exxon spill damages (23 Dec 2006)
UK MP campaigns against closure of bank branches (23 Dec 2006)
New York mayor launches attack on rip-off Britain (23 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: Bonanzas are bananas (23 Dec 2006)
Boost wage: Building prosperity on backs of working poor is wrong (23 Dec 2006)
Siemens Corruption Scandal Deepens (23 Dec 2006)
TheStar.com - Business - $499 million U.S offered to settle price-fixing case

BRISTOL-MYERS:$499 million U.S offered to settle price-fixing case (22 Dec 2006)
UK Companies rebel over doubling of pensions levy (22 Dec 2006)
After Shell, Russia now turns on BP (22 Dec 2006)
Russians: overworked and underpaid (22 Dec 2006)
UK Living costs outpace earnings but fats do nicely (22 Dec 2006)
Activist shareholders oust Spirent chairman (22 Dec 2006)
Stora accused of price fixing (21 Dec 2006)
Time to Tax Accountancy Bodies (21 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: Bank's £51m bonus king revealed (21 Dec 2006)
Broadband mis-selling 'targeted' (21 Dec 2006)
UK Junk food ad crackdown 'flawed' (21 Dec 2006)
Redcats fined in FSA blitz on mis-sold payment protection (21 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: Goldman boss poised to take pay record (20 Dec 2006)
United Utilities, supplying water and electiricty, risks fine over breach of rules (20 Dec 2006)
EU steps up legal proceedings against Ireland on cigarette pricing (20 Dec 2006)
Survey reveals that 99pc of UK final salary pension schemes had insufficient assets to meet their liabilities (20 Dec 2006)
Analysis on theUK defined benefit pension landscape published for the first time (20 Dec 2006)
A majority of the Uk final salary pension schemes, 58%, are closed to new members (20 Dec 2006)
After Farepak Xmas club firm to ring-fence savers' cash (20 Dec 2006)
Greece's Vivartia denies dairy price fixing claim (20 Dec 2006)
FSA begins insider dealing probe (20 Dec 2006)
FSA fines home shopping company £270,000 for Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) selling failures (20 Dec 2006)
Banks' £200m Christmas cash-in (19 Dec 2006)
FSA probes M&A 'insider' leaks (19 Dec 2006)
The net wealth of the nation's households has surged to £6.9 trillion but inequlaity is on the rise (19 Dec 2006)
Speculators Ahoy: As deal-making beats dotcom highs, has 'irrational exuberance' returned? (19 Dec 2006)
FINANCE AND THE FOURTH DIMENSION
Corruption: Ethics are dead. Long live BAE! (18 Dec 2006)
Debt-driven private equity houses face a tenfold increase in corporate defaults (18 Dec 2006)
Pearl mortgage endowment victims could be pressured into accepting reduced compensation for mis-selling claims (18 Dec 2006)
Fined for organic food con (18 Dec 2006)
UK threat to company pensions (18 Dec 2006)
BT pensions hole grows to £3.4bn (18 Dec 2006)
BT pension deficit hits £3.4 billion (18 Dec 2006)
Beware the 22,600% loans (17 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: UK Politicians slam 'obscene' payouts at Goldmans (17 Dec 2006)
Fact Cats: London's top bankers and hedge fund managers receive huge payouts (17 Dec 2006)
Wanton and distasteful, but the fat cat bonuses can't be stopped (17 Dec 2006)
Goldman Sachs speculators receive huge bonuses but its cleaners are paid £7.05 an hour, the equivalent of about £14,500 (16 Dec 2006)
Dirty business: cleaning up the Square Mile's mess (17 Dec 2006)
Fury grows over UK government move to end corruption and arms inquiry (17 Dec 2006)
UK facing isolation over BAE corruption probe surrender (17 Dec 2006)
Siemens' supervisory board chief won't step down amid corruption investigation (17 Dec 2006)
Corruption: Siemens the missing millions and the offshore links (17 Dec 2006)
Between £50m and £70m a year is claimed to have been channelled to the Abacha family by Siemens in the mid-1990s (17 Dec 2006)
Big Business Is Taking A Bite Out of Corporate Oversight (17 Dec 2006)
UK 'VAT fraud cost £14bn since 2001' (17 Dec 2006)
Ireland: Companies face massive bill for Vat-avoidance (17 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: Ousted Misys founder lands £1.5m payout (16 Dec 2006)
Chief executive of Morgan Stanley has been awarded a $40m (£20.5m) bonus (16 Dec 2006)
Puny financial penalty on PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for the Transtec audit (16 Dec 2006)
Corruption: Legal move over halted BAE probe by UK government (16 Dec 2006)
PM and attorney general offer different accounts of why BAE corruption probe was dropped (16 Dec 2006)
UK government has turned a blind eye to corporate misdemeanours too often (15 Dec 2006)
UK bank savers receive 'poor rate deal' (15 Dec 2006)
Banks squeeze borrowers (15 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: chief executive of Morgan Stanley has been awarded a $40m bonus (15 Dec 2006)
Vodafone fined £53m over Greek phone tapping affair (15 Dec 2006)
Governments for Sale: UK Police quiz Blair inside Downing St on peerages (15 Dec 2006)
Greenpeace lawyer prepares case against Shell (15 Dec 2006)
UK Government consultants not 'value for money' says NAO (15 Dec 2006)

Read the Full Report by the National Audit Office

UK 'National interest' halts BAE arms corruption inquiry (15 Dec 2006)
Timeline: BAE corruption probe (15 Dec 2006)
Corruption: UK Saudi defence deal probe ditched (15 Dec 2006)
UK government defends Saudi corruption probe ruling (15 Dec 2006)
Markets like corruption: BAE shares soar as probe ends (15 Dec 2006)
Cash for Dishonour: The background to the Saudi case is complex — the conclusion is unfortunate (15 Dec 2006)
Nokia and Siemens postpone merger over corruption investigation (15 Dec 2006)
Tired old ideas: Director Pay should link to performance, warns ABI (15 Dec 2006)
Asset Strippers: UK Mergers and acquisitions have topped a staggering $2.85 trillion (£1.45 trillion) in the last 12 months (15 Dec 2006)
GNER stripped of Rail franchise (15 Dec 2006)
GNER to surrender top train route (15 Dec 2006)
Austin Mitchell and Prem Sikka on pensions and poverty (14 Dec 2006)
Simple measures can solve the pensions crisis (14 Dec 2006)
They sweat, you shop (14 Dec 2006)
BP faces litigation over crude oil and gasoline price fixing (14 Dec 2006)
BP facing US civil action amid allegations that it was involved in manipulating the petrol market (14 Dec 2006)
They like public subsidies: Virgin lands billion-pound subsidy for west coast rail line (14 Dec 2006)
Rising scandal threatens to engulf Siemens' chairman (14 Dec 2006)
32Red breaches its banking covenants (14 Dec 2006)
Thousands of Brits taking out interest-only mortgages have no idea how they will repay their loan (14 Dec 2006)
US DoJ's New Corporate Crime Policy: Cuff the Cops Instead (14 Dec 2006)
FSA spells out long-term perils of interest-only mortgages (14 Dec 2006)
Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%' (14 Dec 2006)
City high flyers will spend their £8.4 billion in bonuses (14 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: A record year for banks has seen annual payouts reach unseen heights (14 Dec 2006)
Goldman Sachs chief executive lands pay packet of $34.5 million (14 Dec 2006)
Goldman cleaners protest on low pay (14 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: Goldman Sachs execs are expected to receive bonuses averaging £320,000 each (13 Dec 2006)
Goldman workers get £8.4bn in bonuses (13 Dec 2006)
Price-fixing claims hit TV giants (13 Dec 2006)
Corruption probe reaches ever higher at Siemens (13 Dec 2006)
Former Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling will immediately begin serving a 24-year prison (13 Dec 2006)
Americans who want to invest in hedge funds will need personal wealth of at least $2.5m (£1.3m) (13 Dec 2006)
UK Pension reform flawed, experts say (13 Dec 2006)
UK New pensions 'will fail millions' (13 Dec 2006)
Japan's fair trade commission investigates alleged price fixing by LG.Philips (12 Dec 2006)
S.Korea, U.S. investigating Samsung, LG.Philips over alleged price fixing (12 Dec 2006)
Banks are making billions of pounds each year from penalty charges (12 Dec 2006)
UK Plans for the automatic enrolment of workers into a new pension system are to be unveiled (12 Dec 2006)
UK National pension scheme is 'wishful thinking on a grand scale', say critics (12 Dec 2006)
Pensions: Personal accounts may leave poor out of pocket (12 Dec 2006)
UK Bosses set to slash workers' pensions (12 Dec 2006)
Fresh claims in US stock options scandal (12 Dec 2006)
SEC believes there is strong statistical evidence that executives have manipulated the exercise dates of their options as part of a tax dodge (12 Dec 2006)
Shareholder Class Action Filed Against TOP Tankers Inc. (12 Dec 2006)
Ex-Ahold Unit CFO Sentenced To 6 Months (12 Dec 2006)
£120m endowment mortgage crackdown (12 Dec 2006)
$20bn Shell gas project seized by Russia (12 Dec 2006)
Watchdog soft on 'chronically poor' UK postal service MPs say (12 Dec 2006)
Farepak victims in bank protest (12 Dec 2006)
Bank of England warns of mortgage woe (11 Dec 2006)
South Africa: EIGHT dairy processors, including Clover, Parmalat and Nestle, have been implicated in price fixing (11 Dec 2006)
Dairy firms face R100m fine in South Africa price fixing probe (11 Dec 2006)
Gender bias 'increases poverty' (11 Dec 2006)
UNICEF flagship report says gender equality benefits both women and children (11 Dec 2006)
uSwitch accused of misleading UK energy customers (11 Dec 2006)
No shame or guilt as Farepak bank hits back (11 Dec 2006)
A wage gap is emerging between new immigrants and UK-born workers (11 Dec 2006)
Farepak boss's disappearing act (10 Dec 2006)
Fat Cats: If only their firms grew as fast as their pay packets (10 Dec 2006)
Dubai ruler behind the £450m takeover bid for Liverpool FC is accused of being involved in trafficking children to race camels (10 Dec 2006)
Debt advice providers getting out of hand, say banks (10 Dec 2006)
Farepak boss's disappearing act (10 Dec 2006)
Split trust liquidator goes to High Court (10 Dec 2006)
EU to probe Universal's BMG deal (9 Dec 2006)
American economy under threat from stock options scandal (9 Dec 2006)
NVIDIA, AMD in hot water for potential price fixing (9 Dec 2006)
Farepak:Putting the vouch back into vouchers (9 Dec 2006)
Textile workers in Bangladesh get paid as little as five pence an hour to make cheap clothes for UK companies Tesco, Asda and Primark (8 Dec 2006)
An 80-hour week for 5p an hour: the real price of high-street fashion (8 Dec 2006)
Fashion Victims: ‘5p an hour women shame UK stores’ (8 Dec 2006)

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Tax Avoidance Pays: KPMG's £680,000-a-year partners round off Big Four's bumper year (8 Dec 2006)
The Failings of FRS17 and the Impact of Pensions on the UK Stock Market (8 Dec 2006)
Patients' vCJD risk 'substantial' (8 Dec 2006)
BP disaster site 'held together with band aids' (8 Dec 2006)
Renowned cancer scientist was paid by chemical firm for 20 years (8 Dec 2006)
HP pays $14.5m to end 'spy' probe (8 Dec 2006)
Warning over UK pensions shake-up (8 Dec 2006)
Lone Star's 2003 purchase of Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) for $1.5bn (£760m) was illegal (7 Dec 2006)
Four British companies fined more than £750,000 for breaking the rules of the European Union emissions trading scheme (7 Dec 2006)
Bribery and corruption: Pressure grows to resolve UK fraud inquiry into Saudi arms deals (7 Dec 2006)
HeidelbergCement, Rivals to Face Price-Fixing Charges Next Year (7 Dec 2006)
The global head of Lehman Brothers is to be paid an extra $186m (£95m) (7 Dec 2006)
UK carries on with state sell-off (7 Dec 2006)
Study shows PFI expansion will prove costly for patient care (7 Dec 2006)
Barclays suffers fresh setback in Enron case (7 Dec 2006)
UK government criticised over handling of alternatively secured pensions (ASPs) loophole (7 Dec 2006)
Smart investors never lose track of directors' dealings (7 Dec 2006)
Banned property firm took £10m (6 Dec 2006)
Tax Evaders: Multinationals are Selling the Country Short (6 Dec 2006)
NEC, Elpida Agree to Settle Price Fixing Claims for $51 Million (6 Dec 2006)
Lehman Brothers will pay chairman and chief executive an extra $186m (6 Dec 2006)
Richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of all household wealth (6 Dec 2006)
World wealth inequality (6 Dec 2006)

Read the Report: The World Distribution of Household Wealth

Increasing Corporate Damage Caused by Theft of Confidential Data and Attacks from Inside the Network (6 Dec 2006)
HSBC attacks UK insolvency law as bad debt levels continue to rise (6 Dec 2006)
No decent pension for employees but Stagecoach plans to return at least £400m to shareholders (6 Dec 2006)
Price Fixing: Football Fans may sue over shirt rip-off (5 Dec 2006)
Corruption: Saudi fury at slush fund claim threatens thousands of UK jobs (5 Dec 2006)
Your bill rises as gas prices fall (5 Dec 2006)
India`s rice harvest stunted by pollution (5 Dec 2006)
UK Banks hiding online fraud, say police (5 Dec 2006)
Stores are accused of telling porkies (5 Dec 2006)
Car supermarkets 'a rip-off' (5 Dec 2006)
Court fight over UK retirement law (5 Dec 2006)
Towns where families can't afford to buy a house (5 Dec 2006)
Call for gas inquiry as UK prices keep increasing (4 Dec 2006)
Estate agents are regarded as dishonest by the vast majority of adults (4 Dec 2006)
Turnover of finance directors in FTSE 100 companies continues to increase (4 Dec 2006)
Up to 90% of UK VAT carousel fraud money said to go through Dubai banks (4 Dec 2006)
Financial Services Authority (FSA) is failing to protect consumers adequately (4 Dec 2006)
Cities in double jeopardy from post office closures (4 Dec 2006)
The cost of living for many British households is up to four times the Government's published rate of inflation (4 Dec 2006)
Corruption: BAE Probe 'no threat'to £7bn jet deal (3 Dec 2006)
Corruption: Saudi arms row: bosses warn of jobs meltdown (3 Dec 2006)
Balfour rapped over rail delays (3 Dec 2006)
Friedman's unethical rot made wrongs into a right (3 Dec 2006)
Fayed and Harrods: keep it in the family? (3 Dec 2006)
Ethics debate booted about (3 Dec 2006)
Reform Employment Relationship Evolution, Financialisation, and Globalisation (3 Dec 2006)
Financialisation, strategy and governance: or what management has become (3 Dec 2006)
Consultancy Promises, Management Moves: Shareholder Value and Financialisation (3 Dec 2006)
Understanding Global Finance in the Process of Neoliberal Restructuring of the International Political Economy: The Reform of Pension Systems and the Role of Pension Funds in Post-Fordist Economies (3 Dec 2006)
Corporate Governance and the New Politics of Financialisation: Issues Raised by Sarbanes-Oxley (3 Dec 2006)
Low Pensions: Lives of thousands of UK elderly people are at risk because they cannot afford to heat their homes (2 Dec 2006)
UK's poorest pensioners are cutting back on food and heating (2 Dec 2006)
One third of Iraq rebuilding contracts under criminal investigation (2 Dec 2006)
DOJ subpoenas AMD, Nvidia in antitrust probe (2 Dec 2006)
UNI General Secretary hits out at private equity practices (2 Dec 2006)
WHO WRITES THE RULES FOR HOSTILE TAKEOVERS, AND WHY?— THE PECULIAR DIVERGENCE OF US AND UK
TAKEOVER REGULATION (2 Dec 2006)
Three guilty of identity fraud which netted millions (1 Dec 2006)
UK Pension overhaul 'boosts wealthy' (1 Dec 2006)
UK Families face debt crisis (1 Dec 2006)
SEC considers tightening legislation to combat financial advisers, including hedge fund managers, issuing false or misleading information to investors (1 Dec 2006)
AMD subpoenaed in price-fixing probe (1 Dec 2006)
They don't like punishment: Justice policy on corporate prosecutions under review in US (1 Dec 2006)
'He has given to the Farepak fund although he will not say how much. He feels he will be damned whatever he does' (1 Dec 2006)
Smokers in China cost the country at least 250 billion yuan (about 31 billion U.S. dollar) last year (1 Dec 2006)
Dow may appeal price-fixing fine (1 Dec 2006)

NOVEMBER 2006

Shortfall in Britain's company pension funds could be £175bn (30 Nov 2006)
Bank faces boycott over role in Farepak collapse (30 Nov 2006)
Ex-Tyco executive gets 3 years in prison for not reporting more than $170 million income (30 Nov 2006)
UK Government largely to blame for excess train leasing profits (30 Nov 2006)
UK Watchdog finally cracks down on doorstep lenders (30 Nov 2006)
Dilution of workers' pensions but Fayed family has received a £72m dividend from Harrods (30 Nov 2006)
THE UK APPROACH TO CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, - DO NOTHING (30 Nov 2006)
Pensions: UK MPs five times better off (30 Nov 2006)
UK Pensions Bill offers precious little for today’s older people (29 Nov 2006)
UK State pension age will rise to 68 (29 Nov 2006)
The UK pensions bill explained (30 Nov 2006)
European Commission has fined five oil and chemical companies £519m ($682m) for price-fixing (29 Nov 2006)
EU Commission fines producers and traders of synthetic rubber € 519 million for price fixing cartel (29 Nov 2006)
Water Bills up but Kelda backers get £750 million payout (29 Nov 2006)
Four held after kitchen firm raid (29 Nov 2006)
BP faces £197,000 fine for safety lapses at Indiana refinery (29 Nov 2006)
Mortgage brokers 'disguised fees' (29 Nov 2006)
Millions of Britons will never escape their debts (29 Nov 2006)
UK Rail regulator mulls competition inquiry (29 Nov 2006)
UK Regulator threatens rail competition probe (29 Nov 2006)
Call for probe into train lease rip-off (29 Nov 2006)
Former DJ Ed Stewart has had £8,538.95 snatched from his pension by Zurich Assurance (29 Nov 2006)
Poor credit borrowers 'misled' (29 Nov 2006)
Farepak relief details revealed (29 Nov 2006)
Solar panel firm fined £40,000 for misleading claims (28 Nov 2006)
No repeat of Farepak, MPs insist (28 Nov 2006)

Read the Report: Financial inclusion: the roles of the Government and the FSA, and financial capability

Clerical Medical pays out millions for a decimal-point error (28 Nov 2006)
Nationwide abandons same deals for all (28 Nov 2006)
Critics of pensions system slam distribution of wealth (27 Nov 2006)
Why was General Reinsurance fined? (27 Nov 2006)
Police swoop in probe into shares fraud (27 Nov 2006)
Women still have to fight for room at the top (27 Nov 2006)
Twelve percent Chinese rural laborers participate in old-age pension (27 Nov 2006)
Britain's top companies have increased the amount they pay into contributory pensions schemes by more than 10% in the past two years (27 Nov 2006)
Sunrise Insider Sales Need Independent Probe, Pension Fund Says (27 Nov 2006)
Siemens board member 'aware of €200m black funds network' used for bribery around the world (27 Nov 2006)
BAE feels Saudi wrath over bribe inquiry (27 Nov 2006)
Banks reach the last chance saloon over payment protection insurance profits (27 Nov 2006)
Ethiopian coffee trademark dispute may leave Starbucks with nasty taste (27 Nov 2006)
UK National debt is £1.3 trillion (27 Nov 2006)
World Bank, International Monetary Fund sidestep labour standards: Promote violation of workers’ rights (26 Nov 2006)
CBI chief warns on dangers of private equity (26 Nov 2006)
Standard Life ends final salary pension scheme (26 Nov 2006)
Farepak victims pay up to 30p a minute for helpline (26 Nov 2006)
We own the FTSE: let’s run it for our own good (26 Nov 2006)
UK Boardroom pay rising at twice the average rate (26 Nov 2006)
Dow Chemical, Eni Face EU Fines for Price-Fixing (25 Nov 2006)
Big pension schemes fail to say how they manage the environmental and social impact (25 Nov 2006)
Estate agent hijacked my house (25 Nov 2006)
Deutsche Bank chief pays £2m fine in deal to end bonuses trial (25 Nov 2006)
The UK living room keeps on getting smaller (25 Nov 2006)
Pensions – an age-old problem (25 Nov 2006)
1.8 million UK pensioners are living in poverty (24 Nov 2006)
UK Travel insurance probe under way (24 Nov 2006)
UK Holiday firms face government crackdown on travel insurance (24 Nov 2006)
Travel agents face clampdown on holiday insurance (24 Nov 2006)
Six Schools guilty of illegal price-fixing (24 Nov 2006)
OFT issues final decision and imposes penalties in independent schools investigation (24 Nov 2006)
Rip-off ruling rocks Sky TV firm (24 Nov 2006)
Siemens chief vows to crack down on corrupt employees (24 Nov 2006)
Belgian money transfer firm breached EU privacy laws (24 Nov 2006)
Britain faces pensions battle of the ages (24 Nov 2006)
Whilst poor suffer billionaires boom in Britain (24 Nov 2006)
Merck escapes class-action lawsuit over arthritis drug (24 Nov 2006)
European Commission has dropped its investigation into a possible price-fixing cartel in the newsprint, magazine paper (24 Nov 2006)
With-profits bonds investors are being let down by appalling investment performances (23 Nov 2006)
Households on low incomes that use pre-pay electricity meters are being hit with huge bill increases (23 Nov 2006)
Asset Strippers: Mergers and acquisitions are booming again, setting a new global record for the year of $3,368 billion (23 Nov 2006)
The state pension age has to be raised to 68, says UK minister (23 Nov 2006)
Vioxx class action claim refused (23 Nov 2006)
Which? fury at UK pensions grab (23 Nov 2006)
Banks in foreign currency rip-off (22 Nov 2006)
Travel agents' deals 'misleading' (22 Nov 2006)
'False' holiday prices attacked (22 Nov 2006)
FSA fines GenRe UK £1,225,000 for improper reinsurance transactions (22 Nov 2006)
Buffett's UK insurer fined £1.2m (22 Nov 2006)
Capital Mortgage Connections Ltd fined for rule breaches including cold calling potential mortgage customers (22 Nov 2006)
Mortgage broker first to be fined for cold calling (22 Nov 2006)
Two million Brits have borrowed so much they will never escape their debts (22 Nov 2006)
Former labour leader arrested in VW corruption inquiry (22 Nov 2006)
UK Pension reform plan meets with scepticism and indifference (22 Nov 2006)
Farepak took cash days from end (22 Nov 2006)
HBOS hits back over Farepak claim (22 Nov 2006)
Is America's love affair with the free market ending? (22 Nov 2006)
Nordics show way in sex equality (22 Nov 2006)
Nordic Countries Top the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Index (22 Nov 2006)

Read The Global Gender Gap Report 2006

Capitalism is fine for pricing potatoes, but not so good at setting the value of big companies (21 Nov 2006)
Britain exposed as Europe's card fraud capital (21 Nov 2006)
Arrest made in VW corruption scandal (21 Nov 2006)
Nike sacks Premiership ball maker over labour fears (21 Nov 2006)
UK Reforms leave women still short of pensions (21 Nov 2006)
Co-op offers five times mortgages (21 Nov 2006)
Fraud Exposes British To Mad Cow Disease (21 Nov 2006)
UK Companies fail to disclose environmental performance (21 Nov 2006)
Tax in a borderless world (21 Nov 2006)
Euphoric markets 'ignore global risk' (21 Nov 2006)
Green light for Fraud as US Treasury cites compliance costs as anti-competitive (21 Nov 2006)
City code breached as Standard Chartered elevates chief executive (21 Nov 2006)
Mortgage lenders accused of using rate rise to boost profits (20 Nov 2006)
Young fall into 'car-credit trap' (20 Nov 2006)
Bill to curb bad UK estate agents (20 Nov 2006)
The poverty paradox — the less you have, the more you must pay (20 Nov 2006)
UK parliament report says banks are turning away poorer customers (20 Nov 2006)
UK banks see poor as '2nd class citizens' (20 Nov 2006)
Banks accused of excluding poor (20 Nov 2006)
Law enforcement hampered by secret ownership of companies (20 Nov 2006)
US senate Panel to target shell companies (20 Nov 2006)
Don't wake the company auditors - they're asleep (19 Nov 2006)
High street banks give low earners 'short shrift' (19 Nov 2006)
UK Executive pay is out of control (19 Nov 2006)
Siemens fraud five times bigger than thought (19 Nov 2006)
Stock Options abuse found outside of tech firms (19 Nov 2006)
South Korea may soon fine oil refiners for price fixing (19 Nov 2006)
Countdown to Farepak's crash (19 Nov 2006)
Farepak crash blamed for husband's death (19 Nov 2006)
Heading for Crash: Property tycoons who owe billions (19 Nov 2006)
A bit rich: scandal of Londonl's two-tier economy (19 Nov 2006)
We all pay a high price for the houses of the super-rich (19 Nov 2006)
UK Government proposals to boost public trust in official data have been strongly criticised (19 Nov 2006)
English Welsh & Scottish Railway fined £4.1m for anti-competitive behaviour (18 Nov 2006)
Riddle of the anonymous fortune found in Spanish banks (18 Nov 2006)
Chemical leak forces BP to evacuate Texas City plant (18 Nov 2006)
Banker loses £9m bonus case (18 Nov 2006)
Farepak savers 'to get 4p in £1' (18 Nov 2006)
Lenient sentences for Enron execs (18 Nov 2006)
Watch the 125% mortgage trap (17 Nov 2006)
Another Guilty Plea in DRAM Price Fixing Scandal (17 Nov 2006)
Top executive admits chip price fixing (17 Nov 2006)
Hedge fund managers at London-based Cheyne Capital Management shared in a £75m pay pot for just nine months' work (17 Nov 2006)
Dumping costs on others: House of Fraser demands discount terms from suppliers (17 Nov 2006)
Farepak: Ugly scramble to escape blame while thousands count cost of Christmas (16 Nov 2006)
Buffett's UK power groups probed (16 Nov 2006)
Private equity firms sued amid claims that the firms conspired to fix the price of deals (16 Nov 2006)
Private-equity companies sued over alleged price fixing (16 Nov 2006)
Ex-Volkswagen chief on 44 charges in bribes case (16 Nov 2006)
Homes of Siemens bosses raided in fraud inquiry (16 Nov 2006)
Citgo Sued for Price-Fixing (16 Nov 2006)
South Korea has issued detention warrants for two executives from Lone Star funds over allegations of stock price manipulation (16 Nov 2006)
Governments for Sale: UK Honours inquiry finds 'significant material' (16 Nov 2006)
Record 1.2m UK workers of pension age are still in jobs (16 Nov 2006)
Tube contractors 'failing' (16 Nov 2006)
Metronet faces £750m bill because maintenance of the London underground is below standard (16 Nov 2006)
Pensioner groups call for urgent action on reforms (16 Nov 2006)
Police launch Siemens fraud probe (15 Nov 2006)
Work them to Death: UK Bill to raise state pension age (15 Nov 2006)
UK Pension Bill heralds long term changes (15 Nov 2006)
The Christmas card Scrooges (15 Nov 2006)
City's Xmas bonus bonanza snowballs (15 Nov 2006)
Battle for talent pushes City bonuses as high as $10m (15 Nov 2006)
Lust for Profits: First Direct to end free banking (15 Nov 2006)
BA agrees £800m injection to tackle pension deficit (15 Nov 2006)
BA unveils pensions funding deal (15 Nov 2006)
SFO 'needs help with BAE illegal payments probe' (15 Nov 2006)
Reform planned for UK fraud trials (15 Nov 2006)
UK set for corporate killing law (15 Nov 2006)
PWC, a threat to the world’s poor (14 Nov 2006)
Chummy CEOs part of stock options backdating club (14 Nov 2006)
Sarbanes-Oxley: A shameless corporate bid to soften rules (14 Nov 2006)
The Stock Options Blood Bath (14 Nov 2006)
The UK public-sector fat cats (14 Nov 2006)
MasterCard and Visa facing New Zealand price-fixing charges (14 Nov 2006)
Banks quick to pass on higher costs of loans and overdrafts but slow to pass on rate rise to savers (14 Nov 2006)
Homebuilding chief the biggest head to roll in US options scandal (14 Nov 2006)
ITV 'to end final salary pension' (14 Nov 2006)
ITV to axe final salary pensions (14 Nov 2006)
Half of UK final-salary pension schemes 'to close' (14 Nov 2006)
Broadband and phone services going down the tube, say customers (14 Nov 2006)
Farepak Company and bank blame each other (14 Nov 2006)
EU warning to credit card firms (14 Nov 2006)
The Big 6 Accountancy Firms - ignoring the global public (13 Nov 2006)
The threat of the ‘Big 6′ Accountancy Firms (13 Nov 2006)
Fat Cats: Boardroom pay soars for UK AIM companies (13 Nov 2006)
Fat Cats: Boss of British Nuclear Group leaves with a financial package worth well over a £1m (13 Nov 2006)
UK MP attacks 'malign' lenders (13 Nov 2006)
Farepak blames bank for failure to ring-fence cash (13 Nov 2006)
Millions unhappy at broadband service (13 Nov 2006)
They want more profits: Annual fee for paying with your plastic is on the cards (13 Nov 2006)
Credit card charges to rise (13 Nov 2006)
Europe's banks urged to reveal pension liabilities (13 Nov 2006)
No guarantee of a bullet-proof pension (13 Nov 2006)
Pre-pay card fees revealed (12 Nov 2006)
Hollinger: The day Conrad Black became a social leper (12 Nov 2006)
Probe urged after Sainsbury shares rise before resignation (12 Nov 2006)
UK Regulator probes shock security lapse at Nationwide (12 Nov 2006)
Hollinger: The day Conrad Black became a social leper (12 Nov 2006)
Thompson will face critics over Farepak demise (12 Nov 2006)
Farepak's Thompson: 'HBOS hung us out to dry' (12 Nov 2006)
Farepak bosses may face MPs quiz (12 Nov 2006)
Farepak: Punish the thieves who stole Christmas (12 Nov 2006)
Farepak blame game starts (12 Nov 2006)
Russian threat to sue Shell for billions over Sakhalin (11 Nov 2006)
BP venture pays $1bn in back taxes as Russia gets tougher (11 Nov 2006)
Governments for Sale: UK Labour's big donor quits as science minister (11 Nov 2006)
UK Bill to link pension and earnings (11 Nov 2006
UK Energy bills 'still inaccurate' (11 Nov 2006)
New Zealand Commerce Commission alleges price-fixing by Visa Mastercard (10 Nov 2006)
United Air moves to settle passenger price-fixing suits (10 Nov 2006)
Farepak fatcats exposed (10 Nov 2006)
Banish Farepak spectre and regulate (10 Nov 2006)
£630m Texas blast lawsuit settled by BP (10 Nov 2006)
BP settles Texas blast lawsuits with an apology (10 Nov 2006)
BP settles Texas refinery explosion lawsuit (10 Nov 2006)
Two-thirds of UK employers may cut pension payments to new staff (10 Nov 2006)
Poor deal from UK pension shake-up (10 Nov 2006)
US firms in massive junk bond offerings (10 Nov 2006)
PC World fails computer repairs test (9 Nov 2006)
UK unleashes the 57-year home loan (9 Nov 2006)
Russia launches probe at TNK-BP (9 Nov 2006)
Guest Workers Seek Global Horizons: U.S. Company Exploits Migrant Labor (9 Nov 2006)
A U.S. Fortress Rises in Baghdad: Asian Workers Trafficked to Build World's Largest Embassy ( 9 Nov 2006)
HBOS gives to Farepak charity after criticism (9 Nov 2006)
UK 'may have to buy foreign milk' (9 Nov 2006)
UK Dairy industry being milked dry, say experts (9 Nov 2006)
FSA criticised over finance ads (9 Nov 2006)
UK Pensions 'black hole may be £40bn higher' (9 Nov 2006)
EU decries high mobile phone cost (8 Nov 2006)
EU vows to force mobile firms to cut roaming charges by 70% (8 Nov 2006)
Fewer women reaching boards of Britain's top firms (8 Nov 2006)
UK Bank charge complaints soar (8 Nov 2006)
Ryanair free seat ad rapped (8 Nov 2006)
Capital One Bank reprimanded for sending out a million credit-card cheques with the cash amounts already filled in (8 Nov 2006)
Doubts about rescue worsen iSoft's woes (8 Nov 2006)
Governments for Sale: Police contact UK Treasury minister over honours inquiry (8 Nov 2006)
BT pension fund 'still has huge gap' despite stock market rally (8 Nov 2006)
Farepak collapse explained (8 Nov 2006)
HBOS to give £2m to Farepak fund (8 Nov 2006)
Halifax coughs up £2m for Farepak fund (8 Nov 2006)
House prices 'now top £200,000' and beyond the reach of most (8 Nov 2006)
Watchdog warns of one energy crisis after another (8 Nov 2006)
Q&A: The Farepak hamper collapse (7 Nov 2006)
FSA warns of 'inevitable' crash (7 Nov 2006)
Collapse of leveraged buyout firm inevitable, FSA warns (7 Nov 2006)
South Korea: Ex-Korean Exchange Bank Head Arrested but Denies Price Fixing in Bank Sale (7 Nov 2006)
Asset stripping is rife in the UK as mergers and acquisitions increase (7 Nov 2006)
EU in showdown over working time (7 Nov 2006)
UK Water firms facing massive fines (7 Nov 2006)
Three UK water firms 'give rest bad name' (7 Nov 2006)
Average Wall Street bonus about to hit $200,000 (7 Nov 2006)
£20m jackpot for Paradise Poker's three founders (7 Nov 2006)
Sacked whistleblower chief vindicated (7 Nov 2006)
UK Coal giant plans £800m land sale (7 Nov 2006)
Banks 'breaking rules' on loans (7 Nov 2006)
The 125% mortgage debt warning (7 Nov 2006)
Pensions boost for millions in the UK (7 Nov 2006)
100 UK pension schemes rescued (7 Nov 2006)
Britain tops the list in Europe for online gambling (6 Nov 2006)
UK top executives paid almost 100 times more than the country's average worker (6 Nov 2006)
UK Boss and workers' pay gap widens (6 Nov 2006)
Top UK bosses earn 98 times employee wage (6 Nov 2006)
EU Commissioners in Bed with Business (6 Nov 2006)
Eurotunnel creditors consider forcing liquidation (6 Nov 2006)
Franchising of rail services is a 'costly muddle' MPs warn (6 Nov 2006)

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De Beers enters conflict at the heart of the diamond industry (6 Nov 2006)
Clinton Cards infuriates investors with 30% rise for its chairman (5 Nov 2006)
How Conrad Black milked Hollinger (5 Nov 2006)
Hollinger: If you doubt the malign effects of big business out of control, consider Conrad Black's downfall (5 Nov 2006)
Low-paid Goldman cleaners in wages talks (5 Nov 2006)
South Africa boardrooms still too white and male (5 Nov 2006)
Unlimited credit is living on borrowed time (5 Nov 2006)
FSA warns rating agencies on banks (5 Nov 2006)
Rouble trouble: the risks of Russian boards (5 Nov 2006)
Private equity firms are making the lives of employees at their portfolio companies “much harder” (4 Nov 2006)
US Company exec pleads guilty to concrete price-fixing conspiracy (4 Nov 2006)
Barclays agrees to pay $144m to extricate itself from Enron lawsuit (4 Nov 2006)
Rentokil faces fine over French probe (3 Nov 2006)
Pensions warning from opera house (3 Nov 2006)
Mortgage repossession orders made by courts in England and Wales are at a five-year high (3 Nov 2006)
UK Mortgage repossession orders soar (3 Nov 2006)
UK Insolvencies jump 55% (3 Nov 2006)
A record 100,000 people will go personally bust this year in UK (3 Nov 2006)
US companies warned about pay advisers (3 Nov 2006)
Fat Cats: £38m Mannesmann bonuses defended (3 Nov 2006)
Carphone rapped for silent calls (3 Nov 2006)
No consolation for Farepak customers (3 Nov 2006)
Glaxo settles Paxil lawsuit in the US (3 Nov 2006)
UK Railway franchise system hits the buffers (3 Nov 2006)
UK Average gas bill 'up by a third' (3 Nov 2006)
Supermarket loans 'bad value' (3 Nov 2006)
UK Minister rules out further help for pension victims (3 Nov 2006)
UK Debt doomsday 'is coming' (2 Nov 2006)
Financial products from supermarkets and High Street retailers are seldom good value (2 Nov 2006)
Income Inequalities: Four million Britons can't afford heating (2 Nov 2006)
Abbey criticised for lending up to five times salary (2 Nov 2006)
The hedge hogs from another planet (2 Nov 2006)
The big iSoft turnaround on a £30m accounting gap 'that had to be filled' (2 Nov 2006)
Revealed: iSoft's U-turn on accounts problems (2 Nov 2006)
Setting up a bogus company is as easy as surfing the net (1 Nov 2006)
UK ‘haven’ for money laundering (1 Nov 2006)
Samsung office raided in price-fixing probe (1 Nov 2006)
UK Female directors 'earn £14k less' (1 Nov 2006)
UK Pensioners hit by fall in spending power (1 Nov 2006)
Hairdressers 'risk skin disease' (1 Nov 2006)
Network Rail admits guilt and faces record fine (1 Nov 2006)
The NatWest Three:Things to do in Houston before your trial (1 Nov 2006)
The Russians are coming - and bringing the threat of scandal to the City (1 Nov 2006)
BP's Alaska unit, criticised for spills and pipe record, will replace its top executive (1 Nov 2006)
Fighting unfair bank charges could damage your credit record (1 Nov 2006)
FSA bows to pressure to simplify rules (1 Nov 2006)
Lawsuits cast shadow over Deutsche Bank (1 Nov 2006)
US Court suspends tobacco sanctions (1 Nov 2006)
UK workers can't afford to buy houses so Five-times-salary mortgage offer (1 Nov 2006)
India warned over GM rice crops (1 Nov 2006)

OCTOBER 2006

PWC, Switzerland and its ‘enticing tax benefits’ (31 Oct 2006)
BP criticised for 'catastrophic' safety risks (31 Oct 2006)
Price Fixing: EU raids chip makers in Germany (31 Oct 2006)
US Investigating Sony for RAM Price-fixing (31 Oct 2006)
Network Rail accepts Ladbroke Grove blame (31 Oct 2006)
Monster Worldwide's former chief steps down in options backdating scandal, and the SEC warns of more cases ahead (31 Oct 2006)
Pension reform warning to UK bosses (31 Oct 2006)
Why bother with parliament and Democracy as corporate want to 'Set up independent group' on pensions (31 Oct 2006)
British Gas is not only the UK's most expensive energy provider, it also provides the worst customer service (31 Oct 2006)
British Gas service gets worse (31 Oct 2006)
Britain the most costly place to run a car (31 Oct 2006)
Corruption: Facts on legal cases involving Italy's Berlusconi (30 Oct 2006)
Dodging taxes in stock-option game (30 Oct 2006)
Income inequlaities: Soaring City bonuses 'hit £8.8bn' (30 Oct 2006)
Big business needs Joe Public (30 Oct 2006)
UK Endowment advisers escape rap (30 Oct 2006)
Brits gamble £1bn online (30 Oct 2006)
The Farepak fiasco nightmare (29 Oct 2006)
Cleaners demand living wage from Goldman (29 Oct 2006)
As Enron chapter closes, others open (29 Oct 2006)
Has Corporate America No Shame? Or No Memory? (29 Oct 2006)
US Businesses Seek Protection on Legal Front (29 Oct 2006)
Corporate America moving to defang recent regulations (29 Oct 2006)
Campaign to publish UK firms' carbon use (29 Oct 2006)
Tobacco firms targeting kids (28 Oct 2006)
Farepak - the lessons (28 Oct 2006)
Speculators buy up drought-hit wheat crops to earn their daily bread (28 Oct 2006)
Watchdog snaps at watchdog as SEC faces investigation (28 Oct 2006)
UK Pensions safety net levy rises by 50pc (28 Oct 2006)
Fat Cats: City pay soars by 21% whilst workers get 4% (27 Oct 2006)
Huge income inequlaities in the UK (27 Oct 2006)
336,000 Britons are in jobs with pay less than the national minimum wage (27 Oct 2006)
UK Women close the pay gap (27 Oct 2006)
UK Median gender pay gap narrows (27 Oct 2006)
Executive pay survey shows German bosses won 11 per cent rises (27 Oct 2006)
UK Companies Bill: Charities urge minister not to water down legislation as· Firms ask peers to block disclosure of supply chain (27 Oct 2006)
Companies Bill: Labour must not cringe from this puny but necessary amendment (27 Oct 2006)
A$30 million Vitamin price-fixing case settled by Roche, BASF and Aventis (27 Oct 2006)
Arla sues Wiseman in UK price fixing dispute (27 Oct 2006)
Chief of Deutsche Bank in court again over bonuses (27 Oct 2006)
Green family's payout contributes to tumble in Arcadia profit (27 Oct 2006)
Japan Bank sues Tokyo exchange over 'fat finger' blunder (27 Oct 2006)
Shell confident of reaching deal with Russia over Sakhalin (27 Oct 2006)
Accept or we go bust, Eurotunnel tells its creditors (27 Oct 2006)
Eurotunnel accused of railroading debtors (27 Oct 2006)
China seeks West's help in pension crisis (27 Oct 2006)
Don't feel sorry for Arcadia as Sir Philip forgoes bonus as profits slide (27 Oct 2006)
UK government licences pubs to open 24 hours and now it wants to hit the young with alcopop tax (27 Oct 2006)
US is right to demand risky tax schemes are revealed (26 Oct 2006)
Starbucks, the coffee beans and the copyright row that cost Ethiopia £47m (26 Oct 2006)
Russia threatens to prosecute Shell over Sakhalin-2 (26 Oct 2006)
Loans.co.uk Limited fined £455,000 for PPI selling failures (26 Oct 2006)
'Overbearing' UK laws have increased pension liabilities by £100 bln (26 Oct 2006)
UK social security claimants miss out on up to £8bn (26 Oct 2006)
Enron's enablers go unpunished (26 Oct 2006)
British law is not the way to regulate business abroad (26 Oct 2006)
Lloyds TSB wrote 'false notes' (25 Oct 2006)
Russia to open criminal probe into Shell (25 Oct 2006)
Somebody at Halliburton is Getting Blown Off Your Taxes (25 Oct 2006)
Comverse boss admits fraud guilt (25 Oct 2006)
Ex-Comverse director pleads guilty to abuse of stock options (25 Oct 2006)
UK Government to probe Farepak (25 Oct 2006)
Governments for Sale: Scotland Yard investigates Labour's 'false accounting' (25 Oct 2006)
Beware of Mis-selling: Insurers 'back in race' to run low-cost UK pension scheme (25 Oct 2006)
Qinetiq welcomes ex-CIA chief on board (25 Oct 2006)
Anglo American appoints FTSE's third female CEO (25 Oct 2006)
UK government is to probe the collapse of Christmas hamper firm Farepak (24 Oct 2006)
Scottish dairies sued over price fixing (24 Oct 2006)
7.5m Britons bank on home as pension (24 Oct 2006)
Enron boss jailed for 24 years (24 Oct 2006)
Enron's former chief is jailed for 24 years (24 Oct 2006)
White-collar criminals find quality of mercy increasingly strained (24 Oct 2006)
Vivendi files RICO suit against T-Mobile (24 Oct 2006)
Penny stocks helping in tax dodge (24 Oct 2006)
Ford lays bare its financial plight (24 Oct 2006)
Governments for Sale: Former Conservative leader Michael Howard questioned in cash-for-honours probe (24 Oct 2006)
Brussels investigates E.ON 'golden share' (24 Oct 2006)
Fujitsu under spotlight for NHS failures (24 Oct 2006)
BP increases compensation provision (24 Oct 2006)
Windfall tax’ call on oil companies as profits announced (23 Oct 2006)
UK 'has squandered oil revenues' (23 Oct 2006)
Hooked on oil: breaking the habit with a windfall tax (23 Oct 2006)
A 'race to the bottom' for workers' rights and a disaster for the environment (23 Oct 2006)
Ford quarterly loss totalled $5.8bn (£3bn) (23 Oct 2006)
Apple attacked over stock options scandal (23 Oct 2006)
Banker to face court over VAT carousel fraud (23 Oct 2006)
Dutch tycoon accused of money laundering: Bank was alleged conduit for billions of pounds (23 Oct 2006)
E.ON's takeover protection to be probed (23 Oct 2006)
BP attacked over safety standards (22 Oct 2006)
New UK water profits warning (22 Oct 2006)
Who wins from the Tory Tax Cuts? (22 Oct 2006)
Jersey gets it wrong again (22 Oct 2006)
Tax evasion - a threat to democratic government (22 Oct 2006)
Capital isn't working (22 Oct 2006)
Americans waver on Sarbox (22 Oct 2006)
Ten top UK businesses in bribe inquiry (22 Oct 2006)
Fears for pensions in Tata bid for Corus (2 Oct 2006)
The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004 (22 Oct 2006)
The UK Financial Services Authority : A Model of Improved Accountability? (22 Oct 2006)
Cost of Tory Tax Cuts (21 Oct 2006)
How your supermarket flowers empty Kenya's rivers (21 Oct 2006)
Protection Racket: The £5bn payment protection industry (21 Oct 2006)
Hedge funds are encouraging brokers to commit market abuse (21 Oct 2006)
Pensions urged to put cash into hedge funds (21 Oct 2006)
When democracy lost its grip on the City of London (21 Oct 2006)
Jersey gets it wrong again (21 Oct 2006)
Tax evasion - a threat to democratic government (21 Oct 2006)
PartyGaming expects to lose $250m (21 Oct 2006)
Coffee Republic founder ousted in investor revolt (21 Oct 2006)
UK Borrowers losing £1bn in insurance con (20 Oct 2006)
Former Viacom chief executive Tom Freston has been awarded a severance package worth almost $85m (£45m) (20 Oct 2006)
Former New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso, ordered to pay back par of this pay package worth $187m (£100m) (20 Oct 2006)
Judge rules that Grasso must repay NYSE up to $100 million (20 Oct 2006)
Capping the well-heads of corruption (20 Oct 2006)
What's Wrong with Corporate Social Responsibility? (20 Oct 2006)
JJB loses appeal but repeats price-fix denial (20 Oct 2006)
OFT looks at Pfizer's distribution deal with UniChem (20 Oct 2006)
oko Ono sues EMI for $10 m over Lennon royalties (20 Oct 2006)

Court Decision

A U.S. Fortress Rises in Baghdad: Asian Workers Trafficked to Build World's Largest Embassy (20 Oct 2006)
Total's incoming chief probed over Iraq (20 Oct 2006)
Tycoon in BAE inquiry faced passport hearing (20 Oct 2006)
Corporate responsibility in a global age (19 Oct 2006)
Tory Tax Reforms: Intellectually bankrupt and economically incoherent (19 Oct 2006)
UK Companies Bill Third Reading in the House of Commons (19 Oct 2006)
Corruption: Probe into BAE arms deals widens (19 Oct 2006)
Corruption: SFO raids four premises in BAE contracts probe (19 Oct 2006)
Two Samsung executives and one executive from Hynix Semiconductor indicted for prioce-fixing (19 Oct 2006)
Bayer agrees to $18 million settlement in price-fixing case (19 Oct 2006)
NYSE censured and fined Wachovia Securities $300,000 for failing to reasonably supervise activities in securities accounts linked to customer bank accounts (19 Oct 2006)
Sungard Global Execution Services failed to supervise customer orders placed over the firm’s electronic access systems (19 Oct 2006)
Pioneer Capital Corp censured fined and $200,000 trading, supervisory, and books and records violations (19 Oct 2006)
UK Competition Commission will investigate the £5.5 billion payment protection racket (19 Oct 2006)
OFT slams payment protection insurance (19 Oct 2006)
Around 150,000 families have lost their Christmas savings (19 Oct 2006)
UK Pension rules that simply don't add up (19 Oct 2006)
The Yes Car nightmare (19 Oct 2006)
ASB proposes buy-out tags on pension schemes (19 Oct 2006)
UK Companies Bill Third Reading in the House of Commons (18 Oct 2006)
Ditch the financial dinosaurs (18 Oct 2006)
Anger at Companies Bill change on Suppliers information (18 Oct 2006)
Supplier information to be included in yearly UK reports (18 Oct 2006)
Squeals of protest from business as bill is extended to cover suppliers (18 Oct 2006)
Corporate responsibility means nothing unless British firms abroad are held to account (18 Oct 2006)
UK bosses' pay rose by 43% last year to an average of £2.9m (18 Oct 2006)
ISoft puts itself up for sale as it sees off shareholder rebellion over pay (18 Oct 2006)
Ryanair forced to offer fairer terms (18 Oct 2006)
UK 'failing over white-collar fraud' (18 Oct 2006)
French regulator targets Deutsche, GLG (18 Oct 2006)
UK Treasury to review policing of 'aggressive' hedge funds (18 Oct 2006)
UK Watchdog's report on Equitable Life delayed again (18 Oct 2006)
Enron: Death has wiped Lay's slate clean (18 Oct 2006)
Can Major Accountancy Firms Behave Ethically? (17 Oct 2006)
Campaigners 'frustrated' by UK corporate accountability move (17 Oct 2006)
Rumblings of revolt in Europe as sweat-shop capitalism grows (17 Oct 2006)
Toshiba and Samsung added to price-fixing investigation (17 Oct 2006)
Regulatory system blamed for Equitable Life scandal (17 Oct 2006)
Pensions:Consumers allegedly mis-sold Equitable Life policies have been slapped with 'gagging orders' (17 Oct 2006)
FSA censures firm for pension 'income withdrawal' failings (17 Oct 2006)
UK Banks 'put client data in street' (17 Oct 2006)
UK Gender pay gap widens as women miss out (17 Oct 2006)
CEO of insurer UnitedHealth shadowed by options (17 Oct 2006)
A guide to future financial scandals - and how to prevent them (17 Oct 2006)
Chief executive of insurer Allianz called for a single European financial services authority (17 Oct 2006)
Pension funds need a rapid injection of hedgie oomph (17 Oct 2006)
GNER franchise at risk as owner files for Chapter 11 (17 Oct 2006)
Rail firms being squeezed, says chief (17 Oct 2006)
Isoft goes into sale talks (17 Oct 2006)
Regulation killed the UK pensions industry (16 Oct 2006)
Consumer group seeking damages on mobile price fixing (16 Oct 2006)
Pay Inequalities: 60% of UK worker earn less than £20,000 a year, 80% less than £30,000 (16 Oct 2006)
Minimum wage fails to close UK pay gap (16 Oct 2006)
Fat Cats: Non-executive directors working about 25 days a year get around £95,000 (16 Oct 2006)
Governments for Sale: Cash-for-peerage suspects 'could be jailed for seven years' (16 Oct 2006)
UK Rail franchise system is condemned as 'unsustainable' (16 Oct 2006)
Compass settles UN bribery cases for £40m (16 Oct 2006)
Compass settles UN birbery lawsuits for under £40m (16 Oct 2006)
Tycoon held in VAT carousel fraud investigation (16 Oct 2006)
Despite huge public subsidies to rail companies GNER owner files for Chapter 11 (16 Oct 2006)
UK pension raid 'cost savers £100bn' (16 Oct 2006)
Governments for Sale: Peer quits Labour in protest over 'rotten practices' (15 Oct 2006)
Governments for Sale: Group identifies Tory cash donors (15 Oct 2006)
Human rights concerns fail to staunch flow of UK arms (15 Oct 2006)
Wal-Mart must pay workers $78m for forcing them to work during breaks (15 Oct 2006)
Tories slated for 'watering down' UK Companies Bill (15 Oct 2006)
Why the wealthy are not always healthy (15 Oct 2006)
Inside story of feud that plunged HP into crisis (15 Oct 2006)
Pensions: UK government reform of tax on pension fund income may have lost £100 billion (15 Oct 2006)
Chinese laws may push up labour costs (15 Oct 2006)
China Drafts Law to Boost Unions and End Abuse (14 Oct 2006)
Hynix price fixing leads to tax break questions (14 Oct 2006)
Washington targets price fixing by top chipmakers (14 Oct 2006)
Sportingbet faces £300m loss in retreat from US (14 Oct 2006)
Alert over loan cover bandits (14 Oct 2006)
Recent developments in the European Commission's campaign against cartels and price fixing (13 Oct 2006)
World Gaming goes bust (13 Oct 2006)
Lenders to blame for bad debts (13 Oct 2006)
Railways: GNER owner 'cannot pay huge debt' (13 Oct 2006)
Business, stop moaning. These 'burdens' are what keep us civilised (13 Oct 2006)
Unnamed Sanmina-SCI Corp Exec Resigns over Option Finding (13 Oct 2006)
Hedge Funds: Amaranth collapse was 'easily foreseeable' (13 Oct 2006)
Investor paid out extra penalties to quit Amaranth (13 Oct 2006)
Ulster banks' charges too complex, says watchdog (13 Oct 2006)
N Ireland banks' fees too high and too complex, says watchdog (13 Oct 2006)
This time around, BA's bad luck is of its own making (13 Oct 2006)

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US Executive pay soars despite attempted restraints (13 Oct 2006)
London's mountain of money: The middle classes are being squeezed by the capital's sup-rich (13 Oct 2006)
In bed with companies: OFT to investigate fewer cases (12 Oct 2006)
Northern Ireland's 'Big Four' banks condemned for imposing higher charges and paying lower levels of interest (12 Oct 2006)
Barclays share option scheme under scrutiny (12 Oct 2006)
BP accused of hiding documents (12 Oct 2006)
Four heads roll over stock options scandal (12 Oct 2006)
Companies told to prove green credentials (12 Oct 2006)
Russia struggles to attract investment (12 Oct 2006)
FSA to pay costs in Cyprotex case (11 Oct 2006)
Skincare company in court over price fixing (11 Oct 2006)
Options scandal reaching higher (11 Oct 2006)
America's dirty secret: India becomes the gasoline gusher (11 Oct 2006)
BP faces questions over conduct (11 Oct 2006)
UK Banks to be probed on charges (11 Oct 2006)
Fat cats: India has 83,000 millionaires (10 Oct 20060
TV quiz phone-ins face probe (11 Oct 2006)
Casino capitalism (10 Oct 2006)
City of London pension fund caught in lawsuit against BP (10 Oct 2006)
BA chiefs quit over price-fixing allegations (10 Oct 2006)
UK IS AN OFFSHORE TAX HAVEN: WHERE DO FIRMS INCORPORATE? (10 Oct 2006)
Two senior British Airways officials caught up in an investigation into fuel surcharges and alleged illegal price fixing have resigned (9 Oct 2006)
BA executives quit in price-fix probe (9 Oct 2006)
One in five UK companies lost business in the last 12 months to a competitor paying bribes (9 Oct 2006)
Pensions alert over 'dumping' schemes (9 Oct 2006)
UK Pension regulator warns employers (9 Oct 2006)
Warning on sale of pension schemes (9 Oct 2006)
UK Pensions watchdog to tackle firms that shift liabilities (9 Oct 2006)
National pension plan could bring widespread mis-selling, say insurers (9 Oct 2006)
Pity the poor: Average UK home now costs £197,631 (9 Oct 2006)
Mortgage payments make up 24pc of pre-tax salaries (9 Oct 2006)
The woman raising the pay stakes (9 Oct 2006)
Crime, corruption and dodgy corporations (8 Oct 2006)
Iran 'using British banks to channel money to terrorists' (8 Oct 2006)
Companies are lining up to boast new environmental credentials, but which are real and which are little more than hot air themselves (8 Oct 2006)
Spying game at HP shows America has yet to clean up (8 Oct 2006)
HP - a board short-circuited beyond repair (8 Oct 2006)
Ford Motor Company and Transfer Pricing (8 Oct 2006)

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Socialism For The Rich, Mounting Losses For The Poor (8 Oct 2006)
Women in accounts and finance departments earn on average £11,500 a year less than their male counterparts (7 Oct 2006)
Osmose compoanies fined NZ$1.8 million for price-fixing cartel (7 Oct 2006)
Middle class parents in London have 'hijacked' a £3bn government scheme to provide child support for the poorest parents (7 Oct 2006)
UK Watchdog to look at Indian 'data-selling' (7 Oct 2006)
Autodesk review shows options trouble (7 Oct 2006)
Unions issue threat to BA over plan to cut pensions (7 Oct 2006)
With £100 deficits 25% of UK companies may struggle to afford pension deficits (6 Oct 2006)
Half of UK graduates cannot buy a house (6 Oct 2006)
Holding Governments to Ransom: HSBC admits it could quit Britain to save tax bill (6 Oct 2006)
Money Laundering in A Changed World (6 Oct 2006)
Apple finds stock option problems (5 Oct 2006)
Number's up for 0870 rip-off (5 Oct 2006)
How food firms charge us by stealth (5 Oct 2006)
Shadow economy in China, a combination of embezzlement, bribery, tax avoidance and underground banking of both legal and illegal money, is huge, and growing (5 Oct 2006)
Reform threat to UK pensions (5 Oct 2006)
Poor face highest work disincentive (5 Oct 2006)
Poor caught in tax-credit trap (5 Oct 2006)
Public 'mistrust ' health insurers (4 Oct 2006)
Bank's special shares scheme highlights hidden millions outside the boardroom and not reported in accounts (4 Oct 2006)
Higher pay for long service ruled illegal (4 Oct 2006)
Mothers lose right to equal salaries (4 Oct 2006)
Man chief tops table with £5.5m bonus (4 Oct 2006)
Soccer: Odor of corruption from root of game (4 Oct 2006)
Blow for banks as Enron chief takes the stand (4 Oct 2006)
Royal Mail claims to have pension deficit, which stands at £5.6 billion (4 Oct 2006)
How Offshore tax havens helped the looting of Russia: Listen to BBC Radio 4 "From the Kremlin to Knightsbridge (1)" (3 Oct 2006)
Gap between the richest and poorest UK workers widens (3 Oct 2006)
UK Borrowers piling up debts they can't repay (3 Oct 2006)
170,000 people in the UK do not receive the minimum wage (3 Oct 2006)
Price Fixing: EU to end air ticket agreements starting next year (3 Oct 2006)
Mittal Iron ore deal 'bad for Liberia' (3 Oct 2006)
Heavy Mittal? A State within a State: The inequitable Mineral Development Agreement between the Government of Liberia and Mittal Steel Holdings NV (3 Oct 2006)
Huge losses for net gamblers (3 Oct 2006)
US bar on internet bets wipes billions off shares (3 Oct 2006)
The shift to shakier ground for chief executives (3 Oct 2006)
Tesco takes £90,000 a minute (3 Oct 2006)
Tesco rakes in £1.1bn in six months (3 Oct 2006)
Dirty Dealings of Accountancy Firms (2 Oct 2006)
UK Bosses' pay rise beats workers' (2 Oct 2006)
Fat-cat pay surge widens gap (2 Oct 2006)
UK Boardroom pay rises twice as fast as share prices (2 Oct 2006)
Directors' pay at Britain's top companies soared by 28% last year (2 Oct 2006)
Salaries of top directors reach £350,000 (2 Oct 2006)
Part-time chairmen earn an average of £270,000 plus expenses (2 Oct 2006)
Misys chief to leave with more than £1m (2 Oct 2006)
Glass ceiling still blocks women from executive floor (2 Oct 2006)
Rich Getting richer all the time (2 Oct 2006)
Online gambling shares crash (2 Oct 2006)
America is living beyond its means (2 Oct 2006)
EU set to stop airlines from price-fixing interconnecting flights (2 Oct 2006)
Government for Sale: Tory donors questioned in honours inquiry (2 Oct 2006)
Troubled hedge fund sells assets (2 Oct 2006)
Concern is mounting that derivatives, hedge funds or private equity firms could spark a crisis (1 Oct 2006)
Big tobacco feels the wrath of ‘duped’ smokers (1 Oct 2006)
Bank of America Pays $7.5 Million To Settle NY Money Laundering Probe (1 Oct 2006)
Money Laundering: Bank of America moved over $3 billion from offshore shell companies in Panama and the British Virgin Islands (1 Oct 2006)
The more we manage, the worse we make things (1 Oct 2006)
Britain's army of debt consultants is encouraging people to take what could be inappropriate insolvency proceedings (1 Oct 2006)
UK Competition Commission 'deluged' on supermarkets (1 Oct 2006)
Stop investing in Sudan's genocide, MPs tell firms (1 Oct 2006)

SEPTEMBER 2006

Man Group clients take $280m hit from Amaranth hedge fund implosion (30 Sep 2006)
Estate Agents snub new customer code (30 Sep 2006)
BA's pensions black hole deepens to £2bn (30 Sep 2006)
BA staff to work 10 years longer to fill pension deficit (30 Sep 2006)
UK families' disposable incomes have fallen (30 Sep 2006)
New York judge sets free former Sportingbet chairman (30 Sep 2006)
Options make villains of heroes (30 Sep 2006)
HP tactics 'would have made Nixon blush' (29 Sep 2006)
HP's legal counsel quits as Dunn shifts the blame (29 Sep 2006)
Allied Irish Banks admits overcharging customers, will pay out 31.6 million Euros (29 Sep 2006)
Governments for Sale: Blair aide questioned in cash for peerages investigation (29 Sep 2006)
Enron: Fastow's comments in court put more heat on bankers (29 Sep 2006)
SEC Charges Former CEO and Two Former Executives Affiliated with RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. with Securities Fraud (29 Sep 2006)
EU ruling against 'golden shares' (29 Sep 2006)
EU threatens to break up the energy giants (29 Sep 2006)
UK Water firms £1bn short on investing (29 Sep 2006)
BA faces £2bn pensions fund deficit (29 Sep 2006)
Equitable strains to make sale (29 Sep 2006)
Despite IT debacles NHS becomes fourth largest consulting market (29 Sep 2006)
EU law violated in US banking data transfer scandal (29 Sep 2006)
NatWest loses first round in court case over charity linked to Hamas (29 Sep 2006)
Middle-aged male bankers could be among the first to sue their UK employers using age discrimination legislation (29 Sep 2006)
Overpaid executives have got a cheek to stand against increases in the minimum wage (28 Sep 2006)
Securities and Exchange Commission has filed civil fraud charges against three former top executives RenaissanceRe Holdings (28 Sep 2006)
Governments for Sale: 'Labour asked me for a loan' (28 Sep 2006)
HP lawyer quits over 'spy' probe (28 Sep 2006)
US probing El Al over price fixing (28 Feb 2006)
UK bank account 'upgrades' face scrutiny (28 Sep 2006)
Over two million UK households estimated to be struggling to pay council tax (28 Sep 2006)
Two million families struggle to pay council tax (28 Sep 2006)
Who Captures Whom? The Case of Regulation (28 Sep 2006)
Accenture confirms quitting NHS work (28 Sep 2006)
Bhs profit plunge (28 Sep 2006)
Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland devised structures that helped him to hide losses, says former Enron CFO (27 Sep 2006)
UK banks 'in on Enron deals' (27 Sep 2006)
WorldCom Tycoon Ebbers to begin jail term (27 Sep 2006)
1.3 million customers had their bank current accounts upgraded to expensive packaged accounts without their consent (27 Sep 2006)
Hedge Fund: SEC launches inquiry into Amaranth crisis (27 Sep 2006)
UK debt 'double Europe average' (27 Sep 2006)
Brits are Europe's debt-kings (27 Sep 2006)
UK outstrips western Europe in unsecured loans (27 Sep 2006)
Record numbers of UK people under 30 are going bust after racking up massive debts on credit cards (27 Sep 2006)
UK Watchdog bans alcopop adverts for 'juvenile' humour aimed at attracting under-18s (27 Sep 2006)
US crackdown dashes Empire Online acquisition plans (27 Sep 2006)
Ryanair burns its fingers on its own hedge (27 Sep 2006)
Enron's Fastow gets 6-year sentence (26 Sep 2006)
Britain’s tax nexus: able fraudsters, useful idiots (26 Sep 2006)
Hot Money: Success in the City powers Britain's boom (26 Sep 2006)
Tobacco firms to face US class action over 'light' cigarettes (26 Sep 2006)
Credit card firms hike rates (26 Sep 2006)
Greedy bank has lost all respect (26 Sep 2006)
BISYS Fund Services to Pay $21 Million to Settle Fraud Charges in Connection with Improper Marketing Arrangements with 27 Mutual Fund Advisers (26 Sep 2006)
Bailiffs 'law unto themselves' (26 Sep 2006)
ISoft chief nets £700,000 payoff in face of bad news (26 Sep 2006)
UK Watchdog warns listed companies of crackdown on stock options malpractice (26 Sep 2006)
Railways: GNER is no longer sustainable, says man who ran it (26 Sep 2006)
UK government to to target fat-cat bonuses: Don't bank on it (26 Sep 2006)
Heads in the Sand: ICAS trusts market to break Big Four’s hold (25 Sep 2006)
Tobacco firms sued over low tar claims (25 Sep 2006)
Ageism still rife in workplace (25 Sep 2006)
Fourth Samsung exec pleads guilty to price fixing (25 Sep 2006)
Squeezing Stakeholders to make profits: Debenhams demands 2% cut from suppliers (25 Sep 2006)
Vedanta accused of ''blatant violation" of planning and environmental guidelines in India (25 Sep 2006)
Total pension gap of FTSE 350 firms falls 28% in a year (25 Sep 2006)
CBI calls for state to help small firms over pensions (25 Sep 2006)
Average pay of a FTSE100 chief executive has risen by 40 per cent in the past year to nearly £3m (24 Sep 2006)
FTSE100 chief executives take home the pay of 127 workers (24 Sep 2006)
FTSE pay spirals out of control (24 Sep 2006)
Employees becoming a lower priority as Executives push shareholder value (24 Sep 2006)
Corporate fat cats oppose a modest rise in the minimum wage (24 Sep 2006)
Europe's farmers received a record €48.5bn (£33bn) in subsidies in 2005 (24 Sep 2006)
JP Morgan Chase and Lloyd's of London face accusations of financing the 19th-century slave trade (24 Sep 2006)
Lawyers at Torys LLP and KPMG will testify they were duped by schemes of Conrad Black and other former executives of Hollinger International Inc (24 Sep 2006)
Scottish firms’ pension deficit over £10 billion (24 Sep 2006)
UK Tax probe for soccer 'bungs' (24 Sep 2006)
Research unearths stock scandal (24 Sep 2006)
Samsung US executive gets 8 months for price-fixing (23 Sep 2006)
Big increase in UK bank complaints (23 Sep 2006)
Complaints against banks surge (23 Sep 2006)
US Credit Raters May Face More Oversight (23 Sep 2006)
Hewlett-Packard chairwoman quits as contrite chief executive apologises to journalists (23 Sep 2006)
Hewlett-Packard: Company that lost its way in mole hunt (23 Sep 2006)
HP chief admits role in planting false emails (23 Sep 2006)
Post-Enron rules keep foreign companies away from Wall Street (23 Sep 2006)
Google chiefs earn £7m a day (22 Sep 2006)
Rip-off Britain: Customers must pay more, power company says, while it pays less (22 Sep 2006)
Samsung executive enters price-fixing plea (22 Sep 2006)
Consquences of Inequalities: Third of young families can't buy a house (22 Sep 2006)
A third of all working UK households under 40 cannot afford to buy even at the low end of local housing markets (22 Sep 2006)
HP's boss to brief on spy scandal (22 Sep 2006)
Ex-minister slams UK pension reform (22 Sep 2006)
Pensions: Elderly at risk from bad advice (22 Sep 2006)
Call to run pension plans Olympics-style (22 Sep 2006)
Railway pension commission set up (22 Sep 2006)
Hedge Funds Withdraw SEC Registrations After Court Rejects Rule (22 Sep 2006)
Hedge fund's $6bn gas price hit (21 Sep 2006)
Pharmaceutical companies mired in Enron-style accounting, tax fraud (21 Sep 2006)
Nearly £1bn paid out in endowment compensation (21 Sep 2006)
Another ‘Enron’ likely: Poll (21 Sep 2006)
EU Commission fines copper fittings producers €314.7 million for price fixing cartel (21 Sep 2006)
EU fines businesses €314m over 16-year cartel in copper fittings (21 Sep 2006)
Five UK copper fitting manufacturers were part of an illegal price-fixing cartel that was fined a total of £212 million (21 Sep 2006)
Food: Half of UK children "drink" almost five litres of cooking oil every year as a result of their pack-a-day crisp habit (21 Sep 2006)
Follow the money: the multibillion pound trail that led to Caribbean bank (21 Sep 2006)
UK pensions industry maximises sales instead of “quality” (21 Sep 2006)
British tax police look hard at hedge funds: Caymans involved (21 Sep 2006)
FSA fines Langtons (IFA) Limited £63,000 for serious systems and controls failings (21 Sep 2006)
Standard Life CFO leaves with £900,000 payoff (21 Sep 2006)
Hedge funds may need to be regulated because of the increasing risk they could pose to the financial system (21 Sep 2006)
California is suing six carmakers for costs associated with their cars' greenhouse gas emissions (21 Sep 2006)
UK Brown accused of hiding full scale of PFI liabilities (21 Sep 2006)
Fat Cats: Downsizing Ford hires John Bond as adviser on $25k a day (21 Sep 2006)
Governments for Sale: Labour donor is held over honours cash (21 Sep 2006)
Thatcherism's final triumph (21 Sep 2006)
Pensnion: Retirement nest-eggs shattered (20 Sep 2006)
HP explored newsroom spies (20 Sep 2006)
UK Personal pension payouts have fallen by 75% in 10 years (20 Sep 2006)
Personal pension payouts plunge 57% in ten years (20 Sep 2006)
Pensions: half of those nearing retirement will have to sell their homes to pay for nursing care (20 Sep 2006)
Speculative frency: Long-term lessons not learned (20 Sep 2006)
Taiwan Cracks Down Price Fixing on Public-Bond Trading (20 Sep 2006)
Corporate corruption in Germany (20 Sep 2006)
Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial (20 Sep 2006)

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City seeks new power to sue chiefs (19 Sep 2006)
FSA chief criticises life and pensions sector (21 Sep 2006)
Share awards wipe £4.6bn from profits of UK's biggest companies (19 Sep 2006)
FATTEST CATS: UK Bosses cash in on 'easy targets' (19 Sep 2006)
Speculators come unstuck: Hedge fund fears loss of billions as gas price drops (19 Sep 2006)
Mobile phone companies moan about EU fee cap (18 Sep 2006)
Corporate Ethical Lapses (18 Sep 2006)
Multinationals' low bills in poor nations under fire (18 Sep 2006)
World Bank and International Monetary Fund need "a massive shift" in their attitude to internal disclosure (18 Sep 2006)
Fat Cats: Median take-home pay of a FTSE 100 chief executive was £2.3 million in 2005 (18 Sep 2006)
Fat Cats: FTSE 250 chief executives take-home pay of £878,000 (18 Sep 2006)
UK Executive remuneration schemes face radical overhaul (18 Sep 2006)

When giving to the poorest just lines the pockets of the richest (17 Sep 2006)
Vodafone faces record fines of up to €170m (£114m) for its role in an espionage scandal (17 Sep 2006)
The poisonous truth about our daily bread (17 Sep 2006)
Tax evasion: campaigners claim accounting watchdog is 'ignoring' them (17 Sep 2006)
Britain's largest domestic gas suppliers are resisting calls to cut bills despite drop in wholesale gas prices (17 Sep 2006)
BA opens talks on pensions gap (17 Sep 2006)
Indonesian economy is growing. But so, unfortunately, is poverty (17 Sep 2006)
Is the present business model bust for pensions (16 Sep 2006)
Number up for gaming executives, says French state lottery (16 Sep 2006)
Oil exploration firm's investors to query chief's £1.8m share deal (16 Sep 2006)
Former head of Bank Fuer Arbeit und Wirtschaft (Bawag) arrested in France on fraud charges (15 Sep 2006)
Funds flirt with scandal-tainted stocks (15 Sep 2006)
Debt firm boosted by borrowers' woes (15 Sep 2006)
One in four pensioners are borrowing money without any plan to pay it back (15 Sep 2006)
The performance of the privatised train operators (15 Sep 2006)
Average person would survive only three days on the weekly UK state pension (15 Sep 2006)
Plugging the gap: How employers can help to fill the pensions deficit (15 Sep 2006)
UK homes too dear says £130k footballer (14 Sep 2006)
Financial adviser in £2m swindle (14 Sep 2006)
UK Schools and shops in uniform 'rip-off' (14 Sep 2006)
Drax chief to pocket £4m in dividend (14 Sep 2006)
EU fines Shell, Total, 12 others 267 mln eur in bitumen price-fixing cartel (14 Sep 2006)
Commission fines companies for road bitumen cartel in The Netherlands (14 Sep 2006)
American, United Airlines Cleared In Price-Fixing Suits (14 Sep 2006)
FSA accused of understating pension risks (14 Sep 2006)
US corporate lobby does not like accountability and decency (14 Sep 2006)
UK credit card industry is still raking in nearly £400m a year in penalty fees (13 Sep 2006)
UK Power firms pay less, but bills go up (13 Sep 2006)
EU warns of new laws to break up energy groups (13 Sep 2006)
UK Rail firms fined £500,000 over London derailment (13 Sep 2006)
Drug company added to ranks of firms in options investigation (13 Sep 2006)
Glaxo's Big Tax Bill (13 Sep 2006)
US Panel of Executives and Academics to Consider Regulation and Competitivness (13 Sep 2006)
HP spy scandal 'may mean charges' (13 Sep 2006)
US is reviewing corporate prosecution guidelines (13 Sep 2006)
US Union asks Big Four accounting firms to give information on their role in the option backdating scandal (12 Sep 2006)
Fat Cats: PwC partners make £716000 each and thew top man sccops £2.5 million (12 Sep 2006)
After BCCI: City meets judges to curb commercial trials (12 Sep 2006)
Former Tyco Tax Exec Charged with Filing False Tax Returns (12 Sep 2006)
GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay a record $3.1bn (£1.7bn) to end a tax row with the US (12 Sep 2006)
Lufthansa has agreed to pay $85m (£45.6m; 67m euros) to settle allegations of price fixing (12 Sep 2006)
EC extends inquiry into Intel tactics (12 Sep 2006)
European Commission has widened its anti-competition probe into chipmaker Intel's business practices (12 Sep 2006)
HSBC cracks down on its overdrawn customers (12 Sep 2006)
Pensions Crisis: Older people in the United Kingdom (12 Sep 2006)
America frets as only the rich get richer (11 Sep 2006)
UK Insurance mis-selling scandal (11 Sep 2006)
UK Employers resist input on pensions and training (11 Sep 2006)
Good, and bad, news for Pension Savings Scheme (11 Sep 2006)
FSA fines Braemar £182,000 for 'pensions unlocking' failings (11 Sep 2006)
5.3 million UK workers earn below one third of the median hourly wage (10 Sep 2006)
150,000 UK people - and possibly a lot more - are not getting the minimum wage (10 Sep 2006)
8.5 million UK workers being denied training and many black people still face difficulty accessing the job market (10 Sep 2006)
TUC campaign targets worker exploitation (10 Sep 2006)
BP was warned of intimidation (10 Sep 2006)
BP battles to save image as investors' trust drips away (10 Sep 2006)
Global carbon taxes, wealth redistribution ... radical social solutions are globalisation's last chance (10 Sep 2006
News Corporation is paying $50,000 (£27,000) a month to rent a New York apartment for chairman Rupert Murdoch (9 Sep 2006)
Chairman ready to go as HP faces criminal investigation (9 Sep 2006)
Spying scandal splits Hewlett-Packard board (9 Sep 2006)
Australia loses billions each year to tax havens. And they're no longer just for the rich (9 Sep 2006)
Sportingbet arrest threatens internet gambling (9 Sep 2006)
OFT scolded over inquiry into the London Metal Exchange (9 Sep 2006)
US IRS Chief: CFO Pay Should Be Fixed (9 Sep 2006)
US Senate Finance Committee Hearing, “Executive Compensation: Backdating to the Future/Oversight of current issues regarding executive compensation including backdating of stock options; and tax treatment of executive compensation, retirement and benefits” (9 Sep 2006)
Closing Statement of Sen. Chuck Grassley, Chairman Senate Finance Committee Hearing, “Executive Compensation: Backdating to the Future/Oversight of current issues regarding executive compensation including backdating of stock options; and tax treatment of executive compensation, retirement and benefits” (9 Sep 2006)

Testimonies at US Finance Committee Hearings on Stock Options

BP has been accused of "unacceptable" neglect of pipelines in Alaska (8 Sep 2006)
Family Dollar Execs Sued Over Backdating (8 Sep 2006)
Hollinger: Black pleads not guilty to fraud charges (8 Sep 2006)
US charges ex-Staples executive with embezzling $584,826 (8 Sep 2006)
FSA fines The Carphone Warehouse Limited £245,000 for not treating its telesales insurance customers fairly (8 Sep 2006)
Bank Overdraft fees victory (8 Sep 2006)
Options timing scandal may draw many in (8 Sep 2006)
UK Age rules on pensions postponed (8 Sep 2006)
Millions unhappy with BT (7 Sep 2006)
The great mobile phone rip-off (7 Sep 2006)
Stolt-Nielsen indicted for tanker shipping price fixing (7 Sep 2006)
New York disputes AIG claim (7 Sep 2006)
U.S. Congress taking a look at timing of stock options granted to executives (7 Sep 2006)
UK cars a third more expensive (7 Sep 2006)

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UK Financial advisers are failing to give sound advice (7 Sep 2006)
UK low earners spend bigger slice of income on energy (7 Sep 2006)
THE average cost of mortgage repayments equated to 19% of take-home pay (7 Sep 2006)
Smelter Struggle: Trinidad Fishing Community Fights Aluminum Project (7 Sep 2006)
Pensions bonanza for top bosses (6 Sep 2006)
UK top bosses retire at 60 with a £3 million pension (6 Sep 2006)

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Corporate tax dodging is rife but CBI director-general attacks corporate taxes (6 Sep 2006)
U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: "Stock Options Backdating" (6 Sep 2006)

Senate Hearings on Stock Options Backdating

Sun, Unisys consolidate lawsuit over memory chip price-fixing (6 Sep 2006)
OFT issues provisional decision against Scottish processing dairies for price fixing (6 Sep 2006)
Six Scottish dairies have been accused of price-fixing (6 Sep 2006)
SIX dairies accused of working together to fix the price of fresh milk (6 Sep 2006)
UK unions attack 'upstairs-downstairs' pensions divide (6 Sep 2006)
UK Directors 'have £1bn pension pot' (6 Sep 2006)
Newcastle United lied over transfer deals, says UK VAT tribunal (6 Sep 2006)
'None of the documents generated by Newcastle can be relied upon as being true', says VAT tribunal (6 Sep 2006)
BP has been accused of making an unethical inducement to settle a personal injury lawsuit (5 Sep 2006)
AUSTRALIA'S top chief executives are being paid $2.5 million more, on average, than is disclosed to their shareholders (5 Sep 2006)
HSBC is the latest bank to be accused of kicking out customers who reclaim their bank charges (5 Sep 2006)
Beware of dangerous loans (5 Sep 2006)
Tyco followed warning to avoid backdating stock options (5 Sep 2006)
City trader's £5m claim puts spotlight back on bonuses (5 Sep 2006)
Poor pay most for energy (5 Sep 2006)
Standard Life dodges new UK pension law (5 Sep 2006)
Cynical shame of Lloyds' neglect (5 Sep 2006)
Filtronic chief was paid £379,000 to quit ailing firm (4 Sep 2006)
Corporate crime in the US shows no sign of abating (4 Sep 2006)
Customers lose £1bn in banks' base rate ploy (4 Sep 2006)
Filtronic chief was paid £379,000 to quit ailing firm (4 Sep 2006)
Skills crisis with 8.5 million UK workers being denied training (4 Sep 2006)
Obscene Profits: City bond trader sues Nomura for £7.5m in bonuses (4 Sep 2006)
UK Poor hit by rising energy costs (4 Sep 2006)
Barclays entices students into debt (4 Sep 2006)
Lawyers elude penalties: Legal advisers seldom held accountable for company fraud (4 Sep 2006)
Antiquated voting 'fails foreign investors' (4 Sep 2006)
SEC extends stock options inquiries (4 Sep 2006)
FTSE 100 directors move toward performance-related pay (4 Sep 2006)
Major banks get their staff to sell big loans and the profitable insurance policies that go with them for higher rewards (3 Sep 2006)
UK Pensioners put at panic stations over deficit rule (3 Sep 2006)
Learning to live with your low-paid job (3 Sep 2006)
Britain's top businessmen will collect up to £1m pensions while companies axe final salary schemes for employees (3 Sep 2006)
BRITAIN'S boardroom chiefs have lined up pensions worth SEVENTY-ONE times those of an average married couple (3 Sep 2006)
Survey exposes FTSE 100 directors' luxury pension packages (3 Sep 2006)
UK Public sector pension liabilities soar by £50bn (3 Sep 2006)
Top 500 Enterprises 2006 account for 78 percent of China's GDP (3 Sep 2006)
On the breadline: the realities of working long hours for minimum wage at a leading pizza restaurant (2 Sep 2006)
Business of Corruption: Look Who's Left Standing (2 Sep 2006)
When is £60,000 worth £59,700? After 10 years in Scottish Widows (2 Sep 2006)
Labour's £2bn army of consultants (2 Sep 2006)
Multinationals and responsibility - Cracking the colonial corporate culture (1 Sep 2006)
UK Customs officers crack £111m mobile VAT fraud ring (1 Sep 2006)
Apple faces alleged labor abuses at Chinese iPod plant (1 Sep 2006)
Share ramping and 'pumping and dumping' routinely takes place each day (1 Sep 2006)
ABTA 'reduces' travel protection (1 Sep 2006)
UK Holidaymakers lose cash protection (1 Sep 2006)
In hunt for heftier awards, lawyers seek backdating suits (1 Sep 2006)
Pension top-up may prove worthless (1 Sep 2006)
Hollinger: Assets of Lord Black and wife frozen by Canadian court (1 Sep 2006)

AUGUST 2006

UK Employers attempt to water down pension reforms (31 Aug 2006)
One in six could lose pension payments, says TUC (31 Aug 2006)
Companies reassess stock-option grants (31 Aug 2006)
Shell: Problems arise when tails are counted as legs (31 Aug 2006)
SEC takes no action against former Shell chief (31 Aug 2006)
Penny stocks are being pushed around by spammers (30 Aug 2006)
US Inquiry into BP 'market manipulation' (30 Aug 2006)
BP hit by new market-rigging probe (20 Aug 2006)
EU warns carmakers: meet targets to slash CO2 emissions or face tougher laws (30 Aug 2006)
600 million in Asia live on less than $1 a day (30 Aug 2006)
Over 1 billion "working poor" are living under the US$2 per person, per day poverty line, including more than 330 million living in extreme poverty of less than US$1 a day (30 Aug 2006)

REALIZING DECENT WORK IN ASIA

German Finance Ministry Confirms Billions Lost 65 billion euros ($82 billion) annually in Corporate Tax Evasion (29 Aug 2006)
Price-fixing leads to compliance order for Sotheby's (29 Aug 2006)
Competition watchdog lays down law to Sotheby's: Canada last to act on price-fixing charges (29 Aug 2006)
Barnes & Noble in stock options probe (29 Aug 2006)
Prudential Financial will pay $600 million to settle allegations of improper mutual fund trading (29 Aug 2006)
Profits before People: Thames Water to cut 25% of jobs (29 Aug 2006)
Thames Water to cut staff by 25% (29 Aug 2006)
37 million Americans were living under the poverty line last year (29 Aug 2006)
Severe poverty hurts public health (29 Aug 2006)
US investigates BP's oil trading (29 Aug 2006)
DuPont reducing workers' pensions (29 Aug 2006)
Price fixing suspected on Warsaw Stock Exchange (29 Aug 2006)
Taxes, not nationalism, prompted oil dispute, Chad says (28 Aug 2006)
Canadian regulators probe online broker scams (28 Aug 2006)
A Little Poverty Never Hurt Anybody: Ruthless Exploiters, Inc. (28 Aug 2006)
Companies reassess stock-option grants as US New rules force changes in types of compensation (28 Aug 2006)
China enacts new bankruptcy law (28 Aug 2006)
Multinational Corporations and Global Production Networks: The Implications for Trade Policy (27 Aug 2006)
Assembling a New International Financial Architecture: The Deeper Challenges (27 Aug 2006)
Capital Mobility and Tax Competition (27 Aug 2006)
20 largest quoted companies in the UK make an average of over £96,000 pre-tax profit per employee (27 Aug 2006)
BA 'dirty tricks' storm (27 Aug 2006)
Ex-CBI boss caught up in iSoft fiasco (26 Aug 2006)
US Senate to hold hearing on executive pay (26 Aug 2006)
FSA fines Friendly Society £55,000 for financial promotions failings (26 Aug 2006)
US Senate sets hearing on stock options (25 Aug 2006)
$45m Comverse fugitive traced to Sri Lankan beach (25 Aug 2006)
Court dissolves shares-swindle firm (25 Aug 2006)
Backdating Stock Options Causes Late Filings to Soar (25 Aug 2006)
Top UK Law firms rake in £10.8bn in fees (25 Aug 2006)
Oil firms 'hushing up' crisis of corroding pipelines (25 Aug 2006)
Pension lawyers say UK government guidance on age discrimination laws is wrong (25 Aug 2006)
Erosion of welfare rights as Dental bills leave a nasty taste (24 Aug 2006)
Your chance to vote for the most irresponsible organisations
Philips hit by corruption probe (24 Aug 2006)
Wells Fargo should have been publicly cited for weak money-laundering safeguards, a report says (24 Aug 206)
UK Ciity regulator looking at iSoft, the company at heart of £6.2bn upgrade (24 Aug 2006)
Sorting out the options-backdating quagmire: How backdating may affect your stocks (24 Aug 206)
First Data Restates Over Derivatives (24 Aug 206)
Income Inequalities: UK First-time buyers face impossible task (24 Aug 2006)
In the kingdom of the blind (24 Aug 2006)
Realizing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Communities, Courts and the Academy (24 Aug 2006)
Newspaper seeks lifting of iSoft gagging order as accounting controversy escalates (23 Aug 2006)
iSoft: Company at heart of NHS reform in serious trouble (23 Aug 2006)
US Prosecutors Crack Down on Stock Options (22 Aug 2006)
Investors Sue Apple Over Stock Options Scandal (22 Aug 2006)
SEC Shoves Executive Pay into the Spotlight (22 Aug 2006)
UK average pay for all full-time employees in 2005 was £28,210 (22 Aug 2006)
BAT shredded evidence helpful to dying smokers' claims, judge says (22 Aug 2006)
Big tobacco: 50 years of lies. Now what? (22 Aug 2006)
Tobacco companies and their leaders for decades were liars and charlatans (22 Aug 2006)
US Prosecutors Crack Down on Stock Options (22 Aug 2006)
UK Employers flout minimum wage laws (22 Aug 2006)
Ten 'reasons' UK employers give for not paying the National Minimum Wage (22 Aug 2006)
Fat Cats: Only four chief executives in the FTSE 100 went without a bonus last year (21 Aug 2006)
Fat Cats: Biggest City bonuses ever (21 Aug 2006)
No matter how you do it tobacco is a killer (21 Aug 2006)
Polish MPs attack banking system (21 Aug 2006)
Executive incentives failing to boost performance (21 Aug 2006)
Fat Cats: Only four chief executives in the FTSE 100 went without a bonus last year (21 Aug 2006)
Stock options are turning out to be the new area of corporate controversy verging on the illegal becoming rife (21 Aug 2006)
The solar salesmen in hot water (20 Aug 2006)
Tobacco archive must be maintained (19 Aug 2006)
Dell under accounting investigation by the SEC (18 Aug 2006)
Disaster Profiteering on the American Gulf Coast (17 Aug 2006)
Saga to support action on final salary pensions (16 Aug 2006)
Interserve suspends six over £25m hole in accounts (15 Aug 2006)
Russia to investigate price fixing (14 Aug 2006)
Glaxo reaches $70 million settlement over price-fixing claims (11 Aug 2006)
NHS gave iSoft money upfront during year of irregularities (10 Aug 2006)
Intelligence in Iraq: L-3 Supplies Spy Support (9 Aug 2006)
John Connolly, senior partner and chief executive of Deloitte in the UK, earned £4,166,400, some £534,000 more than in the previous year (9 Aug 2006)
SEC Charges Former Comverse Technology, Inc. CEO, CFO, and General Counsel in Stock Option Backdating Scheme (9 Aug 2006)
ISoft uncovers accounting errors (8 Aug 2006)
ISoft suspends two amid formal probe (8 Aug 2006)
ISoft suspends founder over accounts queries (8 Aug 2006)
Executive remuneration packages at FTSE 350 companies are becoming ever more dominated by performance based elements (7 Aug 2006)
Pepsi and Coke under fire again in India (3 Aug 2006)
India Soft Drinks Pesticide-Laden (3 Aug 2006)
Three out of four BA flights late (3 Aug 2006)
UK 'hit by soaring fraud levels' (3 Aug 2006)
Boss of Faurecia, Pierre Levi, has resigned following the start of a criminal investigation into alleged bribery (3 Aug 2006)
Australia Inquiry examines petrol price-fixing claims (3 Aug 2006)
Eurotunnel wins protection from creditors (3 Aug 2006)
FRRP calls for better pensions disclosure (3 Aug 2006)
Fat Cats: Top executives' pay is rising twice as fast as their workers' earnings (3 Aug 2006)
EU, US Agree On Plan To Enforce Accounting Rules (3 Aug 2006)
Scottish Re Group and its links to offshore tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands (2 Aug 2006)
The end comes for Yukos as oil firm declared bankrupt and auction ordered (2 Aug 2006)
The Rolling Stones paid just 1.6 per cent in tax on earnings of $US152 million (2 Aug 2006)
UK Pensions gap stands at £36bn (2 Aug 2006)

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UK Final salary pension schemes 'to be history by 2012' (2 Aug 2006)
Senior management pocket £23m from company flotation as Debenhams kills off its final-salary pension scheme (2 Aug 2006)
UK banks made more money per customer than any other major business sector (2 Aug 2006)
UK Executive bonuses have doubled in 3 years (2 Aug 2006)
Deloitte study says bonuses now make up 80 pct of executive pay (2 Aug 2006)
Bonuses now make up 80 pct of executive pay (2 Aug 2006)
A Circle of Abuse and Cronyism : Tax Evaders Use Political Connections (2 Aug 2006)
World economy helps rich avoid taxes (2 Aug 2006)
Spanish Court Fines Iberia, Spanair For Price Fixing (2 Aug 2006)
TAX HAVEN ABUSES: THE ENABLERS, THE TOOLS AND SECRECY, US SENATE REPORT (1 Aug 2006)
Yukos declared bankrupt by court (1 Aug 2006)
Backdating Inquiries Mean Business for Law and Accounting Firms (1 Aug 2006)
Offshore havens reported to cheat U.S. of $100 billion (1 Aug 2006)
Bail set at $1m for UK internet gaming boss (1 Aug 2006)
Computer Associates says it backdated stock options (1 Aug 2006)

JULY 2006

MPs condemn lack of help for workers who lost pensions (31 Jul 2006)

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London could be 'fraud honeypot' (31 Jul 2006)
Average price of a house in England and Wales rises to £166,500 (31 Jul 2006)
UK's Pension Protection Fund 'lifeboat' inflicts hardships (31 Jul 2006)
US minimum wage to rise to $7.25 by the middle of 2009 (31 Jul 2006)
Options scandal grew out of 1990s strategy (31 Jul 2006)
What Can Nonfinancial Measures Tell Us About the Likelihood of Fraud? (31 Jul 2006)
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN THE MARKETPLACE: ACCOUNTANTS AND BUSINESS EXECUTIVES REPEATING HISTORY (31 Jul 2006)
CEO Turnover Following Earnings Restatements (31 Jul 2006)
Evidence on the Role of Accounting Conservatism in Corporate Governance (31 Jul 2006)
Fury over BP chief's £3m bonus (30 Jul 2006)
ITV Chief executive could walk away with up to £10m payoff (30 Jul 2006)
UK Banks set profit record (30 Jul 2006)
Hays raided as OFT puts staff agencies in spotlight (29 Jul 2006)
Financial services errors put Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.'s (PwC client) future in doubt (30 Jul 2006)
McAfee Shares Sink on Options Probe (29 Jul 2006)
SEC investigates Activision over stock options (29 Jul 2006)
Income inequalities: Key workers now priced out of housing market in most UK towns (29 Jul 2006)
Banks agree to provide free ATMs in poorer parts of the UK (29 Jul 2006)
Manufacturers of surgical implements in Pakistan use child labour and subject their workers to sweatshop conditions (28 Jul 2006)
US to probe for digital music price fixing (28 Jul 2006)
Japanese firm pleads guilty to DRAM price fixing (28 Jul 2006)
2 Mobile Operators Fined for Price Fixing (28 Jul 2006)
Privatisation of everything: UK Academies oversubscribed but underperforming, study shows (28 Jul 2006)

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American Tower Says It Probably Backdated Options (28 Jul 2006)
UK Borrowers pay off less debt (28 Jul 2006)
£1.6m profit an hour for oil giant Shell (28 Jul 2006)
EU probe into rival DVD formats (28 Jul 2006)
Real cost of endowment fiasco revealed (28 Jul 2006)
UK banks and insurers have paid out a total of £2.2bn in compensation to victims of endowment mis-selling (28 Jul 2006)
Sell-out: Why hedge funds will destroy the world (27 Jul 2006)
Shell confesses to poor North Sea safety record and pledges reform (27 Jul 2006)
Mall or nothing for India's elites (27 Jul 2006)
Chicago backs higher minimum wage of $9.15 an hour (27 Jul 2006)
The bottom line for US executive pay will now be transparency (27 Jul 2006)
SEC vows to rein in hedge funds (27 Jul 2006)
Pinochet's Dutch Secret (26 Jul 2006)
Pensions Crisis: More than a million UK pensioners have an average debt of £15,500 (26 Jul 2006)
UK Doorstep lenders charge rate of interest, typically above 200% on loans (26 Jul 2006)
Price-fixing raids put a stain on green paradise (26 Jul 2006)
Stagecoach bosses' £15m bonanza (26 Jul 2006)
Two of Austria's biggest firms, Austrian Airlines (AUA) and the national oil company OMV in price-fixing allegations (26 Jul 2006)
Goldman Sachs , Merrill Lynch & Co. and other investment banks are paying $99 million to settle Global Crossing shareholder litigation (26 Jul 2006)
Sack follows arrest for BetonSports chief executive (26 Jul 2006)
Thames Water 'top UK polluter' (26 Jul 2006)
Parmalat class-action risk (26 Jul 2006)
Big Companies Cash in on US Fed Contracts (26 Jul 2006)
Former Conseco Execs Barred by SEC (26 Jul 2006)
Yell refuses to bow to regulator and threatens legal action (26 Jul 2006)
Creditors press for Yukos to be declared bankrupt (26 Jul 2006)
Pensions lifeboat for MG workers (26 Jul 2006)
More than 2,000 companies appear to have used backdated stock options to sweeten their top executives' pay packages (25 Jul 2006)
Does backdating explain the stock price pattern around executive stock option grants? (25 Jul 2006)
OVER £8.6bn of investors money is languishing in funds that have underperformed their benchmark by 10% over the past three years (25 Jul 2006)
Rover collapse 'to cost UK £600m'(25 Jul 2006)
UK Taxpayers pick up £270m bill for MG Rover (25 Jul 2006)

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New Study Reveals 92% of Public Companies' Revenue Processes at Risk for Compliance Failures and Restatements (25 Jul 2006)
Investors protest at GUS executives' get-rich share deal (24 Jul 2006)
Tory thinktank calls for annual levy on UK residential property (24 Jul 2006)
Executive share options: Dates from hell (24 Jul 2006)
Stock options backdating scandal turns criminal (24 Jul 2006)
Backdating of share options was a client-driven strategy with the accounting firms saying it sounds OK to me (24 Jul 2006)
UK Pensions insolvency scheme has paid just 113 people (24 Jul 2006)
BA's pension deficit doubles (24 Jul 2006)
Corporate UK plays the green card (23 Jul 2006)
Fresh raids over £10m mortgage'fraud' (23 Jul 2006)
Russians coming to UK to seize suspects (23 Jul 2006)
Investors may sue over BetonSports (23 Jul 2006)
Has internet gambling run out of luck? (23 Jul 2006)
Investor revolt against Vodafone chief (22 Jul 2006)
Legal eagles navigate options probe (22 Jul 2006)
UK Water companies lose 3.6bn litres a day in leaks (20 Jul 2006)
UK water pipe leaks almost 3,600 million litre per day (21 Jul 2006)
Airline complaints soar 50% (21 Jul 2006)
Hollinger: Lord Black finances in spotlight (21 Jul 2006)
Online betting operators flee FBI dragnet (21 Jul 2006)
UK Corporate killing law to change (21 Jul 2006)
UK Pensions reform will only help the rich (20 Jul 2006)
'Poor could lose out in UK pensions reform' (20 Jul 2006)
Corporate manslaughter crackdown cheers UK unions (20 Jul 2006)
Boss quits post at troubled Yukos (20 Jul 2006)
We need to popularise the role of the state for this age (20 Jul 2006)
Ofwat threatens £140m Thames Water fine (19 Jul 2006)
BA expects price-fixing inquiry to end shortly (19 Jul 2006)
Number of British people struggling to pay their mortgage would hit the highest level for 15 years (19 Jul 2006)
Cash machine fees punish poor (19 Jul 2006)
BA's chairman escapes scrutiny in cartel inquiry (19 Jul 2006)
Shell safety under fire as Brent Bravo deaths judged preventable (19 Jul 2006)
EU clamps down on 'misleading' airfares (19 Jul 2006)
US lawyers deal online body blow (19 Jul 2006)
Sellers victory over estate agents (19 Jul 2006)
Australia: Farmers set to be compensated for vitamin price fixing (18 Jul 2006)
EU proposes crackdown on airlines' hidden charges (18 Jul 2006)
Jersey Tax Dodge: Call to close cheap CDs loophole (18 Jul 2006)
UK Review to advise stiffer sentences for fraud (18 Jul 2006)
'North-South house price gap the widest ever' (18 Jul 2006)
U.S. Official: Corruption in Iraq Oil (18 Jul 2006)
FedEx Subpoenaed in Cargo Price-Fixing Probe (17 Jul 2006)
Roche, BASF and Aventis in A$30m settlement for vitamin price fixing class action (17 Jul 2006)
Stricter governance 'does little to improve performance' (17 Jul 2006)
Apple firm re-registers as unlimited company in Ireland (17 Jul 2006)
Citigroup request to move Parmalat case rejected by New Jersey Court (17 Jul 2006)
Executives given cut-price stock options in weeks after 9/11 (17 Jul 2006)
Outside directors may have spread the idea of backdating options (17 Jul 2006)
Lie uncovers stock option flaws (17 Jul 2006)
Enron: NatWest Three facing up to nine years in jail (17 Jul 2006)
UK firms are struggling with the cost of providing their workers with pensions (17 Jul 2006)
Contractors flout race and age laws (16 Jul 2006)
Fraud officials move in on Severn Trent Water company (16 Jul 2006)
Governments for Sale: Cherie 'helped set up' private health meeting (16 Jul 2006)
The British should emulate the Americans' vigorous fraud-busting approach (16 Jul 2006)
Blairusconi's Britain - just a little Italy? (16 Jul 2006)
Meet Bob the Bank Buster (16 Jul 2006)
The Growth Performance of Developing Countries in the Last Thirty Years. Who gained? Who Lost? (16 Jul 2006)
Cable & Wireless faces a shareholder revolt over plans to pay its top 60 executives £220m (16 Jul 2006)
New Labour Sleaze and tax havens (15 Jul 2006)
FIFTEEN credit card providers have failed to slash their default charges despite the Office of Fair Trading ordering them (15 Jul 2006)
FBI points finger at options backdating (15 Jul 2006)
Broadcom takes big charge for options (15 Jul 2006)
UPS gets subpoena in price-fixing inquiry (15 Jul 2006)
FedEx Subpoenaed in Cargo Price-Fixing Probe (15 Jul 2006)
Enron: NatWest Three bailed by US court (15 Jul 2006)
Farce and reality of morality (15 Jul 2006)
Spitzer files suit over chip price fixing (14 Jul 2006)
Spitzer Sues Chip Makers Over Alleged Price Fixing (14 Jul 2006)
Enron: NatWest three face awkward questions over $7m profit (14 Jul 2006)
UK VAT fraud 'reaches record levels' (14 Jul 2006)
Court blow for workers who lost pensions in bust firms (14 Jul 2006)
Insurance industry is siphoning off our pension savings in charges faster than new money is going in (14 Jul 2006)
Complaints about water companies rise by 10% (14 Jul 2006)
Surge in water firm complaints (14 Jul 2006)
Employers pump up pension schemes (13 Jul 2006)
Young Brits rely on bank overdraft (13 Jul 2006)
Barclays’ CSR does not add up - by £1.5 billion (13 Jul 2006)
Air France-KLM CEO summoned before judge in money-laundering probe (13 Jul 2006)
Enron: Friend of presidents, defrauder of millions: Texas elite bids farewell to 'Kenny boy' (13 Jul 2006)
Move for creditor protection puts Eurotunnel at risk of going bust (13 Jul 2006)
US halts Halliburton's exclusive Iraq deal (13 Jul 2006)
Government for Sale: Honours scandal reaches door of Downing Street (13 Jul 2006)
Government for Sale: Labour's chief fundraiser Lord Levy has been arrested and bailed in connection with the "cash-for-honours" inquiry (12 Jul 2006)
US Judge questions press baron Black's finances (12 Jul 2006)
Hollinger: Judge Skeptical Of Conrad Black's Accounting At Bond Hearing (12 Jul 2006)
Mortgage fees rocket by 22% (12 Jul 2006)
Suicide over £100,000 loan and card debt (12 Jul 2006)
Hedge fund managers hit back at criticism from the Bank of England that they are weakening UK financial stability (12 Jul 2006)
Hooked on bribes: Is Russia's 'new capitalism' addicted to corruption? (12 Jul 2006)
EU hits Microsoft with €280.5m antitrust fine (12 Jul 2006)
Microsoft hit by €280m EU fine (12 Jul 2006)
Microsoft fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling (12 Jul 2006)
Young workers without pensions risk dying poor (12 Jul 2006)
UK Pension saving on the decline (12 Jul 2006)
EU slashes overseas mobile phone costs (12 Jul 2006)
Gordon must show PFI money (11 Jul 2006)
Dramatic drop in FTSE 100 pension deficits (11 Jul 2006)
VAT fraud costing Europe €50bn a year (11 Jul 2006)
Monaco: The tax haven that today's super rich City commuters call home (10 Jul 2006)
From AABA/TJN Workshop on Tax Avoidance (9 Jul 2006)

Tax Avoidance, Capital Flight and Poverty in Nigeria by Owolabi M Bakre
The India / Mauritius Double Taxation Treaty: A salutary tale by Chris Bratcher
Tax evasion, tax avoidance and development finance (paper) by Alex Cobham
Tax evasion, tax avoidance and development finance (Slides) by Alex Cobham
The Plato Index: a new international comparative measure of tax progressivity (abstract) by Valpy FitzGerald
The Plato Index: a new international comparative measure of tax progressivity (Slides) by Valpy FitzGerald
The impact of tax and corruption in Kenya : Views of young women (Paper) by Rose Otieno
The impact of tax and corruption in Kenya : Views of young women (Slides) by Rose Otieno
Estimates of Capital Movements from African Countries to the U.S. through Trade Mispricing (Abstract) by Simon J. Pak
Estimates of Capital Movements from African Countries to the U.S. through Trade Mispricing by Simon J. Pak
Financialisation: constructing shareholder value … for some by Alan Robb and Sue Newberry
The Tobin Tax in the 21st Century: Financing Development & Promoting International Financial Stability by Stephen Spratt
Financial Flows and Treasury Management Firms (paper) by Jim Stewart
Financial Flows and Treasury Management Firms (Slides) by Jim Stewart
Owning IFI tax proposals in developing countries (Abstract) by Miranda Stewart
Owning IFI tax proposals in developing countries (Slides) by Miranda Stewart

Alleged abuse of options takes toll on confidence and financial results -- and on share prices (9 Jul 2006)
Fertility clinic 'rip-off' fears (9 Jul 2006)
Enron: Time to tell the whole truth about the NatWest Three (9 Jul 2006)
HAVING THEIR CAKE AND EATING IT TOO: THE BIG CORPORATE TAX BREAK (8 Jul 2006)
Meagre harvest : Asian economic drive offers little to Chinese and Indian farmers (8 Jul 2006)
Bridgestone, other tire companies sue Chemtura over price fixing (8 Jul 2006)
Poorest children have highest death from injury risk (8 Jul 2006)
UK Minister Jowell's husband must face tax trial with Berlusconi (8 Jul 2006)
Berlusconi to stand trial for fraud (8 Jul 2006)
Mills to stand trial on fraud charges (8 Jul 2006)
We will never abolish child poverty in a society shaped like this one (8 Jul 2006)
Battle for truth of pensions tax grab (8 Jul 2006)
Consequences of profit maximisation: Low earners 'live shorter lives' (7 Jul 2006)

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Phillipines Central bank probes securities price-fixing (7 Jul 2006)
Merrill to pay $29.5m to settle Enron claim (7 Jul 2006)
Westpoint's Carey reveals business methods (7 Jul 2006)
OFT persuades Dell to delete 'unfair' small print in contracts (7 Jul 2006)
Risky days for outside directors (7 Jul 2006)
$145bn group award to smokers against US tobacco firms is quashed (7 Jul 2006)
iSoft in crisis over £6bn NHS project (7 Jul 2006)
Worries grow as iSoft haggles on loans (7 Jul 2006)
The holiday insurance rip-off (6 Jul 2006)
UK Endowment mortgage anguish goes on (6 Jul 2006)
Shareholders sue Apple as executive share options scandal grows (6 Jul 2006)
Call for UK action on child poverty (6 Jul 2006)
UK School uniform trade investigated (6 Jul 2006)
Disgraced Enron boss Ken Lay dies at luxury ski chalet (6 Jul 2006)
Enron ex-chief Kenneth Lay dies (6 Jul 2006)
Misselling of endowments mortgages attracts 16,000 complaints (5 Jul 2006)
HSBC accused of deserting poor (5 Jul 2006)
Documents reveal hidden fears over Britain's nuclear plants (5 Jul 2006)
Airlines ready for a dogfight over EU's plan for cleaner, greener skies (5 Jul 2006)
Hedge funds: Playing dice with the universe (5 Jul 2006)
Thames Water's £150m leaks bill averts big fine (5 Jul 2006)
What Options Scandal? (5 Jul 2006)
Former Champion Jockey Fallon implicated in fraud and money laundering scandal (5 Jul 2006)
Horseracing rocked by fixing charges against champion jockey Fallon (5 Jul 2006)
A Galbraithian Lens on Globalization (4 Jul 2006)
Taming Predatory Capitalism (4 Jul 2006)
The cheap train fares 'mirage' (4 Jul 2006)
They like subsidies: Network Rail seeks extra £8bn for infrastructure (4 Jul 2006)
UK High Court challenge to age laws discrimination (4 Jul 2006)
Abbey increases exit penalties for bond investors by up to 30% (4 Jul 2006)
Final-salary pension closed to new Friends Provident staff (4 Jul 2006)
Insurer to close final-salary pension scheme (4 Jul 2006)
Enron links beyond the NatWest Three (4 Jul 2006)
Global Inequality and Global Finance (4 Jul 2006)
Money Laundering and Capital Flight (4 Jul 2006)
Financial Liberalisation and Financial Fraud: Revisiting the 1990s (4 Jul 2006)
Vulnerability of Power Sector from Financial Globalisation (4 Jul 2006)
Neoliberal imperialism, corporate feudalism and the contemporary origins of dirty money (4 Jul 2006)
When Fragile becomes Friable: Endemic Control Fraud as a Cause of Economic Stagnation and Collapse (4 Jul 2006)
Italy's Consob says football scandal raise queries on clubs listing (4 Jul 2006)
Profile of FTSE 100 CEOs (4 Jul 2006)
Lloyd's names seek £1bn compensation from government for regulatory failure (4 Jul 2006)
The 100 Worst Corporate Citizens (3 Jul 2006)
IS GLOBALIZATION MAKING WORLD INCOME DISTRIBUTION MORE EQUAL? (3 Jul 2006)
GLOBALIZATION, POVERTY AND INCOM DISTRIBUTION: DOES THE LIBERAL AGUMENT HOLD? (3 Jul 2006)
Toothless Regulators: Business cartels are being offered a price fixing "peace deal" by the Office of Fair Trading (3 Jul 2006)
Champion jockey Fallon charged with plotting to defraud gamblers (3 Jul 2006)
BAE bribe scandal charges looming (3 Jul 2006)
SEC Wins Suit Against Waste Firm's Ex-CFO (3 Jul 2006)
UK Nurseries face minimum wage probe (3 Jul 2006)
Investors outraged over iSoft bosses (3 Jul 2006)
Bank's role in debtor's suicide (3 Jul 2006)
US bosses earn 800 times lowest pay (2 Jul 2006)
BP boss in price fixing probe (2 Jul 2006)
They like public subisidies: Network Rail pleads for extra £7bn (2 Jul 2006)
Consultants milk the public sector: Pot of gold hiding in the UK public sector (2 Jul 2006)
Thames water leak fine to be set by key partner (2 Jul 2006)
Governments for Sale: Tetrapak tax recluse gives £100,000 to UK Conservatives (2 Jul 2006)
Price Fixing: Mastercard faces €230m fine as EU flexes muscles (1 Jul 2006)
Government for Sale: Rupert Murdoch is effectively a member of Blair's cabinet (1 Jul 2006)
Smith & Nephew ordered to hand over documents amid a criminal investigation into price-fixing in the US (1 Jul 2006)
The chilling truth about ice cream (1 Jul 2006)
'23% of over-50s Britons can't afford home'(1 Jul 2006)
Suncream claims 'have serious health implications' (1 Jul 2006)
Apple admits it may have mishandled stock options (1 Jul 2006)

JUNE 2006

EU Credit card price-fixing probe kicks-off (30 Jun 2006)
Price Fixing: UK Double glazing raw materials distributors fines for involvement in cartel (30 Jun 2006)
Stock option trouble hits Apple (30 Jun 2006)
Apple in stock options probe (30 Jun 2006)
Credit Card that charges 223% interest (30 Jun 2006)
Holiday firms in 'rip-off' row (30 Jun 2006)
UK Rail fares rip-off (30 Jun 2006)
UK: Rising bills erode disposable income (30 Jun 2006)
South Korean prosecutors have raided the offices of Korea Exchange Bank (30 Jun 2006)
Lawsuit fuels oil BP troubles in America (30 Jun 2006)
BP under fire as UK Competition Commission targets LPG market (30 Jun 2006)
OFT launches probe into airports (30 Jun 2006)
Mortgage lenders and brokers are misinforming customers about the fees and charges on their home loans (30 Jun 2006)
UK Mortgages debt tops £1 trillion (30 Jun 2006)
Britons now collectively owe £1,006,796,000,000 through home loans (30 Jun 2006)
Consultants: How to milk the cash cow (30 Jun 2006)
Dirty Secrets of the Temple (30 Jun 2006)
Income Inequlaities: Britons 'spend 40% of wages on their mortgage' (29 Jun 2006)
BP faces US action over propane tactics (29 Jun 2006)
BP accused of price manipulation (29 Jun 2006)
BP charged with US price-fixing (29 Jun 2006)
BP facing price-fixing charges in America (29 Jun 2006)
Computer Associates Seeks Return of Executive Pay (29 Jun 2006)
UK Train-leasing banks face inquiry amid claims that public is being ripped off (29 Jun 2006)
Scant return on UK navy's £1.2bn frigate sale: Most of money raised goes to arms companies (29 Jun 2006)
France's shareholder revolt (29 Jun 2006)
EU Commission welcomes judgments of the Court of Justice in SGL Carbon and Showa Denko price fixing cases (29 Jun 2006)
EU Companies found guilty of cartel behaviour face billion-euro fines (29 Jun 2006)
Company Executives on move despite pay rises (29 Jun 2006)
UK train leasing firms face probe (28 Jun 2006)
South West Trains profits soar to £137m (28 Jun 2006)
The welfare state is waning. Bring on the philanthropists (28 Jun 2006)
Fat Cats: Carphone Warehouse CFO nets £3.2m (28 Jun 2006)
Japan: Takeda Pharm Denies Not Reporting Income (28 Jun 2006)
UK accounting firms enjoy £1bn bonanza in wake of Enron (28 Jun 2006)
Tp 60 UK accountancy firms have UK fees of £7.7 bn (28 Jun 2006)
UK Government seeks pension backing (28 Jun 2006)
Ofcom lets ConTV show go on (27 Jun 2006)
British Airways Plc, Virgin Atlantic, AMR Corp.’s American Airlines and UAL Corp.’s United Airlines sued for Price-Fixing (27 Jun 2006)
Drought order water company sees profits rise to £6.4m (27 Jun 2006)
Fat Cats: Ex-boss of GCap paid £1.6m for four months' work (27 JUn 2006)
UK Pension savings crisis deepens (27 Jun 2006)
More UK employers to shut final pension schemes to all staff (27 Jun 2006)
46% of Britons are not savings adequately for their old age pension (27 Jun 2006)
28% of Britons are unanle to make aby savings for pensions (27 Jun 2006)
Exchange chief says Japan faces ‘necessary evil’ of anti-fraud war (27 Jun 2006)
Enron UK three face trial in US (27 Jun 2006)
35% of India's population lives on less than $1 a day (27 Jun 2006)
The perils of privatisation (26 Jun 2006)
Drug Profits, Fraud and Death: Big Pharma's Big Graveyard (26 Jun 2006)
VIRGIN ATLANTIC passenger fuel surcharges helped it double profits (26 Jun 2006)
BA, Virgin face US class action lawsuit over price fixing (26 Jun 2006)
More turbulence as BA faces US lawsuit over price-fixing claims (26 Jun 2006)
Drug firms a danger to health - report (26 Jun 2006)
UK FINANCIAL watchdog to clamp down on lenders that don't offer a refund when a loan insurance policy is cancelled (26 Jun 2006)
IASB comes under pressure from NGOs to increase corporate accountability (26 Jun 2006)

Britain's Wealth Explosion by Stewart Lansley (25 Jun 2006)
Gender Bias in Tax Systems: The Example of Ghana by Bianca Pfeuffer and Sören Weißert (25 Jun 2006)
Stock Options – Accounting Treatments – The Impact on Policy, Practice and Performance by David Ewers (25 Jun 2006)
Accounting for (In)Visibilities: Resistance, Gender and Control by Roger Johnston and Orthodoxia Kyriacou (25 Jun 2006)
How agents target desperate homeowners to make a quick buck (25 Jun 2006)
FBI to intervene in BA price-fixing probe (25 Jun 2006)
PricewaterhouseCoopers at it again as Britannia face £20m bill after UK tax swoop (25 Jun 2006)
BA prices probe for former chief executive (25 Jun 2006)
Investigator claims he was fired for hedge fund inquiry (24 Jun 2006)
Price: Fixing: Virgin points the finger at BA (24 Jun 2006)
Virgin tip-off 'led to BA price fixing probe' (24 Jun 2006)
BA price-fixing inquiry triggered by Virgin Atlantic (24 Jun 2006)
BA price-fixing turmoil: offices raided, executives suspended (23 Jun 2006)
Price Fixing: BA board's silence fuels the crisis (23 Jun 2006)
Price Fixing: Surprise as BA suspends key executives for duration of investigation (23 Jun 2006)
BA and Virgin probed over 'price-fixing' (23 Jun 2006)
Top US bosses 'earn $11m a year' (23 Jun 2006)
Italian football heavyweights Juventus, AC Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina will all face a sports court over allegations of corruption (23 Jun 2006)
Water Watchdog slams leaky Thames (23 Jun 2006)
PFI: Tube shambles hits Metronet (23 Jun 2006)
MEPs hit out at regulators over Equitable Life (23 Jun 2006)
Shell report highlighted lax safety standards (23 Jun 2006)
Shell accused over oil rig safety (22 Jun 2006)
Charterhouse Bank abetted tax evasion by some firms in Kenya (22 Jun 2006)
British Airways faces £850m fine over price-fixing claim (22 Jun 2006)
British Airways is being investigated by UK and US regulators over alleged price fixing (22 Jun 2006)
Bangladeshi garments workers fight for their rights (22 Jun 2006)
ONE in ten UK pensioners has to live on a paltry £8.49 a day (22 Jun 2006)
Profits up, prices up - and so are the excuses as Thames Water fails to plug the leaks (22 Jun 2006)
'Extreme debt' levels in the UK get worse (22 Jun 2006)
Pensions crisis: Increases in the amount of money owed were greatest among the over-60s (22 Jun 2006)
Governments for Sale: Former Spanish PM to join Murdoch board (22 Jun 2006)
2bn cigarettes smuggled into the UK and the taxpayers lost £2.9 billion in taxes (22 Jun 2006)

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Former Computer Associates International executive attempted to buy customers' silence over a company accounting scandal (22 Jun 2006)
Fees deter UK state school pupils from university (22 Jun 2006)
Packaging challenge to stores (22 Jun 2006)
Growth isn’t working: the uneven distribution of benefits and costs from economic growth (32 page PDf File) (21 Jun 2006)
Big business likes subsidies: Developed nations spent $283bn (£154bn) on agricultural support in 2005 (21 Jun 2006)
Corruption: Twenty years of smokescreen over Saudi deal (21 Jun 2006)
Corruption: Saudi deal 'hidden from MPs' (21 Jun 2006)
Ex-KAMCO CEO Detained Over Hyundai Scandal (21 Jun 2006)
Thames Water misses leak target but makes huge profits (21 Jun 2006)
UK Financial Services Authority to be investigated by the National Audit Office (21 Jun 2006)
Former SEC Chairman Pitt Flays Options Back-Dating (21 Jun 2006)
Rich get even richer in third world (21 Jun 2006)
Liberalism failed to set us free. Indeed, it enslaved us (21 Jun 2006)
UK economic elites complain about the regulatory burden but silent on abuses (21 Jun 2006)
UK Company Law Reform Bill could be 'half-baked' (20 Jun 2006)
Five years after Enron, culture of greed is back (20 Jun 2006)
FOUR sacked directors with energy firm Scottish Power cost the company nearly £11m in severance payouts (20 Jun 2006)
Wealth inequalities: 'Poorer still dying younger' (20 Jun 2006)
Scotland’s poor and jobless will die youngest (20 Jun 2006)
'Worthless' bank loan insurance costs £5bn (20 Jun 2006)
'Poor deal' for internet shoppers (20 Jun 2006)
Brits are biggest online shopping victims (20 Jun 2006)
OFT shifts Mastercard fee probe (20 Jun 2006)
Magistrate hands in report on Italian corruption (20 Jun 2006)
Judge fines firm $4M in concrete price fixing (20 Jun 2006)
Lloyds TSB plans to clear £2bn pension deficit in a decade (20 Jun 2006)
Lloyds TSB to plug £2bn pensions hole (20 Jun 2006)
US Inquiry Into Stock Option Pricing Casts a Wide Net: Deloitte Implicated (19 Jun 2006)
Sir Philip Green of Arcadia- the rewards of tax avoidance (19 Jun 2006)
Scottish Power pays former executives 'obscene' £11m (19 Jun 2006)
Home Depot awarded executive options below market prices (19 Jun 2006)
Corporate branding slogans: Probably the best corporate slogan... (19 Jun 2006)
Airbus boss faces axe over share deal (18 Jun 2006)
Founder lives the high life as iSoft slumps (18 Jun 2006)
A New York hedge fund is in a court battle with the Republic of Congo over who is robbing the oil-rich but dirtpoor African nation (18 Jun 2006)
Inequality in Japan: The rising sun leaves some Japanese in the shade (18 Jun 2006)
Inequality in America: The rich, the poor and the growing gap between them (18 Jun 2006)
Australia: Reform of company liability under fire (18 Jun 2006)
Multinationals know they must adapt to survive. Being seen to behave ethically is as important as making profits (18 Jun 2006)
Drugs firm blocks cheap blindness cure (17 Jun 2006)
CHILDREN are being exploited by miserly banks and building societies (17 Jun 2006)
LEAKED memo to HSBC staff shows customers are being fobbed off to drop their demands for refunds of bank charges (17 Jun 2006)
Anonymous US companies undermine OECD transparency (17 Jun 2006)
UK Watchdog gets tough over mortgage exit fees (17 Jun 2006)
Prince Victor Emmanuel, the son of Italy's last king, has been arrested as part of an investigation into corruption and prostitution (17 Jun 2006)
Poverty 'driving' UK benefit fraud (16 Jun 2006)
'Need not greed' motivates people to work informally (16 Jun 2006)
UK Supermarkets probe narrowed down (16 Jun 2006)
UK Watchdog outlines concerns in investigation of big supermarkets (16 Jun 2006)
A Proxy Battle: Shareholders vs. CEOs (16 Jun 2006)
Senior Fannie Mae executives were precisely managing earnings per share (EPS) to the one-hundredth of a penny to maximize their bonuses (16 Jun 2006)
KFC sued in US over cooking fats (16 Jun 2006)
World’s international NGOs endorse accountability charter (16 JUn 2006)
Child labour - India's 'cheap commodity' (15 Jun 2006)
iPod 'slave' claims investigated (15 Jun 2006)
UK Government pledge to act over rogue estate agents (15 Jun 2006)
Transfer Pricing Games: For oil industry, profits are one big shell game (15 Jun 2006)
Cambodian Prime Minister accuses the World Bank of hiring corrupt foreign consultants (15 Jun 2006)
UK Watchdog outlines grocery probe (15 Jun 2006)
U.S. Senate Finance Committee said executives who manipulated stock- option grants should be prosecuted (15 Jun 2006)
Bank of Japan governor has apologised for his links to a fund manager arrested for insider trading (15 Jun 2006)
Ryanair blasts Air France 'abuse' (14 Jun 2006)
Bosses who force staff to take bank holidays as part of their annual entitlement face an official UK crackdown (14 Jun 2006)
Man Group chief collects £5.5m bonus for 2005 (14 Jun 2006)
Stop the pension madness (14 Jun 2006)
BAE staff agree to new pension plan that may see payouts fall (14 Jun 2006)
BAE in pensions breakthrough (14 Jun 2006)
Fat Cats: Man Group chief collects £5.5m bonus for 2005 (13 Jun 2006)
Executive share options - a path to the corporate fiddle (13 Jun 2006)
Budding branches fail to conceal high street bank exodus (13 Jun 2006)
Stolen for Steel: Tata Takes Tribal Lands in India (13 Jun 2006)
The bung and the blind eye: that's the real world of sport (13 Jun 2006)
Green Fuel's Dirty Secret (13 Jun 2006)
Behind the spin, the oil giants are more dangerous than ever (13 Jun 2006)
Corruption: Romania paid three times more than necessary for a British frigate (13 Jun 2006)
Enron's legal advisers unscathed so far (13 Jun 2006)
Another act in Enron show: Filing in massive shareholder suit to take aim at legal advisers (13 Jun 2006)
U.S. Attorney looks into options-granting practices at employment site, as Broadcom, McAfee, and Intuit admit SEC inquiries (12 JUn 2006)
Consultancies rake in record £2bn revenues (12 Jun 2006)
UK: One-in-five live in rural poverty (12 Jun 2006)
Company bosses make an average of £500,000 by listing their firms on the London Stock Exchange (12 Jun 2006)
Watchdog to mull Vodafone pay deals (12 Jun 2006)
Share options remain popular at smaller firms (12 Jun 2006)
Wal-Mart sued over Fendi copies (11 Jun 2006)
Hedge funds are an expensive and risky fad (11 Jun 2006)
Social auditors aim to ensure that foreign factories meet basic welfare standards. But are they just a charade (11 Jun 2006)
Vulture funds are largely headquartered in offshore tax havens (11 Jun 2006)
ING bank faces conflict on interest charges in the US (10 Jun 2006)
THAMES WATER is facing a multi-million-pound fine over failing customer service standards (10 Jun 2006)
UK government not tackling tax havens and fat cats (10 Jun 2006)
Warning of pension cuts angers UK unions (10 Jun 2006)
New UK corruption probe linked to Saudi ‘slush fund’ allegations (10 Jun 2006)
Fullers defends family control against 'rape' by short-term City investors (10 Jun 2006)
Frigate sale fraud inquiry (10 Jun 2006)
Micron e-mails reveal strategy of price fixing (10 Jun 2006)
Bank of America seeks OK to press Parmalat claims (10 Jun 2006)
A green future requires red tape (9 Jun 2006)
BP admits it faces criminal inquiry into Alaskan spill (9 Jun 2006)
Severn Trent water to be fined over failures in customer service (9 Jun 2006)
UK CRACKDOWN on no-win, no-fee 'cowboys' (9 Jun 2006)
Fat Cats: Citigroup banker quits for Barclays and £12m (9 Jun 2006)
U.S. May Seek Bonuses From Fannie Mae Execs (9 Jun 2006)
Xilinx directors sued over stock options (9 Jun 2006)
Cyberonics downgraded on stock options (9 Jun 2006)
US court judge certifies price-fixing lawsuit vs Micron, other DRAM makers (9 Jun 2006)
Ford has had its credit rating cut further into junk territory (9 Jun 2006)
Mannesmann retrial set in October (9 Jun 2006)
£20,000 seized at home of man in BAE corruption inquiry (9 Jun 2006)
UK 'Blind sacking' damages welcomed (8 Jun 2006)
The modern nomads - Going where companies go: Global migrants reach 191 million (8 Jun 2006)
British businessman arrested in fresh BAE corruption inquiry (8 Jun 2006)
BP faces Alaska oil spill probe (8 Jun 2006)
The rootless world of the super-rich (8 Jun 2006)
UK Workers paying more for pensions (8 Jun 2006)
Google signals U-turn over Chinese site (8 Jun 2006)
Biggest landowners face subsidy cut and about time too (8 Jun 2006)
ALLIANCE & Leicester is kicking out customers who have complained about unfair bank charges (7 Jun 2006)
Biggest pension fund boycotts Wal-Mart (7 Jun 2006)
Boiler room fraudsters increasingly active in UK (7 Jun 2006)
More leaks but water profits soar by 30% at Severn Trent (7 Jun 2006)
Fat Cats: WPP's Sorrell sees his pay leap by a third (7 Jun 2006)
House of Commons Second Reading of the UK Company Law Reform Bill (7 Jun 2006)
Online shoppers sue music labels for 'price-fixing' (6 Jun 2006)
Top bosses are closing staff pension schemes while keeping their own pension plans open (6 Jun 2006)
Profits before People: Rail firm bans daytrippers' travel (6 Jun 2006)
Only 35% of UK women save towards a pension of their own (6 Jun 2006)
Severn Trent profits gush to £488m (6 Jun 2006)
Water firms and UK Government slammed (6 Jun 2006)

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UK government will not offer compensation to about 85,000 people who lost part of their pensions (6 Jun 2006)
Britain's streets of debt: Elderly women are easy prey (6 Jun 2006)
Arcadia in disability access row (6 Jun 2006)
UK plan to force fund managers to disclose how they vote at company annual meetings (6 Jun 2006)
FIFA plans new ethics committee to fight corruption (5 Jun 2006)
Prosecute bad lenders over debt suicides, says whistleblower (5 Jun 2006)
Mis-selling fears over offshore bond spree (5 Jun 2006)
TUC calls for public AGM votes (5 Jun 2006)
'Big Four' accountancy firms are working with large corporations to shift their base offshore (5 Jun 2006)
BANKS are putting profits before human life and using a range of tactics to lure people deeper into debt (5 Jun 2006)
Japanese fund chief is arrested on insider trading (5 Jun 2006)
Half of FTSE 250 Companies could pay off UK pension deficits within three years (5 Jun 2006)
Cut in dividends would fix pension fund deficits in a year (5 Jun 2006)
Share-options backdating scandal rocks Wall Street (4 Jun 2006)
The official UK “tax gap” accounts for at least 8% of GDP and could be as high as 12% — £97 billion to £150 billion (4 Jun 2006)
TUC: City too secretive (4 Jun 2006)
Drowning in scandals but Severn Trent water company likely to make profits of £310m before tax (4 Jun 2006)
UK households living in fuel poverty has risen by 83%, or 1.7 million, since 2004 (3 Jun 2006)
Canada: Que. gas stations investigated for price-fixing (3 Jun 2006)
Conservative backer is a millionaire landlord accused of using ruthless tactics against tenants (3 Jun 2006)
UK Water firms face tide of protests (3 Jun 2006)
Anti-corruption detectives are examining documents detailing the client accounts of ISC Global (UK) on alleged offshore bribes (2 Jun 2006)
Options Backdating: Will Your Stocks Pay the Price? (2 Jun 2006)
Pensions: UK accounting board seeks to amend FRS17 (2 Jun 2006)
Report: Micron, Hynix e-mails indicate price fixing (2 Jun 2006)
Power companies accused of price fixing (2 Jun 2006)
Rambus: We Were Price-Fixing Target (2 Jun 2006)
Mobile phone operators cut their roaming charges to head off EU clampdown (2 Jun 2006)
Vivendi pays $686m to settle US tax dispute over Seagram deal (2 Jun 2006)
L'Oréal court verdict won't wash, says French anti-racism group (2 Jun 2006)
Severstal's tequila sunset (2 Jun 2006)
PFI & PPP - Enron UK? (2 Jun 2006)
Fifa to probe Arsenal's feeder-club deal (2 Jun 2006)
Due to regulatory pressure mobile phone 'roaming' costs to fall (2 Jun 2006)
£2bn UK water profits but bills will rise (1 Jun 2006)
Sky high charges and leaks but UK water firms enjoy healthy profits (1 Jun 2006)
Rip-off charges but Energy firm's profits power ahead (1 Jun 2006)
UNSCRUPULOUS landlords are overcharging leasehold flat owners by £1bn for buildings insurance (1 Jun 2006)
ICI fined £63m for its part in European glass price fixing (1 Jun 2006)
EU smashes acrylic glass cartel (1 Jun 2006)
Brussels fines ICI €91m over cartel (1 Jun 2006)
Commission imposes fines of €344.5 million on producers of acrylic glass for price fixing (1 Jun 2006)
Lufthansa to pay R8.5 million penalty for price fixing (1 Jun 2006)
UK Watchdog critical of illness insurance cover (1 Jun 2006)
Under pressure UK banks to cut credit card charges (1 Jun 2006)
Under pressure UK banks in pledge to cut charges (1 Jun 2006)

MAY 2006

Management consultants working in the public services are costing the taxpayer £3billion a year (31 May 2006)
UK Mortgage debt nears £1 trillion (31 May 2006)
Hedge funds vulnerable to money laundering, fraud and terrorist financing (31 May 2006)
Fannie Mae: US investigating the practice of backdating stock-option grants to senior corporate executives (31 May 2006)
Daewoo boss Group sentenced to ten years in jail, convicted of a 20 trillion won (£11.2 billion) accounting fraud and other financial crimes (31 May 2006)
Vodafone sets a record with £22bn loss (31 May 2006)
Vodafone posts UK's biggest ever loss (30 May 2006)
Corporate Vampires: Management consultants cost public sector £3bn (30 May 2006)
Daewoo boss gets 10 years in jail for embezzlement and accounting fraud (30 May 2006)
FTSE100 companies 'have 15,000 subsidiaries' (30 May 2006)
The corporate maze: Almost half of the more than 15,000 incorporated companies within FTSE 100 groups are dormant (30 May 2006)
Demutualisation Windfalls 'mask massive losses' (30 May 2006)
Goldman Sachs immersed in scadnals but its chairman is nominated as the US treasury secretary (30 May 2006)
OECD Countries Strengthen Measures to Deter Bribery in Export Credits (30 May 2006)
It's the Enron Effect (30 May 2006)
58pc Britons to work on as pensioners (30 May 2006)
Brussels urges VAT reforms to crack down on fraud (30 May 2006)
The Enron verdicts: corruption and American capitalism (29 May 2006)
Enron shows why we should keep fraud juries (29 May 2006)
Tesco defends £4m-a-year pay package for chief executive (29 May 2006)
Highland bastion falls as women enter the man's world of whisky (29 May 2006)
Questions and Answers on the UK pensions shake-up verdict (29 May 2006)
UK Young, broke and not bothered (29 May 2006)
Drained of £26bn by UK water firms (28 May 2006)
Water and the private sector: Pull the plug on privatisation (28 May 2006)
Governmnts for Sale: Lord Black in 'cash for peerages' inquiry (28 May 2006)
UK Competition Commission has quizzed supermarkets on their relationship with property developers (28 May 2006)
Companies do not want competition, but it is vital (28 May 2006)
Amnesty: we must free the internet (28 May 2006)
Untangling Enron (28 May 2006)
Executive Financial Incentives and Payout Policy: Firm Responses to the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut (28 May 2006)
Corporate Governance and Disclosure Reforms in the Post-Enron World: An Institutional Theory Perspective (28 May 2006)
ENRON'S COLLAPSE: THE LOBBYING Auditing Firms Exercise Power In Washington (28 May 2006)
Curse of privatisation: Metronet has been accused of poor planning (27 May 2006)
'Corporate corruption is not over' (27 May 2006)
Former Livedoor Chief Financial Officer pleaded guilty to falsifying the financial statements (27 May 2006)
Former head of Brazil's Banco Santos arrested on suspicion of committing fraud (27 May 2006)
Sanctuary sacks chief executive over accounts (27 May 2006)
Financial institutions that own almost all of Britain's trains are likely to be investigated for anti-competitive behaviour (26 May 2006)
CEOs in the courtroom (26 May 2006)
Transfer Pricing in the Steel Wars (26 May 2006)
Network Rail chief's pay goes past £1m (26 May 2006)
Watchdog criticises firm behind 'elephant man' drug trials (26 May 2006)
OFT to look at UK airports market (26 May 2006)
Enron bosses convicted, but still off the hook for fleecing state (26 May 2006)
Governments for Sale: Donations to Tories hit nearly £9m in three months (26 May 2006)
Pensions: Work till you're 68 for £3 more (26 May 2006)
Insurers lose out in UK pensions shake-up (26 May 2006)
Pensions: Work until 68 and save or face a time bomb (26 May 2006)
UK State pension age to rise to 68 (26 May 2006)

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Bad business at Enron (26 May 2006)
Downfall of the men who made Enron a byword for corporate corruption (26 May 2006)
Enron execs going away, but fraud is here to stay (26 May 2006)
Despite Enron verdict, accounting reforms, white-collar crime thriving (26 May 2006)
Have CEOs learned nothing from the Enron scandal? (26 May 2006)
Enron endgame: guilt and reform (26 May 2006)
Enron bosses guilty (26 May 2006)
A chronology of Enron Corp (25 May 2006)
Enron bosses found guilty (25 May 2006)
Enron founder convicted on all 6 counts (25 May 2006)
Former Enron bosses found guilty on fraud, conspiracy and other charges (25 May 2006)
Three banks in $6.6B Enron settlement (25 May 2006)
Fat Cats: Long-term trend of UK executive pay rises continues (25 May 2006)
Jail for scandal-hit Skandia boss (25 May 2006)
Ex-Skandia CEO sentenced to prison (25 May 2006)
200,000 complain of 'dirty tricks' by phone company sales teams (25 May 2006)
UK Advertising Standards Agency received 26,236 complaints about misleading ads in 2005 (25 May 2006)
UK Network Rail makes £232m loss but bosses get bonuses (25 May 2006)
SOUTH African Airways to pay R55-million in penalties for fixing prices and fuel-levy charges on flight tickets (25 May 2006)
Ryanair advert was 'misleading' (25 May 2006)
Now energy firms don't care if they lose customers (25 May 2006)
Pensions: The Graying of America (25 May 2006)
Emerging giants: Workers' stories (25 May 2006)
Pensions: Higher life expectancy costs UK quoted companies £20bn over 2005 (25 May 2006)
European Stock exchanges told to cut trading costs or face new laws (25 May 2006)
Corporate Governance and Taxation (24 May2006)
Some Britons so deep in the red that it will take them an average of 77 years to pay off their loans (24 May 2006)
Shadow of corruption lurks behind investors as they queue for $10bn Chinese float (24 May 2006)
Accounting tricks helped Fannie Mae execs get bonuses (24 May 2006)
After three years a $400 million fine for Fannie Mae's accounting (24 May 2006)
Fannie Mae is found corrupt (24 May 2006)
Pressure amounts on business to stop corporate abuse (23 May 2006)
UK Pay gap between sexes persisting (23 May 2006)
South-East England has biggest sexes pay gap (23 May 2006)
UK Pharmacists for trial in £120m drugs price-fixing case (23 May 2006)
US antitrust team investigates Mitsubishi into alleged price-fixing (23 May 2006)
Britons Working round the clock (23 May 2006)
GNER takes on regulator over Grand Central trains (23 May 2006)
Global warming predictions are underestimated say scientists (23 May 2006)
Debt problem soars as 1m Britons face threat of bankruptcy (22 May 2006)
UK Firms face £2.6bn bill for extra staff pension contributions in government white paper (22 May 2006)
Ex-Ahold bosses guilty of fraud (22 May 2006)
Former Ahold CEO, CFO convicted of fraud (22 May 2006)
Behind the world's biggest pension fund (22 May 2006)
Transfer Pricing: China's Trade Surplus May Be an Illusion (22 May 2006)
Watchdog's Thames Water fury (21 May 2006)
Soaring profits for UK water firms, thanks to leaks and big bills (21 May 2006)
Nestle and Dairy Crest claim £126m of taxpayers' money (21 May 2006)
BCCI & Barings: Bank Resolutions Complicated by Fraud and Global Corporate Structure (21 May 2006)
Taking People for a Ride (21 May 2006)
Taking People For A Ride: 9/11 Financing: A true story from an Auditor's diary (21 May 2006)
Taking People for a Ride: PRE 9 /11 WARNING FROM THE CENTRAL BANK OF SAUDI ARABIA (21 May 2006)
Passengers held to ransom by UK rail companies (20 May 2006)
'Exorbitant' UK rail fares attacked (20 May 2006)

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US Lawyers accused of $11m kickbacks in class actions (20 May 2006)
Virgin Blue's A$70 million GST tax avoidance scheme (designed by Ernst & Young) crashes to earth (20 May 2006)
US prosecutors charge high-profile law firm with conspiring to pay $11 million in kickbacks (19 May 2006)
EU Commission welcomes judgment of the Court of Justice in Archer Daniels Midland price fixing case (19 May 2006)
EU Court Upholds $57 Million Price Fixing Fine vs. ADM (19 May 2006)
EU fines ADM $57 million for price fixing (19 May 2006)
EU Consumers’ protection: better information on food labels (19 May 2006)
Price Fixing: Independent schools agree settlement (19 May 2006)
Office of Fair Trading to back away from imposing any limits on overdraft charges (19 May 2006)
BT boosts earnings, sniffs at EC probe (19 May 2006)
EU cracks down on gas price fixing (18 May 2006)
EC raids continental energy companies in pursuit of open market (18 May 2006)
Rover creditors to receive up to 10p in the pound this year (18 May 2006)
Since 1996/1997 the proportion of UK people living in households with less than 60% of average spending levels has increased (18 May 2006)
Household spending in Britain: what can it teach us about poverty? (18 May 2006)
Alternative measure of poverty rises under Labour (18 May 2006)
BRITAIN'S ELDERS: MALNOURISHED, COLD AND POOR (18 May 2006)
Bosses quit suspended Alpha amid accounting investigation (17 May 2006)
£1.9m UK pension aid pays out £24,000 (17 May 2006)
UK Poverty rate 'rose under Labour' (17 May 2006)
Tax and benefits close UK income gap (17 May 2006)
UK Panel clears 'Plumber' of market abuse (17 May 2006)
Hyundai chairman indicted for his alleged role in a bribery and embezzlement scandal (16 May 2006)
Britain's leading boardroom bosses took home pay packages worth an average of £3.3m (16 May 2006)
Number of whistleblowers' reports sent to the UK pensions regulator is likely to double (16 May 2006)
Governments accused of giving industries permission to pollute (16 May 2006)
Growth isn’t working: the uneven distribution of benefits and costs from economic growth (16 May 2006)
OFT told it must improve its work (16 May 2006)
Well-being and the environment: achieving one planet living and quality of life (16 May 2006)
Anger over Air Miles robbery (16 May 2006)
SEC Charges Former Video Game CEO in Junk Fax Scam (16 May 2006)
Cable & Wireless unveils a £220m bonus scheme for senior managers just weeks after announcing 3,000 job losses (15 May 2006)
Supermarket Suppliers can go bust and that is OK, says OFT (15 May 2006)
Average price of a home has risen above £150,000 in every English region (15 May 2006)
EC attack on roaming fees is unfair, say mobile firms (15 May 2006)
IKEA: Flat Pack Accounting (14 May 2006)
Mis-selling alert for Friends Provident (14 May 2006)
Water firms make £2bn profit as drought hits UK (14 May 2006)
Criminal gangs push UK VAT fraud losses up to £7bn (14 May 2006)
Mapeley paid no tax last year (14 May 2006)
Ex-Tyco boss to pay $21 mln in tax case (14 May 2006)
How KPMG and other consultants add to NHS problems (13 May 2006)
NHS cuts consultants KPMG paid £700,000 (13 May 2006)
Italy in a league of its own when it comes to football corruption (13 May 2006)
Supermarkets squeeze milk supplier Arla (13 May 2006)
Antidepressant linked to suicide risk in adults (13 May 2006)
PwC puts £70m into pensions (13 May 2006)
Wells Fargo fesses up to data loss (13 May 2006)
Samsung Electronics, Hynix Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies will together pay $160m to settle civil claims of memory price-fixing (12 May 2006)
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and Infineon Technologies AG to pay fines totaling $160 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging price fixing (12 May 2006)
UK Pensions regulator under fire for Kvaerner deal (12 May 2006)
Benjys faces lawsuit from franchisees (12 May 2006)
Corruption in Italian Football (12 May 2006)
Call for estate agent licensing (12 May 2006)
A licence for all UK estate agents(12 May 2006)
Equitable Life break-up begins (12 May 2006)
Mad Cow Disease: UK Conservative Party calls for repeal of Human Rights Act (12 May 2006)
UK BANKS are making £3bn a year from customer slip-ups (11 May 2006)
UK Pensioners who owe £100,000 (11 May 2006)
Has the corporate-responsibility movement lost sight of the big picture? (11 May 2006)
Bullying bosses 'rife across UK' (11 May 2006)
UK is heading towards a two-tier pension system (11 May 2006)
Carousel VAT fraud may send UK Budget sums spinning (11 May 2006)
UK export figures boosted 10% by VAT carousel fraud; Ireland part of multi-billion white-collar criminal network (11 May 2006)
VAT Fraud could account for 10% of UK's exports (11 May 2006)
PENSIONS: UK GRANDPARENTS IN DEBT TO TUNE OF £80 BILLION (10 May 2006)
One in six UK pensioners are still burdened by a mortgage in retirement (10 May 2006)
Pensions: AVERAGE UK worker faces a retirement income of less than the minimum wage (10 May 2006)
Pension sackings at insurance broker (10 May 2006)
Samsung, Infineon settle price fixing case for $88 mln (10 May 2006)
Credit union chief's secret £55,000 deal (10 May 2006)
US receiver accuses Man Group under racketeering law (10 May 2006)
UK Supermarkets face third inquiry in seven years (10 May 2006)
Firms ran up £100m loss on PFI laboratory scheme(10 May 2006)
Governments for Sale: Lib Dem backer extradited to UK (10 May 2006)
Warner Music Faces 14 Price Fixing Lawsuits (9 May 2006)
Biggest investigation of UK supermarkets is launched (9 May 2006)
UK Supermarkets in competition probe (9 May 2006)
Revealed: the £5bn-a-year UK tax fraud (9 May 2006)
Bogus deals keep UK Customs in a spin:Smart criminals stay ahead of investigators (9 May 2006)
Debt drives Indian farmers to suicide (9 May 2006)
Zale Puts CFO on Ice (9 May 2006)
Man's US arm denies hedge fund fraud (9 May 2006)
Former Ahold CEO defends actions (9 May 2006)
Britons have bought nearly £1bn worth of illegal goods (8 May 2006)
PFI 'rip-off ' bosses get £10m payday (8 May 2006)
Ryanair ... the low-fare airline with the sky-high insurance levy (8 May 2006)
Corrupt Businesses Have No Shame: Prosecutors Should Be Curbed, Say U.S. Business Organizations (8 May 2006)
Bribes offered to quit final-salary pensions (8 May 2006)
T-Mobile leads the race to slash charges for calls abroad before EU price clamp (8 May 2006)
Debt advisers to cash in on high borrowing (8 May 2006)
Investors to attack Shell over environment (7 May 2006)
Victims of UK debt advice scandal (7 May 2006)
Britain's worst telecoms firms (7 May 2006)
Fat Cats: Royal London boss' windfall (7 May 2006)
Supermarket giants need scrutiny (7 May 2006)
Somerfield gives up on ethics (7 May 2006)
Profit hungry banks abandon poorest to loan sharks (6 May 2006)
Suppliers threaten to take Matalan to trading standards (6 May 2006)
Lawsuits claim cargo price fixing: American Airlines and several other airlines are targets of the litigation (6 May 2006)
UK Regulator eases rules on closing pension scheme shortfalls (6 May 2006)
Plan to limit supermarkets' CO2 emissions (5 May 2006)
Curse of privatisation and PFI: LONDON TRANSPORT COMMISSIONER BLASTS METRONET FOR ‘INEXCUSABLE FAILURE’ (5 May 2006)
UK Government taskforce to look at fee-charging ATMs (5 May 2006)
TUC seeks law change as UK court cut asbestos death payouts (4 May 2006)
Celebrity urged to stop adverts for loan company (4 May 2006)
Pension: Half UK elderly face means tests (4 May 2006)
An Ugly Side of Free Trade: Sweatshops in Jordan (4 May 2006)
Niger Delta unrest dampens Shell (4 May 2006)
Profits before People: Shell coins in £1.5 million an hour (4 May 2006)
Profits before People: Soaring gas price helps BG to 123% rise in profits (4 May 2006)
How home deliveries cost us dear (4 May 2006)
How companies fight sweatshops (4 May 2006)
Ten steps to reclaim bank fees (4 May 2006)
US IRS wants tax documentation from Textron (4 May 2006)
Barclays' offshore clients face £1.5bn bill (4 May 2006)
Strategic bankruptcies harm labour: Northwest pilots agree wage cuts (4 May 2006)
Price Fixing: EU Commission fines seven companies €388.128 million for bleaching chemicals cartels (3 May 2006)
EU fines chemicals sector cartel (3 May 2006)
Barclays in NHS rip-off scandal (3 May 2006)

Read the Report: The refinancing of the Norfolk and Norwich PFI Hospital

British Gas asked £650 for £10 job (3 May 2006)
UK Widows lose asbestos Lords ruling (3 May 2006)
Barclays loses legal battle on offshore accounts (3 May 2006)
UK Watchdog sees rising tide of dissatisfaction with banks (3 May 2006)
One in five Brtions owe over £10,000 on on credit cards, loans, overdrafts and hire purchase agreements (3 May 2006)
What The Apprentice says about Blair's Britain: only profit matters (3 May 2006)
U.S. securities lawsuits fall, payouts soar (3 May 2006)
Toyota worker sues for gender harassment (3 May 2006)
Richer for poorer:European capitalism is much more efficient than the Anglo-American model (2 May 2006)l
Sweatshops of Pakistan and China are unprotected by health and safety regulations (2 May 2006)
Workaholic consumerism is now a treadmill and a curse (2 May 2006)
Tough on crime, to hell with the causes of crime if they make money (2 May 2006)
UK bank complaints investigation is not effective (2 May 2006)
British blood products may pose vCJD risk in 14 countries (2 May 2006)
Poor nutrition contributes to about 5.6 million child deaths per year (2 May 2006)
Settlement value surges as US securities suits drop (1 May 2006)
Property value fraud hits major UK lenders (1 May 2006)
Carbon trading market fluctuates wildly after figures released early (1 May 2006)

APRIL 2006

Vodafone is proposing to pay its chairman, Lord MacLaurin, £125,000 a year under a consultancy agreement (30 Apr 2006)
Endowment court victory renews hope for compensation claims (30 Apr 2006)
The net fought the law - and the law won (30 Apr 2006)
Poorest farmers get no harvest from WTO (30 Apr 2006)
Afghanistan, Inc. (30 Apr 2006)
Hawaii sues 44 drug companies in price fixing scheme (29 Apr 2006)
Secret deal behind a Norfolk town's mystery U-turn on new supermarket (29 Apr 2006)
Time running out for endowment complaints (29 Apr 2006)
The price of sparkle is child slavery and sweatshops (29 Apr 2006)
The Ten Worst Corporations of 2005 (28 Apr 2006)
Warrant issued for Hyundai arrest (28 Apr 2006)
Northern Ireland banks criticised for overcharging customers (28 Apr 2006)
Gort oil company admits fixing price of home heating oil (28 Apr 2006)
300 retirement funds in danger of collapse, warns UK watchdog (28 Apr 2006)
Scepticism greets launch of ethical investment initiative (28 Apr 2006)
UK Watchdog warns of pension peril (28 Apr 2006)
How insurance companies are aiding tax evasion by over-charging in America and shipping the money to offshore firms (28 Apr 2006)
Amvescap pay package scrapes in (28 Apr 2006)
Misleading magnetic therapy claims stopped (28 May 2006)
OFT to investigate online shopping as sales boom (28 Apr 2006)
Hyundai head faces arrest over slush fund (28 Apr 2006)
Glaxo denies pushing 'lifestyle' treatments (28 Apr 2006)
OFT launches fact-finding market study of internet shopping (27 Apr 2006)
Doorstep lenders 'overcharging' by £100 million a year (27 Apr 2006)
FTSE firms' websites criticised (27 Apr 2006)
Pepsi fined over condom in bottle (27 Apr 2006)
The 71% summer holidays mark-up (27 Apr 2006)
Prosecutors seek Hyundai arrest (27 Apr 2006)
UK Government's pension liabilities rise by £70bn (27 Apr 2006)
Reuters pays £265m for pension deficit (27 Apr 2006
Masters of the Universe: Tesco named world's fifth biggest retailer (27 Apr 2006)
Bush orders investigation into gas price manipulation (27 Apr 2006)
Are there British intellectuals? Yes, and they've never had it so good (27 Apr 2006)
UK Airport operator fined £1.1m for checkpoint delays (26 Apr 2006)
South Korea: Foreign Firms Cited for Tax Evasion (26 Apr 2006)
Two former executives of Computer Associates plead guilty to eight counts each of securities fraud and obstruction of justice (26 Apr 2006)
Shell companies and easy formation of corporations poses risks (25 Apr 2006)
BP makes £3bn profit from dear petrol (25 Apr 2006)
Branson threatens to quit regional rail network over cut-price policy (25 Apr 2006)
Rich man Poor man: 600,000 Brits own second home (25 Apr 2006)
BT pensioners 'enjoy £28bn taxpayer guarantees' (25 Apr 2006)
Hyundai chief faces prosecutors (24 Apr 2006)
Hyundai Motor Chairman Grilled in Corruption Scandal (24 Apr 2006)
Lawyers, dentists, accountants, and restaurant owners have been caught laundering money in Iceland (24 Apr 2006)
EU gas supply route is dominated by mysterious business interests who have made huge profits while keeping their identities mostly secret (24 Apr 2006)
Turkmenistan appears to keep country’s entire gas revenues offshore and out of the state budget, via accounts at Germany’s Deutsche Bank (24 Apr 2006)

Read Global Witness Report: It's a Gas. Funny Business in the Turkmen-Ukraine Gas Trade

US Justice Department is investigating RosUkrEnergo, the secretive gas trader (24 Apr 2006)
U.S. Probes Russian Gas Supplier RosUkrEnergo, a company with opaque ownership (24 Apr 2006)
Many UK financial ads 'misleading' (24 Apr 2006)
Privatisation of Governments: IMF gains new mandate as world economic watchdog (24 Apr 2006)
Fat Cats: Bonus storm hits Vodafone (24 Apr 2006)
UK PFI Projects Total £53bn With a Further £26bn in The Pipeline (24 Apr 2006)
Half of FTSE companies able to clear their pension deficits in one year (24 Apr 2006)
BT may face hefty bill from pension regulator (24 Apr 2006)
BT claims massive £28.5 billion Govt pensions backing (24 Apr 2006)
UK Graduates worse off until 33 (24 Apr 2006)
Major clothing supplier with appalling record is a supplier to Next, Debenhams, BHS, Wallis and Dorothy Perkins (23 Apr 2006)
The true cost of cheap clothing in the West (23 Apr 2006)
UK Graduates will have to work well into their thirties before they can reap the financial benefits of getting a degree (23 Apr 2006)
CEO Pay Advisers Examined (23 Apr 2006)
Fat Cats - Underachieved? Have a performance-related bonus! (23 Apr 2006)
Do we need an IMF? Yes, but not this one (23 Apr 2006)
Rich get richer in the city with no middle (23 Apr 2006)
Amvescap investors in pay row over $14.2 million golden hello to new boss (23 Apr 2006)
Amvescap investors balk at £5 million goodbye to chairman (23 Apr 2006)
Books that changed mankind (22 Apr 2006)
Ex-CEO of World Health accused of fraud: Shareholder lawsuit claims he manipulated books on taxes, number of shares (22 Apr 2006)
Government for Sale: Lib Dems' biggest donor faces fraud case extradition (22 Apr 2006)
ScottishPower ex-directors scoop £10m pay-off deals (21 Apr 2006)
U.S. Businesses Pay High Air Cargo Shipping Costs as Worldwide Airlines are Accused of Fixing Prices (21 Apr 2006)
Drugs firm Merck to pay $32m (£18m) in damages after its Vioxx painkiller was found to have contributed to a fatal heart attack (21 Apr 2006)
Fat Cats: Chief executive of Amvescap will receive four times his annual $790,000 salary if he loses his job before 2010 (20 Apr 2006)
£700 bank overdraft bill for one day (20 Apr 2006)
Target: Wal-Mart Lite (20 Apr 2006)
Man charged in Ford dealers' price fixing case (20 Apr 2006)
Car makers 'failing' on climate (20 Apr 2006)
UK Super rich (17 Apr 2006)
Price probe at Europe’s largest pharmacy chain (16 Apr 2006)
Lord Wakeham brushed aside Enron crisis warnings, board papers show (15 Apr 2006)
UK uses more than three times its share of global resources. Britain 'one of least self-sufficient developed countries' (15 Apr 2006)
Government for Sale: Labour's corruption is beyond endurance (15 Apr 2006)
Court opens hearing on Yukos subsidiary tax evasion charges (14 Apr 2006)
Government for Sale: Corruption inquiry moves closer to No 10 (14 Apr 2006)
Hyundai-Kia Diverted Taxpayers' Money (14 Apr 2006)
Fat Cats: New Rentokil chief is paid £2m as profits fall 25% (14 Apr 2006)
Rolls-Royce seeks to close final-salary pension plan (14 Apr 2006)
Hollinger International agrees to pay bulk of Black's legal bills (13 Apr 2006)
Government for Sale: Man arrested by 'cash for honours' police (13 Apr 2006)
Government for Sale: Man arrested in cash-for-honours inquiry (13 Apr 2006)
Rolls-Royce to close its final salary pension schemes to new members (13 Apr 2006)
Rolls-Royce swings pensions axe (13 Apr 2006)
Average UK student debt tops £12,000 (13 Apr 2006)
Oppose boardroom pay deals, says Pirc (13 Apr 2006)
Fat Cats: Xstrata chief strikes gold with £15m (13 Apr 2006)
Fat Cats: £2m payday for Rentokil chief (13 Apr 2006)
Corporate undertakers: Deloitte clocks up £4.5m on Rover (13 Apr 2006)
BCCI: After 256 days in court, the judge's verdict: a hopeless, incoherent farce (13 Apr 2006)
BCCI: Deloitte's drubbing will not be forgotten (13 Apr 2006)
BCCI: Deloitte's 12-year case puts Woolf reforms in question (13 Apr 2006)
BCCI: Rude’ Deloitte lawyer taken to task (13 Apr 2006)
UK MPs act over pensions row (13 Apr 2006)
EU calls credit card fees 'abnormal' and warns of fines (13 Apr 2006)
EU clampdown on credit card fees (12 Apr 2006)
Fiddled mortgages targeted by UK watchdog (12 Apr 2006)
FSA fines Deutsche Bank £6.3million and Mr David Maslen £350,000 for market misconduct (11 Apr 2006)
Box giant sued for alleged price-fixing (11 Apr 2006)
SEC Complaint Charges International Insider Trading Ring, Including Personnel at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch (11 Apr 2006)
Box giant sued for alleged price-fixing (11 Apr 2006)
Royal Liver Assurance Ltd fined £550,000 for mis-selling with-profits savings policies (10 Apr 2006)
Six out of 10 teachers working in UK private schools regularly work more than 50 hours a week (10 Apr 2006)
Principality Building Society chief executive gets 77% pay increase (10 Apr 2006)
Fat Cats: Building Society executive pay scandal (9 Apr 2006)
Drug trial firm knew of risk (9 Apr 2006)
Ofwat: There may be more UK water frauds (9 Apr 2006)
'Flash' McGarry and a £26m loans fraud (9 Apr 2006)
UK banks face legal action over those penalty charges (8 Apr 2006)
A Culture of Corruption by Bill Moyers (8 Apr 2006)
Marbella, where corruption and bad taste thrive (8 Apr 2006)
The World Bank weeds out corruption: Will it touch the roots? (8 Apr 2006)
The Finnish Competition Authority (FCA) are suspecting the country's three largest wood-buyersof price-fixing (8 Apr 2006)
Yukos VP charged with embezzlement, money laundering (7 Apr 2006)
BP 'unaware' of any US criminal inquiry over spill (7 Apr 2006)
Severn Trent admits misleading Ofwat again (7 Apr 2006)
Corporate profits but Antidepression drugs may raise risk of stillborn baby (7 Apr 2006)
Swedish ministers sue Ryanair over adverts (7 Apr 2006)
Profits Before People: UK Banks threaten end to era of free current accounts (7 Apr 2006)
Second currency trader jailed for multi-million dollar foreign exchange scandal at National Australia Bank (6 Apr 2006)
ROK extends probing scope on Hyundai Motor's illegal actions in bribing influential politicians and government officials (6 Apr 2006)
Which? warns over loans scam (6 Apr 2006)
Australia Reaps Iraqi Harvest (6 Apr 2006)
Corporate cowboys: £10,800 bank loan spiral to £223,000 despite paying £43,000 (6 Apr 2006)
UK Banks ordered to slash fees for late credit card payments and overdrafts (6 Apr 2006)
The day the banks were called bandits (6 Apr 2006)
Five companies charged in £150m UK NHS price fixing row (6 Apr 2006)
New UK pension rules: good for rich, not so good for the rest (6 Apr 2006)
EU Court Cuts Fine on Germany's Degussa for fixing the price of a chemical used to promote the growth of pigs and poultry (6 Apr 2006)
Average UK home breaks £175,000 barrier (6 Apr 2006)
Pity the Poor: Average UK house price breaches £175,000 (6 Apr 2006)
EU warns 17 states on energy laws (5 Apr 2006)
EU targets energy protectionism (5 Apr 2006)
Billing scandal costs Severn Trent £10.6m (5 Apr 2006)
OFT fines check pads suppliers guilty of price fixing (5 Apr 2006)
Banks credit card companies ordered to stop ripping off consumers (5 Apr 2006)
Current credit card default charges unfair, says UK regulator (5 Apr 2006)
UK Price-fixing fraud inquiry into drugs (5 Apr 2006)
Norton pays NHS £13.5m over price fixing claims (5 Apr 2006)
Norton settles NHS price fixing claim (5 Apr 2006)
ARGENTINA: 4,000 Bolivians employed in textile sweatshops (5 Apr 2005)
Nine people and five companies will be charged with conspiracy to defraud the NHS over drug prices (5 Apr 2006)
Serious Fraud Office investigation into price fixing of drugs led to criminal proceedings (5 Apr 2006)
World's top 25 food firms 'pathetic' in combating unhealthy diets (4 Apr 2006)

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THOUSANDS of UK pensioners are stuck in a cycle of debt (4 Apr 2006)
WHO plea to drugs companies (4 Apr 2006)
AIM cracks down on shell firms (4 Apr 2006)
SEC broadens Biovail probe with subpoena (4 Apr 2006)
UK Top-up fees 'will hit poor middle-class' students (4 Apr 2006)
Fat Cats: Trinity Mirror chief's pay up by 13% (4 Apr 2006)
Arcelor's £700m dividend ploy (4 Apr 2006)
OFT launches study of payment protection insurance (3 Apr 2006)
Payment protection insurance racket? (3 Apr 2006)
UK Probe begins into debt insurance (3 Apr 2006)
Prosecutors suspect Yukos vice-pres of money laundering (3 Apr 2006)
Money Laundering: Nigerian Banks Under Surveillance (3 Apr 2006)
Governments for Sale: We raised millions in offshore trusts, say Tories (3 Apr 2006)
Governments for Sale: Tories want loans inquiry to keep names secret (3 Apr 2006)
Residents at odds with the private company brought in to run the borough's education (3 Apr 2006)
Jersey turning into a dictatorship (2 Apr 2006)
Jersey legislator faces fraud charges (2 Apr 2006)
British FBI will target organisers of £40bn trade in drugs, fraud and smuggled prostitutes (2 Apr 2006)
UK NHS sell-off firm faces US inquiry for anti-cpmetitive behaviour (2 Apr 2006)
UK Customers urged to sue over bank overdraft penalties (2 Apr 2006)
Taxes must rise if ageing UK nation is to receive realistic state pension (2 Apr 2006)
Governments for Sale: Tories' mystery offshore backers lent £5m to bankroll election (2 Apr 2006)
Governments for Sale: Blair urged to investigate Sainbury's secret £2m loan (2 Apr 2006)
Foreign bidders size up UK banks (2 Apr 2006)
Banned by Beijing - but Rolling Stone gathers no kudos (2 Apr 2006)
Foxtons faces big US fines (2 Apr 2006)
Former Severn boss in £2,000 per day job (2 Apr 2006)
UK Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Statistics to March 2006 (2 Apr 2006)
UK Government commits £49 billion to PFI (2 Apr 2006)
Citigroup sued in Australia for insider trading (1 Apr 2006)
Police seize art and horses in Marbella fraud investigation (1 Apr 2006)
Possible price fixing in UK beauty market (1 Apr 2006)
Goldshield directors to face fraud charges (1 Apr 2006)
Drugs firm chiefs face charge over NHS fraud and price fixing (1 Apr 2006)
Nine to be charged over UK NHS drugs price-fixing (1 Apr 2006)
Governments for Sale: Secret foreign cash funded UK Tory campaign (1 Apr 2006)
Governments for Sale: A farmer, a socialite and a tycoon - but who are secret names? (1 Apr 2006)
Governments for Sale: Fashion tycoon and tennis partner charged with keeping new Tories afloat (1 Apr 2006)
Rudy plea reveals Abramoff’s worldwide reach:Tiny Marianas Islands paid $7.17 million for lobbyist’s aid (1 Apr 2006)
Corruption: Another Abramoff-related lobbyist pleads guilty (1 Apr 2006)
Government for Sale: Florida court goes easy on Abramoff as congressional investigation goes on (1 Apr 2006)
Bank of America to sue Parmalat (1 Apr 2006)
Yukos to face fraud allegations (1 Apr 2006)

March 2006

"Nice work if you can get it”: How consultants rip-off people (31 Mar 2006)
UK Pensioner Poverty: The Pensioners’ Incomes Series 2004/5 (31 Mar 2006)
Ethics and the Accounting and Auditing Professions in the 21st Century (31 Mar 2006)
UK Watchdog to fine Southern water company (31 Mar 2006)
Southern Water to face big fine (31 Mar 2006)
Britons face inflation busting water price increases (31 Mar 2006)
UK Banks make £4.1bn killing on overdrafts (31 Mar 2006)
THE NETHERLANDS: COURT BLAMES CFO FOR AHOLD´S ACCOUNTING SCANDAL (31 Mar 2006)
Europe's protectionists add £10bn to UK gas bill (31 Mar 2006)
Spot checks on women's pay are scrapped after cash cut (31 Mar 2006)
More scandals to come: FSA plans to allow UK firms to emulate hedge funds (31 Mar 2006)
Deeply mired in anti-social activities but Four US firms top global big list (31 Mar 2006)

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UK Student debt soars (31 Mar 2006)
UK Student debt doubles as top-up fees hit poorest (31 Mar 2006)
25,000 split capital investment trusts ivestors to get 40 pence in the £ compensation (30 Mar 2006)
Split capital investors to receive £115m compensation (30 Mar 2006)
Governments for Sale: Tory backer made £2 million loan from a Jersey trust week before poll (30 Mar 2006)
Governments for Sale: Tories warned: come clean on loans or face court action (30 Mar 2006)
Invensys plans to clear £325m pension shortfall (30 Mar 2006)
Aviva chief executive awarded a 68% pay rise, taking his remuneration to £1.9m (30 Mar 2006)
US tops worldwide internet league but poorer countries are still waiting (30 Mar 2006)

World rankings for internet connections

The Other Side of the Coin: The UK and Corruption in Africa (82 page PDF File) (29 Mar 2006)
The CornerHouse Evidence on the Role of Western Organisations in Corruption in Africa (29 Mar 2006)
Ethics row overshadows GUS demerger (29 Mar 2006)
UK Watchdog puts ban on celebrities advertising junk food to under-10s (29 Mar 2006)
Last days of Yukos as bankruptcy court says investors have no role (29 Mar 2006)
Soak the Taxpayer: £1bn tag on BNFL clean-up arm sale (29 Mar 2006)
Fifth of UK bankrupts are under 30 (29 Mar 2006)
UK Water bills reach 17-year high (29 Mar 2006)
INVESTORS who lost an estimated £650m in the split-capital investment trusts scandal are expected to be offered 40p in the pound (29 Mar 2006)
Hyundai chief faces fraud probe (28 Mar 2006)
Two million UK households are living on a financial knife-edge (28 Mar 2006)
Rising inequalities: 42% of UK adults now with no pension and 70% with no meaningful savings (28 Mar 2006)
EU cracks down on mobile phone 'roaming' costs (28 Mar 2006)
EU steps up attack on mobile phone roaming charges (28 Mar 2006)
Yukos Bankruptcy Case to Kick Off (28 Mar 2006)
Diageo to meet £650m pension shortfall (28 Mar 2006)
Instruments of Detachment, Instruments of Control:The Rise of the Modern Tax Haven in the International Economy (28 Mar 2006)
The Citizens' Initiative and Referendum: Direct Democracy in 5 Countries of Europe (28 Mar 2006)
Exchange of Tax Information (28 Mar 2006)
Profits Before People: Scientists warn of high rate of vCJD infection (27 Mar 2006)
Massive fraud trial opens in Monaco against a US entrepreneur accused of cheating investors out of millions of euros (27 Mar 2006)
Ex-Kanebo execs sentenced for false information (27 Mar 2006)
Ex UK defence minister quitting the £45,000-a-year BAE consultancy post because of his need to speak freely (27 Mar 2006)
Abysmal phone firms fail users (28 Mar 2006)
Cruel threats from tyrant in luxury tower (26 Mar 2006)
UK Green light to hedge funds a danger sign (26 Mar 2006)
EU Crackdown on mobile fees abroad (26 Mar 2006)
Irresponsibles of the World Unite: UK Accountancy bodies back more director protection (25 Mar 2006)
'People sort through lots like conspirators in a black market' - welcome to the end of MG (25 Mar 2006)
Governments for Sale: Tory backer made £2 million loan week before poll (25 Mar 2006)
Governments for Sale: Scotland Yard asks MPs to delay their inquiry while it questions donors (25 Mar 2006)
The rise and rise of Capita (24 Mar 2006)
Capita chairman quits after criticism of loan to Labour (24 Mar 2006)
Brazil quiz at Credit Suisse unit (24 Mar 2006)
Greed drives a frenzy for 'risky' funds (24 Mar 2006)
Capita boss resigns over Labour loan (23 Mar 2006)
'Cowboy' ticket agency to be closed (23 Mar 2006)
Samsung Execs Plead Guilty (23 Mar 2006)
Samsung executives to serve US prison terms for price-fixing (23 Mar 2006)
Samsung execs to serve jail time in chip price-fixing (23 Mar 2006)
What Happens When the Press Blasts Your CEO for Excess Compensation? Apparently Not Much (23 Mar 2006)
Women's pension crisis warning (23 Mar 2006)
Samsung men 'admit' price fixing (22 Mar 2006)
US banker is granted new trial as US loses fight against white-collar crime (22 Mar 2006)
Unscrupulous practices by estate agents include misleading surveyors about property prices and faking signatures (22 Mar 2006)
Homeowners are being cheated out of thousands of pounds by unscrupulous estate agents (22 Mar 2006)
The operation of elusive, unaccountable mechanisms of financial power in the shadows of the global economy poses a challenge of reform to governments and multinational institutions (22 Mar 2006)
Estate agents unmasked (21 Mar 2006)
OFT bans two west London estate agents for property by deception (21 Mar 2006)
Governemnt for Sale: Labour seeks to damp down scandal by naming sources of £13.9m loans (21 Mar 2006)
CBI deputy stands down over Severn Trent water company row (21 Mar 2006)
Prudential chief's £4.4m payday if bid succeeds (21 Mar 2006)
Record profits but 12m UK homes face water curbs (21 Mar 2006)
Governments for Sale: A history of recent political sleaze (20 Mar 2006)
Britain urged to investigate UK link to Kenya corruption scandal (20 Mar 2006)
Coke 'drinks India dry': Bottling plants are interfering with irrigation in drought-ridden regions (19 Mar 2006)
Money making scams: Use less water, pay more money - say UK water companies (19 Mar 2006)
Governments for Sale: Tony Blair has squandered his own legacy on sleaze (19 Mar 2006)
Governments for Sale: The politics of funding (19 Mar 2006)
Governments for Sale: Put a cap on party donations and reform the Lords (19 Mar 2006)
Why do so few women reach the top of big law firms? (19 Mar 2006)
INSIDER dealing is widespread in the London and getting worse (18 Mar 2006)
A third of takeovers show signs of insider dealing, says UK regulator (18 Mar 2006)
Greek telecom regulator fines Cosmote, TIM and Vodafone for price-fixing (17 Mar 2006)
Glamour firms fined £32m for price-fixing on perfumes (17 Mar 2006)
French perfume makers and vendors fined for price-fixing (17 Mar 2006)
L'Oreal, Chanel and 14 other French perfume makers and retailers were fined $55.5 million for price fixing (17 Mar 2006)
Corruption: BAE ordered to name payment agents (17 Mar 2006)
Thanks to a tax loophole, corporate crime does pay (17 Mar 2006)
UK regulator demands clearer pricing information for online supermarket shoppers (17 Mar 2006)
UK Supermarkets promise to end confusion in online pricing (17 Mar 2006)
Government for Sale: UK Labour party received £14m in secret loans (17 Mar 2006)
UK financial regulator publishes measure of scale of market abuse (17 Mar 2006)
Pension crisis: Armstrong Group goes into receivership leaving 3,000 pensioners high and dry (17 Mar 2006)
Pension crisis: Labour peer - Business is not a charity (17 Mar 2006)
Lessons seen learnt as Enron, Parmalat trials start (17 Mar 2006)
UK Ministers 'wrote blank cheque' to bail out nuclear power group (17 Mar 2006)
Curse of the Consultants: UK Watchdog slams the DTI for failing to keep track of advisory fees (17 Mar 2006)
Capita fined for £328,000 fraud (17 Mar 2006)
Capita Financial Administrators Limited finedfor poor anti-fraud controls over client identities and accounts (17 Mar 2006)
They want fees but no responsibility: Director liability should be capped, PwC CEO (16 Mar 2006)
Shoplifting and Bushonomics (16 Mar 2006)
H&R Block sued for fraudulent marketing of retirement plans (16 Mar 2006)
Man hedge fund group likely to face a formal complaint of negligence following the collapse of a Cayman Islands fund (15 Mar 2006)
Number 10 just has no idea how deep the revulsion goes (15 Mar 2006)
US Utilities keeping customer taxes (15 Mar 2006)
US IRS suggests publicizing corporate tax returns (15 Mar 2006)
BP chief executive gets pay packet of £19 million (15 Mar 2006)
UK Ministers guilty over pensions (15 Mar 2006)
Pensions reprimand for government (15 Mar 2005)

Read the 256 page report form the UK Parliamentary Ombudsman

Pension misery for millions: Adair Turner’s report on the pensions crisis fails to address the question of redistribution (14 Mar 2006)
Langbar accuses two ex-directors of 'conspiracy to defraud' (14 Mar 2006)
Laing defends soaring value of its hospital PFI contracts (14 Mar 2006)
Inequality unchanged since Thatcher, says UK thinktank (14 Mar 2006)
Read 89 pahe Report - Poverty and Inequality in Britain: 2006
Former German Chancellor Schröder sings the praises of hedge funds (14 Mar 2006)
Profits of War: British firms make £1.1bn profit from Iraq (14 Mar 2006)
Rising income inequality has settled comfortably into America's big economic picture (14 Mar 2006)
The gap between Australia's rich and poor is the widest it has been for 50 years (14 Mar 2006)
Best Democracy that Money Can Buy: Party funding watchdog to call for ban on hidden loans (13 Mar 2006)
Not so much back to basics on gongs, as back to bungs (13 Mar 2006)
Union leader critical of UK Labour government (13 Mar 2006)
UK Missing the target on child poverty (13 Mar 2006)
UK government 'misled workers in bust pension funds' (13 Mar 2006)
Credit card companies will be forced to slash their late payment charges by up to 40% (13 Mar 2006)
The rich we have always with us (12 Mar 2006)
Jowell accused in fresh loans row (12 Mar 2006)
Bosses in love with claptrap and blinded by ideologies (12 Mar 2006)
No hiding place for the big UK supermarkets (12 Mar 2006)
Clampdown on UK grocers 'could cut bills by £1bn' (12 Mar 2006)
Vodafone struggles to exonerate the firm from Greece's 'Watergate' (12 Mar 2006)
Compass faces $125m claim by competitor over bribery allegations (11 Mar 2006)
Compass sued over UN fraud allegations (11 Mar 2006)
Compass to defend £72m suit over UN contracts (11 Mar 2006)
How fair is Fairtrade? (11 Mar 2006)
Pensions: Older people struggle to save (11 Mar 2006)
£10m fraud at Cheshire Building Society (10 Mar 2006)
SEC says firm diverted $9 million from funds (10 Mar 2006)
NHS forced to fix bungled private sector hip replacement operations (10 Mar 2006)
Scientists say British greenhouse gas emissions now higher than in 1990 (10 Mar 2006)
No worker will be forced to retire before 65 under new UK retirment law (10 Mar 2006)
Supermarket voluntary safeguard for suppliers seen as failure (10 Mar 2006)
UK Supermarket competition inquiry may break stranglehold of big four (10 Mar 2006)
City short-termism is harming business and workers, says TUC (10 Mar 2006)
John Lewis makes £252m and gives staff eight weeks' pay bonus (10 Mar 2006)
UK Government criticised over Rover crisis (10 Mar 2006)
Rover loan 'was election bribe' (10 Mar 2006)

Read the UK National Audit Office Report: The closure of MG Rover

Italian prosecutors aska judge to let David Mills, the husband of UK Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, be put on trial on corruption charges (10 Mar 2006)
Italy bid for PM corruption trial (10 Mar 2006)
No-win, no-fee can cost (10 Mar 2006)
New law to end UK forced retirement (10 Mar 2006)
Microsoft to hide Irish Tax Haven data of subsidiaries that have saved it billions of dollars in US taxes (9 Mar 2006)
Government for Sale: Labour donor protests after being blocked for peerage (9 Mar 2006)
UK Government Sleaze investigation system not working, says watchdog (9 Mar 2006)
3.4 million UK children living in poverty (9 Mar 2006)
UK Supermarkets face dominance probe (9 Mar 2006)
UK Supermarkets 'monopoly' probe (9 Mar 2006)
Five insurance stings to watch (9 Mar 2006)
£1 trillion bill for UK public sector pensions (9 Mar 2006)
Happy Meals, Unhappy Workers (8 Mar 2006)
UK Retailers warned over 'exorbitant' cards (8 Mar 2006)
Severn Trent washes dirty laundry (8 Mar 2006)
Severn Trent Water ordered to cut bills by £42m after overcharging (8 Mar 2006)
Enron bosses 'hid massive losses' (8 Mar 2006)
Customers lose estimated £1.3bn through unfair bank charges (8 Mar 2006)
Bank of New Zealand and Westpac secure The Roger Award For The Worst Transnational Corporation operating in New Zealand (7 Mar 2006)
UK Culture secretary embroiled in Silvio Berlusconi bribery scandal (7 Mar 2006)
DaimlerChrysler uncovers evidence of "improper payments" to officials on three continents (7 Mar 2006)
South Korea fines mobile phone carriers for unfair subsidies (7 Mar 2006)
Severn Trent admitted it had been deliberately fiddling its books to increase customer bills (7 Mar 2006)
HSBC top earner received more than £10m (7 Mar 2006)
HSBC sets European record with £12bn profit (7 Mar 2006)
UK Crackdown on rip-off store cards (7 Mar 2006)
New warnings for UK store card users (7 Mar 2006)
Former broker admits insider trading (6 Mar 2006)
UK Store cards set for clampdown (6 Mar 2006)
Insider tells tales of Wall Street dishonesty and corruption (6 Mar 2006)
US points finger at Royal Bank over Enron fraud case (6 Mar 2006)
Cayman Islands appoints Kroll liquidator of PAAM (6 Mar 2006)
Crackdown on rip-off UK bank overdraft charges (6 Mar 2006)
Fraud in UK 'pushes towards £1bn' (6 Mar 2006)
UK Stroke sufferers left struggling without adequate aftercare (6 Mar 2006)
Is this the end of globalisation? (5 Mar 2006)
How the lawyer's pub deal brewed a storm of trouble for UK Minister (5 Mar 2006)
Gap between the personal ethics of New Labour's political leadership and ordinary voters (5 Mar 2006)
Fannie Mae Report details influence of fallen chairman (5 Mar 2006)
Former Vice President of Baptist Foundation of Arizona On Trial For Investor Fraud (5 Mar 2006)
Banks 'fail low-income earners' (5 Mar 2006)
Green savaged over Arcadia's ethical standards (5 Mar 2006)
Confessions of ethics man (5 Mar 2006)
Severn Water braced for false accounting reprimand (5 Mar 2006)
Britain's biggest companies using accounting rules to make part of their pension deficits disappear (5 Mar 2006
The Fake Football Shirt Sting (5 Mar 2006)
Coca-Cola threat to quit schools over ban on junk foods (4 Mar 2006)
Illegal fishing worth $9bn a year, says report (4 Mar 2006)
US opens inquiry into pricing of music downloads (4 Mar 2006)
M&S squeezes suppliers to foot TV ads (4 Mar 2006)
How giants squeeze suppliers: Marks & Spencer asks suppliers cut prices by 10% (4 Mar 2006)
Memory-chip supplier Hynix is charged and fined for price fixing (3 Mar 2006)
Most PNG logging illegal (3 Mar 2006)
Irish Casinos Likely to be Used for Money Laundering (3 Mar 2006)
Network Rail fined for inaccurate database (3 Mar 2006)
No tax please, we're rich! (2 Mar 2006)
Super-rich paid in wine and hay (2 Mar 2006)
UK courts give part-time staff equal rights on pensions (2 Mar 2006)
UK Hedge fund and high-flier manager fined £1.5m (2 Mar 2006)
Fears for UK car plants as factories shift east (2 Mar 2006)
Crackdown on credit card cheques (1 Mar 2006)
UK Home Office officials interfered in attempts to arrest and extradite the husband of minister (1 Mar 2006)
SEC Lesson to Individual White-Collar Defendants: Just Hold OUt and We will Settle for Peanuts (1 Mar 2006)
FRAUD investigations and new rules enforced by the American Government cost Wall Street firms $25 billion (1 Mar 2006)
Loophole 'let BAE sell arms to Uganda' (1 Mar 2006)
United States: Deferred Prosecution Agreements: Implications for Corporate Tax Departments (1 Mar 2006)
GNER paid cash to Labour during franchise battle (1 Mar 2006)
Boss of the struggling Poundstretcher chain looks likely to leave with more than £1m (1 Mar 2006)
A rogue consultant removed the wombs of 129 women because his work went unchallenged (1 Mar 2006)
Pensions win for UK part-timers (1 Mar 2006)
Blitz on rogue websites (1 Mar 2006)
Sales companies that plague consumers with silent phone calls are to be fined (1 Mar 2006)

February 2006

Profits before People: BAT hits out at UK smoking bans (28 Feb 2006)
Restoring The Public Trust (28 Feb 2006)
Ireland; Top directors' pay up by 45% (28 Feb 2006)
SEC probes allegations an independent research firm conspired with hedge funds to drive down their stock prices (28 Feb 2006)
It really won't do to blame women for Britain's pay gap (28 Feb 2006)
Powergen bills to rise 24% (28 Feb 2006)
Insider fraud is 'serious threat' (28 Feb 2006)
For the sake of the world's poor, we must keep the wealthy at home (28 Feb 2006)
Pensions that have shrunk 80% (28 Feb 2006)
GNER gave Labour cash amid franchise bid (28 Feb 2006)
UK gender pay gap 'worst in EU' (27 Feb 2006)
UK Women earn up to £1m less than men (27 Feb 2006)
CRE Slams Race 'Complacency' (27 Feb 2006)
£81bn public sector pensions black hole (27 Feb 2006)
Vodafone's role in an eavesdropping scandal comes under further scrutiny (26 Feb 2006)
Why the gender pay gap never went away (26 Feb 2006)
Shell told to pay Nigerians $1.5bn pollution damages (25 Feb 2006)
Fifty UK Public schools fined for price fixing (25 Feb 2006)
13 UK roofing contractors around £2.3 million for price fixing (25 Feb 2006)
SEC Expands Citigroup Argentina Probe (25 Feb 2006)
SEC to distribute $250 million to Qwest shareholders (25 Feb 2006)
Micron hit with class action suit alleging price fixing (24 Feb 2006)
US judge approves US$6.7 billion civil settlement by three Enron banks (24 Feb 2006)
Livedoor Scandal heightens pressure for tough corporate control (24 Feb 2006)
Bank of America Restates Due to Hedge Accounting (24 Feb 2006)
Landlords 'cheating' students (24 Feb 2006)
BAE puts up £350m to help fill gap in pension fund scheme (24 Feb 2006)
UK Pensions shortfall 'could be £160bn' (24 Feb 2006)
The corporate scams that aid terrorist money launderers (23 Feb 2006)
Is the NHS PFI empire crumbling? (23 Feb 2006)
Drug maker Biovail files $4.6B lawsuit (23 Feb 2006)
Celebrate the success of an equal pay claim? You bet we did (23 Feb 2006)
UK Pensions shortfall 'could be £160bn' (23 Feb 2006)
Nearly half of the UK population – or 20 million consumers over the age of 15 – have been targeted by a scam (23 Feb 2006)
UK Banks shut one in five doors (23 Feb 2006)
UK Bank closures 'hit poor hardest' (23 Feb 2006)
Air cargo shaken by price-fixing probe (22 Feb 2006)
OF SNOWBOARDERS AND CORPORATIONS (22 Feb 2006)
European court backs UK's fight against VAT 'avoidance' (22 Feb 2006)
Avoid the motor matchmakers (22 Feb 2006)
PFI hospitals to be rated at just over junk, says credit agency (22 Feb 2006)
UK railways are too congested for a franchise free-for-all (22 Feb 2006)
Heat is on for non-dislosure con insurers (22 Feb 2006)
Tories scent blood over the UK minister's husband and his links to Berlusconi (21 Feb 2006)
Good News, Prime Minister, We're Still Ranked Above Bangladesh (21 Feb 2006)
Fat Cats: £15m bonus for bank boss (21 Feb 2006)
City frenzy brings double bonuses (21 Feb 2006)
Enron trio lose extradition fight (21 Feb 2006)
UK Water bills surge 9.4% (21 Feb 2006)
Debt-laden Channel tunnel rail link is 'nationalised' (21 Feb 2006)
Barclays raises penalty for bounced cheques (21 Feb 2006)
Ban for UK travel insurer that conned 2,000 people (21 Feb 2006)
Insurance broker Xsavi has had its permission to trade cancelled by the Financial Services Authority (21 Feb 2006)
Taxpayers wear the cost of share buybacks (21 Feb 2006)
Best democracy that money can buy: Tribes, private operators pour tons of cash into influencing US lawmakers (21 Feb 2006)
Macau Bank Accused of Money Laundering Says It Will Stop Business With North Korea (21 Feb 2006)
UK government will not ask companies to publish their tax computation (20 Feb 2006)
Kinsale Financial made $96m with just two employees in Ireland (20 Feb 2006)
UK bosses oppose decent pensions for workers (20 Feb 2006)
CBI insists firms should not be forced to pay into pension schemes (20 Feb 2006)
Rich have no nationality (20 Feb 2006)
Birds Eye supplier accused of trading depleted stocks (20 Feb 2006)
Average UK home 'now costs £200,000' (20 Feb 2006)
OFT may reduce late payment fees for credit cards (20 Feb 2006)
UK Banks face legal challenge over £3bn penalties on overdrafts (20 Feb 2006)
Banks ripping-off people to make record profits (20 Feb 2006)
One in four UK workers has a second job to help pay off debts (20 Feb 2006)
Labour's First Full-scale Privatisation Involves The Multiple Fleecing Of The Taxpayer (20 Feb 2006)
Severn Water admits accounts scandal (19 Feb 2006)
More than one in 10 US citizens live below the poverty line (19 Feb 2006)
Most UK firms still failing to combat discrimination in workplace (19 Feb 2006)
China crisis for Google bosses (19 Feb 2006)
UK Minister's husband faces corruption indictment by Italian prosecutors (18 Feb 2006)
SEC Files Insider Trading Charges Against Doctor Who Participated in Clinical Trials for Maxim Pharmaceuticals (18 Feb 2006)
Five million Britons fall prey of £1bn scams each year (18 Feb 2006)
HBOS corporate business chief receives £500,000 (18 Feb 2006)
Rising Fuel bills hit first time UK home buyers (18 Feb 2006)
Euro price-fixing puts £200 on gas bills (18 Feb 2006)
Pensions: Retirement age 'will rise to 85' (18 Feb 2006)
You can't count on a chartered accountant (17 Feb 2006)
Why don’t the accounts of the FTSE 50 add up? by Richard Murphy (17 Feb 2006)
BowLeven sacks chief executive for 'gross misconduct' (17 Feb 2006)
MyTravel boss gets £3.5m pay package (17 Feb 2006)
MyTravel chief earns £3.5m despite loss (17 Feb 2006)
Call for action over fee-charging ATMs (17 Feb 2006)
UK Banks forced to justify £140m charges for cash (17 Feb 2006)
HOUSEHOLDS will have to pay nearly £200 extra on their gas bills because of market-rigging by European suppliers (17 Feb 2006)
'Buck passed' over bank charges (17 Feb 2006)
Persons not old enough to buy/sell alcohol and cigarettes can become directors of companies that trade in them (16 Feb 2006)
UK government refuses to reveal the composition of various task forces and interests of their members (16 Feb 2006)
UK companies will not be asked to donate profits to make good pensions deficiencies (16 Feb 2006)
UK companies will not be asked to return the pension holiday contributions (16 Feb 2006)
UK companies will not have to disclose all political donations (16 Feb 2006)
UK government will not allow employees to vote to corporate political donations (16 Feb 2006)
UK government will not ask companies to publish carbon dioxide emissions (16 Feb 2006)
Despite rampant tax dodging, UK government will not require companies to list subsidiaries, affiliates, shell companies and trusts, together with the their turnover, profit and tax paid by each (16 Feb 2006)
UK has dismal record on 'insider trading' prosecutions (16 Feb 2006)
UK government opposes director obligations to employees (16 Feb 2006)
UK government will not link bank closures to social responsibility (16 Feb 2006)
Transfer pricing is the biggest method for laundering money but the UK government opposes disclosures (16 Feb 2006)
EU to crack down on energy sector rip-offs (16 Feb 2006)
Fat Cats: Morgan Stanley's chairman awarded a $13m (£7.5m) package for five months' work (16 Feb 2006)
Major Airlines accused of using 9/11 as excuse to overcharge for freight (16 Feb 2006)
Cargo 'cartel' quiz for Virgin Atlantic (16 Feb 2006)
Pension Poverty: Number of UK pension-aged workers surged to more than 1.1m (16 Feb 2006)
Germany and Japan want to dilute new draft global anti-corruption guidelines (16 Feb 2006)
UK will not curb credit card companies from issuing credit cards to anyone below the age of 18 years (16 Feb 2006)
Misrepresentation of oil and gas reserves by Shell (16 Feb 2006)
UK government shields banks that laundered Abacha and Pinochet funds (16 Feb 2006)
UK government will not ask banks to donate 1 per cent. of their UK profits to local community projects (16 Feb 2006)
UK small shops 'could disappear' (15 Feb 2006)
Qinetiq privatisation and tax havens (15 Feb 2006)
Curse of the Supermarkets: 10 years to save the UK high street (15 Feb 2006)
UK banks rake in £500m in extra charges from UK customers using their cards overseas (15 Feb 2006)
BA offices raided in inquiry into price-fixing (15 Feb 2006)
Air cartel probe expands to Asia (15 Feb 2006)
Ex-Enron chief 'misled investors' (15 Feb 2006)
UK Homelessness 'now more ingrained' (15 Feb 2006)
40 years later - Cathy still hasn't come home, says Shelter (15 Feb 2006)
Qinetiq: Greed of the highest order and the worst privatisation since rail (14 Feb 2006)
Raising UK pension age is 'unfair' (14 Feb 2006)
Wall St 'knew Enron was heading for the rocks' (14 Feb 2006)
The money game: Everybody does it (13 Feb 2006)
Wal-Mart targeted in hit documentary (13 Feb 2006)
Firm behind high hospital phone charges ousts chief (13 Feb 2006)
CJD's sorry saga of greed, gutlessness and incompetence (12 Feb 2006)
Vodafone faces fines over Greek bugging scandal (12 Feb 2006)
Debt firms rapped over payment plans for benefit claimants (12 Feb 2006)
WPP boss faces legal action from Express owner and fresh allegations over imbroglio at Italian arm (12 Feb 2006)
Investigators probing a Swiss bank linked to alleged frauds at WPP Italy (12 Feb 2006)
Cable & Wireless in £200m pensions move (12 Feb 2006)
Kuwait Company’s Secret Contract & Low-Wage Labor (12 Feb 2006)
Investigators probing a Swiss bank linked to alleged frauds at WPP Italy (12 Feb 2006)
Asda faces £850,000 tribunal cost (11 Feb 2006)
Asda guilty of anti-union bribes (11 Feb 2006)
Compass bosses face 'corruption' questions (10 Feb 2006)
BG accused of fuelling poverty as earnings rise 114% in quarter (10 Feb 2006)
Third of credit card holders hit with fines (10 Feb 2006)
Insurer AIG in $1.6bn settlement (10 Feb 2006)
Turner defends retirement pension plans against Stalinist charges (10 Feb 2006)
Rolls-Royce pension deficit up 15% (10 Feb 2006)
Royal Mail fined £11m for lost letters (10 Feb 2006)
Nortel pays $2.5bn to settle accounts scandal (9 Feb 2006)
104,342 rail services failed to run last year in the UK (8 Feb 2006)
Newspapers scandal: Follow the Hollinger money (8 Feb 2006)
Pensions: UK Women may have to work till 70 (8 Feb 2006)
BAT 'exploited flawed test to fool smokers' (8 Feb 2006)
EU to get tough on mobile phone roaming charges (8 Feb 2006)
US Conservative Group Challenges Sarbox (8 Feb 2006)
Anti-tax group challenges US Sarbanes-Oxley law (8 Feb 2006)
Barclaycard's penalty on the prudent (8 Feb 2006)
Wanadoo rapped over advertising (8 Feb 2006)
China, the world's largest tobacco consumer, is to ban the building of new cigarette factories (8 Feb 2006)
UK Pension age 'set to rise' in 2020 (7 Feb 2006)
Calling the Ethics Cops (7 Feb 2006)
The New Ethics Enforcers (7 Feb 2006)
Defining the Role of Ethics Monitor (7 Feb 2006)
Vodafone embroiled in Greek phone-tapping scandal (7 Feb 2006)
US law chief defends domestic wiretapping (7 Feb 2006)
WPP Italian probe to spark more sackings (7 Feb 2006)
Sorrell orders executive clearout as WPP's Italian feud escalates (7 Feb 2006)
Compass faces fresh grilling on UN scandal (7 Feb 2006)
28m scam attacks every year in the UK (6 Feb 2006)
WPP: Our top staff fixed up 'phoney' deals (6 Feb 2006)
AIG 'close' to £1.5bn settlement (6 Feb 2006)
Profits before People: Spain Smoking ban prompts cut in cigarette prices (6 Feb 2006)
Pickets target Brighthouse over credit for the deprived (5 Feb 2006)
Enron's political helpmates (5 Feb 2006)
BHP faces charges in oil-for-food inquiry (4 Feb 2006)
Livedoor 'used Swiss accounts to cook books' (4 Feb 2006)
4 US federal indictments in AIG probe (4 Feb 2006)
The truth about Enron that most Americans don't want to hear (4 Feb 2006)
Chocolate bars to carry 'health warnings' on wrapping (4 Feb 2006)
Investor fury at Compass chief's pay deal (3 Feb 2006)
Lloyd's sues insurance brokerages (3 Feb 2006)
UK Consumer watchdog to look into Mastercard's 'anti-competitive' fees (3 Feb 2006)
Harrods shutting pension scheme (3 Feb 2006)
Babies given drugs untested on the young (2 Feb 2006)
Internet firms 'bowed to Beijing' (2 Feb 2006)
Enron chiefs 'involved in fraud' (2 Feb 2006)
Ex-Wal-Mart boss stole from firm (2 Feb 2006)
Profits before People: Shell reveals record £13bn profit (2 Feb 2006)
Shell reports record UK profits (2 Feb 2006)
Wal-Mart sued over contraception (2 Feb 2006)
BAE deal to ease pension problems (2 Feb 2006)
Curse of the consultants: Advisers eye £55m fees in Mittal battle (1 Feb 2006)
OECD Developing Dangerous Policies: POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR INVESTMENT (1 Feb 2006)
Medical corruption 'global issue' (1 Feb 2006)

Theft, bribery and extortion rob millions of proper health care, says Global Corruption Report 2006

Advertising Watchdog rebukes UK Food Standards Agency (1 Feb 2006)
Internal accountability creates “institutional discomfort” (1 Feb 2006)
Using human rights tribunal to force Bank compliance: Uruguayan paper mill (1 Feb 2006)
Rover inquiry looks into accounts of Phoenix Four wives (1 Feb 2006)
Compass UN probe finds 'serious irregularities' (1 Feb 2006)
Put the Politicians in the Enron Docket (1 Feb 2006)
Enron case is simply about lies, prosecutors tell court (1 Feb 2006)
At the least, former Enron chiefs are guilty of moral bankruptcy (1 Feb 2006)
Pensions: Blair to back retirement at 67 (1 Feb 2006)
Hermes faces £4m fine after Korea accuses fund manager (1 Feb 2006)
UK Home Office hauled over the coals for £180m hole in accounts (1 Feb 2006)

January 2006

Corporations rule not OK (31 Jan 2006)
Directors shun audit committee's poisoned chalice (31 Jan 2006)
Curse of the Consultants: MPs urge inquiry into delay of £6.2bn NHS software (31 Jan 2006)
Enron bosses deny 42 charges as complex fraud trial begins (31 Jan 2006)
Exxon Mobil made record profits of $36bn (£20bn) for 2005 as oil and gas prices soared (31 Jan 2006)
UK Pension plans doomed to fail (31 Jan 2006)
Britain facing influx of counterfeit cigarettes (31 Jan 2006)
Finance firm faces Korean stock market manipulation charges (31 Jan 2006)
City firm facing probe on QinetiQ (30 Jan 2006)
Pension: Turner reforms an echo of Stalin era, says pensions body (30 Jan 2006)
Alpha Airports hit by fraud (30 Jan 2006)
WPP looks into fraud allegations over Italian deals (30 Jan 2006)
White-Collar Crime: Who Does Time? (30 Jan 2006)
Yamaha under investigation for alleged price-fixing (30 Jan 2006)
American Airlines boss attacks Chapter 11 law (29 Jan 2006)
Consultancy rip-offs: Advisers to net £100m from Qinetiq flotation (29 Jan 2006)
UK legislators declare war on power of the supermarket giants (29 Jan 2006)
Between 8 and 10 per cent of the global medicine supply chain is counterfeit, representing up to £20 billion worth of medicines (28 Jan 2006)
UK Banks warned over family debt and distress (28 Jan 2006)
Porsche chief executive attacks fund managers for their short-termist, asset-stripping approach to investment (28 Jan 2006)
Rising income inequalities: First-time UK home buyers '25-year low' (28 Jan 2006)
Fat Cats: Rank chief retires on a year's pay (28 Jan 2006)
Australia: Workers losing in CEO pay bonanza (28 Jan 2006)
Labour’s Role in Achieving the Creative Imperative: Statement of Labour Leaders to the World Economic Forum (27 Jan 2006)
Trade Unions Call Companies and Governments to Account on Jobs and Tax (27 Jan 2006)
Gangmasters audit shows 90% breaking the law (27 Jan 2006)
Police chief labels UK media institutionally racist (27 Jan 2006)
PwC blamed over failing Rover deal (27 Jan 2006)
Tobacco firm accused over ventilation claims (27 Jan 2006)
PFI: NHS Trusts slash staff to juggle debts (27 Jan 2006)
Credit card firm targets teenagers (27 Jan 2006)
UK Watchdog to probe defence firm sale (27 Jan 2006)
Qinetiq listings probe launched (27 Jan 2006)
The exorbitant cost of PFI is now being cruelly exposed (26 Jan 2006)
Office of Fair Trading reopening its investigation into business banking (26 Jan 2006)
China cracks down on critical publication (26 Jan 2006)
KPMG quietly ploughs a nice furrow in IT advisory work (26 Jan 2006)
NHS consultancy bonanza for KPMG (26 Jan 2006)
MOBILE phone users could be paying up to five times more than they need to (26 Jan 2006)
Issuer defends payment card for kids (26 Jan 2006)
Ryanair to charge £2.50 for checking in bags (26 Jan 2006)
What is a low cost flight?: Ryanair to charge for luggage (26 Jan 2006)
Fears grow over closure of IBM final salary pensions (26 Jan 2006)
LLoyds TSB's £3bn pension hole (26 Jan 2006)
Bahamas-based investment firm, was indicted for laundering $1 billion for drug dealers, tax cheats and swindlers (26 Jan 2006)
Bahamas investment firm used to launder US$1 billion (26 Jan 2006)
Corporate villains named and shamed (26 Jan 2006)
Walt Disney Company, the Chevron Corporation and Citigroup have been awarded booby prizes by Swiss non-governmental organisations (26 Jan 2006)
UK pension schemes 'shun' shares (26 Jan 2006)
Pension blow for Mr Average (25 Jan 2006)
Pension funds pile into latest 50-year gilts (25 Jan 2006)
Banks undermine efforts to help poor (25 Jan 2006)
IBM sparks pension fears (25 Jan 2006)
Isle of Man and Guernsey: Cable & Wireless on the brink of settling its £40m court case over allgeations of siphoning off £80m in reinsurance premiums (25 Jan 2006)
Should government be allowed to offshore? (25 Jan 2006
30-bln-yuan tax avoided by transnationals in China (24 Jan 2006)
Single people feel discriminated against at work (24 Jan 2006)
Honeywell rapped over First Technology bid (24 Jan 2006)
12m UK workers have reading age of children (24 Jan 2006)

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Banks 'failing' poorer consumers (24 Jan 2006)
Halliburton accused over Iraq water supplies (24 Jan 2006)
What is a company for? (23 Jan 2006)
The state, the economy and the politics of fear (23 Jan 2006)
UK Shareholders ignored over director pay (23 Jan 2006)
How chief executives quietly enrich themselves for mediocrity (23 Jan 2006)
Shell shareholders’ squabbles are sheer lunacy (23 Jan 2006)
'Sarbanes Oxley refugees' are clamouring for a London float. Should we worry? (22 Jan 2006)
GLG Partners, Europe’s third-biggest hedge fund with $11.5bn under management, accused of insider dealing (22 Jan 2006)
UK Government launches Qinetiq probe (22 Jan 2006)
Livedoor chief denies wrongdoing (22 Jan 2006)
US Parents sue over 'junk food' ads (22 Jan 2006)
Former chairman of Guangdong Kelon Electrical Holdings Co, allegedly embezzled 592 million yuan (US$73 million) (22 Jan 2006)
Remember BSE and CJD: Outlawed spinal material was found in a 390kg batch of veal from New York to Japan (22 Jan 2006)
Patriot Corporations (21 Jan 2006)
REFORMING THE RICH (21 Jan 2006)
Partners losing out with older style pensions (21 Jan 2006)
Work stress 'heart disease link' (21 Jan 2006)
NHS financial crisis: 81 investigated organisations revealed but what did KPMG have a prior involvement? (20 Jan 2006)
Pension peril for retiring millions (20 Jan 2006)
How bonds are bleeding the nation's pensions dry (20 Jan 2006)
Straw that broke back of company pensions (20 Jan 2006)
England and Wales lead the pack on European imprisonment rates (20 Jan 2006)
UK Prison population 'highest in Western Europe' (20 Jan 2006)
Ex-Deutsche boss faces insider trade claim (20 Jan 2006)
MoD boss in QinetiQ conflict (20 Jan 2006)
Corporate elites would continue to be unaccountable: FRC consults on UK Combined Code of Corporate Governance (19 Jan 2006)
FSA to get tough with rule-breakers (19 Jan 2006)
Cash crisis threatens plans for more PFI hospitals (18 Jan 2006)
FT in £300,000 libel case payout (18 Jan 2006)
FT agrees £4.5m bill to end Collins Stewart libel case (18 Jan 2006)
T-Mobile has been censured by the Advertising Standards Authority (18 Jan 2006)
Endowments were just a bad idea (18 Jan 2006)
Allegations of fraud at internet firm Livedoor spark Tokyo stockmarket panic (18 Jan 2006)
MEPs reject port liberalisation (18 Jan 2006)
Inquiry into UK hospital patient calls costs (18 Jan 2006)
Nike French unit is placed under investigation for fraud probe (18 Jan 2006)
Cost of dying in the UK hits £3,307 (18 Jan 2006)
Energy billing errors blight UK consumers (18 Jan 2006)
Canada; Firms fail to meet new audit rules (17 Jan 2006)
Pulp Factions: Uruguay’s Environmentalists v. Big Paper (17 Jan 2006)
Women too scared to ask for pay rise (17 Jan 2006)
Woman seeks £11m over HBOS 'sacking' (17 Jan 2006)
Pesticide may reduce fertility, says study (17 Jan 2006)
U.N. Orders Leave for Eight in Fraud Probe (17 Jan 2006)
Daimler 'acts over Iraq bribes' (17 Jan 2006)
NAB banks call time on final-salary scheme (17 Jan 2006)
Yorkshire and Clydesdale banks to scrap final salary pension schemes (17 Jan 2006)
Settlement 'close' in £37m FT libel case (17 Jan 2006)
PFI: Questions and answers (16 Jan 2006)
The 14 Worst Corporate Evildoers (16 Jan 2006)
Government for Sale: City academies adviser resigns after cash-for-honours accusation (16 Jan 2006)
F&C seeks curbs on UK political funding (16 Jan 2006)
Women making up just 4% of London equity traders (16 Jan 2006)
Money to burn: how a court case could halve the price of Cuban cigars (16 Jan 2006)
Australia probes Iraq 'kickbacks' (16 Jan 2006)
UK Law lords consider KPMG pension battle (16 Jan 2006)
Collins Stewart and FT braced for £37m libel court clash (16 Jan 2006)
Governments for Sale: Roll of dishonour (15 Jan 2006)
Governments for Sale: Every £1m Labour donor has been given honour (15 Jan 2006)
How UK plc stays ahead of the taxman (15 Jan 2006)
Top FTSE companies avoid paying tax to tune of £20bn (15 Jan 2006)

Creditors turn on Unwins directors (15 Jan 2006)
UK MPs demand tougher Company Bill (15 Jan 2006)
Euronext in fresh dealing probe (15 Jan 2006)
Why are we in this pension mess? Just ask the boss (15 Jan 2006)
The Trouble with Tyco (14 Jan 2006)
UK Government had signed contracts for 677 PFI projects worth a total of £42.7 billion by 2004 (14 Jan 2006)
US insurance giant AIG expected to pay more than $1 billion to settle regulatory claims (13 Jan 2006)
Offshore link of the British Defence sell-off (13 Jan 2006)
SEC upgrades its investigation of accounting practices at IBM (13 Jan 2006)
Pensions: More Britons forced to work beyond 65 (13 Jan 2006)
UK Government statistician counts on us living and working longer (13 Jan 2006)
Football Manager breaks rank and vows to expose sleazy world of bungs and parasitic agents (13 Jan 2006)
One in five consumers had to pay a penalty fee or charge on a financial product (13 Jan 2006)
MILLIONS of UK bank customers are being punished with ' staggering' penalty charges of an estimated £553m a year (13 Jan 2006)
Pay £98m or 10 more years jail, fraudster told (12 Jan 2006)
ATM cards being used for money laundering (12 Jan 2006)
BP to make biggest profit in UK history despite hurricanes (12 Jan 2006)
Guardian Assurance and Guardian Linked Life Assurance fined £750,000 for mishandling mortgage endowment complaints (12 Jan 2006)
BA 'may have to go bust' over pensions (12 Jan 2006)
Ford's credit rating is cut again (12 Jan 2006)
How pensions treasure has slipped from our grasp (11 Jan 2006)
Abramoff and the Israeli Connection: Washington sleazebag funneled money to Israel's "settler" movement (11 Jan 2006)
EU court rules that airlines must compensate stranded passengers (11 Jan 2006)
Ordinary people can't afford houses but estate agents make a packet: Property agents get £80m bonus (11 Jan 2006)
Ram ad banned for linking beer to sexual success (11 Jan 2006)
Dresdner sued for $1.4bn in sex discrimination case (10 Jan 2006)
Langbar shareholders ponder legal action against brokers (10 Jan 2006)
Curse of the management consultants: Doctors have little faith in new NHS £6bn computer system (10 Jan 2006)
Shell sued by Dutch pension funds (10 Jan 2006)
Shell faces new damages claim (10 Jan 2006)
Lost horizon: when travel brochures turn to fiction (10 Jan 2006)
Ousted Compass executives share £2.4m boost to pensions (10 Jan 2006)
Two Compass bosses picked up a £1m-plus pension boost while employee scheme grapples with a £532m black hole (10 Jan 2006)
US economist says Iraq war could cost $2 trillion (10 Jan 2006)
Daniel Calugar and Security Brokerage, Inc. to Pay Over $150 Million to Settle SEC Fraud Action for Late Trading and Market Timing (13 Jan 2006)
£150bn killer blow for UK final salary pension schemes (9 Jan 2006)
Brussels to bolster EU shareholder rights (9 Jan 2006)
BP's Browne in Russian racketeering lawsuit (8 Jan 2006)
Britons don't trust financial advisers (8 Jan 2006)
Profits before People: Gas bills set to soar by 25 per cent (8 Jan 2006)
Pensions crisis: UK companies benefited from £18bn of 'contribution holidays' (8 Jan 2006)
Even closing final salary schemes may not be enough to solve British companies' pension deficit problems (8 Jan 2006)
Government for Sale: The fall of Jack Abramoff threatens to provoke America's biggest corruption crisis (8 Jan 2006)
Trapped by 367% interest loan (8 Jan 2006)
Call for better pension trustees (7 Jan 2006)
Conman jailed for timeshare swindle (7 Jan 2006)
Smuggling in suburbia: how two men ran cartel flooding UK with £1bn of cocaine (7 Jan 2006)
IBM to freeze US pension scheme (7 Jan 2006)
THE FASCINATING HISTORY OF THE GREAT BRITISH EXECUTIVE PAY BOOM (6 Jan 2006)
EU Bank robberies 'every 90 minutes' (6 Jan 2006)
Plagiarism and editing in the BMJ (6 Jan 2006)
Former high-powered lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion charges (6 Jan 2006)
Judge sentences 2 ex-Dynegy executives (6 Jan 2006)
Foreigners bought half the corporate shares sold in Brazil (6 Jan 2006)
Refco's Collapse Reveals Decades of Quarrels With Regulators (6 Jan 2005)
Number of UK insolvencies reaches three-year high (6 Jan 2006)
UK Pension top-up limits to be lifted (6 Jan 2006)
UK Firms lose battle to prop up pensions (6 Jan 2006)
Combined deficit of UK 350 companies pension funds rose from £75bn in 2004 to £93bn (6 Jan 2006)

FTSE 350 – pension scheme deficits and trends

How big business dominates UK government taskforces (5 Jan 2006)
Do big fines really work for corporate misconduct? (5 Jan 2006)
SEC slaps standards on corporate fines (5 Jan 2006)
UK consumers are the most over-indebted in Europe and owe £1.14 trillion (5 Jan 2006)
Five million Brits 'do unpaid overtime' (5 Jan 2006)
UK Pensions crisis escalates (5 Jan 2006)
Co-op and Arcadia axe pensions (5 Jan 2006)
Co-op closes final salary pension to current staff (5 Jan 2006)
Co-op closes final salary pension (5 Jan 2005)
'Painfully slow' progress means women could take 200 years to win political equality (5 Jan 2006)
Women are still decades away from attaining the same status as men in public life (5 Jan 2005)
UK Training plan 'had little impact' (5 Jan 2006)
5m UK adults fooled by scams (5 Jan 2006)
28 million Brits targeted with frauds and scams (5 Jan 2006)
Increase in UK company failures (5 Jan 2006)
Governments for Sale: Lobbyist case threatens US Congress (4 Jan 2006)
Corruption and governments for sale: US Lobbyist admits kickbacks, influence peddling (4 Jan 2006)
US Lobbyist to reveal all in Congress bribes scandal (4 Jan 2006)
US fraud lobbyist pleads guilty to consipracy and tax evasion (4 Jan 2006)
Price of corporate tax dodging; Fees mean fewer will try for UK university place (4 Jan 2006)
Doctors who put lives before profits (4 Jan 2006)
Toothpaste makers told to drop adverts (4 Jan 2006)
Sarbanes-Oxley Disclosures Matter To Investors (4 Jan 2006)
Britons' personal debt hits $1.9 trillion (4 Jan 2006)
SEC Accuses 6 Ex-Putnam Execs of Fraud (4 Jan 2006)
Former Enron chief executive will face insider trading charges (4 Jan 2006)
Panalpina CEO steps down after misconduct by manager leads to 33 mlnSFR loss (4 Jan 2006)
Cost of Dividends: Arcadia staff told to work an extra five years for their pensions (4 Jan 2006)
US Securities-fraud Lawsuits Decline (4 Jan 2006)
Some ideas for social and corporate reform (3 Jan 2006)
30% India Inc owned by foreigners. So? (3 Jan 2006)
A link exists between adverts for alcohol and levels of drinking among young people (3 Jan 2006)
Nigerian banks face liquidation (3 Jan 2006)
Figures on the ethnicity of students in higher education show a disturbing racial divide among UK universities (3 Jan 2006)
Wake up to segregation and discrimination in UK Universities (3 Jan 2006)
Black students failing to get into top UK universities (3 Jan 2006)
`Vulture Funds' Descend On Dying Third World Economies (3 Jan 2006)
New round of rail fare increases angers UK passengers (3 Jan 2006)
UK Rail fare rises of 9% come under fire (2 Jan 2006)
Starbucks wins Chinese logo case (2 Jan 2006)
Freedom of Information: UK Secrecy law fails to open up Whitehall (1 Jan 2006)
UK government plans freedom of information law curbs (1 Jan 2006)
Accused Enron boss prays for a ‘wave of truth’ (1 Jan 2006)
State may curb food giants as trolley war escalates (1 Jan 2006)
Tell all on pensions in job ads, says MP (1 Jan 2006)
The Accident Group: Judge freezes tycoon's assets (1 Jan 2006)

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