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- High finance, complexity and disaster
  Posted by SoxFirst
  Here is the paradox of markets: they are bigger, more liquid and more lucrative than ever but mistakes by a handful of companies send shock waves around the world. All created by complex financial innovation and new fangled forms of money like derivatives.
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- Qatar Gives Credit Suisse A Lift
  Posted by theangryindian from Forbes
  LONDON - Credit Suisse shares got a lift on Monday following reports that the Qatar Investment Authority, a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund, had begun its $15 billion spending spree in Europe and the U.S. with a stake in the Swiss bank.
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- Six strategies for risky innovations
  Posted by SoxFirst
  The rule of thumb with risky investment is that it cuts both ways. The present new opportunities for big gains but there is also the danger of being wiped out. It applies to all sorts of financial innovations, from derivatives to sub-prime mortgages. Here are six strategies for dealing with it.
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- Financial statement fraud gangs
  Posted by SoxFirst
  How many perpetrators does it take to carry out a corporate fraud? An average of seven, according to a new study from the Institute for Fraud Prevention. The includes CEOs, CFOs, auditors, directors and general counsel.
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- How to fix up accounting and financial reports
  Posted by SoxFirst
  Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox has announced a task force to make financial reporting easier for investors to understand. But questions are being raised whether this will erode investor protections.
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- London to overtake New York and rival Silicon Valley
  Posted by SoxFirst
  Here's a warning to America. Within the next eight years, London will overtake New York as the world's financial hub, and it will rival Silicon Valley as a technology centre.
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- Sarbanes-Oxley: no deterrent to IPOs
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  Politicians and Wall Street are howling that the US is losing its financial edge because of Sarbanes-Oxley. But new figures from Thompson Financial show the IPO market in the US is booming.
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SoxFirst
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Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.
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theangryindian
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“The Angryindian” is an internationally recognised Indigenist activist and outspoken critic of U.S. colonialism practised against Aboriginal societies in America and abroad. He is editor of IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo and the host of Radyo Inteligentaindigena, an independent, non-partisan international Indigenist podcast.
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