The big news at the end of the week was that action man Wesley Snipes has been cleared of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges on Friday, but was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing...

Most states in the US, and indeed many jurisdictions around the world, have enacted some form of anti-spam legislation. But it's done nothing to stop the onslaught and indeed, the problem seems...

While the US was heading into the subprime meltdown, lawmakers around the country were being dissuaded from bringing in laws to curtail their sharp lending practices and Predatory lending through...

Heads are rolling after the massive blunder that has seen the two computer discs carrying the private information of 25 million child benefit claimants in Britain going missing. And the Chancellor of...

Five years on, and cost is still the big issue surrounding Sarbanes-Oxley. Non-compliance with Section 404 spells disaster for companies with massive falls in the value of the stock.But the corporate...

Imagine a world where millions of dollars can flow through the system daily, a world where all these exchanges can happen anonymously, where there are no police, courts and extradition laws. Perfect...

Last year, I wrote about the Securities and Exchange Commission getting slated by the Government Accountability Office. You can read some of the reports here and here.Now the Government...

The analysis over the long-awaited and long-overdue resignation of Alberto Gonzales will continue for some time. A good summing up of the commentary is in Slate. For a decent analysis of his less...

Maybe it seemed like a good idea at the time. But then, it was so stupid and flawed that the time must have been 2am!Pilloried by congressmen and the banking industry, the Securities and Exchange has...

The US administration's paranoid obsession with terrorism has gone too far with the Securities and Exchange Commission's link on state sponsors of terrorism. It's a knee-jerk reaction...

Eleven years ago, Bill Clinton came out with the extraordinarily deceptive statement that "the era of big government is over".It was complete garbage then and his Republican successor went...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) seems to have lost tens of millions of dollars through improper and fraudulent payments, according to a report from the Government Accountability...

Now for the fallout from the British Government decision to drop the corruption probe into a massive defence deal involving BAE Systems, the world's fourth largest defence contractor, and Saudi...

If accountants think the regulators here are tough, spare a thought for Liu Yibing who has been sentenced to death in China for running a scam.Actually, it's all part of China's crackdown on...

This week, I interviewed Jeremy Cooper, the deputy chairman of the Australian corporate regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.We covered many topics, from private equity and...

Pencil in March 26. That's when Citigroup has to deal with the lawsuit over insider trading and failure to manage its conflicts of interest.Citigroup is being sued by the Australian Securities...

The Securities and Exchange Commission, panned by Congress for its handling of a trading probe that entangled Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack, is now under investigation from the Government...

The Securities and Exchanges Commission is in the firing line again with departing SEC commissioner Cynthia Glassman saying the SEC, the body that's supposed to enforce standards for financial...

More developments in the Citigroup-insider trading case in Sydney today. And reading the court document filed by the Australian corporate regulator today left me wondering whether the Australian...

British Airways faces a joint US-UK investigation into price fixing.The probe is on ticket prices, and particularly the fuel surcharges airlines have been adding to offset the rising cost of...