Raising his profile and flirting with the idea of a presidential bid, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has just received unwanted publicity with news that the company he founded is being sued by the...

Corporate apologies are coming in thick and fast. The list includes Mattel saying sorry for the lead paint found in toys, Apple's Steve Jobs apologizing to iPhone early adopters, Whole Foods...

He might be looking at a lengthy spell behind bars but Conrad Black's self-belief remains unshakeable. With his sentencing coming up in late November, Black resumed his column in the newspaper he...

More than five years after the Bush administration brought in the world's toughest anti-fraud law, and Governments around the world followed suit, the latest data suggests that fraud is stronger...

In countries around the world, including Australia, Governments have adopted policies around the ideology of labour market deregulation. Put simply, the view is that a deregulated labour market is...

The New York Times details the close and seemingly collusive relationship that the Interior Department has with oil companies. It tells us of a report that stops short of calling officials corrupt...

The ratings agencies came under plenty of well-deserved fire in the fallout from the subprime debacle. Basically, the problem was that ratings agencies had been treating mortgage-backed securities as...

Caught up in those bribery and corruption allegations involving hundreds of millions of Euros, Siemens is desperately trying to move on.Next week, Peter Solmssen will become the board's general...

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...

A coalition of interests, including investors are petitioning the Securities and Exchange Commission to force companies to come clean on pollution risks, reports MarketWatch.Basically, the argument...

This is the week of critical meetings to find answers on what to do about global warming. In New York, the United Nations will be looking at tighter emission mandates and the Bush administration will...

How much can we believe companies that report increased earnings over 20 quarters?A new study, reported in the International Herald Tribune, suggests we should probably take it with a bag or three of...

Back in July, I pointed to findings from Cornerstone Research and Stanford University Law School showing that the number of securities class actions was falling, with suggestions that this...

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 rigorous compliance environment in the United States following Sarbanes-Oxley has turned into a real money spinner for attorneys.According to the 2007 Altman Weil Law Department Compensation...

The jury is still out on whether the Fed's decision for cuts of half a percentage point will fix the problems in the US market. The cuts were expected so the market for now sees it as a sign......

Interesting report from London-based Ethical Investment Research Services identifying gaps in the approach of business towards ethical issues.In the area of corporate governance, businesses tend to...

Financial institutions might be spending more on IT security but they continue to struggle and many are now starting to realize that the big problem is with people. Either with their own employees,...

When it comes to market morality, it's hard to make the call between sin and virtue stocks. Particularly with all the volatility that's going on now.The Vice Fund, which invests in tobacco,...