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Identity theft victims don’t need Jessica Van Vliet, an assistant professor in counseling psychology at the University of Alberta, to tell them that they no longer feel safe when conducting everyday f...
I have been debating the importance of short selling to markets and investors over the past few days and next year will be creating a debate for the Post Trade Forum on short selling. However, what ha...
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On July 8th 2011 the Bundesrat, the German upper house of parliament, denied approval of the changes adopted of the federal tax regulations already approved by the Bundestag (the lower house of Parlia...
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As part of President Obama’s “Campaign to Cut Waste” across the entire federal government all Treasury Bureaus must implement an e-invoice processing solution (IPP) by the end of 2012. In 2013 commer...
But we voted for their unbalanced and uninformed contributions to debate. 1 in 200 cheques bounces - these don't appear on the cheque fraud statistics because they may not have been forged or "co...
As the news of Steve Jobs' resignation rocks the world today, it's almost like we're reading his obituary rather than the news that a Fortune 50 CEO has moved on. The impact of Steve's resignation wil...
As part of a major overhauling to decrease their global the Greek government aims to save more than 3 billion Euro annually with e-invoicing. They also focus on reducing tax fraud and increasing tax e...