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Russian Ties Put Cyprus Banking Crisis on East-West Fault Line - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/world/europe/russian-ties-put-cyprus-banking-crisis-on-east-west-fault-line.html

LIMASSOL, Cyprus — Andreas Marangos, a Porsche-driving lawyer here, had just woken up when he heard the news that threatened to destroy his and Cyprus’s most lucrative business: setting up shell companies and providing financial services for wealthy Russians.

#chypre #russie #crise-bancaire

Do business schools incubate criminals ? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/07/do-business-schools-incubate-criminals.html

UK bank’s actions under scrutiny in US
http://www.aljazeera.com//news/americas/2012/08/201286175518978631.html

A banking regulator in New York state has said that a rogue Standard Chartered Plc banking unit violated US anti-money laundering laws by scheming with Iran to hide more than $250bn of transactions, and may lose its licence to operate in the US state.

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Lawsky’s order quotes a senior Standard Chartered official in London who, upon being advised by a North American colleague that its Iran dealings could cause “catastrophic reputational damage”, reportedly replied: "You f---ing Americans. Who are you to tell us, the rest of the world, that we’re not going to deal with Iranians."

Heist of the century: Wall Street’s role in the financial crisis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/may/20/wall-street-role-financial-crisis

Wall Street bankers could have averted the global financial crisis, so why didn’t they? In this exclusive extract from his book Inside Job, Charles Ferguson argues that they should be prosecuted

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/may/21/heist-century-university-corruption

These days, if you see a famous economics professor testify in Congress, or write an article, there is a good chance he or she is being paid by someone with a big stake in what’s being debated. Most of the time, these professors do not disclose these conflicts of interest, and most of the time their universities look the other way.

Stop listening to banks (Corporate Europe Observatory)
http://www.corporateeurope.org/EU-in-crisis-conf/essays/stop-listening-banks

The financial and economic crises have revealed the entrenched power of the banks in the European Union. In this EU in Crisis essay, Corporate Europe Observatory’s Kenneth Haar describes how a wave of financial regulation was set in motion by the crisis in 2008. By now most of this regulation has been passed, and there’s plenty of evidence to show that the banks are being let off the hook. Looking back, banking lobbyists can conclude that decision makers have practically fallen over themselves to serve the banking industry’s interests. The dream of a European Union that would curb the power of finance has become a joke, and instead we’ve seen a bankers’ Europe emerge that may make even Wall Street envious. (...) Source: Corporate Europe Observatory

The Southern Sudan pie
http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/19544

The successful South Sudan secession referendum in January 2011 and eventual independence celebration cooled the frayed nerves of many who had adopted a wait-and-see attitude over South Sudan.

However it is instructive to note that since 2005 USA, China, India, Norway, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Turkey, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa and their respective private sectors have been in the forefront seeking to secure business concessions with the new nation. To make this easier and faster all these nations have embassies and consulates in both Juba and Khartoum. Southern Sudan’s massive oil boom, tourism concessions, logging, lucrative mining and infrastructure tenders, medical supplies, education, financial services, agriculture, defense contracts and commodities supplies are a glee to many triggering what is now politically referred to as “land grab”.

#Sud-Soudan #business

Give Women the Seeds and They Can Feed the World - IPS ipsnews.net
Give Women the Seeds and They Can Feed the World
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105234

If women farmers were given more tools and resources, the number of hungry people in the world could be slashed by 100 to 150 million.

This was the message conveyed by Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP), at an event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly Thursday to empower rural women for food security and nutrition.

In October, the Committee on World Food Security will meet at WFP headquarters in Rome, followed by the 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) next year, both opportunities to increase the role of rural women in alleviating poverty and hunger.

UN Women and the Coca-Cola company also announced a new partnership this week to break down the barriers faced by women entrepreneurs through programmes on the ground that provide access to skills training and financial services.

#agriculture #femmes #partenariat

One Giant Leap for Manx-Kind | Magazine
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/st_isleofman

les cadors de l’exploration spatiale privée s’installent sur l’île de Man, en mer d’Irlande :

The island—a British “crown dependency” that’s part of neither the UK nor the EU—is home to two dozen space-industry firms, a booming space-related financial services sector, and the highest concentration of International Space University graduates in the world. (...) The zero-percent corporate tax appeals to the zero-gravity crowd,

#espace #uncut #paradis_fiscaux #cdp