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...Earlier, the FRC announced a £650,000 fine for Grant Thornton over a bad audit — but without naming the business....
...Northern Trust and Grant Thornton declined to comment....
...Adrian Beltrami QC, for Grant Thornton, told the judge that Mr Tchenguiz “has always known there was no case, it should never have been brought and . . . it has been a disgrace”....
...Incorporated in 2013, Oxford Renewable Fuel (ORFL) had as its sole director Adrian Eyre....
...Nonetheless, two victims said that at a meeting in March, Adrian White, the Lloyds executive in charge of the compensation process, told them: “It is true the bank did not have evidence of criminality before...
...This year’s review, which covered KPMG, PwC, Deloitte, EY, BDO and Grant Thornton, showed continued signs of improvement in quality....
...Business revenues lost to cyber attacks in the Asia-Pacific region came to $81.3bn in the 12 months to September 2015, according to a survey by Grant Thornton, the professional services company....
...“While the rates are cheap it’s still not that easy for banks to get money out of the door,” says Adrian Anderson, director at mortgage broker Anderson Harris....
...Adrian Ash, head of research at precious metals market BullionVault, said this was down to slower physical demand in India and China and the lack of an acute moment of crisis....
...But Adrian van den Hoven, director of international relations at Businesseurope, the EU’s main employers’ lobby, says that in the short term, emerging market investors cannot make up for the loss caused...
...He has already enlisted the Chicago-based architectural firm of Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill and it has designed something that looks like a paper aeroplane stood on end....
...Grant Thornton called for a two-year delay in the implementation of some of the proposed changes....
...Adrian Houstoun, VAT partner at Kingston Smith LLP, says: “The Government will not wish to upset voters by raising VAT rates now....
...Francesca Lagerberg of Grant Thornton believes it will be closed in the next full Budget....
...Adrian Lowcock, senior investment adviser at Bestinvest, says: “For anyone earning over £150k, pensions are pretty much a turn-off now....
...However, Adrian Towse from the Office of Health Economics, a research group funded by the pharmaceutical industry, argued that drug companies rather than government bodies were best equipped to evaluate...
...Bank of America, Deloitte and Grant Thornton, another auditor, have now resumed legal searches and interviews as part of their pre-trial preparations....
...Former investors in the dairy company are still targeting Deloitte, Grant Thornton and a number of banks....
...Bank of America, Parmalat, Deloitte and Grant Thornton would not comment on Wednesday....
...Grant Thornton will resign with effect from next Friday. It would have to find a new nomad before trading resumes....
...“These people need a lot of hand-holding,” says Mike Warburton, senior tax partner at accountant Grant Thornton. “People can transgress the rules without realising it....
...The trial of two former Grant Thornton auditors is scheduled to begin in Milan on Thursday....
...The combined code was established in 1998, embracing principles developed after initiatives led by high-profile business figures such as Sir Adrian Cadbury and Sir Richard Greenbury....
...The work of Deloitte and Grant Thornton, the audit firms involved, is also being targeted by Italian prosecutors. No allegations of wrongdoing by auditors have been upheld in court....
...Politicians should be looking far beyond the life of one parliament to address the pensions problems,” says Adrian Waddingham, ACA chairman....
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