Hints and tips:
...A Kroger spokesperson said that blocking the deal would “harm the very people the FTC purports to serve: America’s consumers and workers”....
...Some investors appear to have been lax with their background research....
...It is no longer possible to ignore the damage that America’s weakened and corrupted state poses to its private sector competitiveness....
...Facebook lawyer’s open contempt for European privacy law that provoked Austrian activist Max Schrems to mount a challenge to the company in front of European regulators — a move that ended up shattering the lax...
...GE said in a statement: “This settlement contains no admission of any allegations and concludes the FIRREA investigation of WMC Mortgage Corporation, LLC....
...Football being a funny old game, the odds are a lot better on fraudster Massimo Cellino getting his wish than on the feted and immensely wealthy Mr Beckham, thanks to the lax rules for purchasing an English...
...from investors last summer, including activist shareholder Carl Icahn, succeeded in replacing Aubrey McClendon, chairman of Chesapeake Energy, with an independent chairman after concerns were raised over lax...
...Steve Saporito, chief executive for the Americas at the global solutions consulting group of Willis, the insurance broker, says he cannot think of any project with a client in which people risk has not been...
...In a statement on Thursday, SSP said it had “been alerted to a security vulnerability following an unauthorised attack performed on the integration between Google Compare and SSP”....
...The FSA has recognised that the bank may have had a role to play in the rogue trading affair on account of its lax risk management and focus on efficiency at any cost in its operations department....
...Lord Myners, now arguably the UK’s prime scourge of lax governance, but then plain old Paul, even outlined his cunning plan to eradicate “grotesque payments for failure” on FTfm’s primordial pink pages,...
...The collapse of ChuoAoyama aside, punishment for most indiscretions is also lax, he says, with small fines the preferred recourse to business-killing licence suspensions....
...Lax regulation has allowed the usurpation of financial markets by hedge funds at the expense of traditional funds, with widespread collateral damage....
...It is hard to get too angry at China for going through a phase in which enforcement of intellectual property law is lax when countries including the US did the same....
...unbelievable appetite and demand for the mortgage product, underwriting standards went down, loan devalues went up, because in the competitive marketplace, to get that borrower now to borrow more money, the more lax...
...And on the face of it they do not look so good for either Bank of America or Citigroup....
...Other members of the group include MSD Capital, the investment vehicle of Michael Dell; SSP Offshore, managed by Soros Fund Management; Stone Point Capital and an affiliate of Silar Advisors....
...SSP, which floated on Aim in November 2006, expanded with last year’s £43m purchase of rival Sirius Financial Solutions....
...Banks are indeed pulling back on lax credit-card lending quickly. Flexible credit no more....
...Interest cover will be just within a lax covenant of 1.25 times. Euronext and the New York Stock Exchange have chosen a far less geared capital structure....
...Perhaps voters are getting tired of extreme voices on both sides, ugly campaign tactics, and stark, false choices on the issues facing America....
...One dire consequence if (as is not yet clear) this lax attitude hardens into law is that patent holders will be forced to issue compulsory licenses to willful infringers in some indeterminate number of cases...
...The Sunday Telegraph ■The break-up of Compass, the troubled caterer, has been thrown into doubt after it emerged that it is demanding that bidders for SSP, its transport and catering business, continue...
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