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...In 2022, the administrators of Patisserie Valerie also settled a £200mn lawsuit with the firm that alleged negligence in its audits of the café chain....
...Architecture is realised in miniature by another collaborator: Simon Weisse, the Berlin-based model- and prop-maker, once dubbed “the real star of Anderson’s films”....
...regarded as a key part of the government’s attempt to reform Britain’s audit industry after a series of high-profile corporate failures, such as outsourcer Carillion, retailer BHS and café chain Patisserie Valerie...
...In 2022, the administrators of Patisserie Valerie also settled a £200mn lawsuit with Grant Thornton that alleged negligence in its audits of the café chain....
...Since 2021, Grant Thornton has been fined more than £4mn for shortcomings in its audits of collapsed café chain Patisserie Valerie, retailer Sports Direct and outsourcer Interserve....
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...These included the collapses of government contractor Carillion, retailer BHS and café chain Patisserie Valerie....
...But any politician who gets things done inevitably burns bridges,” said Simon Hix, politics professor at the European University Institute, a research institute in Florence....
...Separately, Bank of America has named Simon Ives as chair of Emea corporate and investment banking. He was previously chair of Emea healthcare investment banking....
...Valerie Coleman’s two-movement Tracing Visions is less personal in its musical language, but the energy of its rhythms gives Sphinx Virtuosi an uplifting showpiece....
...However, Simon Stephens, AI lead for audit and assurance at the UK business of Deloitte, another of the Big Four audit firms, pointed out that frauds were relatively rare and tended to differ from each other...
...“In this world where you have to focus on one thing, she got a bit lost,” says photographer Valérie Sadoun. “But she was really an architect, really a designer, really a thinker. She was not nostalgic....
...UN climate chief Simon Stiell said: “No G7 country has yet ‘over-delivered’ on climate. On the contrary, there is a lot more action needed, specifically from them....
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...Patrick and Gillian will be running around this week in New York, and Simon is catching up on the reaction elsewhere, so do email us at moralmoneyreply@ft.com....
...Founder and artistic director Valérie Messika, daughter of a diamantaire, says the idea came from her childhood memories of playing with gemstones....
...City veteran Sir Jan du Plessis was nominated in December by the government to lead the FRC, which has been without a permanent chair since May 2020 when former Goldman Sachs banker Simon Dingemans quit...
...The watchdog has expanded rapidly following criticism of its failure to properly supervise auditors or prevent accounting scandals at companies such as outsourcer Carillion and café chain Patisserie Valerie...
...Simon Lowe, the Grant Thornton partner who led the audits, was fined more than £38,000 — reduced from £70,000 — and reprimanded by the regulator....
...The Financial Reporting Council is centre stage in the government’s efforts to overhaul audit after failures like Carillion and Patisserie Valerie....
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...Simon Castets, head of the non-profit Swiss Institute for contemporary art in New York, is headed to Basel partly because of the impact of the pandemic....
...The coral reef-ringed Grenada in the Caribbean is working on a national adaptation plan that could cost “hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars”, said Simon Stiell, minister for climate resilience...
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