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The past two pandemic-afflicted years have seen coronavirus dominate the news agenda, and what would in typical times be headline news, relegated off the front page. As the world prepares to enter the third year of uncertainty, now more than ever must the key events be treated with appropriate gravity; as they will contribute towards
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If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound? Or to put it in more modern terms, if a cryptocurrency partnership deal collapses because there was nobody on the other end, did you really have a deal? This curious eventuality happened to Manchester City FC last month, when
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Due Diligence and the Legal Sector: A Changing Environment By KCS Group Europe & Squire Patton Boggs The nature, role and importance of due diligence has fluctuated over time. Around 500 years ago, when the phrase first entered common use, it was defined only as “requisite effort” in a business transaction, which is very
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For those of a certain age, or taste, the news that the pop group ABBA will be reforming as digital avatars, to play virtual concerts, was met with the reverence normally reserved for Popes. They are not the first celebrities to have tried it – holograms of Frank Sinatra and Whitney Houston have been doing
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Premier League stadiums like to have a side-venture, to keep the money coming in. For Tottenham Hotspur, it is NFL games. For Arsenal, it is rock concerts. Now that Newcastle have been majority-bought by the Saudi Arabian led consortium Public Investment Fund, sadly the public entertainment that the new owners are used to is more
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If the 20th century was the American century, then the 21st looks set to be Asia’s. Whether this be China’s increasingly important role as the ‘factory of the world’, India’s boasting of the fastest-growing economy globally, or the relentless ‘future-focus’ of the nations in developing business, tech and urban evolution, it is indeed, difficult to
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If we were to create an ‘alphabet soup’ of the business world, it would start pretty conventionally: CEO, CISO, CFO. Going deeper, we might find rarer ingredients: FTSE, ISO, CRM. But the most vital elements are sometimes left in the tin: DD, KYC and AML. Without them, the meal can turn sour, so why are
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The latest tranche of leaked documents exposing the financial set-up of the world’s great and good arrived with much fanfare. It is by far the largest to-date, totalling some 2.94 terabytes of memory space. For comparison, the Pandora Papers are more than 1,700 times larger than the infamous Wikileaks dump of U.S. diplomatic cables in 2010.
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Let’s get political for a moment. (Yes, we do have to!). The MP, Owen Paterson, has resigned following a U-turn – imagine – from the government regarding their naked attempt to rewrite the rules of political standards scrutiny. And, while the number of the Johnsonian failures, gaffes and inadequacies may be greater than the number
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