What is a ‘conflict of interest’?
by Craig Fagan on 8:08 pm on Monday, 27. July 2009 | 3 Comments
The financial crisis is awash in so many specialised terms that their sheer number seems to rival the amount of bail-out money being doled out to shore up the faltering economy.
One word that is constantly being bounced around, from the Bundestag to the White House, from Wall Street to High Street, is ‘conflict of interest’. [...]
Urging G8 to be accountable to their commitments at the upcoming Summit in L’Aquila, Italy
by Angela McClellan on 3:46 pm on Thursday, 2. July 2009 | No Comments
In their 2008 Accountability Report: Implementation Review of G8 Anti-Corruption Commitments, the G8 noted that corruption is a “corrosive activity” which “poses serious governance challenges and threats to the stability and security of societies, undermines the institutions and values of democracy and jeopardises sustainable development and economic prosperity. Global corruption also impedes efforts to combat [...]
Transparency in Financial Markets
by Georg Neumann on 6:00 pm on Friday, 13. March 2009 | No Comments
Just a quick note as the G-20 London Summit nears and talk of transparency as a remedy for the current instability and lack of trust wrecking the financial system, is everywhere. The Economist did a focus story on this issue looking at the pros and cons of transparency in February. I wanted to share with [...]
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