Naming and shaming
With angry taxpayers baying for blood and politicians eager to pass the buck, ritualistic humiliation of banking executives by...
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Regulatory & compliance archive
Greetings from Delaware
Residents of Delaware proudly proclaim it to be the First State, an official motto backed up by some very notable firsts: Delaware...
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Cutting legal down to size
Nearly five years ago, Lance Jones, vice president and general counsel of Trilogy Software, a Dallas, Texas-based software company...
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Delaware rocks the officers' boat
Did the Delaware Supreme Court just throw corporate officers and directors under the bus and, in the process, launch an attack on...
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Anatomy of a scandal
The Sanskrit word for truth is satyam, incidentally the name of the Hyderabad-based computer services company that imploded in...
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Global governance
Georg Kell, executive head of the UN Global Compact, came away from the annual World Economic Forum that ran from January 28...
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An insignificant truth
Normally, the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland is a lush affair. This year, however, irony proved the...
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Best in show
Rising to the top of any field isn’t easy. It takes a well-defined plan, a strong team, time and a lot of hard work. This is...
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Compliance or defiance?
The use of deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) and non-prosecution agreements (NPAs) have become increasingly common. As such...
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TARP dance
It was tough to argue with Babe Ruth’s logic when, during his 1930 salary negotiations, he was challenged to say why he deserved a...
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