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Governance

The Government is planning fundamental changes to UK consumer law.

The turmoil in the financial markets has completely transformed the risk landscape.

Company directors continue to cite regulation and corporate governance as the biggest business challenges for non-executive directors.

The Woolf Committee has published its report on BAE Systems plc's ethical business conduct.

A junior administrator at HSBC’s head office in Canary Wharf, London, has been charged with an alleged £70m theft.

A group of British writers has attacked Tesco’s Thai court case against a newspaper columnist.

A majority of leading oil and gas companies are far from transparent when it comes to the payments they make to resource-rich countries.

FSA training firm Compliancy Services has launched its compliance officer training course.

The European Commission has opened an investigation into the proposed acquisition of parts of GBI by Associated British Foods.

The Office of Fair Trading has accused 112 construction firms in England of price-fixing.

The Basel Committee has announced steps to help make the banking system more resilient.

The public is increasingly cynical about environmentally-friendly claims by big firms, a survey shows.

Criminal activities remain undetected inside many of the world’s major banks, experts claim.

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