Enrique Suarez Presenting:
The primary author of the Constitution – and later president – James Madison wrote:
The great object [of political parties] should be to combat the evil: 1. By establishing a political equality among all. 2. By withholding unnecessary opportunities from a few, to increase the inequality of property, by an
Although there’s an unlimited number of ways to structure a deal, or a securities offering, the use of hybrid securities, such as; convertible notes or preferred stock, enables the entrepreneur to attract investors due to the recent ability to advertise the securities offering and compete with financial institutions for investor capital. Investors in today’s market are seeking short-term investments with relative safety and high yield. If you provide this to the investor community, you will inc
Tax ID Theft
Three things in life are guaranteed: death, taxes and tax-related identity theft. Michael Kasper would agree. Someone registered Kasper’s IRS.gov account, requested the document for his 2013 tax return, then filed a 2014 tax return.
The crook used a middleman—an innocent woman who answered his Craigslist ad for a moneymaking opportunity. He sent the money to her bank account, then she wired it to Nigeria, not knowing she was helping the crook.
Kasper’s account got busted into when the
I recently wrote this article for TheConsultantLounge. You can read the original article here: http://theconsultantlounge.com/2015/04/top-business-frameworks-for-management-consultants/.
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Business frameworks and methodologies may be a concept foreign to many business professionals, but it is one near and dear to all management consultants. As a management consultant, you will either have used many of these, or at least know what they are so you can nod in agreement when others talk about
Enrique Suarez
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Andre Damon
Five major international banks are expected to plead guilty as soon as next week to criminal charges in the US related to their deliberate manipulation of global foreign exchange markets, which allowed them to rake in billions of dollars at the expense of retirees, university endowments and municipalities.
Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Barclays and UBS are expected to plead guilty to felony fraud and antitrus
LogicManager has long believed that an Enterprise Risk Management methodology, also known as a risk-based approach, is the best way of accomplishing any type of organizational governance. With risk as the common factor, governance activities become standardized and comparable, enabling better decision making.
As it turns out, the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO, agrees.
ISO 19600:2014 is a guideline for compliance management software systems, designed to establish an effecti
The next time you’re in a public place and glued to your smartphone or tablet — whether it’s at the gym, a coffee house, the airport, or just a park bench— know that someone might be peering over your shoulder to see what you’re doing. The snooper could just be curious, or they could be trying to capture your login information so they can use it to access your accounts impersonating you later on.
This behavior is called “shoulder surfing”, but it doesn’t always mean that someone is literally look
Disclaimer: Much of this article is based on the PowerPoint presentation Lean Thinking 101 developed by Operational Excellence Consulting.
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Lean Management is a management philosophy based on the Toyota Production System (TPS). This management philosophy was coined "Lean" only in the 1990s. The objective of Lean Thinking is to eliminate everything that does not add value (i.e. "waste") from the customer's perspective.
The general approach to Lean is learn-by-doing and to foster a culture of
Enrique Suarez Presenting:
It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World
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Global Research, November 08, 2012
In the 2012 edition of Occupy Money released last week, Professor Margrit Kennedy writes that a stunning 35% to 40% of everything we buy goes to interest. This interest goes to bankers, financiers, and bondholders, who take a 35% to 40% cut of our GDP. That helps explain how wealth is systematically transferred from Main Street to Wall Street. The rich get
Did you know that, once again, Facebook has changed its privacy policies? At the top of the FB page is a lock icon. Click it for more privacy settings.
What do visitors see? To view how visitors see your Facebook page, go to “Timeline and Tagging,” then hit “Review what other people see on your timeline/View As.”
Posts by friends. Click “Timeline and Tagging” to prevent a visitor’s unwanted post from showing. Then click “Enabled,” as this will allow you to “review posts friends tag you in before t
Hackers love LinkedIn because it links them in—straight through the portal of the targeted company. Geez, how much easier could this be, what with all the publically-exposed e-mail addresses of key players (and also worker bees) in big companies that someone wants to hack.
An article on blog.sungardas.com was written by a white-hatter (his job is to try to hack his clients’ systems so that they know how to make them more impenetrable to the bad guys). The author says he’d make a beeline to Linked
Chief Compliance Officers & Heads of NERC/FERC Compliance from Utilities professionals will join together to share fine-tuning concepts and complexities to build understanding for upcoming audits
Washington, DC– May 12, 2015 – marcus evans, the world’s largest event management group, will host the Risk Based Compliance and Reliability Assurance for Utilities Conference on August 25-27, 2015 in Washington, DC. This premiere meeting will provide Industry leaders with insight into the recent launch
Disgruntled employees act out in lots of ways. A guy I knew who hated his boss “played” on his work computer all day. The computer was strictly for constructing company graphics. But he installed all kinds of games and wasted lots of time. His boss never knew he blew off half the day.
Company computers are obviously company owned, making it legally possible for your boss to spy on you. Employers can also figure out whom you’re speaking to on your company owned or sanctioned phone and for how long
Enrique Suarez Presenting:
Pratap Chatterjee
Global Research, May 12, 2015
CorpWatch 27 April 2015
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay out a record $2.5 billion fine to settle U.K. and U.S. government investigations into allegations of fixing global interest rates, just months after six other banks paid out $4.3 billion on similar charges. Activists say that the banks should have faced criminal charges.
“The question remains: does the punishment fit the crime?” writes Angela McClellan of Transparency In
Liquidity and Treasury Professionals from the Banking Industry will come together to share practical solutions for optimizing liquidity management and improve business as usual
New York, NY–May 2015– GFMI, a leader in knowledge sharing for capital markets, will host the 2nd Annual Liquidity and Funding Risk Management Conference on October 5-7th, 2015 in New York, NY. Building on the success of the previous edition, this year’s meeting will demonstrate how by optimizing liquidity management bank
Fraud Prevention & Financial professionals will join together to share cutting edge strategies and techniques to manage the growing area of fraud risk
New York, NY– April 29, 2015 – marcus evans, the world’s largest event management group, will host the Fraud Prevention for Financial Institutions Conference on August 12-13, 2015 in New York, NY. This premiere forum will provide a dynamic environment for senior practitioners to: leverage intelligence and analytics to better understand behavioral
The Group Treasurers Exchange has conducted research with more than 80 Heads of Treasury. They have summarised the focus areas, challenges and what solutions Group Treasurers are looking for under 12 topic sub-headers, all of which will be addressed at the Exchange in September. Read on to discover where group treasurers are focusing their attention and their resources in 2015 to 2016 to help you work out where your services or solutions can help.
Financial Risk Management
Management of FX exposu
Source: Eric Zuesse
Oxfam’s recent report, “WEALTH: HAVING IT ALL AND WANTING MORE” contains shocking figures that the press haven’t sufficiently publicized; so, the findings and the reliability of their sources will be discussed here. The results will then be related to the central political debate now going on in the U.S. Presidential contests for 2016, which is about equality and inequality.
First, the findings:
1. The richest 80 individual
Although there’s an unlimited number of ways to structure a deal, there are a limited number of acceptable ways to valuate a company. Wall Street valuates publicly traded companies’ common stock primarily based on “Price Earnings” or PE ratios. Then the company value is arrived at by multiplying the number of total outstanding shares by the price per share, less total liabilities (debt). It would seem impossible to use this method to valuate a privately held start-up or early stage company, sinc
The Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) has released two executive reports, “Why a Mature ERM Effort is Worth the Investment” and “Testing Value Creation through ERM Maturity.” Together, these reports look at recent findings that detail the benefits of investing in enterprise risk management.
Despite evidence that mature ERM programs add significant value, manyorganizations remain hesitant when it comes to adopting a software and streamlining their ERM processes.
Below, we have outlined t
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