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File an FBAR or Find Yourself Behind Bars

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A few years ago the IRS offered a tax amnesty program for US citizens who failed to declare assets held in foreign bank accounts. This came on the heels of a highly publicized legal action against UBS. The IRS forced the Swiss based bank to turn over the account information of US citizens. The IRS was clamping down on tax evaders, exploiting the protection of Switzerland's bank secrecy laws to hide income and assets. The IRS was looking to determine if FBARs had been filed by the banks American
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S&P Downgrades Russian Sovereigns

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Standard & Poor’s cut the Russian Federation sovereign debt credit rating citing the capital flight and risk to investment in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. S&P lowered Russia’s sovereign debt rating from BBB to BBB- placing it one notch above junk status.

Russia’s economy has slowed in step with the rest of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China). As the global economy entered recession in 2008, the BRICs were one of the few remaining bright spots still generating economic growth. For a variet
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How GRC Fails to Capture Enterprise Risk

8028226857?profile=originalGovernance functions are designed to manage risks that organizations face in operational and back office silos - financial misstatements, fraud, vendor management, disaster recovery, and other activities are all designed to address a subset of an organization’s risk profile. The concept of Enterprise Risk Management is not to create another function that exists in parallel to these areas, but rather creates a standardized methodology and language to objectively prioritize across functions and le

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Sustainable Economics

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We have put our good mother through a lot over the past few million years. Ever since we walked out of the great rift the biospheres dominant species has really left a mark. I know that mark is but a tiny spec on the archaeological record of the earth which spans a few billion years but our impact is unmistakable.
 
I guess it started with the invention of hand tools, fire, wheels, shelter construction, water cultivation and agriculture. You can’t forget hunting in packs, weaponry, domestication o
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The Cost of Reputation Risk

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I came across a great presentation on Reputation Risk from Martin Davies of Causal Capital. It outlined the many dimensions of this onerous corporate threat. It offered a definition, a list of risk factors, its impact on a company’s financial condition and proposed frameworks to mitigate its effects.

In the pantheon of risk factors, reputational risk is the classic riddle wrapped in a mystery. Its obtuse nature is due in part because it can spring from a multitude of internal and external factors
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Conflict Minerals and Supply Chain Risk

Conflict Minerals Reporting Requirement Struck Down
 
Received a timely Good Friday Alert from Nixon Peabody about a recent district court ruling on regulations concerning Conflict Minerals. Conflict minerals are mined in areas where conditions of armed conflict exist. The minerals, extracted with forced labor under conditions employing human rights abuse, is common in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rebel groups use the proceeds from the sale of conflict minerals to finance armies to enri
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SME Lending: Get Redi to Get Funded

The tough conditions in the credit markets require small businesses to communicate and demonstrate their credit worthiness to satisfy exacting credit risk standards of lenders. Credit channels are open and loans are being made but strict federal regulations and heightened risk aversion by lenders places additional burdens on borrowers to demonstrate they are a good credit risk.
 
“You have to be prepared,” said Robert Seiwert, a senior vice president with the American Bankers Association. “If you
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SMEs Dance to the Basel III Shuffle

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I often wonder, what if Basel II capital accords had been in place prior to the Great Recession? 
 
Could the devastating crisis fueled by the serial pops of credit bubbles rumbling through the dismal landscape of G20 principalities been avoided with better capital adequacy safeguards? 
 
Could the precious Post Cold War peace dividend been preserved; had the fiduciaries of global solvency not toppled the dominoes of economic prosperity and political stability through extreme selfishness and irratio
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Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (OTCQB: CRWE) has been experiencing momentum that coincides with the development of the  CRWE-PR Network

The network is a portal for local news, city data and content of interest within the community. Communities are searchable by name and zip code.

National, world, sports and general topics are also covered with up to the minute updates across all sites. The CRWE PR Network offers  - local business listings, restaurant deals, coupon deals, classified ads, real estate l

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Spring Thaw to Grow US Jobs

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It was a hard winter in the US. For weeks on end massive weather fronts would creep across the continent spreading ice storms, howling blizzards and a polar vortex that brought frigid misery to large swaths of the Mid Atlantic States. It seemed winters assault would never end but seasons do change and as today's temperature nears 70 spring has arrived after all. 
 
Mark Zandie, Chief Economist for Moody’s used the springtime analogy in a recent note to describe the recovery of the US economy from
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In the past few weeks, we’ve seen major automobile companies face huge product recalls due to safety errors, creating negative media attention and certain financial penalties. As a result, a

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The Top-Quartile Performance Institute (TQPI) is recruiting master practitioners having 10+ years of executive-level experience to become members. Preference is given to those at the cutting edge of Finance, Process Improvement, Six Sigma, IT, HR, Operations Research, “C-Suite” Leadership, and other performance management disciplines. 

TQPI is a global community of transformation experts partnering to help people, organizations and each other achieve best in class. Globally, we have helped mid-si

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April 2014 sees the beginning of a new era. An era of consequences, both intended and unintended, heralding a period of increasing centralized power, where understanding the strength of peers will determine success or failure. The month after the latest Comprehensive Capital Analysis Review (CCAR) results, as the Volcker rule becomes law and with single counterparty limits on the horizon, April will also reveal the much-anticipated fourth season of the fantasy HBO series, Game of Thrones (GoT).

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ADP Job Report: Recovery Marches On

8028229263?profile=originalPrivate-sector employment increased by 191,000 during the month of March, according to the latest ADP National Employment Report (NER) released yesterday. The NER suggests a steady, albeit uneven growth of nonfarm private employment since net job creation first turned positive during the first quarter of 2010. The pattern of rising employment gains, confirms signs of an accelerated economic recovery reinforced by a March report that is above the 12 month average. 
 
Though the report is an indicat
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Why Integrate Risk & Compliance?

government-500x329.jpg?width=400Compliance professionals have it tough. While risk managers work in shades of grey (or often, red, yellow, and green), compliance officers are often asked to answer the more direct question: Do we meet this regulatory mandate?

While the task may differ, compliance professionals without enterprise risk management in their toolbox are at a significant disadvantage. Regulations are changing constantly, responsibility for compliance ranges from high level executives to analysts on the front line, and

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A New MBA Perspective

The business world is now international. Because of the far reach of constantly improving technology, businesses can communicate and work with customers thousands of miles away in real time. This reality has led to the growth and expansion of international business school programs around the world.

Shawn O'Connor, writing on Forbes.com, reports that over the past five years, a higher percentage of MBA program applicants have chosen international business schools. Notably, many of these programs

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued the 32-volume, 2,610-page report on the changing global climate. The report sounds a clear alarm that global climate change is accelerating and its consequences are having immediate impact on the world’s ecosystems. 
 
Scientists warn that steps must be taken to mitigate the social impact of climate change and prepare communities to adapt to shifting environmental conditions. 
 
This is the fifth report issued by the IPCC. The first rep
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PwC's Risk in Review 2014

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Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) has published its annual Risk in Review survey. Nearly two thousand global corporate professionals representing a broad cross section of industries responded to provide insights into how their organizations meet the challenges of enterprise risk management.
 
The study was published against the backdrop of an emerging Eurozone recovery, US Sequester driven GDP decline, BRICS vacating the leadership role of global market drivers, the factory collapse in Bangladesh, the
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Despite the global trends demanding that individuals take greater action to manage their personal finances, a huge number of retail customers fail to either seek or use professional financial advice. In the UK, a recent survey by Yorkshire Building Society found that more than one in four savers are finding it difficult to access or afford financial advice. In the wake of the implementation of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) in the UK, most high street banks, and many financial advisers, wi

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Though 90 per cent of Dubai registered companies are small and medium enterprises (SMEs), just 4% of all business loans goes to SMEs. In developed economies lending to SMEs goes well into the double digits. 

 
Vikas Thapar, CEO, SME Business, Emirates NBD, offered this observation during a panel discussion at SME World 2014 in Dubai. Mr. Thapar went on to explain that banks are reluctant to provide loans to SMEs because of regulatory compliance restrictions and the lack of transparency in SME busi
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