The challenges which face women who wish to pursue a career in finance and accountancy were addressed at a networking event organised in Dubai by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)…Women in finance and accountancy
The man who leaked documents revealing the extent of US surveillance of electronic media, Edward Snowden, has been awarded the German “Whistleblower Prize” in absentia. He remains on the run in Moscow.
The award goes to people who “reveal grave abuses and dangerous developments for people and society, democracy, peace and the environment in the public interest,” watchdog Transparency International said on its website.
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Inkaufnahme von Verfolgung, Mobbing und der erheblicher Risiken durch den Whistleblower („risking retaliation“) muss durch Bürger geehrt werden.
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ICBC Honored “2013 Best Bank in China” by Finance Asia
The FinanceAsia magazine recently announced the winners of its 2013 Country Awards. ICBC was named “Best Bank in China” for the sixth year since nominated for the ranking. ICBC won the title primarily credited to its good performance, consistent reform and innovation as well as solid market position.
As the US economy recovered after the crisis, the rebound of the real estate sector supported the recovery of Wells Fargo.
Reduced expectations for China’s economic growth and a cash crunch that hammered the nation’s financial sector this spring—along with signs that the U.S. economy is recovering and the end of ultralow interest rates may be in the offing—have shifted those perceptions again. A long-awaited rally in U.S. bank shares has lifted the value of companies such as San Francisco-based Wells Fargo and J.P. Morgan Chase JPM -0.28% & Co. of New York…Two continents two perspectives
Communiqué
Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors
Moscow, 19-20 July 2013
The G-20 reiterated its commitment to FATF’s work in fighting money laundering and terrorism financing and its key contribution into tackling other crimes such as tax crimes, corruption, terrorism, and drug trafficking like many times before. The empty phrase is masking that fact that no progress was made. A delegate said that the anti-money laundering item met opposition “from a country which is a member of G-20, but not a member of FATF.” The only country to meet this description is Saudi Arabia, according to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).G20 Communique
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
International tax system cannot deal with mobile multinational firms that shift profits to low-tax countries, says OECD. Governments risk “global tax chaos” as they chase dwindling revenues from multinational companies unless the international tax regime is radically overhauled, according to a report commissioned by the G20 group of nations.
The report warns that “inaction in this area would likely result in some governments losing corporate tax revenue, the emergence of competing sets of international standards and the replacement of the current consensus-based framework by unilateral measures which could lead to global tax chaos”. That in turn could see the large-scale re-emergence of double taxation, where two countries seek to tax the same corporate income…
OECD Action Plan
Base Erosion and Profit Shifting – Multimedia
Centre for Tax Policy and Administration
>> OECD Secretary-General Gurria discusses the G8
and its pledges to reform corporate tax rules…Video 
Attempts by foreign criminal organisations to launder illicit earnings through Malta in a variety of complex ways is seen to be on the rise, according to the annual report of the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU). Criminals seem to be creatively trying to explore and exploit newer areas of business in a growing financial centre. FIAU Report 2012
There is a growing band of women professionals who have and are actively contributing to the development of Islamic finance in their own right…Women empowerment Women empowerment through Islamic banking and finance. Women empowerment 
Germany swiftly rejected the European Commission’s proposal for a single authority to wind down failing euro-zone banks Wednesday, signaling a rift between the European Union’s executive and its biggest economy over the next step in exiting the region’s debt crisis…Artikel 
…“European banks hold too many of their own governments’ bonds,” he said, adding that capital rules for banks should be changed so sovereign bond holdings are risk weighted. “We need limits for banks’ exposures to sovereigns.”…
Weidmann: Monetary Policy Can’t Solve Crisis 
Diane Maxwell wants women to pick up their calculators and start making some tough financial decisions based on cold, hard numbers….article 
