With $1,200,000 in cash stuffed in his underpants, his cigar box and on his ‘mule’ Homm escaped in 2007, giving up family, friends, bimbos and his company, which promptly lost $200 million, about $50 million his money. A California court nailed him. Video
March 8 was International Women’s Day. With the ghastly crime late last year fresh in everyone’s mind, most of the public discourse was focused on women’s safety. However, when you dig deeply, many of the issues boil down to empowerment in an everyday sense, and one of the issues underlying empowerment is often money. article 
The Qatar Women in Finance and Accounting forum (QWFA), is an initiative of ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) in the Middle East with the intention of providing a platform for female finance leaders to talk about a wide range of topics…article
Speculation is growing that Ms Lagarde, the former French finance minister who succeeded Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the helm of the IMF, may be placed under formal investigation after being summoned to answer questions by a judge in the next few days, Article
Russian born Svetlana Lokhova, 32, is suing her bank for more than £5 million after claiming she was subjected to a “sustained and vicious campaign of harassment and discrimination”.
Miss Lokhova claimed she was the victim of sexist bullying and had even been told by one colleague that she was only been hired “because of her t***”. Article
When the Finance Minister announced in the Budget plans to start an all-woman bank, it drew some predictable jibes from the male Twitterati. “A new bank only for women in India? The moment Zara announces its sale, this bank will announce its bankruptcy,” said one…article
Surveys reveal growing trend that young women, many in their teens, are taking up cause of gender equality via social media. Surveys and anecdotal evidence may suggest that few young women identify with the word feminism, fearing it sits at odds with a desire to wear makeup or heels. Yet there are increasing signs of an interest in gender equality issues among these same young women, who are now turning to social media such as blogs, Twitter and Facebook to reach out to fellow activists or just to share experiences and seek advice about what can be done. Article
The annual Mobile World Congress recently took place in Barcelona and one of the hottest topics discussed among mobile operators, governments and payment providers was mobile financial services…article
It is meant to be the time when you relax and reflect, but it seems many Australians are unprepared for their retirement.
Nearly 90 per cent of Australian women do not have enough superannuation, according to The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA)…article