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High-Level Principles For The Cross-Border Implementation Of The New Accord
White Papers The Basel Committee recognises that the New Accord will require more cooperation and coordination between home country and host country supervisors, especially for complex banking groups. The New Accord will accentuate the need for cooperation...
[March 29, 2005, 3:00]
Return On Cross-Border Investment: Why Does U.S. Investment Abroad Do Better?
White Papers This paper investigates the validity of three major hypothesis advanced to explain the persistent return gap that has been so advantageous to U.S.direct investments: the risk-compensating hypothesis, which claims that U.S.direct investments abroad...
[June 29, 2005, 3:00]
OECD Guidelines Target International Spam
News New suggested government guidelines for protecting consumers from cross-border fraud could spell bad news for fraudulent spammers. Cross-border fraud, perpetrated through telemarketing, Web sites and spam, harms consumers and consumer confidence in...
[June 18, 2003, 7:41]
Comdex: Euro Will Create E-business Super State
News Firms who wish to trade cross-border have to be able to handle dual pricing, conversion via the Euro, different tax regimes, and major price and cost differences across the continent -- all of which will still exist in 2002, the date set for phase...
[November 17, 1998, 7:47]
UK Signs Up To International Anti-spam Agreement
News The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) have joined forces with the US Federal Trade Commission, the UK Department of Trade and Industry, the UK Information Commissioner and the...
[July 5, 2004, 10:40]
US Firms Fight Euro Data Protection Laws
News The GPA wants several significant changes to be made to EU privacy laws -- the simplification of the cross-border flow of data, possibly through industry self-regulation rather than legislation; the harmonisation of EU privacy regulation between...
[September 30, 2002, 16:29]
Europe Plans Crackdown On Email Scams
News Previously, wide differences in the structures and methods of enforcement authorities have hampered prosecutions, but the new regulations require enforcement bodies to help each other by exchanging information and co-operating on cross-border cases.
[January 3, 2007, 7:32]
G8 Nations Team Up To Fight Cyber-crime
News The cross-border nature of computer networks makes it relatively easy for offenders to store information in other jurisdictions and to move or erase it quickly to elude seizure. They also want to improve cross border communication and co-operation...
[May 18, 2000, 11:03]
O2 Soothes Ireland's Roaming Woes
News This is a serious issue for mobile phone users in both localities, who face much larger bills for calls or data services if they cross - or in some areas just get close to - the border. Some mobile users who live close to the border have even been...
[February 9, 2006, 12:10]
UK, US, Russia, China - Surveillance Blackspots
Blog Having no written constitution is going to give the UK a low score for privacy, but we are also world leaders in having some of the worst records for government data sharing, visual surveillance, communications interception, and surveillance of...
[January 2, 2008, 17:32]
Compliance: Tech's 'uncomfortable' Future
News As to what the Directive actually comprises, however, can be broken down into four main headings — organisational requirements; conduct of business (including best execution); markets and transparency; and cross-border business.
[March 20, 2006, 12:50]
Law Enforcement On A Borderless Web
News Several nations are trying to sort out cross-border Net issues with treaties, but it's been a divisive battle. Certainly, conflicts over jurisdiction have been around for centuries, but the Internet introduces a new set of questions about how to...
[June 2, 2002, 7:31]
New Age Rating System For Games In Europe
News It also meets the European Commission's twin objectives: of making it easy for businesses to sell cross-border and domestically, also making consumers feel as comfortable shopping cross-border too. The ISFE announces plans for new voluntary age...
[October 25, 2002, 12:19]
New Global Treaty Could Pose Threat To The Net
News A glimpse of the cross-border problem was already seen in the Yahoo! However, because the Web allows companies to sell items and services to people in foreign countries without requiring them to leave home, it promises to spawn a legal tangle some...
[June 22, 2001, 15:43]
EU Plays Catch-up With US At Dot Com Summit
News A major concern highlighted by the survey was the difficulty in cross-border hiring, with 78 expressing concern at the complexity and red tape involved and the same number saying that easier cross-border recruiting would help solve the problem.
[March 22, 2001, 14:04]
Civil Liberties Groups Unite For RFID Protest
News Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than one billion passports worldwide.
[March 31, 2004, 11:15]
OFT Gains Powers To Seize Spammers' PCs
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will gain the power to seize computer equipment it suspects is being used to perpetrate cross-border internet scams, the OFT has told ZDNet UK. Its powers have been brought about by the creation of a network of...
[February 28, 2007, 15:13]
Lombard Raises Efficiency With Business Automation
White Papers Lombard International Assurance is firmly established as the market leader of the EU cross-border life assurance industry and is the largest of Luxembourg's pan-European life assurance companies. The company wanted to increase this business and be...
[June 9, 2007, 1:00]
Europe Debates Data Sharing
News European justice and home affairs ministers are discussing plans for a cross border computerised intelligence sharing network at a special summit on Wednesday. The ministerial meeting, organised by the UK which now holds the EU presidency, will...
[July 13, 2005, 15:50]
Co-Integration Of Stock Markets Using Wavelet Theory And Data Mining
White Papers The most powerful argument for cross-border investing is the risk reduction due to low correlation of world's stock markets. Risk diversification has become more important as financial markets globalize.
[October 7, 2008, 0:00]
