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    <description>The Gray report on defence procurement talks of £2.5 billion annual cost overruns on various MoD projects. One solution is to democratise the whole government procurement process</description>
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    <description>US regulators were today looking at plans to pay huge rewards to whistleblowers in cases of financial wrongdoing in the wake of the Bernard Madoff fraud scandal</description>
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    <description>Bernard Madoff thought his vast fraud was going to be exposed two years before he was finally caught, but regulators failed to act</description>
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    <description>Texas billionaire Allen Stanford is to appear in a federal court in Virginia over allegations of massive fraud involving his Antigua bank, after he surrendered to the FBI</description>
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    <description>Barack Obama is contemplating stripping Wall Street regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission, of some of its powers next week</description>
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    <description>The authorities were finally onto Bernard Madoff more than two years before his ultimate arrest last December. But he avoided them by lying</description>
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    <description>Chief executives may be in the spotlight during the new puritanism but keep an eye on the rampant pay inflation for part-time chairmen</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Scandal:&lt;/strong&gt; Bernard Madoff has provided investigators with a list of his assets as they untangle the details of the  £35 billion Ponzi scheme he is alleged to have operated</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Scandal:&lt;/strong&gt; Top Wall Street economist, Henry Kaufman, dubbed Dr Doom for his bearish predictions, has emerged as a big loser in the Bernard Madoff scandal</description>
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    <description>The alarm bells in the $50 billion fraud by disgraced American financier Bernard Madoff had been ringing for years but US regulators admitted they ignored them</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Scandal:&lt;/strong&gt; US regulators have launched a full-scale probe into their failings over the Madoff scandal</description>
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    <description>American regulators have ordered a full-scale internal inquiry into how they failed to spot the Madoff scandal</description>
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    <description>It would be harsh and largely ridiculous to blame one man for the unfolding financial crisis, but if you feel in unforgiving mood Hank Paulson will do</description>
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    <description>&lt;b&gt;Finance: &lt;/b&gt;America's banks were last night promised clearer and easier rules on how to value toxic debts, which could help them to bolster their balance sheets</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Markets:&lt;/strong&gt; Presidential hopeful John McCain says he would sack the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — his fellow Republican Christopher Cox — for allowing financial markets to be used as “a casino”</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Shares:&lt;/strong&gt; The ban on short-selling by the FSA is described as part of a co-ordinated global strategy to help financial markets recover</description>
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    <description>The clampdown on short-selling in financial stocks is in fact a vitally necessary and overdue measure</description>
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    <description>Restrictions are to be lifted this week with evidence mounting that the measures failed</description>
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    <description>US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating billion-pound slush-funds</description>
    <dc:date>2008-08-06T09:28:26Z</dc:date>
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    <description>With the bank results reporting season in full swing, this year's sweet-talking-of-investors tactic is becoming clearer</description>
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    <description>Security regulators in the US have extended an emergency rule to curb the short selling of major firms' stocks</description>
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    <description>The US Securities and Exchange Commission has sent subpoenas to more than 50 hedge-fund advisers as part of its investigation into whether individuals spread false rumours to manipulate shares of two Wall Street firms</description>
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    <description>Companies pay the agencies to rate their securities, creating a conflict of interest. It is as if one side in a football match paid the referee</description>
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    <description>US watchdog the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is planning to sideline ratings agencies that have come under fire for failing to predict the subprime crisis and subsequent credit crunch</description>
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    <description>Bear Stearns reveals it is facing civil charges by the US Securities and Exchange Commission</description>
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    <description>Pentagon Capital Management becomes the latest to fall victim to the credit crunch</description>
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