Starbucks invests $25million in Square, the mobile payments company co-founded by Jack Dorsey – NYT DealBook.
14 August 2012
FSA acknowledges that crowdfunding exists, says that it is only for sophisticated investors
The regulator has spoken. From its new page on crowdfunding:
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14 August 2012
Accountancy watchdog starts investigation into PwC’s audits of disaster-prone RSM Tenon
From yesterday’s announcement by the Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board into PwC’s role in RSM Tenon Group plc’s accounting problems:
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14 August 2012
Special purpose entities, and where the boundaries of a corporate entity lie
“A Transactional Genealogy of Scandal: from Michael Milken to Enron to Goldman Sachs”* (downloadable here) looks at how the “integration of SPEs into regulatory systems requires a ground-up rethinking of traditional legal models of the firm”.
From the abstract:
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14 August 2012
How London 2012 used new media
A fascinating slide deck here by the Head of New Media at London 2012 on how they built and designed, and we used, the London2012.com website and related new media.
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