FTX and Binance: how latest crypto scandals could influence public opinion on digital currency regulation: True believers in cryptocurrency have had a rough few weeks. The US government just fined Binance – the world’s largest crypto exchange – US$ 4.3 billion (£3.4 billion) for its involvement in money laundering. It forced the firm to accept …
How subtle forms of sexism in financial services led to recent City scandals – what research shows: William Perugini/Shutterstock When I first worked in the City of London, a few years out of university, a company-appointed “style consultant” suggested I would be taken more seriously as a female professional if I wore more make-up and …
UK slides in corruption perception index after series of political scandals: The UK has fallen down Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index (CPI) after a year of high-profile government scandals. The CPI is not a measure of corruption itself but a measure of how much corruption is perceived to exist across a country’s public sector. For …
Nadhim Zahawi sacked: today’s Tory scandals are similar to 1990s sleaze stories in more than one way: The 1990s are everywhere right now. From the fashion trends making a comeback in 2023 (I’m told), to the hotly anticipated return of the flashback mystery-box thriller Yellowjackets, it’s starting to feel like the millennium never happened. And …
Why big firms are rarely toppled by corporate scandals – new research: Shutterstock/Donatas Dabravolskas Everyone makes mistakes. And that includes the world’s biggest companies, which are reliably prone to gaffes, errors of judgment and wrongdoing. Some of these moments could even be labelled as corporate scandals – the kind of incident which shoves firms into …
Sleaze: why Boris Johnson is being reminded of the lurid scandals of 1990s Britain: Alamy/PA The “Teflon premier” has finally encountered something that may stick: the revival of a word first heard the last time a British Conservative government entered its second decade – but with a twist that’s very much of the age of …
Media scandals: sound and fury, but in the end, little changes: The recent political scandal in the UK involving Owen Paterson, a Conservative MP who was found to have broken parliamentary standards by repeatedly lobbying the government on behalf of two companies which paid him a large regular monthly fee, presents a classic case of …
After shocking medical scandals, new patient safety champion can restore trust: Oleg Golovnev/Shutterstock A recent, much-anticipated report called First, Do No Harm has described in detail the suffering undergone by thousands of women over the last 50 years due to the devastating effects of three medical products. Two of these are pharmaceutical products. Primodos was …
South Africa in the news: Scandals finally catch up with South Africa’s Zuma: JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As scandal after scandal unfolded, South African President Jacob Zuma maintained an affable demeanor in public, rallying his support base, dispatching lawyers to fend off court challenges and, it is alleged, enabling his corrupt …: “South Africa” – BingNews …
South Africa in the news: ANC needs to put an end to scandals: South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) needs to put an end to scandals that are tarnishing its image, an ANC official said, after a court ruling that paved the way for President Jacob Zuma to face nearly 800 counts of corruption.: …
South African business must own up to its part in the corruption scandals: Shutterstock South Africa is reeling from a string of scandals involving state owned enterprises and the Guptas, a family with close ties to President Jacob Zuma. A trove of recently leaked Gupta emails exposed the involvement of prominent businesses in the extensive …
Trump’s Russia scandals could be about to get much, much worse: Whatever one thinks of the Trump administration’s policies, it is difficult to ignore that the new president’s tenure has so far been characterised by incompetence and carelessness. And while it’s easy to laugh at daft missteps such as an aide plugging Ivanka Trump’s clothing …