The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Japan's Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance's European unit (MSIEu) and banned its former executive chairman, Yohichi Kumagai for serious corporate governance failings. The UK watchdog has fined ...
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The New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed that several Chinese-made baby food firms are falsely claiming that their product is produced in New Zealand. This problem was identified after nearly 20 Chinese baby ...
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China has returned more than 70kg of imported Heinz infant formula products to Australia as they contained high levels of vitamin B2,which could result in adverse health consequences,according to China's top quality watchdog. The product ...
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UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has penalized Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (UK) (SLOC UK) 600,000 pounds for poor management of its 1.2bn pounds with-profits business. The market watchdog claimed that the design and ...
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Australian retail distributor Metcash has recorded a drop in first-half earnings as a results of store closures in the period. Earnings in the six months to the end of October dropped 13.1% to A$82m (US$85.4m), the retailer said today (30 ...
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UK’s Office of the Fair Trading (OFT) has directed the Competition Commission to probe the private motor insurance market in the country over allegations of unfair activities being carried out by insurers on motorists. Referring to ...
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Business Line reported that the Competition Commission of India may soon get more teeth, if the Government has its way. In a move to grant direct powers to the fair trade regulator, the Government is considering vesting its chairperson ...
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United Kingdom-based fashion retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S), in reponse to environmental watchdog group Greenpeace's Detox campaign to stop chemical pollution of the Earth's waters, has committed to eliminating by 2020 toxic chemical ...
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Samsung Electronics announced new measures to keep its suppliers in China compliant with labor laws after it completed a round of audits that found problems relating to overtime and the way penalties were carried out. The South Korean ...
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Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has published a data protection code of practice on managing the risks related to anonymisation. It explains the issues surrounding the anonymisation of personal data and its disclosure,along with ...
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Renewed calls for the government to give the supermarket watchdog sharp teeth came today(November 19)from anti-poverty agency ActionAid,as the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill enters its second reading in the House of Commons. It urged the ...
IDG News Service-A U.S.judge has indicated she will accept the terms of a settlement deal between Google and the U.S.Federal Trade Commission,in which Google will pay a$22.5 million fine for circumventing privacy protections in Apple's ...
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An NHS trust is to challenge a monetary penalty notice issued by the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)in a case that could set an important precedent. The NHS trust is to be the first public sector organisation to challenge the UK ...
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The government's Pensions Ombudsman has signed a deal for a case management system via the G-Cloud. The cloud case-management system will deliver a central reference point for individual complaints to the government-appointed regulator. ...
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