Archive for August, 2011
So it really does look like that wonderful financial instrument the cheque will be with us for some time. Good news and good sense.
The Payments Council continues to cite the decline in cheque volumes as requiring a re-think on their actual existence (seeking abolition). But those canny newly 'NOTW trained' MPs have picked up on the fact that there may just be a small conflict of interest within the Council's proposals.
The Council's composition is bank led and, since banks want
August 25, 2011
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Having not long come back from visiting one of the Greek Islands I declare my hand as a fan of Greece, or at least its Islands. It pains me to see the problems its going through but you can’t help but wonder at the ‘spare the rod, spare the child’ attitude of the EU. In their haste to broaden the club, they rushed through the Greek application without so much as one serious economic hurdle. Where are the heads of state and their senior economic advisers who oversaw this debacle, whe
August 22, 2011
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As we stand today, there is no single Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) that can be used around the world to identify an individual or business. Here are some of the issues presented by its absence:
• A UK company registered at Companies House has a unique company number but a company registered in another country could easily have the same number; and
• UK citizen holds a unique National Insurance number but a citizen in another country could easily have the same number.
Therefore, when tr
August 2, 2011
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