The U.K. Serious Fraud Office has released details of the deferred prosecution agreement it struck with Tesco—on the same day the supermarket chain’s former finance director accused of the accounting fraud was acquitted.
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Neil Hodge is a freelance business journalist and photographer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He writes on insurance and risk management, corporate governance, internal audit, compliance, and legal issues for a wide range of publications in the United Kingdom and United States.
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French data regulator fines Google under GDPR
France’s data protection regulator recently slapped Google with a substantial €50 million (U.S. $57 million) fine for failing to provide users with clear, accurate, and informative details on its data use policies.
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Ample fallout from May’s Brexit vote defeat
British regulators and Members of Parliament had some serious comments and concerns after Tuesday’s 432-to-202 vote against U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan.
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EU investigates Nike over tax
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Study: Blowing the whistle won’t harm the bottom line
A new study from NAVEX Global reveals whistleblower hotlines don’t often prove detrimental to business outcomes.
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As deadline nears and ‘Brexhaustion’ sets in, still no deal in sight
With less than 100 days until Brexit and the sides taking a break until mid-January, it’s looking inevitable that anxious businesses will not have long-sought certainty on the issue until the clock ticks close to zero.
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U.K. Financial Reporting Council receives scathing review
An independent review of U.K. corporate governance regulator and audit watchdog the Financial Reporting Council calls the agency a “hangover from a bygone era.”
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CMA looks at tackling Big Four’s stranglehold of U.K. audit market
The audit market is facing serious scrutiny from the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, which hopes to carve out external audit from consulting, impose a “joint audit” regime, and increase audit committee chair accountability.
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Ted Baker launches probe into CEO ‘hugs’
Ray Kelvin, the founder of fashion retailer Ted Baker, stands accused of giving unwanted hugs to employees and has stepped down temporarily amid an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
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MPs release ‘secret’ Facebook e-mails
The U.K.’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee has released 250 pages of e-mails that show Mark Zuckerberg and other senior executives at Facebook gave certain app developers special access to user data.