UK Business News

The host nation has been under close scrutiny in the first week or so of the South African World Cup, but the international community is not only watching the action on the pitch; they are also witnessing a South Africa that continues to emerge as a competitive 21st century economy.
As outlined in Deloitte’s paper “2010 [...]

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Leading Internet Security company Symantec has sent out a warning to internet users to be particularly alert to the dangers of internet scams and cyber crime during the upcoming World Cup finals in South Africa.
Warning that victims of cyber crime during the World Cup don’t have to to be in South Africa to be conned, [...]

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The Financial Services Authority [FSA] is planning to introduce bigger fines and jail time  for insider traders.
Figures indicate insider dealing is rampant in the UK with between a quarter and a third of takeovers being subject to so-called “informed price movements”.
Notwithstanding media speculation – fuelling investor speculation and of course semi-psychic analysts – it is clear that [...]

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The British Chambers of Commerce reports that the cost of criminal damage to UK businesses runs out at about £12.6 billion – up by a fifth since 2004 – and is ‘hugely damaging’.
50% of firms responding to the BCC survey had suffered crime last year ranging from burglary, damage to vehicles and other vandalism such [...]

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Data value management firm, DQM Group, has found that as many as 1 in 6 Britons has suffered data fraud in the last twelve months. The highest risk category is young male professionals living in London.
But what is bad for the public is equally bad for business. As well as the bad PR there are [...]

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