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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce has published a guide alerting financial services businesses about how to avoid falling victim to fraud. Preventing Financial Instrument Fraud describes danger signals, explaining how frauds are mounted and the psychological manipulation upon which they are based.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce has published a guide alerting financial services businesses about how to avoid falling victim to fraud, which alerts them to the psychological tactics used by conmen. Preventing Financial Instrument Fraud describes danger signals, explaining how frauds are mounted and the psychological manipulation upon which they are based.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN LEGAL terms, it is a Herculean task: streamlining and reducing the thousands of pages of the European Union’s (EU) body of law, the acquis communautaire. However, the European Commission does not seem to be intimidated, after all, it proposed most of this legislation in the first place.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce has published a guide alerting financial services businesses about how to avoid falling victim to fraud. Preventing Financial Instrument Fraud describes danger signals, explaining how frauds are mounted and the psychological manipulation upon which they are based.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA has been warned that it faces retaliatory trade measures if it does not remove import barriers on meat from the USA. Robert Zoellick, the United States Trade Representative, told the US Senate Finance Committee that he would not shrink from taking such steps in order to put pressure on Russia to drop the restrictions.…

BY MARK ROWE AND KEITH NUTHALL
A RUSSIAN entrepreneur, Oleg Udolin, is making a tidy living out of making windscreen-cleaning fluid out from confiscated contraband vodka. In a neat reversal of the traditional Russian penchant for drinking anti-freeze, the Moscow region man’s company Spiritprompererabotka has been extracting ethyl alcohol under licence from bottles of vodka confiscated by Russia’s police and customs forces.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINANCIAL institutions are increasingly checking the honesty of their potential business partners, claims the International Chamber of Commerce. The number of banks requesting due diligence checks from its Commercial Crime Bureau (CCB) in 2002, went up 51 per cent over the previous year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AÉROPORTS de Paris has lost its last ditch bid to win a legal battle over its fees for ground-handling services, with the European Court of Justice rejecting an appeal brought by the company against a ruling from its sister Court of First Instance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINANCIAL institutions, including insurance companies, have a deepening awareness for the need to check the honesty of their potential business partners, claims the International Chamber of Commerce. Indeed, the number of banks requesting due diligence checks from its Commercial Crime Bureau (CCB) in 2002, went up 51 per cent over the previous year, it said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
JUST as a punch-drunk boxer cannot resist another slug in the ring, the Indian government is refusing to throw in the towel in its interminably long World Trade Organisation dispute with the European Union over Brussels’ anti-dumping duties on bed-linen from India.…