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ACCA FELLOW IN POLAND DEVELOPS CAREER THROUGH VARIED AND TOUGH CHALLENGES
Climbing the career ladder in finance and accounting takes a willingness to take on new, difficult challenges, acquiring varied experience and clear long-term goals. No one knows this better than Grzegorz Mączyński, an ACCA fellow and the financial director and member of the board of Alstom Konstal, Alstom Transport’s branch in Poland.…
- EMA CLAIMS MAJOR GROWTH IN DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED THERAPY MEDICINAL PRODUCTS
THE CHAIR of the European Medicine Agency’s (EMA) committee of advanced therapies (CAT) has claimed a sharp increase in the development of such sophisticated medicines. Paula Salmikangas told a European Biopharmaceutical Enterprises (EBE1), EMA and Italian government-run workshop, in London, there had been “major growth” in advanced medicines development.…
BANGLADESH LOOKS FOR FOREIGN FIRMS TO UPGRADE AIRPORT GROUNDHANDLING SERVICES
Bangladesh’s struggling national carrier Biman is looking for a foreign suitor to upgrade the groundhandling services it currently single-handedly offers at the country’s airports, but the move has been greeted with suspicion from civil aviation unions.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines in December issued advertisements in newspapers seeking a consultant to ready tender documents for a joint venture in groundhandling operations at three international gateway airports within Bangladesh.…
BIOMETRICS BECOME INCREASINGLY SOPHISTICATED AND COMMONPLACE ANTIFRAUD DEVICES
AS concerns continue to emerge about the extent to which common security measures such as passwords can be breached, biometrics are gaining attention across a range of services and law enforcement teams preventing fraud.
Isabelle Moeller, CEO of the London and Sydney-based Biometrics Institute, stressed to Fraud Intelligence that “biometric authentication has the potential to ease the burden of security given its simplicity and usability, particularly when compared to username and password.…
ITALY’S BPC MARKET RESILIENT DESPITE CONSUMER SPENDING CRUNCH
The days of Italian consumer spending extra Euro on a high performing hydrating face cream or premium fragrance may be on hold as the majority of Italian consumers are currently seeking better value for money in their beauty and personal care (BPC) purchases.…
NEW CZECH FEE PRESIDENT WILL FOCUS ON EFFECTS OF NEW EU AUDIT REFORM
IN another sign that the economic and social divisions wrought by Europe’s 1945-1989 ideological division continue to ease, Czech accountant Petr Kříž will serve as president of the Federation of European Accountants (FEE) for the next two years. It is the first time in the history of this professional organisation that its president comes from a former eastern bloc country.…
TEKTRONIX OFFERS TELCOS WIDE SUITE OF SOLUTIONS FOR NETWORK VIRTUALISATION AND BIG DATA
THE SHIFT of the telecommunications industry towards the virtualisation of networks and the exploitation of big data involves such comprehensive change operators need powerful hardware and software solutions to cope. As a result, Dallas, USA-based Tektronix is well-positioned to help, given its impressively diverse range of systems and experience of working with the largest telcos.…
SPECIALIST CHILD NURSING JOBS STILL PROMOTED IN NHS, DESPITE TRAINING SPENDING CUTS
Specialising in children’s nursing in the UK offers a wide range of opportunities – and health services are working hard to ensure that remains the case despite cuts over recent years in education funding within the NHS.
That is the view of Matthew Norridge, who is a senior children’s nurse in the paediatric intensive care unit at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, a specialist NHS hospital in London, and also works as a lecturer practitioner in child health at the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College London.…
EU FOURTH AMLD TO INTRODUCE NATIONAL COMPANY REGISTERS ON BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
NATIONAL authorities in the member countries of the European Union (EU) will be obliged to create central registers listing the ultimate owners of companies on their territory following a deal on the fourth EU anti-money laundering directive (AMLD) agreed on Tuesday (Dec 16) in Brussels.…
BRITISH SPORTS EXECUTIVE JAILED OVER MAJOR FRAUD
Southwark Crown Court, in London, has sentenced a former CEO of a major British sports good retailer JJB Sports to five years in prison for three fraud offences, totalling around GBP1 million, and for two offences of ‘furnishing false information’. Christopher Ronnie’s co-defendants, David Ball and David Barrington, owners of Fashion and Sport Ltd, a company that sold clothing brands and supplied stock to now dissolved JJB, were each sentenced to 18 months in prison for attempting to pervert the course of justice.…