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There's no question that businesses are looking for every competitive advantage they can find these days. From seeking to expand the customer base to lowering production costs, management is always mindful of the bottom line. Consequently, expanding to emerging markets and all the potential they hold has become increasingly attractive for many companies. With these opportunities, of course, come challenges, particularly the concern about escalating compliance and integrity-related risks. In fact, executives are not confident that their companies have effective processes in place to identify and manage these risks when making investments or engaging third parties in emerging markets.
These are some of the key findings of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP's fifth annual Look Before You Leap survey, which solicited the views of 126 business executives on the approaches their companies are taking to address compliance and integrity-related risks in emerging markets. Survey participants represented a wide range of industries including financial services (29%), manufacturing (25%), and information technology and telecommunications (12%). Roughly 75% of participating companies were headquartered in the United States, with other companies headquartered in Canada, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
A federal district court in Miami, FL, has ruled that former National Basketball Association star Shaquille O'Neal will have to face a lawsuit over his promotion of unregistered securities in the form of cryptocurrency tokens and that he was a "seller" of these unregistered securities.
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In recent years, there has been a growing number of dry cleaners claiming to be "organic," "green," or "eco-friendly." While that may be true with respect to some, many dry cleaners continue to use a cleaning method involving the use of a solvent called perchloroethylene, commonly known as perc. And, there seems to be an increasing number of lawsuits stemming from environmental problems associated with historic dry cleaning operations utilizing this chemical.