- Identity alert
Experian has recently launched CreditExpert, an online credit report alert service for UK consumers that aims to fight identity fraud. The new service, the first of its kind in the UK, alerts consumers by e-mail or SMS text when important changes have taken place on their credit report, which they ......
- United Kingdom Steps Up Fraud Prosecutions
THE MONETARY VALUE OF FRAUD PROSECUTIONS IN THE United Kingdom increased threefold in 2005 - the highest level recorded since 1995. Fraud cases brought to British courts totaled more than ?900 million (US $1.5 billion) last year, up from ?329 million (US $575 million) in 2004, according to KPMG's Forensic ......
- Forewarned is forearmed
HEADNOTE The new Export Control Act is bound to have a significant impact on defence contracts. Brinley Salzmann reveals how far-reaching these new regulations will be THE BRITISH EXPORT CONTROL ACT 2002 came into effect fully on Saturday 1 May 2004, more than eight years after the publication of the ......
- How U.K.'s new export control act will hit U.S.
firms.
Significant modifications to the United Kingdom's export controls went into effect in June, almost a decade after a major public inquiry into the alleged sale of defense and dual-use technology by British firms to Iraq prior to the 1991 Gulf War. The changes stem from the U.K. Export Control Act ......
- The high price of gas cuts
HEADNOTE The UK government has imposed such stringent targets on reducing carbon dioxide emissions that the whole economy could suffer, warns Veronica Smart All UK businesses will have to pay considerably more for their electricity to meet the carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions proposed in the European Union's emissions trading scheme....
- How new U.K. export controls will hit U.S. (Government
Policy Notes).
The United Kingdom's Export Control Act--passed by Parliament in 2002 and scheduled to take effect before the end of this year--represents the greatest single change to the government's control system since the current regulations were introduced in 1939. While the act introduces no new controls on technology, it does attempt ......
- The growth of ICT and industry
performance--manufacturing in the US and UK compared.
UK manufacturing productivity has for a long time lagged behind the US. Explanations put forward for the 'productivity gap' include disparities in capital stock levels, the quality of the labour force and different rates of technology adoption. The questions addressed in this paper are, 'has slower UK up-take of information ......