Quantifying corruption risk in India
Egypt’s grabbed all the headlines in the ‘emerging market risk’ category so far this month, but there’s been a touch of controversy elsewhere in the EM category too. India’s been rocked by a series of...
View ArticleGraft probe seeks to appease Egyptian public
As the regime in Egypt seeks to enhance its credibility in the face of a popular uprising threatening its survival, it has turned against ministers and ruling party officials who were seen, until two...
View ArticleAmbani questioned in Indian probe
Shares in India’s Reliance Communications dropped another 3% to Rp96.75 in Mumbai trading on Thursday after billionaire chairman Anil Ambani was questioned by Indian federal investigators in a widening...
View ArticleIndia questions second tycoon
Indian anti-corruption officials have questioned a second tycoon in as many days, as a probe into a multibillion-dollar telecoms scandal reached into the highest echelons of the business elite, reports...
View ArticleCorrupt officials took $124bn out of China
Corrupt Chinese officials smuggled an estimated Rmb800bn ($123.6bn) of ill-gotten gains out of the country over a 15-year period, according to a report released by China’s central bank, reports the FT....
View ArticleUS steps up foreign anti-graft scrutiny
State-owned companies in emerging markets are facing greater scrutiny in the US as the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission step up enforcement of the foreign corrupt practices...
View ArticleHouse passes curbs on insider trading
The US House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed new curbs on insider trading by lawmakers and other government officials despite complaints from Democrats and some Republicans that...
View ArticleQuestioning China’s governance
The New York Times story on assets held by relatives of China’s prime minister Wen Jiabao led to some interesting ponderings on Chinese kleptocracy by the New Yorker’s Evan Osnos. Osnos highlights a...
View ArticleAnd the most corrupt EU state is…
Greece, apparently. Closely followed by Italy. Those are the conclusions by Transparency International in their latest corruption perceptions index,which looks at how the public sees state sector...
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Tiger hunting on fiscal cliffs
Your anti-corruption, anti-vice driven growth in Chinese government deposits from BofAML: Continue reading: Tiger hunting on fiscal cliffs
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