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Finance Essentials for IR Course in the USA in association with NIRI - New Dates

30 June 2010
Finance Essentials for IR will run in New York on 16-17 September, Florida on 7-8 December and Santa Monica on 13-14 January...
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Ex-hedge fund trader sentenced for insider dealing

22 June 2010
Anjam Saeed Ahmad, an ex-hedge fund trader and risk manager with AKO Capital LLP (AKO), has been sentenced to 10 months imprisonment, suspended for two years, 300 hours of unpaid work in the community and fined £50,000 for insider dealing. On 18 May 2010 Ahmad pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit insider dealing contrary to Section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977. A further offence of insider dealing committed on 19 February 2008 was taken into consideration...
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Photo-Me fined £500,000 for delay in disclosing inside information

21 June 2010
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) today fined Photo-Me International plc (Photo-Me) £500,000 for failing to disclose inside information to the market as soon as possible. The delay led to a false market in Photo-Me’s shares for 44 days...
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Black Sun Research: Reporting stands still but the world moves on

18 June 2010
The latest edition of Black Sun’s annual analysis of Annual Reports found that most companies provide good content in relation to their business description, strategy and financial KPIs but challenging areas of reporting remain...
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Investor Relations Society Publishes Guidance on the new UK Corporate Governance Code

16 June 2010
Investor Relations Society (IR Society) has published ‘Guidance for Investor Relations Practitioners on the UK Corporate Governance Code', designed to show how investor engagement should work in practice...
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Regulatory Reform - FSA will cease to exist in its current form

16 June 2010
In his first Mansion House speech, Chancellor George Osborne set out the Coalition Government’s plans to reform financial services following the financial crisis...
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Investors Want Greater Transparency On Boardroom Pensions

15 June 2010
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Buy and sell side wound up about guidance shortcomings

14 June 2010
Nearly 1,000 members of the buy side and sell side were quizzed for this year’s IR Magazine European Investor Perception study, the research that determines the winners and nominees at the IR Magazine Europe Awards, held at the end of June in London...
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US Investor Relations Services Giants Embrace Web Disclosure

2 June 2010
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Takeover Panel Consults on Significant Changes to the City Code

1 June 2010
The Code Committee of the Takeover Panel has published a consultation paper as part of its review into certain aspects of the regulation of takeover bids. The review has been undertaken in response to widespread commentary on recent bids...
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