The Washington Post | By Darryl Fears | July 4 at 10:18 AM: The $19 billion bid to clean the Chesapeake Bay and restore its health rests on a simple plan: cut the amount of nutrient waste — involving nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment — that causes most of the bay’s Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | July 4th, 2017: Germany reached a new renewable energy record in the first half of this year, generating 35.1% of its electricity from renewable energy sources, according to the country’s trade body, the German Renewable Energy Federation. In news published only days Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Renewable Energy World Editors | June 27, 2017: The U.S. Conference of Mayors in Miami yesterday approved a resolution calling for 100 percent renewable energy in cities across the U.S. by 2035. “What better way to kick off Donald Trump’s energy week than with a Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: James Mackintosh | July 3, 2017 10:15 a.m. ET: Unusually volatile reaction of investors to last week’s news about monetary policy is alarming in itself. Some dates deserve a place in market history. Black Monday 1987 and Black Thursday 1929 occurred before the VIX Read more…
Reuters | By: Andrés González and Arno Schuetze | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | 1:18pm EDT: Spanish power company Gas Natural (GAS.MC) has fired the starting gun in what is expected to be the biggest upheaval among European utility companies for a decade. Chairman Isidre Faine has contacted his counterpart Read more…
Reuters | By: Andrea Shalal | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | 7:34am EDT: Germany is a big target of spying and cyber attacks by foreign governments such as Turkey, Russia and China, a government report said on Tuesday, warning of “ticking time bombs” that could sabotage critical infrastructure. Industrial espionage Read more…
The SPIFIS Foundation – A Global Project Engineering Solution: GPE proposes the use of a Single Purpose Infrastructure Foundation In Switzerland (SPIFIS). The choice of Switzerland is to take advantage of the management flexibility afforded by the Swiss Law. Swiss Foundations can do both for-profit and non-profit work within the Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: Michael J Dyment and Mark G. Mykityshyn | June 26 – July 09, 2017: The rapid growth of the U.S. small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) market is being driven almost entirely by the private sector, with thousands of professionals and companies working to Read more…
Reuters | Mon Jul 3, 2017 | 12:30pm EDT: Torrential rain lashed parts of central and south China on Monday, with floods damaging crops, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and killing at least 33, while the north wilted in a heat wave and drought-like conditions. Water levels Read more…
Reuters | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | 5:43am EDT: The Three Gorges and Gezhouba, two of China’s top hydropower plants, have closed capacity by as much as two-thirds, state media said on Tuesday, as torrential rains across the south triggered drastic steps to ease pressure on the Yangtze River. Days Read more…
Reuters | By: John McCrank | Mon Jul 3, 2017 | 11:29pm EDT: The prices of several big-name Nasdaq-listed (NDAQ.O) stocks appeared on some websites to either spike or plummet well after the closing bell on Monday, seemingly due to a glitch related to the market data that runs the Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Keiko Morris June 29, 2017 6:49 p.m. ET: Jury finds office building at 650 Fifth Ave. in New York connected to U.S. sanctions violations. Federal prosecutors won a court victory Thursday that paves the way for the government to seize a Midtown Manhattan office Read more…
The Current Status Of The Electricity Market: The Electricity market should be viewed as 2 separate branches: The Production Level The Transport Level The majority of electricity production today is still primarily using carbon-based fuels, which are highly polluting. In different countries, non-polluting renewable energy production today is between 10 Read more…
Dealing With The Results Of Mismanagement: Due to the lack of foresight and poor management of the water cycle as a whole, the following damages are recurring with increasing frequency: Water rationing even in countries with rainy climates; Destructive flooding; Destructive landslides; Potable water poisoning; Broken pipes; …and so on Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Brian Parkin, Bloomberg | June 30, 2017: Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition is widening access to the solar power market for people who rent their homes in a move to boost green power’s expansion in an election year. Lawmakers moved to pass legislation dubbed “Tenant Power” Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | June 30th, 2017: Renewable energy sources generated more than a quarter of the UK’s electricity in the first quarter of this year, with onshore wind setting a record high of 8.3%, helping to further dismantle the UK’s reliance upon coal energy. In Read more…
Defense One | By: Amy Zegart | June 29, 2017: It is hard to imagine more fitting names for code-gone-bad than WannaCry and Eternal Blue. Those are just some of the computer coding vulnerabilities pilfered from the National Security Agency’s super-secret stockpile that have been used in two separate global Read more…
Defense One | By: Stanislav Shalunov | June 29, 2017: The NSA, which sees its mission as collecting signals intelligence (by breaking into networks) as well as protecting vital U.S. systems, is partially to blame for Tuesday’s massive global cyber attack that hit utilities across Ukraine and Europe and even Read more…
Tribune de Geneve | By: Pierre-Alexandre Sallier | June 29, 2017: BNP Paribas is attacked in Paris for its role in arms sales at the time of the genocide. NGOs exhort the forgotten role of an account then opened in the Geneva bank UBP. The name of the Geneva-based asset Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Melanie Evans June 29, 2017 4:58 p.m. ET: Petya attack forces Princeton Community Hospital to use paper records as it scraps, rebuilds computer network. Princeton Community Hospital in rural West Virginia will scrap and replace its entire computer network after being struck by Read more…
Clean Technica | June 29th, 2017 | By: John Farrell: While most programs so far have targeted home comfort (central air conditioning or electric water heating), there are other sources of electricity consumption that remain untouched. In the past decade, two major trends have threatened the ability of electric utilities Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Bradley Olson | June 29, 2017 7:00 a.m. ET: After weathering years of protests, pipeline operator TransCanada is struggling to attract customers amid low crude prices and competing oil-transportation options. Keystone XL is facing a new challenge: The oil producers and refiners the pipeline Read more…
Rocky Mountain Institute | By Courtney Fairbrother, Leia Guccione, Mike Henchen and Anthony Teixeira: PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT: This report explores challenges to effective innovation at U.S. electric utilities, with a focus on pilot and demonstration projects. We offer recommendations for utilities, regulators, and DER technology providers to support more Read more…
Yale Environment 360 | By: Richard Schiffman | June 29, 2017: The breadbasket regions of India and Pakistan are rapidly depleting their underground aquifers. In a Yale e360 interview, climatologist Sonali McDermid explains why this overexploitation, combined with global warming, is creating an urgent need to change local farming practices. Read more…
Defense One | By: Alyza Sebenius | June 28, 2017: The Washington Post’s report last week on Russian cyber efforts to disrupt the 2016 election—and the Obama administration’s months-long debate over how to respond—ended on a foreboding note. Among the measures apparently adopted in response to the hack was “a Read more…
Reinsurance News | By: Marianne Lehnis | 28th June 2017: Along with wind and sun, China has harnessed the power of insurance to catalyse its clean energy revolution, after having successfully pioneered government led re/insurance partnerships to safe-guard regional development with an index insurance scheme that makes a post-disaster payout Read more…
The New York Times | By: Nicole Perlroth and David E Sanger | June 28, 2017: Twice in the past month, National Security Agency cyberweapons stolen from its arsenal have been turned against two very different partners of the United States — Britain and Ukraine. The N.S.A. has kept quiet, Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | June 27th, 2017: Renewable energy sources are now providing more electricity than nuclear power for the first time ever in the United States, according to figures issued by the US Energy Information Administration and highlighted by Ken Bossong’s Sun Day Campaign. The Read more…
Reuters | Breaking Views | By: Richard Beales | Wed Jun 28, 2017 | 4:47pm EDT Who’d be in charge of a corporate IT network with hacks, phishing and now a double dose of so-called ransomware to contend with? This week’s cyber attack hit targets from Ukraine to the United Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By Nick Kostov and Costas Paris | Updated June 28, 2017 5:27 p.m. ET: Shipping giant Maersk shuts terminals; ransomware was designed to spread within corporate networks running Microsoft’s Windows. Global firms scrambled to cope with fallout from a cyberattack that disrupted computers across Europe Read more…
Air Transport World | By: Aaron Karp | Jun 28, 2017: American Airlines has reached an agreement with technology firm Analogic to buy $6 million worth of computed tomography (CT) airport checkpoint screening machines that the carrier hopes to deploy at US airports later this year following US government certification Read more…
Zurich Insurance | By: Angela Skow | GPE – June 29, 2017: Challenges of our nation’s aging infrastructure: Our aging infrastructure costs millions in repairs, business interruption and supply chain risks. Whether P3 construction projects may sway the pendulum remains to be seen. There is a lot of buzz in Read more…
Video Above: “What Are Microgrids?” Greentech Media | By: Jeff St. John | June 27, 2017: One of the country’s biggest microgrid providers plans to share technologies and markets with one of California’s top BTM storage startups. Microgrids require a hefty combination of technologies to execute properly. They also require Read more…
Reuters | Wed Jun 28, 2017 | 2:42pm EDT: A German regulator has suspended the launch of a law obliging German telecom companies to keep telephone and Internet data for up to 10 weeks to help fight crime, citing a court ruling. The data retention law, which had been due Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: John Bray | June 28, 2017 at 8:18AM: How far is it feasible to apply a global compliance policy in widely differing regional markets? And to what extent should there be local policy exceptions? In Control Risks’ 2017 International Business Attitudes to Compliance survey, a Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Hamza Shaban and Brian Fung | June 27 at 12:07 PM: Google just got hit with a record $2.7 billion fine in Europe. The European Union’s head of antitrust enforcement announced a record $2.7 billion fine against Google on Tuesday, accusing the search engine for Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Steve Sawyer | June 21, 2017: ‘A remarkable achievement,’ is the only thing I can say about where the European offshore wind industry finds itself today. It has taken a lot longer and cost a lot more money and effort than we thought back in Read more…
The New York Times | By: Nicole Perlroth, Mark Scott and Sheera Frenkel | June 27, 2017: Computer systems from Ukraine to the United States were struck on Tuesday in an international cyberattack that was similar to a recent assault that crippled tens of thousands of machines worldwide. In Kiev, Read more…
Technology Decisions | By: Jonathan Nally | Tuesday, 27 June, 2017: Local governments around Australia are implementing strategic plans to place themselves at the forefront of the smart cities revolution. Twenty years ago, no-one had heard of smart cities. Today, the concept is rapidly growing all around us. And in Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: David Gauthier-Villars and Michael Amon | June 27, 2017 11:03 a.m. ET: Maersk, WPP Group and Rosneft all report significant intrusions on their computer systems. Global businesses, including shipping giant A.P. Moeller-Maersk AMKBY 0.62% A/S, advertising firm WPP Group WPPGY -0.95% PLC and Russian Read more…
Forester Network | By: Laura Sanchez | GPE – 28 June 2017: The charges recently brought against five Michigan officials in relation to Flint’s water contamination crisis, and the involuntary manslaughter and misconduct charges against director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Nick Lyon, made me reflect Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Sam Schechner | Updated June 27, 2017 7:08 a.m. ET: EU orders Google to treat rival comparison-shopping services equally in its search results. The European Union’s antitrust regulator on Tuesday fined Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL -1.42% Google a record €2.42 billion ($2.71 billion) for favoring Read more…
The Gallup Blog | By: Jon Clifton | June 27, 2017: Americans’ feeling of freedom is declining. In 2006, 91% of Americans were satisfied with the freedom in their lives. Today, it’s 75%. The 16-percentage-point decline is dramatic – but looking at how far the U.S. has fallen in comparison Read more…
LinkedIn | By: Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson | GPE – June 27, 2017: Over the past few years we’ve developed artificially intelligent machines that can do many things that used to require human minds: understanding speech, diagnosing disease, checking the terms of a contract, designing a mechanical part from Read more…
Kansas State University | Seeker | By: Glenn McDonald | GPE – June 27 2017: Kansas State University scientists stumble upon a surprisingly simple method for making industrial graphene: blowing stuff up. Apparently, when it comes to making graphene, the 21st-century “miracle material” taking manufacturing by storm, you can do Read more…
The University Of Manchester | GPE – June 27 2017: Newsfacts: Graphene sieve turns seawater into drinking water; New research shows graphene can filter common salts from water to make it safe to drink; Findings could lead to affordable desalination technology. About Graphene Membrane: Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention Read more…
Reuters | By: David Stanway | Mon Jun 26, 2017 | 9:27pm EDT: China has launched five pilot zones to promote “green finance” and help pay for a war on pollution that is expected to cost at least 3 trillion yuan ($440 billion) a year, according to notices published by Read more…
Engineering News | By: Terence Creamer | 26th June 2017: Recent renewable energy price reductions, together with sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA’s) formidable solar and wind resources, have made solar and wind technologies the cheapest sources of power in several countries, which carries significant implications, a newly published academic paper argues, for Read more…
CNN Money | By: Donna Borak | June 22, 2017 | 2:48 PM ET:
Seeking to provide some regulatory relief to community banks and other small financial institutions, bank regulators on Thursday asked Congress to consider several changes to the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform laws.
The regulators, which include the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., mapped out how Congress and regulators could tailor regulations on smaller banks to help spur economic growth.
“In terms of reducing the regulatory burden, the biggest bang for the buck is to reduce the burden on smaller financial institutions,” said FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg during a Senate Banking Committee hearing.
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Top policymakers stressed proposed changes to the Dodd-Frank law should not undermine the strength of reforms born from the 2008 recession and aimed at preventing another financial crisis.
Reuters | By: Jonathan Spicer | Mon Jun 26, 2017 | 11:10am EDT: The Federal Reserve’s little-known role housing the assets of other central banks comes with a unique benefit to the United States: It serves as a source of foreign intelligence for Washington. Senior officials from the U.S. Treasury Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: Tony Osborne | Jun 23, 2017: China’s UAVs are selling well in Asia and the Middle East. It was not the most dynamic of exhibits on display at this year’s Paris Air Show, but the unexpected appearance of a Chinese-built armed UAV in Read more…
The Guardian | By: Damian Carrington | Saturday 24 June 2017 07.01 BST: Freedom-of-information data reveals threat of drought that would devastate wildlife, with government slow to act on water management. A quarter of England’s rivers are at risk of running dry, with devastating consequences for wildlife, according to data Read more…
Reuters | By: Eric Auchard | Fri Jun 23, 2017 | 1:13pm EDT: Adyen, one of Europe’s biggest fintech companies, has taken a pan-European banking licence that allows it to bypass banks and process cross-border payments directly for its merchant customers, including many of the world’s top ecommerce firms. Chief Read more…
Reuters | Mon Jun 26, 2017 | 6:22am EDT China and Canada have signed an agreement vowing not to conduct state-sponsored cyber attacks against each other aimed at stealing trade secrets or other confidential business information. The agreement was reached during talks between Canada’s national security and intelligence adviser, Daniel Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jim Carlton | June 23, 2017 8:00 a.m. ET: Project to replace decades-old structure near San Francisco Bay has seen delays and unexpected construction issues. The coastal mountains that frame the working-class city of Fremont, California – next to San Francisco Bay – harbor Read more…
Bloomberg | Financial Times | June 23, 2017 An investigation illustrates the risks for targets of takeover bids. A regulatory probe announced by China into the “systemic risk” of some of its biggest overseas acquirers is both welcome and troubling. Welcome because Beijing is raising a red flag over corporations Read more…
Reuters | By: Kate Holton | Jun 24, 2017 | 3:02pm EDT: Britain’s parliament was hit by a “sustained and determined” cyber attack on Saturday designed to identify weak email passwords, just over a month after a ransomware worm crippled parts of the country’s health service. The House of Commons Read more…
The Washington Times | By: Andrew Blake | Friday, June 23, 2017: Russian lawmakers on Friday unanimously approved the first reading of legislation outlawing virtual private network (VPN) services and other technologies that let internet users bypass Moscow’s ever-expanding blacklist of banned websites. Lawmakers in the State Duma, the lower Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jack Nicas | June 23, 2017 | 3:45 p.m. ET: Tech giant says move is to bring free Gmail service in line with corporate offering. Google said its computers will soon stop reading the emails of its Gmail users to personalize their ads, a Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Betsy Morris Updated June 23, 2017 8:56 a.m. ET: Apple’s iPhone gave rise to whole new industries and laid waste to others. As the device turns 10, we take stock of its impact on everything from cameras to telecoms. Ten years ago, hailing a Read more…
Capital Ideas | Online Articles: Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative and disruptive advancement since the Industrial Revolution. After decades of hype and disappointment, AI is poised to fuel the next wave of innovation, and potentially provide unprecedented opportunities for companies and investors. “The world is on the cusp Read more…
Renewable Energy Magazine | Panorama | Friday, 23 June 2017: The investment facility (of ADB) supports a series of renewable energy projects and sector reforms in the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, the Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Read more…
IBM | Security Intelligence | By: Christophe Veltsos | Originally Published May 22, 2017: “There are over 5 million jobs open in this country. The reason they are not filled is skills.” — Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO, speaking to Fox Business about new collar jobs. Organizations are suffering from an Read more…
Reuters | Fri Jun 23, 2017 | 5:30am EDT: Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time when Russia has been accused of a growing number of cyber attacks on the West, a Read more…
GPE Original Article | By: Ray Murray | 23rd June 2017: In May 2016, an article was published on the BBC Global News website, “BBC Capital”. The article by Renuka Rayasamon was entitled, “Even Desert City Dubai Imports Its Sand. This Is Why.” Some of the key points which the Read more…
Reuters | By: Byron Kaye and Jamie Freed | Fri Jun 23, 2017 | 2:27am EDT: A second Australian state on Friday said it was open to charging its own bank tax, raising fears the federal government has opened a “Pandora’s box” by slapping a A$6.2 billion ($4.7 billion) levy Read more…
Yale Environment 360 | By: Jim Robbins | June 20, 2017: Vast amounts of river-borne sediment are trapped behind the world’s large dams, depriving areas downstream of material that is badly needed to build up the marshes and wetlands that act as a buffer against rising seas. In September 2011, Read more…
National Election Defense Coalition: June 21, 2017: Dear Member of Congress: Faith in American democracy rests on the integrity of our elections. So it stands to reason that lawmakers and administrators from both political parties should prioritize efforts to minimize election security risks. While there has been encouraging progress to Read more…
Abstract | Kuran, Timur and Sunstein, Cass R. | Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation | Stanford Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 4, 1999 | U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 181 | U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 384: An availability cascade is a Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Gregor Stuart Hunter | Updated June 21, 2017 1:12 a.m. ET: Inclusion of mainland China markets in major benchmark indexes is expected to lead to global investors focusing on corporate governance. MSCI Inc.’s decision to include mainland Chinese shares in its global benchmarks for Read more…
Phys.Org | June 20, 2017: Rain or shine has new meaning thanks to an innovative, inexpensive and simple tactic developed by researchers at Florida Atlantic University that will really change how people think about watering their lawns. The tactic? A straightforward road sign. Outdoor water restrictions are a common water Read more…
LinkedIn | Wall Street Journal | By: Nick Elliott (WSJ Editor) & Rob Sloan | June 20, 2017: Trust is normally considered a virtue in business but as the National Security Agency looks across the landscape of cybersecurity threats it sees trusted relationships as a major weakness for companies. These Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 8:28AM: What’s the biggest change in the compliance landscape? It’s the deep engagement of boards and senior management. Today they understand the risks of reputational damage and want to stay a step ahead of the compliance Read more…
The Financial Times | 21st June 2017: Offshore companies’ funds more than double the IMF’s estimate in 2010. Offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands have assets of more than $1.5tn, more than twice the sum estimated in 2010. Two-thirds of the offshore companies registered in the BVI are used Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Brian Fung, Craig Timberg and Matea Gold | June 19 2017 | 2:42 PM: Detailed information on nearly every U.S. voter — including in some cases their ethnicity, religion and views on political issues — was left exposed online for two weeks by a political Read more…
Reuters | By: Anna Irrera | Mon Jun 19, 2017 | 1:40pm EDT: Accenture Plc and Microsoft Corp are teaming up to build a digital ID network using blockchain technology, as part of a United Nations-supported project to provide legal identification to 1.1 billion people worldwide with no official documents. Read more…
Reuters | China Daily | Mon Jun 19, 2017 | 9:08pm EDT: State-owned China Railway Group (601390.SS) has signed a $2.5 billion memorandum of understanding with Russia to build a high-speed railway in the country, the China Daily reported on Tuesday. President Xi Jinping has championed what China calls the Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By Melanie Evans | June 18, 2017 3:30 p.m. ET: Some breaches at hospitals involving ransomware don’t have to be made public, a loophole some are trying to close. A cyberattack last year paralyzed MedStar Health computers, forcing the Maryland operator of 10 hospitals and Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By David Schoenbrod | June 18, 2017 5:35 p.m. ET: Lawmakers seek credit for benefits while evading blame for burdens. Change will require them to act. Candidate Donald Trump vowed to spur economic growth by freeing businesses from burdensome regulation. President Trump has fallen short Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Shane Harris and Kate Fazzini | June 19, 2017 9:00 a.m. ET: UpGuard says information on nearly 200 million American voters was available on a public server. A computer-security company said that a proprietary data set containing personal information on nearly 200 million American Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Nektaria Stamouli and William Wilkes | June 19, 2017 1:06 p.m. ET: Greece’s blockage of EU rebuke shows how China’s investments in bloc’s strapped economies pay off. Greece’s recent veto of a European Union statement condemning Chinese human-rights violations shows the return Beijing is Read more…
Reuters | By: Elias Glenn | Sun Jun 18, 2017 | 2:14am EDT: Leaders of the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank touted its growing membership and commitment to sustainable development at its annual meeting, even as environmental groups were disappointed by its openness to investing in coal projects. The AIIB, Read more…
Nextgov | By: Keith Collins | June 17, 2017: For the past four months, WikiLeaks has been slowly publishing a series of documents that describe a plethora of hacking tools, which the anti-secrecy organization says belong to the Central Intelligence Agency. The latest release, published June 15, is a batch Read more…
Defense One | By: Michael Breen and Sherri Goodman | June 16, 2017: In the wake of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the historic Paris Climate Agreement, governors, mayors, businesses, and people across the country have declared that they still support the agreement. They know Read more…
Nextgov | By: Mohana Ravindranath | June 16, 2017: The (US) Energy Department is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in researching powerful but energy-efficient computers. The department is awarding $258 million in research contracts to six companies developing supercomputing technology. Over the next three years, those companies are expected Read more…
Circle Of Blue | The Stream | The Global Rundown | June 19, 2017: Leaders in Africa say more must be done to fight desertification, improve agricultural opportunities, and create green jobs to prevent the continent’s youth from migrating or becoming radicalized. Flint, Michigan must approve a new long-term contract Read more…
Sageret | Verosvres (France)| 2 June 2017 (AFP): In an immense warehouse, an ocean of blond wood. Raised by winches, huge wooden beams will soon support higher and higher buildings and ambitious buildings such as the Cité du Vin de Bordeaux or the cathedral of Créteil. Here, “glued-laminated” beams are Read more…
Sageret | Paris | June 13, 2017 (AFP): The inquiry into the Franco-Swiss cement manufacturer Lafarge Holcim, which was accused of having indirectly financed armed groups in Syria, was handed over to three investigating judges, the court said on Tuesday. The judicial inquiry, opened on 9 June, targeted the heads Read more…
Reuters | Financial Times | June 19 2017: Agents pursue ‘leavers’ who moved Swiss bank accounts to other offshore centres. US tax authorities are intensifying their efforts to find tax evaders and the bankers who assist them, deploying agents to examine reams of data collected from the Panama Papers, Swiss Read more…
The Financial Times | June 18 2017: Fears of Russian influence revive drive to track corporations’ true owners. US lawmakers are launching a fresh effort to outlaw “shell companies” amid fears that Russia is exploiting such opaque corporate vehicles to spread its influence. Charles Grassley, Senate judiciary committee chairman, and Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Natalia Drozdiak | Updated June 16, 2017 4:50 a.m. ET: Penalty could reach as high as 10% of annual revenue, which was more than $90 billion in 2016. The European Union’s antitrust watchdog in the coming weeks is set to hit Alphabet Inc.’s Google Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Josh Chin Updated June 15, 2017 11:11 p.m. ET: Team beams particles from space in advance for quantum communications. Chinese scientists have succeeded in sending specially linked pairs of light particles from space to Earth, an achievement experts in the field say gives China Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Sam Schechner Updated June 15, 2017 3:57 p.m. ET: New software is tasked with identifying videos, photos, language and users that need to be removed, at times without human moderators. Under intense political pressure to better block terrorist propaganda on the internet, Facebook Inc. Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Susan Carey | Updated June 14, 2017 4:07 p.m. ET: Head of European Aviation Safety Agency highlights potential fire hazards with U.S. plans to relegate passenger laptops to cargo holds. Europe’s top air-safety regulator issued the most explicit criticism yet of U.S. proposals to Read more…
Video By IBM – Blockchain Explained. Reuters | Technology News | By: Suzanne Barlyn | Wed Jun 14, 2017 | 7:55pm EDT: Insurer American International Group Inc (AIG.N) has partnered with International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) to develop a “smart” insurance policy that uses blockchain to manage complex international coverage, Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Robert McMillan | Updated June 12, 2017 4:05 p.m. ET: Crashoverride took out electricity in Ukraine’s capital last year and could be repurposed to target U.S. systems. Computer-security researchers said Sunday they have discovered the malicious software that knocked out electricity in Ukraine’s capital Read more…
The FCPA BLog | Artificial Intelligence | By: Dan Adamson | Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 9:08AM: Just 15 years ago, due diligence researchers might spend hours retrieving documents from courthouses and sifting through microfiche at libraries. As recently as 2010, they could go through six to 12 months of Read more…
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Zurich Report | Environmental risks | Global risks | May 26, 2017: This deep dive outlines the risks associated with water scarcity – and advises on how to mitigate those or adapt to them. Recent research shows that water scarcity is an even bigger problem than previously thought. The World Read more…
Bank Of International Settlements | June 2017: Being aware of the risks incurred by banks of being used, intentionally or unintentionally, for criminal activities, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is issuing these guidelines to describe how banks should include money laundering (ML) and financing of terrorism (FT) risks within Read more…