The Never-ending Story: Protecting Your Privacy Online
The news is out and it’s not good. In fact, it’s downright troubling. It seems that every day, usually several times a day, there is more and more information available about the dangers of the Internet. It’s enough…
The Hedge Fund Marketing Revolution: A Buyer’s Checklist
There are plenty of excited articles around these days about the new JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups ) Act and the effect this new law will have on the marketing of hedge funds. In brief, it’s now going to be easier for hedge funds…
Using Social Security Numbers to Root Out Employee Fraud
One of our most closely-guarded pieces of personal information, we nonetheless are obliged to divulge our Social Security numbers several times a year. You want a job? Hand it over. A client once approached us to see whether we could run a quick…
Prevent Corporate Identity Theft: A Consumer’s Checklist
A report on National Public Radio written up here outlines the problem: legitimate businesses are increasingly subject to identity theft. Businesses find imposters are misusing their credit ratings, while there’s serious risk that people…
Allen Stanford: Persistent Due Diligence Could Have Made a Difference
The Allen Stanford alleged Ponzi scheme case is currently before the courts after years of delays. We are finally getting to hear from witnesses and co-conspirators about what they say were the lengths undertaken to defraud Stanford’s…
Background Checks for All: Lessons from the Alleged Archdiocese Theft
Anita Collins, an elderly woman working as an accounts payable clerk for the New York Archdiocese, was recently arrested for embezzling funds from the church. That’s bad news for the archdiocese. But the real black eye for…
Is There a Spin Doctor in the House?
This story on the Huffington Post sneeringly treats a new offering in the financial world: negative publicity insurance. The policy will be offered by a division of AIG, and will give companies in crisis access to PR damage-control specialists…
Shock! Rogue Trader was Polite and Well Educated
Police have arrested another suspected rogue trader at a big investment bank, a man named Kweku Adoboli who is alleged to have lost $2 billion for UBS in unauthorized deals. A story about Adoboli in the Wall Street Journal describes him…
Why You Should Encrypt Your Data Now
A chilling story in the Wall Street Journal’s Digits Blog yesterday told us that LinkedIn, Netflix and Foursquare “stored various forms of users’ personal data in plain text on a mobile device, putting sensitive information…
How to Spot a Fake Law Firm
The appears to be a fake law firm holding itself out as operating in New York, according to a report in the ABA Journal.
Why someone (either a criminal or a government operator conducting a sting) would want to invent a law firm is not hard…
