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"ASIC's ongoing efforts to improve standards across the financial services industry."

It's there. In plain sight. In the body of the press release from the Australian Securities and Investment Commission. It's a statement that ASIC, having been found, damned by its own words and those of the industry, wanting in its supervision of the Financial Services Landscape, is taking the gloves off. It's not going to stand for any more poor compliance. It's going to make "ongoing efforts to improve standards across the financial services industry." So this case is going to be spectacular, isn't it?

BIScom Subsection: 
Enforcement

English High Court blocks LHR runway three

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It's being claimed as a victory for climate change activists but it's far, far more than that.

CoNet Section: 
Aviation

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US Democratic Party grandees discuss who to declare for.

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Bryan Edwards
Thu, 27/02/2020 - 11:31
Publication: 
conversazioni-fittizie.com

It's not fake news: it's fake everything. It's satire and it's fiction.

The US Democrats are trying to choose someone to run in an attempt to be President. The number 1 and number 2 of the secret committee that actually makes the decision are meeting in in a shed behind a Gentlemen's Club in a small settlement in the Nevada desert.

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Safeguarded v protected

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Don't say that: 

safeguarded

Do say this: 

protected

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F1: wobbly wheels and sandbagging - the value of pre-season testing.

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Testing is just that. It's not racing, it's not practice. It's one step before final shakedown. And it's one step up from running a highly sophisticated video game a.k.a. a simulator. Before the car arrives at the track, teams have buckets of data. Then, sometimes literally, the wheels come off.

CoNet Section: 
Motorsport

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Differ v Defer

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Don't say that: 

Defer when you mean differ

Do say this: 

Differ when you mean defer

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Wells Fargo to pony up USD3,000 million in penalties

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Wells Fargo & Co and its subsidiary Wells Fargo Bank, N.A, have escaped prosecution, at least for the time being, by agreeing to hand over USD3,000 million to various agencies and departments of the US Government. It all started when the company decided it needed more account holders. Normal banks advertise or put young people on the streets with flyers. Wells Fargo had a different and shorter route - it would just create accounts for people, even if they hadn't asked for them. And that's not the full extent of what the bank is paying.

BIScom Subsection: 
Management

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Reoccur v recur v happen again

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Don't say that: 

reoccur

Do say this: 

happen again

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Instagram - say what you like about the Chinese: we don't care

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The racism arising from the perceived risk of corona-virus is becoming worrying. A woman using the Instagram name of _neleele_ (the underlines are part of the name) is mounting a one-woman campaign against Chinese people.

Libel, fake news, downright racism is fine, says Facebook owned Instagram. And Change.Org is no help, either.

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Sham directors and the Melbourne underworld.

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Read this from the investigative reporting team at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Don't skip. And think while you read (or listen to the podcast if you prefer)

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/inside-the-staggering-tax-scam-where-the-homeless-are-made-comp/11963044

FCRO Subsection: 
Financial Crime News

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I'm rich! The former Oil Minister of Syria tells me so.

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Greetings,

I hope my email will arrive to you at good time. My name is Sufian Allaw
from Damascus Syria. I was the former oil minister of Syria Republic.

FCRO Subsection: 
The Phishermans's Tale

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Spectacular marketing failure

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You'd think that marketing people that make specific assertions in their material would ensure that those assertions are true.

Meet PapaWP which uses a .org address (it's not an "organisation" in the sense that .org addresses are supposed to represent). And that's not its only failure.

CoNet Section: 
Marketing / Sales

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IT Security: Russians offer copy websites for phishermen and other criminals

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Russian criminals are offering a service of downloading entire websites and breaching the intellectual property rights of website content owners.

But that's not the only fascinating thing about the criminals' approach.

Basically, they are selling the rod and line to phishermen.

Want to create a fake bank website complete with contact forms? Here's how....

A warning from Vortex Centrum Limited, publisher of PleaseBeInformed.com and its various publications.

CoNet Section: 
IT & Communications

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Novel coronavirus hits travel

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As the novel coronavirus bug bites, everywhere from restaurants to shops to hotels are suffering from a downturn in business.

But, as these photos show, the one place one would expect to see concentrations of travellers are deserted, too.

CoNet Section: 
Aviation

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The lawyer's dilemma: Do you have capacity?

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It's 5:30 pm on a Friday. You want to go to the pub. Your boss sticks his head over the top of your cubicle "Big client; important matter, urgent - can you handle it?"

CoNet Section: 
Legal Profession

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