Paul Quigley

Following on from our last edition where we featured digital assets, the notion of ‘toxic’ financial assets has been all over the mainstream media, highlighting the relative value of tangible and intangible assets. Apparently, many wealth management funds are trying to move client assets into gold, a safe haven during times of economic upheaval. So, while bonds and other securities take a battering, the realisation that an asset has value has shot right up the agenda to the extent that Wall Street and its creative financial engineers are scrabbling around for liquidity plumbers to unblock the pipes.

You’ve been framed: ID fraud threatens branding, bottom line and business ethics
Paul Quigley,
Editorial Director
The news this week that insurance giant Aviva had been defrauded by corrupt workers at an off-shore Indian call centre throws stark light onto not only the risks involved in outsourcing mission-critical data to third-party entities in foreign jurisdictions, but also the [...]

As if taking on the entire publishing establishment weren’t enough, Google has managed to upset the venerable music business too with its unlicensed use and broadcast of music video soundtracks on YouTube and Google Video. PRS for music, formerly the The PRS Alliance (MCPS-PRS) had been in talks with Google to try to establish a license fee royalty payable by the search giant for each broadcast/play of a ‘work’ – as has been the way for decades.