• The move comes as part of the bank's attempts to improve its image following a string of scandals.

    BBC: Barclays to close 'tax avoidance' unit

  • But that may be mere political jockeying, as Mr Olmert's government teeters under the weight of post-war recrimination and a string of scandals.

    ECONOMIST: Israel

  • Calls for reform have mounted after a string of scandals.

    ECONOMIST: Argentina

  • Four years later, following a string of scandals involving Swiss accounts held by corrupt foreign potentates, bankers were given the right, although they were not forced, to report dodgy clients.

    ECONOMIST: Private banking

  • The Ferns case has triggered fresh claims of clerical sex abuse incidents and a flood of anger in overwhelmingly Catholic Ireland, where the church's image has been severely damaged by a string of scandals in the last decade.

    BBC: Bishop 'shares shame' of sex abuse

  • The Ferns case has triggered fresh claims of clerical sex abuse incidents and a flood of anger in overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Ireland, where the Church's image has been severely damaged by a string of scandals in the last decade.

    BBC: Church to study sex abuse claims

  • As rising wealth collides with a string of scandals over tainted food in China, prospective acquirers could also shop for premium processed foods abroad, including olive oil and meat and dairy products, such as cheese and yogurt, Ms. Pan said.

    WSJ: Smithfield Deal Signals China's Need for Meat, Dairy, Other Food Buys

  • While the Bin Laden money trail currently points to correspondent banking abuses and to hawala (an ancient Islamic system of transferring cash), a string of 1990s scandals revealed that a lot of dirty money has historically been laundered by private banking.

    FORBES: Private Banking: R.I.P.

  • It was scathing criticism, especially coming at the end of a string of sex scandals that had put restrictions on the lawmakers' internship program and led to the 2003 conviction of Silver's counsel, Michael Boxley, for sexual misconduct.

    WSJ: Analysis: NY Assembly speaker shaken after scandal

  • Hagen was being written off as a spent force, after a string of sex scandals and internecine feuding.

    ECONOMIST: Norway's politics

  • For Italy, too, this is the latest in a string of corporate scandals.

    BBC: Finmeccanica helicopter deal payments frozen by India

  • The government is also facing mounting criticism over a string of financial scandals.

    ECONOMIST: Greece's riots

  • For Italy, it is the latest in a string of corporate scandals - including risky trades at the bank Monti Paschi di Siena and allegations of bribery at the oil services group Saipem.

    BBC: Finmeccanica's Giuseppe Orsi held on corruption charges

  • The reputation of the Ministry of Finance has been tarnished by bureaucratic involvement in a long string of financial scandals during the 1990s, culminating in the arrest of four officials for corruption in January and March.

    CNN: WHAT NEXT JAPAN?

  • While international companies were willing to submit to expensive and strict U.S. regulations in the late 1990s as a way of participating in what was considered the biggest and best market in the world, a string of accounting and trading scandals have called into question the efficacy of the American rules.

    FORBES: Why the world would be better off with one big stock market.

  • And the office was slow to react to a string of alleged corruption scandals involving Byron Jerez, the chief of the tax office.

    ECONOMIST: Nicaragua

  • India has recently been hit by a string of high-profile corruption scandals which critics say is evidence of a pervasive culture of corruption in Mr Singh's administration.

    BBC: India corruption: Hazare heaps pressure on government

  • But with a long string of crises and scandals on Wall Street over the past year, the president-elect said he wanted to waste no time filling the job.

    NPR: Obama Names SEC Pick

  • China already has plenty of both, and officials and factory owners are always able to collude to keep getting rich at the public's expense, as a long string of other food safety scandals demonstrates.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: China's Toxic Rice Bowl

  • His image has been tarnished by sex scandals and a string of court cases.

    BBC: Ferrari boss calls on Italy PM Berlusconi to resign

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