Besides the work by consulting firms cited in the text, publications on banking subjects on the websites of Mercer Oliver Wyman and Boston Consulting Group also proved useful.

ECONOMIST: Sources and acknowledgements

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Article 20 gives every EU resident has an absolute right to stop a company from using predictive analytics concerning employment, creditworthiness, or health decisions. (These examples come straight from the text of the new regulations.) This sounds like a good deal for data subjects until one thinks for a moment about who the local losers would be.

FORBES: More Bad Ideas from the E.U.

Other resolutions adopted unanimously by the Assembly dealt with special subjects relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009, among them a text dealing with the budget of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1559 (2004), on the withdrawal of troops from Lebanon, whose narrative and logical framework had been newly revised.

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