The firm promises to provide greater transparency into its ratings process and to spend more energy on post-issuance monitoring and updating of its ratings.

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Pam Johnson, Unison union head of health for Yorkshire and Humberside, said she was concerned about the lack of transparency over the appointment of the consultancy firm.

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Only a united Europe could hold Gazprom accountable to transparency and competition rules, stopping the firm from dictating its terms and playing one EU country against the other.

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None of these firms has gone as far in providing greater transparency as Tradebonds.com, a firm established barely six months ago, which quotes prices drawn from 400 brokers on more than 14, 000 bonds.

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It can only be achieved through firm conditionality and discipline and complete transparency -- both with respect to the respective uses of American and Western largesse and with respect to the taxpayers who will be the source of such funds.

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In an attempt to dig deeper and plumb the multiple relationships between social media and reputation, employee retention, and transparency, BRANDfog, a social media and CSR consulting firm, launched a survey last week that promises to answer some of these questions.

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Since 2008, when SAC's biggest funds had their only money-losing year, the firm had emphasized to investors that it was increasing its openness and transparency with clients.

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It means that the firm coordinates its work through dynamic linking, rather than through hierarchical bureaucracy, and with radical transparency so that if employees become aware of a problem, that problem gets communicated openly and quickly solved, rather than festering in the background for years.

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