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WORLD COMMERCE REVIEW ISSN 1751-0023 VOLUME 3 ISSUE 3 ■ SEPTEMBER 2009 Russia at the Crossroads – Again The Financial Crisis - What Next? International Tax A Review of The Fifth Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy Business Technology: An Enabler in Your Economy - A Review of the 2009 Global Public Policy Summit THE GLOBAL TRADE PLATFORM B:216 mm T:210 mm S:184 mm THERE’S ONLY ONE LEXUS PLANT OUTSIDE JAPAN. When Lexus needed to expand, they sought the same impeccable standards they developed in Japan. They found them here, in Ontario. Ontario fulfilled all of Lexus’ prerequisites: a highly skilled workforce; a location in the heart of North America with transportation infrastructure linked to millions of customers; a tradition of automotive innovation; and competitive business costs. Since the first Lexus RX rolled off the line, the Cambridge, Ontario plant has satisfied all Lexus’ quality demands. 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Res (PPI) Copy Writer: None InDesign Version: CS3 YELLOW 2007_Trillium Ontario.eps Premedia: Print Production: Milan Stojanovic App. Version: 5.0.2 LexusGrill_BLK.eps CMYK 892 ppi, 804 ppi BLACK Retoucher: Jano Kirijian Round #: 1 Page Count: 1 2007_Ontario Canada Proofreading: Live: 7.2441” x 10.6299” GRAPHIC PRODUCTION: OntMap_REVISED_July09.eps Trim: 8.2677” x 11.6929” Operator: PLau Account: Bleed: 8.5039” x 11.9291” Correction: None Artwork Scale: 1:1 Client: R6 Print Scale: 100% Foreword The Season for Financial Summitry Phoenix Multimedia Is Upon Us 5 The Old Grammar Old Grammar Lane he season for financial summitry is upon us. There will be promises to Bungay prevent a crisis ever happening again and talking up of the nascent recovery Suffolk T NR35 1PU in the global economy. We can look forward to the G20 summit at the end of United Kingdom September and the IMF-World Bank annual meetings in October. The leaders will take stock of the progress made and discuss further actions to assure a www.worldcommercereview.com sound recovery from the global economic and financial crisis. Their piety will seem genuine. Tel: +44 (0)1986 892028 There will be talk about the global origins of the crisis – “not in my back yard” Email: [email protected] – and about the “social” function of finance, and the Tobin tax on financial transactions. They will insist on further regulation on the banking industry PUBLISHERS and not remind themselves of their own regulatory failures. Economists will Tom Forster explain how the crisis is over, forgetting their previous predictions (in July a Roy Williams letter was sent to the Queen, apologising for “...the failure to foresee the timing, the extent and severity of the crisis and to head it off, while it had many causes, MANAGING EDITOR was principally a failure of the collective imagination of many bright people, Tom Forster both in this country and internationally, to understand the risks to the system as a whole”). EDITORIAL TEAM Tom Page Kate Warwick Here we need to pause. The financial crisis should teach us not to have blind faith in economic and financial models (“Lies, damned lies, and statistics”) SALES DIRECTOR that entrench a populist view, whether it is in finance or on climate change. Paul Murphy Computer models make predictions that are determined by the information and assumptions that are fed in. If the maths is wrong, the answers will be SALES TEAM wrong and the policy based on the answer will be wrong. If something, for Phil Thompson example toxic mortgages turned into risk-free investments, is too good to be John Walsh true, common sense says that it is too good to be true. There was, and never will be, market perfection. CIRCULATION MANAGER Andrew Kilby There are plenty more short-term challenges facing the G20 leaders and this autumn’s summiteers. One is sustaining the recovery, and making sure it PRODUCTION MANAGER doesn’t get killed by every government withdrawing their stimulus all at once. Michael Day Have the rescue measures deployed by governments around the world in the last year created new problems for the future, whether by creating a new crisis DESIGN AND PRODUCTION or by leaving lasting distortions in economies? West Riding Media Solutions Central bankers and finance ministers have been deferring action on tighter ISSN 1751-0023 regulation or bigger capital requirements for fear of discouraging banks from lending money at the time the economies need it. This will not and should not last. Reform of public spending and increased taxes are inevitable. Growth ©2009 The entire content of this publication is inevitably will be curtailed. protected by copyright, full details of which are available from the publisher. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, Another issue to consider is transparency of the financial system. Regulators stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any were lax in spotting banks hiding the securities they traded in off balance sheet form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, investment vehicles. They didn’t know the risks the banks were incurring (to be photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. fair, neither did the management of the banks). Some of this problem has been dealt with, but how much? Without international agreement on transparency DISCLAIMER: Whilst every attempt has been made the problem shall remain. to ensure that at the time of printing the magazine the information herein is accurate and up-to-date, the publishers cannot be held responsible for any The autumn summits hopefully will provide solutions. Otherwise, the recent inaccuracies that may have occurred within the rush of confidence will prove a short revival. As Keynes famously observed, content of the publication. monetary policy can be as ineffective as pushing on a string when an economy has been drained of all its confidence.■ WCR 5 5 Contents Foreword 5 Tax Benefits of Using SE Companies in Group Structures of Multinational Enterprises Contents 6 Joseph Peters 58 New Reporting Obligations for Luxembourg Russia at the Crossroads – Again Securitisation Vehicles Dr Fraser Cameron 8 Danielle Kolbach and Vassiliyan Zanev 60 From One Crisis to Another? The Importance Anticipating the Role of Customs Agencies in of Continuing Investment in Energy Trade Facilitation Hanni Rosenbaum and Jonny Greenhill 10 Karen Lobdell 62 Restoring Confidence and Creating Resilience in Investing In India: How Recent Developments the Global Financial System in the Cayman Islands Facilitate Charles Dallara 14 Inbound Investment Chetan Nagendra 66 Government Policy and the Financial Sector: Dealing With Moral Hazard and “Too-Big-To-Fail” The Role of the Capital Markets in Poland Moorad Choudhry and Gino Landuyt 18 Rafał Dajczer 68 Nudging the Bankers – Does the Walker Review Competition Law in Brazil: You Should Take Nudge Enough In the Area of Induction, It Seriously Training and Development? Ricardo Inglez de Souza 70 Brian Scott-Quinn and John Board 26 The Fifth Global Congress on Combating Austria - Dealing with the Financial Crisis Counterfeiting and Piracy Jürgen Brandstätter 30 Joseph Clark 74 The Cyprus Economy and Its Economic Role The Economic Impacts of Counterfeiting in Europe and Piracy Charilaos Stavrakis 32 Piotr Stryszowski 76 Operating Impact and Insurance Implications The 2009 Global Public Policy Conference: Resulting From Production Fluctuations in the “Business Technology: An Enabler in Process Industry Your Economy.” Stanley Cochrane, Ernst Zirngast, Peter Buetikofer, The World Information Technology and Georges Galey, Ulrich Straub, Michael Kuhn Services Alliance 78 and Nicholas West 34 2009 Global Public Policy Summit (GPPS) Discovering Malta’s Business Incentives Ministry of Energy, Telecommunications and Dr Olga Finkel 38 E-Commerce, Bermuda 82 NBAA Convention: Serving All of Business Mazovia - Poland’s Economic Leader 86 Aviation in Challenging Times Dan Hubbard 40 Executive Development and the Challenge of Authenticity Cleared for Takeoff - Interview with Dagmar Dr Sally Watson 87 Grossmann, CEO of Grossmann Jet Service 44 Transfer Pricing and Treaties in a Changing World Caroline Silberztein 46 Draft of the German Administration Principles – Transfer of Business Functions Oliver Wehnert 48 “Swiss Practices” For the Determination of Transfer Prices Dr Raoul Stocker and Christoph Studer 52 6 WCR )NTERNATIONAL&OCUS 'LOBAL6ALUE In today’s turbulent global marketplace, you need advisors who can help you navigate the perilous international waters of import and export regulation, cross-border transactions, and intellectual property protection. 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