He said a general lack of transparency about risk management, among other things, "drove her partners at the retail bank and the investment bank crazy".
The Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate is often described as a state within a state, given its unfettered powers and general lack of accountability and transparency.
"I am concerned that some may use these proper practices to justify a general lack of transparency both in terms of who has contact with the media and what information they provide".
Given the general lack of transparency from parties to the conflict and a paucity of independent reporting on the ground, the data had been verified and cross-referenced to the greatest extent possible, it added.
In addition to the criticism leveled at the technical merits of IMF policies, the politics of the IMF and the general lack of transparency of its decision making were also challenged.
A general lack of transparency about how the state conducts its business leads Egyptians to believe — sometimes quite rightly — that there is more to every development than meets the eye.
But by the second half, and well into 2008, money has been moving out of that area, due to a general lack of transparency, ownership and title commonplace issues in post-Soviet governments.
Jim Mellon, the head of iRegent, an investment firm, and one of Asia's pioneering shareholder activists, says: "There is still a general lack of transparency, difficulty in getting regulators to enforce rules and the treatment of shareholders as minor irritants to the interests of controlling families.
A common source of career anxiety was researchers' fear of not being able to secure a position that will allow them to demonstrate their skills and pursue independent research; another source was the general lack of transparency in the evaluation criteria for grants, jobs, and promotions.
Comm's larger complaint, echoed by parties on both sides of the click fraud issue, is Google's general lack of transparency, a tight-lipped secrecy that also applies to the Web giant's pricing schemes for Adwords and its constantly tweaked search algorithm.
