02/22/2015
American international law firm Shortlisted for Financial News Awards for Excellence
The winners will be announced at a gala dinner in London on April 22.
02/22/2015
The regulator is in favour of the EU bonus cap. The banks have devised quite an obvious stratagem to defeat it. Your move, EBA
02/22/2015
It's a word that managers in Australia's banks may not be familiar with, but should be: attestation.
02/20/2015
Swiss authorities Wednesday raided the offices of British banking giant HSBC’s Swiss unit as part of a money laundering probe into the bank that has been accused of helping clients dodge millions of dollars in taxes
02/20/2015
Deutsche Bank AG was fined 10 million rand ($857,000) by South Africa’s banking regulator for failure to comply with rules covering the detection of property linked to terrorism and other crimes.
02/20/2015
AIFMD has caused Asian fund managers to be more cautious about seeking investment from Europe but Guernsey helps provide a solution
02/20/2015
The Russian state body battling Sergei Pugachev, the exiled oligarch once known as the “Kremlin’s banker”, in a $2bn legal case is claiming the collapse of the rouble has left it too poor to make a court security deposit.
02/20/2015
Risk management, cost and changes in fund structuring are the key issues for managers and investors arising from the initial impact of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD)
02/19/2015
One of Scotland's biggest law firms is being sued after the collapse of a £400m hedge fund at the centre of a major police fraud probe.
02/19/2015
Dealing commission – the charges paid by consumers when investment managers execute trades and acquire external research on their behalf – is worth around £3 billion a year.
02/19/2015
During the wholesale sector review the FCA met with around 70 organisations and individuals
02/19/2015
High Court finds in favour of Grant Thornton in Barclays negligence dispute
The dispute arose after Barclays relied on two non-statutory audits carried out by Grant Thornton for the Von Essen Hotels Group (VEH) in 2006 and 2007 in continuing to fund VEH under a £250m loan facility.
02/19/2015
On February 3, the European Securities and Markets Authority published its final report to the European Commission with technical advice on possible new secondary legislation under the European Union’s Market Abuse Regulation.
02/18/2015
Investors in the EEA Life Settlements Fund are pushing for compensation from the FCA after reaching £60m in claims
02/18/2015
The Bank of Portugal on Tuesday stuck to a decision to keep a loan linked to Goldman Sachs in a “bad bank” carved out after the rescue of Banco Espirito Santo
02/18/2015
Coming as HSBC faces a political controversy over allegations that its Swiss private bank helped thousands of clients to evade taxes for many years
02/18/2015
A firm of legal costs specialists, which began life with just one client less than four years ago, now employs more than 20 people at offices in The Counterslip.
02/18/2015
Opening an account has become arduous with even physical verification being required
02/18/2015
Wheatley said the regulator was “sympathetic” to the idea despite “all sorts of con-tractual issues”.
02/17/2015
To Allred, it seems that still isn’t good enough when it comes to doing some kinds of business in Finland.