09/02/2013
Aberdeen fully cooperated with the FCA’s investigation and agreed to settle at an early stage, qualifying for a 30% discount to their fine. Without the discount the fine would have been £10,275,000.
09/02/2013
The International law firm is set to launch a French Tax practice after appointing Eugénie Berthet in Paris.
09/02/2013
In July, the AMF fined LVMH 8 million euros (6.76 million pounds) for failing to properly disclose its stake-building in rival Hermes (HRMS.PA) before 2010.
09/01/2013
Home to a third of the world's privately held wealth and a quarter of the world's private banking, Switzerland is a key market for Speechly Bircham where it advises on the complex cross-border wealth management needs of its clients and their adv
09/01/2013
RBS is alleged to have been valuing securities on its books at around 90 per cent of their face value.
09/01/2013
He will work alongside Martyn Hopper, with whom he worked closely at Herbert Smith Freehills and who joined Linklaters in May this year in the firm’s London Financial Regulatory Group.
08/31/2013
Countries that have failed to add the AIFMD to their own laws are now breaking European law
08/30/2013
The German chancellor used her weekly televised message yesterday to say that it was time to push for faster progress.
08/28/2013
International cooperation and supervision of cross border transactions are among the indispensible elements of today's financial markets.
08/27/2013
The rules, known as Basel III, are the main global response to undercapitalized banks
08/27/2013
The chairman of Bakers’ executive committee Eduardo Leite said revenue growth had been steady across all of the firm’s regions, while the positive financial results reflected both organic growth and expansion into new offices in Casablanca, Li
08/27/2013
The Financial Conduct Authority has rejected formal EU guidance on financial regulations
08/27/2013
JPMorgan is battling to salvage its corporate image amid a swirl of litigation and investigations in the wake of the financial crisis
08/27/2013
Allen & Overy has advised BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Crédit Agricole CIB and HSBC as joint lead managers in connection with the issue by AXA of $850m
08/26/2013
The Financial Conduct Authority has published a report exploring some early findings of a review into mobile banking services
08/26/2013
The country plans to introduce so-called counter-cyclical capital buffers for its banks next year, which will be in addition to other capital requirements.
08/26/2013
U.S. prosecutors brought criminal charges against him last month in relation to a trading scandal that cost JPMorgan $6.2 billi
08/25/2013
It’s not enough to regulate just banks but not hedge funds and shadow banks and I’ll fight for that
08/24/2013
Delays in the sale of 315 Royal Bank of Scotland branches could prompt Brussels to hit Britain with a hefty fine.
08/24/2013
The DFSA negotiated the agreements with the European Securities and Markets Authority