09/05/2011
Credit Suisse sued over risky US investments
Credit Suisse sued over risky US investments
09/05/2011
Credit Suisse sued over risky US investments
09/05/2011
SFO joins US inquiry into bank practices
09/02/2011
The plea came after the bank received apparently contradictory instructions from the old and new regimes requiring it to freeze the accounts (the old regime) and unfreeze the accounts (the new regime).
09/02/2011
FSA freezes firms’ assets
09/02/2011
Italy’s plan to balance its budget by 2013 lacks detail, does not add up and changes from one day to the next, raising the risk that the country will be sucked back into the middle of the eurozone debt crisis.
09/02/2011
A team of lawyers drawn largely from the Amsterdam offices of Baker & McKenzie and DLA Piper has launched a new firm focusing solely on financial services law.
09/01/2011
Banks in Europe are exploring ways to cut costs by routing more of their trades and other business through overseas subsidiaries, a plan that may shift tax revenue away from London and loosen European regulators’ influence over the lenders.
09/01/2011
Pinsents and SJ Berwin consider merit-based partner pay shifts
09/01/2011
UK law firm revenues top £15bn in 2011
08/31/2011
HSBC faces trouble over PPI complaints as deadline looms
08/29/2011
UK and Switzerland agree tax deal
08/25/2011
One of France's highest courts rejected a plea on Wednesday by a Swiss unit of HSBC bank that a French government database of citizens holding bank accounts abroad should be blocked as an excess of power.
08/24/2011
Austria Backs Tobin Tax Drive
08/23/2011
Ex-UBS client ordered to give tax records to grand jury
08/22/2011
Fraud office risks having to deal with deluge of EU cases
08/22/2011
FinanceMalta hosts back-to-back events in London
08/18/2011
Threesixty founder David Ingram has turned his attention to product providers, fund management groups and trade bodies in a new business aiming to help firms prepare for regulatory changes.
08/18/2011
Whiskey, wine fraud that took in $49m brings 5-year term for Briton
08/17/2011
This isn't the first time leaders have looked to the Tobin tax, to boost revenues but it has never received much favor.
08/16/2011
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the organisation responsible for corporate reporting and governance, claims that PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) failed to report adequately on JP Morgan's compliance with UK rules to protect the investment bank