Managers of Wealth Europe

The banks will be forced to STOP gambling with your money... and they can meet the costs

Complaints against banks are on the increase, we learned last week.

Eve of the battle of the banks

Meanwhile, Ed Miliband waded into the debate with a call for irresponsible bankers to be "struck off" like doctors or lawyers.

German court to rule on eurozone rescue

Germany’s powerful constitutional court will on Wednesday rule on whether the country was right to bail out Greece and other eurozone members last year, in a long-anticipated judgment that could result in greater parliamentary control over future re

Revealed: the dramatic US charges against UK banks

Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC routinely breached their own mortgage-lending rules and bullied surveyors into wildly inflating valuations of American properties in the run up to the credit crunch, it has been claimed.

UK Banks Set to be Sued by US Over ‘Liar Loans’ Fiasco

In the latest blow to the beleaguered industry, the Federal Housing Finance Agency is poised to file lawsuits seeking many billions of dollars in compensation, alleging the banks broke securities laws.

Punter Southall takes over 100 schemes from Brewin Dolphin

Punter Southall buys Brewins' corporate pensions arm

HSBC UK clients probed on Swiss accounts taxes - Times

Elena Ambrosiadou in surveillance and harassment fight

UK banks face US lawsuit over toxic mortgage debt

Credit Suisse sued over risky US investments

SFO joins US inquiry into bank practices

Libyan citizens in UK have funds unfrozen

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).

FSA freezes firms’ assets

Italy courting disaster with austerity plan chaos

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.

Bakers and DLA lose Amsterdam lawyers to financial services start-up

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.

London biggest loser as banks look to book trades overseas to reduce costs

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.

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