02/19/2015
FCA to investigate competition in investment and corporate banking services following review of wholesale markets
During the wholesale sector review the FCA met with around 70 organisations and individuals
02/19/2015
During the wholesale sector review the FCA met with around 70 organisations and individuals
02/19/2015
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.
02/17/2015
The announcement is the first official indication by any UK regulator or authority that it may investigate the role of the bank
02/17/2015
The heir to the Nina Ricci perfume fortune went on trial and faces ten years in prison
02/17/2015
The hefty payment followed charges of tax fraud in July.
02/17/2015
In meetings across the world’s financial centres, senior bankers are having the annual conversation many have come to dread.
02/16/2015
The charge that we face a ‘rising tide’ of legal and regulatory ‘burdens’ is hardly new
02/16/2015
Shearman & Sterling is also advising QIA and Bidco on the follow-on £4.1 billion mandatory cash offer for the entire issued share capital of CWG which is not already held by Songbird
02/16/2015
Eversheds has firm plans for further investment in and growth of the team over the coming months.
02/16/2015
The MoU has been signed in the spirit of mutual cooperation and information exchange seen as crucial by the G20 countries and international standard setters for financial services supervisors.
02/16/2015
International banking giant HSBC helped around 6,000 rich French lawyers, artists, businessmen and even a World Cup winner dodge taxes, new explosive reports claim
02/16/2015
The legal action, filed on 19 February 2014, notably in connection with capital increase of CPI PROPERTY GROUP of 4 December 2013