07/19/2015
“The FCA is doing a great job with the headline-grabbing scandals but it needs to focus on the smaller issues too or it will face a huge task of cracking down on a backlog of smaller illegitimate investment schemes in the future,” Mr Burger sa
07/17/2015
Companies that facilitate tax evasion are set to face criminal charges under plans unveiled ahead of an “unprecedented step change
07/17/2015
Jain oversaw the investment bank when the manipulation attempts took place.
07/17/2015
In this briefing note, senior associate Chris Hutley-Hurst looks at the key advantages of using a Guernsey company as the vehicle for an LSE listing.
07/16/2015
South West firm of solicitors expand into Middle East
“With international economic sanctions being gradually lifted on Iran, this leaves the door open for UK and international businesses to begin trading in this part of the Middle East and vice versa.
07/16/2015
His arrival builds on recent additions to the firm’s London office
07/16/2015
The mandate will see BNP Paribas, a directly connected T2S participant, provide BPM Group with settlement and custody services, allowing them to enjoy the benefits of the new platform without the associated adaptation costs.
07/16/2015
It includes the senior managers regime, through which the FCA will approve senior figures individually
07/16/2015
Deutsche Bank remains under so-called “special measures” instigated by the FCA after a raft of regulatory issues, including the Libor-rigging scandal.
07/16/2015
A former Lloyds adviser has been found guilty of defrauding an 88-year old client out of £260,000.
07/16/2015
The 2016 EU-wide stress test will however, build on the lessons learned from previous exercises
07/16/2015
The Scheme received more than 53,000 new claims in 2014/15
07/16/2015
Final clarifications have been made regarding the Memorandum on the cross-border provision of financial services agreed between the finance ministries of Germany and Switzerland in 2013.
07/15/2015
The formal request for information, which was sent last week, the person said, marks a deepening of the New York State Department of Financial Services’ probe into Deutsche Bank’s activities in Russia.
07/15/2015
South East law firm has expanded private client team
She undertakes the creation and rearrangement of trusts; business protection planning for entrepreneurs and owner-managed businesses; and the set up and administration of philanthropic and other charitable organisations.
07/15/2015
Bank is seeking to have case over its handling of mortgage securities dismissed
07/15/2015
The ECB seeks to have the bank cut that to 10-12 per cent in the coming few years
07/14/2015
The derivatives in question are financial products that were sold as “insurance” to businesses who wanted to be protected against high interest rates
07/14/2015
A unit of wealth manager Brooks Macdonald Group PLC has filed a claim against Origo Partners PLC in the latest round of the ongoing dispute between the two companies.
07/14/2015
Aegon has warned that 80% of the requests it has received for transfers into qualifying recognised overseas pension schemes are designed to swindle savers out of their pension pots.