06/18/2014
Japanese law treats officials at pension funds that manage public money as the equivalent of public servants, meaning that spending to entertain and win business from them can be prosecuted as bribery.
06/17/2014
Ruling Says Exposing Customers to Foreign-Exchange Risk Wasn't Unfair
06/17/2014
Debevoise finance partner to take up residence in London
He is a member of the firm’s international finance team and focuses on acquisition and leveraged buyout financings, corporate finance and domestic and international structured and project financings.
06/16/2014
In a blog entry, Navalny dismissed Liksutov's explanations as lies
06/16/2014
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office tripled the number of raids it carried out in the last year, in a sign the agency is trying to rebuild its image as a tough prosecutor after years of collapsed cases.
06/16/2014
Firms failed to ensure financial promotions were fair and not misleading.
06/16/2014
An employee at Greenpeace has lost the environmental charity €3.8m on foreign exchange management contracts, it has revealed ahead of the publishing of annual accounts.
06/13/2014
Understanding Basel III with the CRD IV navigator
Basel III was developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in response to the global financial crisis. It is the biggest regulatory change that the banking industry has seen in decades.
06/13/2014
Will Mifid II ban exchange front ends?
One reading of a small clause in the discussion paper suggests big changes
06/13/2014
European Union banks are set to win the right to use a wider range of asset-backed debt to meet their liquidity requirements as the bloc hunts for ways to boost the market for such securities.
06/13/2014
American prosecutors have the catch-all of ‘wire fraud’ to fall back on when all else fails, but Green thinks the odds are stacked against him.
06/12/2014
Regulators must define conduct risk, Nomura op risk head says
OpRisk Europe heard yesterday that the UK regulator needs to provide the industry with a definition of conduct risk to help banks formulate a unified and consistent approach to managing such risks
06/12/2014
The US Treasury Department granted the bank two licenses in February and March for transactions in Iran as sanctions were being reduced against the country.
06/12/2014
Jersey is introducing further innovations to its Companies Law, making the jurisdiction even more attractive for those who use Jersey companies for investment structuring, asset holding and a wide variety of other purposes.
06/12/2014
All 15 of the pensioners were sold N.M. Rothschild’s Credit Select Series Mortgage Loan, advertised as a legal means of Inheritance Tax mitigation.
06/11/2014
The initiative, first unveiled at the G8 summit last year, forms part of global efforts to crack down on tax evasion, and the UK government was vocal about stopping its citizens from using shadowy ‘shell companies’ for money laundering.
06/11/2014
The principles of RDR are not being taken seriously enough by the FCA
06/11/2014
Mishcon's managing partner Kevin Gold said: 'Years of experience advising clients on their business and personal matters has helped us understand that families really are the most complex organisations in the world.
06/11/2014
Carey Olsen is the number-one offshore legal adviser to London Stock Market clients
06/11/2014
Penny Lovell, Head of Private Client Services at Close Brothers Asset Management, comments on ONS marriage statistics: