05/09/2014
Stephenson Harwood has advised Baker Tilly, the UK’s seventh-biggest auditing and accounting advisory firm, on the sale of its private client financial management business to Towry, a wealth advice firm.
05/09/2014
Investment managers should only use client dealing commission to pay for substantive research or costs related to executing trades
05/09/2014
T&L was cut loose by EY in April 2003
05/09/2014
It is a case that the whole industry is watching with interest
05/08/2014
Russia takes revenge on Visa and Mastercard
The law will also create a competing Russian national payment system.
05/08/2014
The conversation usually starts with a request to write or review an anti-bribery policy with often the additional question of what limit should be set for gifts and entertainment to be recorded in the gifts register.
05/08/2014
The Aim market has seen a substantial uptick in early 2014, with firms including offshore giant Appleby, Stephenson Harwood and Watson Farley & Williams gaining clients.
05/07/2014
Coutts braced for hit from US tax inquiry into Swiss bank clients
Coutts said it was ‘taking a judicious approach to its involvement’ with the US Department of Justice settlement
05/07/2014
Invesco Perpetual was hit with the fine for a series of trading and compliance breaches
05/05/2014
Clifford Chance Brussels competition partner leaves for Covington after two years
The additions will strengthen the firm’s existing EU competition team in Brussels
05/05/2014
The judicial proceedings are being held in Germany because this is where the defendants are suspected of having committed the fraud.
05/02/2014
U.K. Libor and Insider Trading Cases Threatened as Trial Halted
A U.K. Financial Conduct Authority fraud trial was halted in London over public funding cuts, jeopardizing high-profile cases tied to Libor manipulation and insider trading.
05/02/2014
Withers' Family Law team leads the pack in Spear's 2014 Family Lawyer Index
In a new, expanded listing of 50 leading lawyers, Withers still makes the strongest showing in the report.
05/02/2014
Co-op Bank ponders suing Britannia merger advisers
The Co-op Bank is considering suing JPMorgan Cazenove and former auditor KPMG for their role in aiding its ill-fated 2009 merger with the Britannia building society.
05/02/2014
RBS to face claims of £7bn as investors join legal action
The figure has jumped by more than £2 billion after more institutional investors joined a legal action against the state-owned bank.
05/01/2014
Linklaters appoints first female London corporate head
She took a lead role for PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) on its proposed takeover of management consulting firm Booz & Co at the end of last year.
05/01/2014
In recent years, US authorities have aggressively pursued and fined European financial institutions
05/01/2014
The report identifies and assesses differences and gaps in regulatory approaches to point of sale (POS) disclosure for investment and savings products across the insurance, banking and securities sectors, and considers whether the approaches need to be fu
05/01/2014
Conservative MP Alun Cairns has secured a debate in the House of Commons on the behalf of investors in the suspended Connaught Asset Management fund.
05/01/2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned John Christopher Hughes from performing any function