02/13/2013
Societe Generale SA, which is investigating its contributions to interbank rate panels including the London Interbank Offered Rate, continues to work with authorities on the issue, Chief Executive Officer Frederic Oudea said.
02/12/2013
The AIF handbook also incorporates many of the changes requested by industry during the initial consultation process.
02/12/2013
Global solutions are needed to ensure that tax systems do not unduly favour multinational enterprises, leaving citizens and small businesses with bigger tax bills.
02/11/2013
An SFO spokesman, said in an e-mail the agency continues to investigate a suspected Ponzi fraud.
02/11/2013
Goodwin Procter picks up Travers Smith property finance partner
He will serve the City firm’s standard notice period of six months and is not being put on gardening leave.
02/11/2013
Frontrunners emerge for Barclays general counsel role
Longstanding legal chief is set to step down when the bank finds a replacement.
02/11/2013
The FSA said Banner-Eve and Cohen sold plots of land across the UK through companies
02/11/2013
These failures led to UBS customers being exposed to an unacceptable risk of an unsuitable sale of the Fund. UBS also failed to deal properly with complaints from customers about sales of the Fund.
02/10/2013
Barclays closes controversial tax avoidance unit
The new chief executive of Barclays is to close the bank's controversial tax avoidance unit
02/10/2013
The London Stock Exchange has been dragged into a bribery scandal in Italy
02/10/2013
Libor scandal: 'This goes much, much higher than me,' says trader Tom Hayes at centre of probe
Tom Hayes, the trader at the centre of the Libor-rigging scandal, has warned that the conspiracy to manipulate key global borrowing rates could implicate senior bank executives.
02/10/2013
In some cases, the middlemen took bribes as payment for the services in the form of so-called wash trades, regulators said, without identifying the firms that did.
02/10/2013
The signing took place during a meeting between Mr Ian Johnston, Chief Executive of the DFSA, and Dr Steven Maijoor, Chairman of ESMA. ESMA's Executive Director, Ms Verena Ross, was also present.
02/10/2013
White & Case is acting for Handelsbanken
02/10/2013
HMRC argued Douglass had evaded tax estimated at £730,000
02/07/2013
Linklaters is advising the Moscow Exchange on the deal, with a team led by London-based capital markets partner Jason Manketo
02/07/2013
The parties have agreed to abandon all proceedings and discontinue all measures
02/06/2013
RBS Trader Helped UBS’s Hayes With Libor Bribes, Regulators Say
A Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc trader colluded with a counterpart at UBS AG to pay almost 211,000 pounds ($330,000) in bribes to brokers willing to help them manipulate global interest rates, regulators said.
02/05/2013
Miscalculating the value of an organisation’s liabilities can be just as detrimental as incorrect asset values yet most valuation standards and theory only focus on the latter.
02/05/2013
The SEPA end date is fast approaching. Set for February, 2014, the date is the deadline by which domestic payment instruments within the SEPA area must be migrated to SEPA-compliant standards.