09/07/2011
Germany’s powerful constitutional court will on Wednesday rule on whether the country was right to bail out Greece and other eurozone members last year, in a long-anticipated judgment that could result in greater parliamentary control over future re
09/07/2011
Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC routinely breached their own mortgage-lending rules and bullied surveyors into wildly inflating valuations of American properties in the run up to the credit crunch, it has been claimed.
09/07/2011
In the latest blow to the beleaguered industry, the Federal Housing Finance Agency is poised to file lawsuits seeking many billions of dollars in compensation, alleging the banks broke securities laws.
09/06/2011
Punter Southall buys Brewins' corporate pensions arm
09/05/2011
HSBC UK clients probed on Swiss accounts taxes - Times
09/05/2011
Elena Ambrosiadou in surveillance and harassment fight
09/05/2011
UK banks face US lawsuit over toxic mortgage debt
09/05/2011
Credit Suisse sued over risky US investments
09/05/2011
SFO joins US inquiry into bank practices
09/02/2011
The plea came after the bank received apparently contradictory instructions from the old and new regimes requiring it to freeze the accounts (the old regime) and unfreeze the accounts (the new regime).
09/02/2011
FSA freezes firms’ assets
09/02/2011
Italy’s plan to balance its budget by 2013 lacks detail, does not add up and changes from one day to the next, raising the risk that the country will be sucked back into the middle of the eurozone debt crisis.
09/02/2011
A team of lawyers drawn largely from the Amsterdam offices of Baker & McKenzie and DLA Piper has launched a new firm focusing solely on financial services law.
09/01/2011
Banks in Europe are exploring ways to cut costs by routing more of their trades and other business through overseas subsidiaries, a plan that may shift tax revenue away from London and loosen European regulators’ influence over the lenders.
09/01/2011
Pinsents and SJ Berwin consider merit-based partner pay shifts
09/01/2011
UK law firm revenues top £15bn in 2011
08/31/2011
HSBC faces trouble over PPI complaints as deadline looms
08/29/2011
UK and Switzerland agree tax deal
08/25/2011
One of France's highest courts rejected a plea on Wednesday by a Swiss unit of HSBC bank that a French government database of citizens holding bank accounts abroad should be blocked as an excess of power.
08/24/2011
Austria Backs Tobin Tax Drive