03/14/2012
Global Law Firm deploys video collaboration service globally
The new platform is used extensively for a wide range of activities – from senior executives holding board meetings to the internal support team running training sessions, global case reviews, and client meetings.
03/14/2012
One of HBOS's most senior former executives has admitted he is "worried" he could become embroiled in the City watchdog's investigation into the failed bank.
03/14/2012
The European PRIPs initiative, designed to raise and align retail investor protection standards across Europe, follows a two-pronged approach:
03/14/2012
He was previously a director in Deloitte’s Enterprise Risk Services division
03/13/2012
An Oxford-educated economist with practical knowledge and experience of international investment, among other experiences he has advised on a $150 billion portfolio for a major international bank.
03/13/2012
Debevoise & Plimpton and Linklaters have taken lead roles on AIG's $6bn (£3.8bn) placement of shares in its Hong Kong spin-off, AIA Group, reports The Asian Lawyer.
03/13/2012
The Cayman Islands-headquartered law firm wasted no time in launching an aggressive head-hunting campaign, poaching numerous market-leading partners and lawyers from A&L Goodbody, Matheson Ormsby Prentice and Arthur Cox.
03/13/2012
A tax deal with Switzerland aimed at preventing high-earning expats and big businesses using the country's secretive banking system to avoid paying UK rates has been criticised by MPs
03/13/2012
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is spending more than £100 million and has 5% of its staff working on ways to help insurers with new propositions in line with Brussels’ incoming Solvency II regulations, according to reports.
03/13/2012
The ex-HSBC bank manager who stole a friend's identity while committing large-scale fraud has been jailed for three years.
03/13/2012
Former top managers at HBOS said the Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) report into “misconduct” in HBOS’s corporate division had put members of the bank’s former audit and risk committees under the spotlight.
03/12/2012
The businesses claim the banks profited at their expense from pushing them to take out highly complex interest rate derivatives.
03/12/2012
Providing Lloyds Action Now (LAN) acquires funding, Nahal will pursue the case against former Lloyds TSB directors for allegedly misleading investors over its merger with Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) in 2008.
03/12/2012
It said the bank was too optimistic over bad debts and did not take "reasonable care" to control its affairs.
03/12/2012
The FSA said the corporate division took too many risks from the start of 2006, leaving it vulnerable to the financial downturn.
03/12/2012
The 34-year-old from Livingston, West Lothian, has been ordered to pay back £1,984,794 after a proceeds of crime investigation by City of London Police.
03/12/2012
The frequency and level of data to be provided mean that new requirements for information, both quantitative and qualitative, will have to be met.
03/09/2012
Both are longstanding clients of their respective advisers, which are acting opposite Allen & Overy (A&O) in the lead role for Misys.
03/09/2012
The case will be launched in the coming weeks, dependent on funding being obtained by the claimants - shareholder group Lloyds Action Now (LAN) - with the action expected to reach trial in the next two years.
03/09/2012
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Clifford Chance are advising banking giants BNP Paribas and HSBC Holdings, respectively, on the sale of combined assets worth a total of almost $3 billion.