07/11/2012
The charges were the first brought in the probe, which was opened in April after a preliminary inquiry by the French customs service into a February 2011 complaint by the Prudential Control Authority, France’s banking regulator.
07/11/2012
Finance Watch gave evidence to the House of Lords Sub-committee on 29 May 2012.
07/11/2012
Some 16 banks contributed to the setting of dollar Libor rates in 2008, the period at the centre of investigations.
07/11/2012
A former St James’s Place adviser has been awarded “substantial damages” and legal costs after the Mail on Sunday newspaper alleged the adviser had stolen £5m from clients.
07/10/2012
The investments averaged about 500,000 euros with individual cases of 12 million euros and more, the newspaper said.
07/10/2012
The firm has advised alongside US firm Sullivan & Cromwell on Barclays’ internal investigation into its Libor submissions, with the news following the bank’s record £290m fine from the FSA, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission
07/10/2012
It has decided to object to the acquisition by Ewa Karczewska of at least 70% of the issued share capital of Think Finance.com.
07/10/2012
The traders, named as Christian Schluep and Paul Robson by sources, are thought to have been suspended two weeks ago on questions of their action when they worked at the Dutch bank.
07/10/2012
In legal proceedings filed at the U.K. High Court in London on Monday, Vervoer claims GSAM was negligent in its role as fiduciary manager on two occasions, according to sources familiar with the case.
07/10/2012
She was head of private client services at BPE Solicitors in Cheltenham for eight years.
07/10/2012
The newspaper referred to so-called Bermuda products designed as insurance-style instruments to avoid tax.
07/09/2012
In an email dated October 22, 2008, from Sir Jeremy Heywood, then principal private secretary to Gordon Brown, to Paul Tucker, then head of markets at the Bank of England, he asks why Barclays is paying “ABOVE Libor” to fund in the sterling mo
07/09/2012
The two, Christian Schluep and Paul Robson, have been put on leave, according to Bloomberg.
07/09/2012
The SFO probe relates to interest rate swaps between the fund and a company in the British Virgin Islands which “had the effect of inflating the net asset value of the fund,” the agency said in statement on its website.
07/09/2012
It is alleged that the Baker Tilly employee seconded to Barclays took information about one of the bank's clients and handed it to the firm.
07/09/2012
Proskauer continues to strengthen its global capital markets capabilities with the upcoming addition of three partners and a senior counsel in the firm's London office.
07/09/2012
n the wake of the shake-up, Herbert Smith’s current head of real estate Ian Cox has been linked to the new role of London managing partner.
07/09/2012
Recent changes to the French tax system announced by president Francois Hollande’s government may not be so serious for British and other owners of French properties, believes UK regulated specialist mortgage broker Offshoreonline.org.
07/08/2012
Royal Bank of Scotland is fighting a court order requiring it to co-operate with an international criminal investigation into allegations its staff fixed a key banking lending rate.
07/08/2012
The case could lead to criminal charges being brought against individuals.