03/20/2019
SimplyBiz to buy fintech platform
Following the acquisition, Defaqto will remain operating as an independent business within the Group out of its offices in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire.
Legal, Regulation & Compliance
03/20/2019
ING Italy investigated over alleged money laundering - source
Those being investigated by Milan prosecutors were carried out using various online accounts
03/20/2019
MiFID II Research Unbundling: A Survey Yielding Mixed Results
MiFID II required brokers to provide a price for research that was separate from execution services, which in turn would force investment managers to decide whether to pass this cost onto clients or to absorb it.
03/20/2019
How to protect a business from the threat of divorce
This focus on the future will cause many couples to consider their marriage and finally decide there is nothing left to do; all avenues of reconciliation have been exhausted.
03/20/2019
Basel III monitoring results published by the Basel Committee
Data are provided for a total of 189 banks, including 106 large internationally active banks.
03/19/2019
Cyprus gives expats more time to sort out post-Brexit residency status
Around 70,000 British expats live in Cyprus, although this includes many who live on the island for only part of the year.
03/19/2019
UK lawmakers join fight for expats scammed by PremierFX in Portugal
The FCA said that it is continuing to investigate the business undertaken by Premier FX to determine whether any individuals may have broken the law and whether any money can be returned to customers of the firm.
03/19/2019
HMRC targets accountants over tax evading clients
They are the starting point for HMRC to kick off an investigation and any evidence obtained can lead to a criminal prosecution.
03/19/2019
Disclosure requirement for asset owners, money managers approved by EU
This latest version of the disclosure regulation, which was approved by the EU institutions on March 7
03/19/2019
Danske Bank Is Still ‘Working Intensively’ to Try to Find a CEO
Chairman Karsten Dybvad said Danske is “working intensively” on finding someone to run the bank long-term, as he addressed shareholders at an annual general meeting in Copenhagen on Monday.
03/19/2019
ECB bank supervisor Enria criticises ‘national champion’ mergers
Potential collision course with Berlin over plans for Deutsche-Commerzbank tie-up
03/19/2019
EU Updates its Blacklist of Non-Cooperative Jurisdictions in Taxation Matters
All three Crown Dependency governments introduced legislation in 2018 requiring businesses that operate on the island to demonstrate adequate economic substance
03/19/2019
Swedbank to Release AML Report on Friday
Swedbank said it would release Forensic Risk Alliance’s conclusions and field press questions on the report this Friday.
03/19/2019
Norwegian SWF ‘slow to act’ on climate-related exclusions
Andresen used the example to illustrate that it could be hard translating overarching ethical guidelines into consistent practice.
03/19/2019
For HSBC, Questions Remain Following Moldovan Asset Seizures
By the time the National Crime Agency (NCA) seized young Luca’s funds, his father was nearly two years into a 9-year prison sentence for the so-called “theft of the century”
03/19/2019
Cross-Border Distribution of Collective Investment Schemes
Agreement on the Compromise Texts of the Proposed Directive and Regulation
03/19/2019
Global collaboration on Panama Papers delivered higher rate of reform
Major outcomes continue to unfold nearly three years on from the global investigation known as the ‘Panama Papers’, first unveiled in 2016
03/19/2019
Investors In 19 Countries Sue Danske Bank Over Money-Laundering Scandal
The lawsuit alleges that Danske knew about the problem since 2013, but failed to take any action, deciding instead to continue to keep the issue covered up.
03/19/2019
Shadow cast over Lloyds Bank's new wealth venture as tribunal rules it was wrong to axe £100billion investment contract with Standard Life Aberdeen
Much of the £100billion was set to be given to this new joint venture
03/19/2019
Private Label to help with high value cases
This got some traction, but we felt there was potential to do more with the brand and so held a number of focus groups with brokers to see what they needed.