04/16/2019
PRA expectations for managing risks of climate change
Some respondents urged the PRA to move more quickly and decisively on climate change issues.
Legal, Regulation & Compliance
04/16/2019
Top 50 law firm launches in Birmingham
“We intend for the new office to be a platform for growth in the Birmingham market, and for Joel to play a key role in the development of a broad offering that includes practice and sector teams from across the rest of the firm.”
04/16/2019
UniCredit to Pay $1.3 Billion, Plead Guilty to US Sanctions Violations
UniCredit Group Banks Agree to Pay Over $1.3 Billion for Violating Sanctions
04/15/2019
British Expat Boss of Suspect Investment Company which ‘Lost Expats €20 Million' Fails to turn up at Court on Spain's Costa Blanca
The Olive Press exclusively revealed how CWM abruptly folded in 2017, losing hundreds of expats’ life savings in the process
04/15/2019
Asset managers slash CEO pay after tough 12 months
All four investment companies experienced double-digit share price falls last year.
04/15/2019
Investor Groups Attack UBS
Geneva-based Ethos views the 73.3 million Swiss franc ($73.1 million) bonus pool for UBS' top 13 executives as inappropriate given the poor performance of the Swiss bank's stock last year.
04/15/2019
Brexit and Guernsey - What You Need to Know - Collas Crill
Very early on in the process, the States of Guernsey and the Law Officers identified the likely impact that Brexit would have on the island and the legislative and other measures that would need to be taken as a consequence of Brexit.
04/15/2019
Law firm with 120-year history to open York office
The office, within easy reach of York’s train station and city centre, is within the imposing setting of the former Army Northern Command Headquarters, which dates from the 1800s.
04/14/2019
Asos founder Quentin Griffiths accuses BDO of bungling move offshore
The extent of Griffiths’s personal wealth is not known.
04/14/2019
Chelsea 'hold talks with three parties' over staggering £2.5bn takeover
Russian owner Roman Abramovich is reportedly looking to sell up this summer after being denied by a visa
04/14/2019
Sunbed boss ‘linked to £8bn fraud that helped bin Laden’
The alleged kingpin fled Scotland. His trail can be followed to Pakistan, so why is he not on the taxman’s ‘most wanted’ list?
04/12/2019
4th richest Czech billionaire Vitek sued for $3bn by NY hedge fund claiming fraud
The accusation is that they did so by concealing CPI’s real ownership stake in Orco to avoid having to make a mandatory offer.
04/12/2019
Barclays declares war on New York corporate raider: Edward Bramson branded flawed, disruptive inexperienced and damaging
He has been critical of the company's prized investment bank and is thought to favour deep cutbacks.
04/12/2019
HSBC Faces Shareholder Anger Over Pensions, Coal Finance at AGM
HSBC also faced questions from climate change activist groups over its financing of coal power-related projects in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam.
04/11/2019
Hull City loses fight with taxman over Geovanni payments
Club bosses challenged the decision but a specialist judge has dismissed their appeal.
04/11/2019
Farmer shoots millionaire hedge fund manager's two dogs dead and dumps the bodies on the lawn at his mansion after they escaped and savaged his sheep
A farmer shot a hedge fund manager's two dogs dead after they killed his sheep
04/11/2019
Danby Bloch: The new tax year’s rates, reliefs and rules
The threshold at which higher-rate tax kicks in has also increased by a hefty 8.7 per cent to £37,500, making the higher-rate threshold of the personal allowance plus the top end of the basic-rate tax band £50,000.
04/11/2019
Senior Investec wealth manager took own life over regulatory probe fears
But he feared that his livelihood was at risk after he accidentally forwarded some client documents to a third party, and communicated with the recipient on his own phone, rather than his recorded work line.
04/11/2019
New regulatory framework for online operators?
Taylor Wessing is able to advise on the implications of and compliance with the new proposals.
04/11/2019
Reforms in a few countries drive a decline in average OECD labour taxes
Taxing Wages 2019 shows that the “tax wedge”