02/03/2016
Esma studied the performance and disclosure documents of 2,600 funds across Europe over 2012-2014 and found that between 5 and 15 per cent of retail equity funds “could potentially be closet indexers”.
02/03/2016
Two senior compliance staff hired by HSBC Saudi Arabia, a subsidiary of the main British bank, have unaccredited business degrees, a Channel 4 News investigation finds.
02/03/2016
Regulators fine firms £18mn after insurer collapses
This misconduct contributed to the failure of several insurance schemes as well as to three insurers going into administration.
02/03/2016
Major international law firm opens its own Iran office in Tehran
This includes the right to provide legal advice in Iran.
02/03/2016
Delaware Court Enforces ‘Good Faith’ Negotiations, New Disclosure Requirements for UK Companies and UNFCCC Adopts ‘Paris Agreement’
02/03/2016
Britain has clashed with Brussels on various elements of financial regulation introduced since the crisis, most prominently on the issue of a cap to banker bonuses.
02/02/2016
Gazprombank’s London office had been effectively dormant since 2012, when the bank withdrew its application for a UK investment banking license after authorities demanded more information about its shareholders, Bloomberg reported at the time.
02/02/2016
The court rejected an appeal by HSBC that charges first brought in April for facilitating tax fraud and illegal practices be dropped.
02/02/2016
This is the fourth company in the British Virgin Islands that KRIK journalists found is connected to Mali.
02/02/2016
Barclays said this raised questions about the potential for capital distribution given that the half-year dividend was already just 0.75p.
02/02/2016
Lender ‘disappointed’ as French court rejects its requests
02/02/2016
The signing ceremony will take place during the 10th session of the Egyptian-Russian Committee meetings.
02/01/2016
Ayesha Vardag is known as the ‘Diva of Divorce’ after acting for heirs and heiresses, tycoons, footballers, celebrities and royalty in big-ticket financial legal cases.
02/01/2016
The SEC and New York Attorney General had planned to announce the joint settlement Monday before it was reported by The Wall Street Journal Sunday morning.
02/01/2016
The European Commission has drafted texts confirming that the current situation in Britain justifies an “emergency brake”.
02/01/2016
AIMA makes the case that rules should allow greater asset managers’ participation in securitisations in order to support the supply of finance to small and medium-sized enterprises.
02/01/2016
Business advisory firm Deloitte has launched a new service targeting investment managers, banks and insurance firms struggling to navigate the growing wave of complex marketing regulations and tax rules.
01/29/2016
Barclays has been hit with a lawsuit for nearly a £1bn
The bank said in a statement: “We believe the claim against Barclays is misconceived and without merit and Barclays will be vigorously defending it.”
01/29/2016
More than seven years after the collapse of HBOS, City regulators have begun an investigation into the failed bank's former bosses.
01/29/2016
Due to the increase in the use of bitcoin in purchasing illicit goods on the dark web and hacking attacks