06/04/2015
Victory for thousands of investors with high interest Lloyds bonds bought at height of financial crisis
Lloyds wanted to repurchase ECN bonds at face value
Legal, Regulation & Compliance
06/04/2015
Grant Thornton creates 71 new jobs in Belfast
Invest NI is giving the company £202,000 in grants.
06/04/2015
Tisa: Asset managers unaware of Mifid II impact
Tisa, the not-for-profit membership association, warns that many asset managers, distributors, wealth managers, life and pensions companies and firms for whom D2C is important are unaware of the implications of Mifid II.
06/04/2015
Gibraltar QROPS operator accountability set to rise
Gibraltar QROPS operators could see their responsibilities as a trustee extend to include the due diligence of overseas financial advisers
06/04/2015
Investigation leads to missing Baltic millions in Switzerland
The data also reveals that Latvia's ABLV bank is linked to significant amounts of money in HSBC's controversial Swiss accounts.
06/03/2015
Barclays and Standard Chartered launch Fifa payment reviews
Two UK banks named in FBI papers have launched internal reviews into whether they were used for corrupt payments by Fifa officials
06/03/2015
Former Barclays chairman: Bank ring-fence is redundant and should be scrapped
Sir David Walker says ring-fencing is a 'uniquely British policy' which will penalise the UK economy
06/03/2015
Appleby Advises Santander on Reorganisation of Santander Private Banking in Jersey
The transaction used the Banking Business (Jersey) Law 1991 which allows a Jersey deposit-taking business to be transferred from one bank to another by means of a Court-sanctioned scheme.
06/03/2015
UK law firm doubles Cheltenham office
The new hires bring Lodders’ partnership total to 27 and overall staff numbers across its three locations in Cheltenham, Stratford upon Avon and Henley in Arden to well over 120.
06/02/2015
Standard Chartered boss talks Fifa and Europe
The Europe chief executive of Standard Chartered has said that the British banking giant is trying to "figure out" what role it played in the Fifa corruption scandal
06/02/2015
German Regulator BaFin Opens the Way for Credit Funds in Germany
By changing its administrative practice, the BaFin allows loan origination and loan restructuring by investment funds in Germany
06/02/2015
Law Society of Scotland joins forces with Tilney Bestinvest
Tilney Bestinvest has a long history of working with the Scottish legal community
06/02/2015
Debevoise Advises SPIE in Financing Aspects of its IPO
SPIE is owned by is owned by private equity funds Clayton Dubilier & Rice, Ardian, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), as well as membered of management and employees of Spie.
06/02/2015
Debevoise Advises Rexel in the Placement of €500 Million Senior Notes
The Debevoise team advising Rexel was led by London partners Raman Bet-Mansour and Pierre Maugüé, and included Paris based international counsel Philippe Tengelmann and associate Roxanne Castro, and London based associate Vikas Mehta.
06/02/2015
Orrick hires Akin Gump partner to launch new office in Geneva
Liborio focuses on commercial and investor-state arbitrations involving infrastructure projects
06/02/2015
FCA says firms not treating delegated authority arrangements as outsourcing in the general insurance market
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the results of its thematic review of delegated authority arrangements in the general insurance market.
06/02/2015
Legal Training Institutions Sold By Montagu Private Equity
igh-profile legal training institution, which has a centre in Bristol and plans to open in Exeter, has been sold by Montagu Private Equity with the organisation's new owner set to introduce a former education secretary as chairman.
06/02/2015
Asset managers’ push into bonds prompts regulatory scrutiny
Asset managers’ push into bonds prompts regulatory scrutiny
06/01/2015
British-born accountant seized in FIFA dawn raids 'recruited British players to play for the Cayman Islands in 2022 World Cup qualifiers'
Costas Takkas,57, being held in Zurich after being arrested in Swiss raids
06/01/2015
Banks braced for FBI probe into Fifa ‘bribes’
Eight global lenders, including the British trio, were named in last week’s sensational 164-page dossier, alleging widespread corruption at football’s world governing body.