04/17/2015

Knight Vinke Shifts Hiring Focus From Monaco to London

The subsidiary Knight Vinke Asset Management (UK) Limited was approved by the U.K. regulator in mid-March, according to regulatory filings. The move now allows the firm to advise clients on investments from the U.K.

04/16/2015

Mishcon de Reya hires Proskauer corporate partner

He is an adviser to a wide variety of clients, including private equity funds, hedge/hybrid funds, quoted and non-quoted companies, corporate finance/intermediaries and management teams, entrepreneurs and family offices.

04/16/2015

Former IMF Chief Rato Faces Spain Money Laundering Probe

Rodrigo Rato, the former head of the International Monetary Fund and deputy prime minister of Spain, was detained by customs agents in Madrid on Thursday night as the tide of corruption allegations swamping the country’s political establishment reac

04/15/2015

Deutsche Bank fined $8.4m by Dubai regulator

Those contraventions include misleading the DFSA, failures in DBDIFC's internal governance and systems and controls and in its client take-on and anti-money laundering processes.

04/15/2015

UK regulator hits BNY Mellon with record fine

The Custody Rules are there to protect safe custody assets if a firm becomes insolvent and to ensure those assets can be returned to clients as quickly and easily as possible. Each regulated firm is required to ensure they have adequate systems, controls

04/15/2015

NAB staff sacked over UK scandal

NATIONAL Australia Bank has sacked staff involved in a UK scandal over the mis-selling of income protection products that resulted in a record STG20.7 million ($A40.12 million) fine.

04/14/2015

Asset managers under threat as regulation mounts

Asset managers are likely to find themselves buried under even more regulation in years to come after an International Monetary Fund paper raised questions about the sector’s systematic risks, experts have said.