08/12/2014
The decision to pursue charges, while widely expected, is a serious blow to Fitschen and Germany's largest bank, which faces an array of legal problems, including investigations into possible manipulation of benchmark interest rates and foreign excha
08/11/2014
ECB now wants banks to resubmit the data in a template format
08/11/2014
Among the largest investors who incurred losses in the bonds are EJF Capital
08/11/2014
At the moment it provides a range of specialist services including wills and succession, asset protection, wealth management and personal taxation.
08/11/2014
Dismisses idea that domestic regulatory initiatives designed to weed out bad habits have fostered an environment of unease
08/11/2014
HSF continues German growth
Herbert Smith Freehills announced today that it has recruited Dirk Hamann as a partner in Berlin.
08/11/2014
The opinion represents the fruits of the EBA’s consultations with other European authorities
08/10/2014
Defeated bankers lose £6m bonus
Two ex-heads of Investec bank have lost multimillion pound bonuses they were allegedly promised.
08/10/2014
Tycoons sue fraudster over £1.5m gold scam
Two prominent businessmen are among a group of investors swindled out of £1.5 million by a convicted fraudster in a get-rich-quick bullion scam, it is claimed.
08/10/2014
UK regulators have put forward what they say are the world’s toughest rules on bankers’ pay.
08/10/2014
The European Union's trio of new financial watchdogs should have more powers over banks, insurers and markets to ensure national regulators apply EU rules
08/08/2014
Prosecutors are investigating whether co-Chief Executive Juergen Fitschen, his predecessors Josef Ackermann and Rolf Breuer, and others gave misleading evidence in the civil suit brought by heirs of late media magnate Leo Kirch, which ended in February af
08/08/2014
The letters claimed that the decision to terminate their accounts was based on the bank’s “own assessment of risk” and did not reflect the manner in which they conducted their business.
08/08/2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Stonebridge International Insurance Limited (Stonebridge) £8,373,600 in relation to sales of accident insurance products.
08/08/2014
Non-renewal of the Block Exemption Regulation – which seems a real possibility – would remove the safe harbor and force insurers and reinsurers to conduct individualized assessments of the types of cooperation at issue.
08/08/2014
Capital isn’t the answer to everything
08/07/2014
The Report concludes that, in very many cases, employees do not know to whom they should report wrongdoing or malpractice in the workplace or, if they do so, that they are likely to face bullying and victimisation.
08/07/2014
The legality of bitcoin has been discussed frequently in Russia since the beginning of this year.
08/07/2014
The FCA sees positive benefits from using social media but there has to be an element of compliance
08/07/2014
The protagonist in this story is the town of Leipzig in the eastern German state of Saxony. Wanting to make a fast buck, town officials offered the publicly-owned waterworks in a deal with an American investor.