04/14/2013
Fate of Santander chief linked to new law
The decision may give the Bank of Spain more room to maneuver as it examines cases such as that of Saenz, the CEO of Spain’s biggest bank, because it adds new elements to the criteria for determining banker “honor.”
04/14/2013
Regulators have been looking into charges that traders fixed the interest rates offered on the Euribor and Libor.
04/14/2013
Public were being cold called with the bogus offers
04/14/2013
Prompted by a desire for a fresh challenge
04/14/2013
Reed Smith adds to City structured finance team with CC partner
High volume of partner moves between firms’ structured finance practices
04/14/2013
Costs of failed life-settlement investment firm
04/11/2013
KPMG - already facing scandal in the US - is under renewed pressure with the audit regulator considering an investigation into how it examined the accounts of failed bank HBOS.
04/11/2013
The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission of Japan asked local regulators last week to issue a so-called administrative action against R.B.S., which is based in Edinburgh, after some of its traders attempted to alter a key benchmark rate for fin
04/11/2013
FTI said the claims were without merit.
04/11/2013
This year's round comes after the firm made up 23 new partners in 2012, including nine female promotions. Just two of this year's new partners are women.
04/11/2013
Maria Fekter said the EU cannot force Austria to reform its banking secrecy laws without also forcing the UK to crack down on tax havens in its jurisdiction
04/11/2013
At issue now for many global regulators and investors is that letting banks use their own risk models to calculate the buffers they need could undermine the confidence-boosting effect of higher capital ratios.
04/10/2013
Barclays analyst caught in email gaffe: We’re going to steal website’s ideas
Barclays has been accused of “inappropriate” behaviour
04/10/2013
Years of spending cuts and tax rises in countries struggling to tame national debts have stoked public indignation about tax avoidance by the rich.
04/09/2013
They moved together to Dundas from legacy Hammonds in 2005.
04/09/2013
UK signs tax deal with France, Germany, Italy and Spain
George Osborne has a signed an information exchange agreement with the finance ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Spain in the latest effort to crack down on tax evasion.
04/09/2013
'Tax cheats’ warned as HMRC launches new disclosure facilities
The agreements were based, in part, on the principles of the Foreign Account Tax Compliant Act.
04/09/2013
Contractual completion dates for properties investors purchased through the £200m Harlequin Property scheme between 2008-10 were not met by two thirds of those surveyed
04/09/2013
As of today, 95% of the class actions worldwide are still triggered in the US and Canada, yet this market practice is progressively expanding in a number of European markets, as well as in Asia.
04/08/2013
Switzerland, the world’s largest center for offshore wealth, is trying to shed its image as a haven for undeclared funds amid scrutiny from U.S. and European governments.