11/12/2012
The Financial Services Consumer Panel has today welcomed changes to the Financial Services Bill that will enable the regulator to take account of access to financial services for consumers.
11/11/2012
Barclays is under investigation by US authorities into whether it made improper payments to secure a banking licence in Saudi Arabia, according to reports.
11/11/2012
Police, directed by Serious Fraud Office prosecutors, will act in the next month, said the person, who declined to be identified because the matter isn’t public.
11/11/2012
The London Stock Exchange (LSE.L) has won the backing of French regulators for its planned takeover of LCH.Clearnet, taking the LSE a step forward towards completing a deal which it has said will be transformative for its business.
11/11/2012
The government department said in July it could prosecute banks
11/11/2012
She is now likely to face questions over the limited tax paid by Stemcor, the steel trading company of which she is a shareholder and which was founded by her father and is run by her brother.
11/11/2012
Without that approval, the maximum would be 300% of fixed pay.
11/11/2012
In recent weeks, tax experts at Greece’s finance ministry have been scrutinizing the finances
11/11/2012
Potential APAC legal transformational tie-up revealed
The UK firm is pushing to pursue a combination with the Chinese and Australian firm,
11/08/2012
The Federal Court of Australia ruled that S&P's assessment of the “grotesquely complicated” CPDOs
11/08/2012
Liechtenstein was removed from a global black list of uncooperative tax havens in 2009
11/08/2012
The Treasury Department has already concluded a bilateral agreement with the United Kingdom
11/08/2012
The FSA’s report suggested that conflicts of interest were rife in the sector, and said action was now being taken to force some managers to change the way they operated
11/07/2012
“This is a major case for all the banks, which will affect what bank bosses can say about bonuses.”
11/07/2012
Finance officials in Mannheim, Germany, have launched an investigation into claims Swiss bank UBS helped Germans evade tax by transferring money out of the country, Stuttgarter Nachrichten reports.
11/06/2012
Amanda Staveley, the financier who negotiated the multi-billion pound refinancing of Barclays, was branded a liar and unprofessional in a High Court battle over the sale of one of London’s most prestigious building.
11/06/2012
Britain has joined forces with Germany to declare war on taxdodging multinationals and called for an end to loopholes that have allowed them to siphon off billions in profits to tax havens.
11/06/2012
The FSA’s latest consultation paper, published in June, proposed the banning of all payments between fund managers and platforms from the end of December 2013.
11/06/2012
The Government announced in January that a single complaints commissioner will assess complaints across both the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.
11/06/2012
Italian police have seized assets worth €65m (£51.9m) in a tax probe involving the €5.3bn sale of fashion houses Hugo Boss and Valentino in 2007.